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PUBLICATIONS

- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk -

"Türkiye Cumhuriyetinin, özellikle bugünkü gençliğine ve yetişmekte olan çocuklarına hitap ediyorum: Batı senden, Türk'ten çok geriydi. Manada, fikirde, tarihte bu böyleydi. Eğer bugün batı teknikte bir üstünlük gösteriyorsa, ey Türk Çocuğu, o kabahat da senin değil, senden öncekilerin affedilmez ihmalinin bir sonucudur. Şunu da söyleyeyim ki, çok zekisin! .. Bu belli. Fakat zekânı unut! .. Daima çalışkan ol..."

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Selected Publications 

1. Books

 

Basak Bak, The Right of Revocation in Copyright Law (Turhan 2016) (ISBN: 9786053130246)

 

2. Book Chapters

 

•Basak Bak, ‘Voice Cloning of the Deceased: Terra Nullius in the Deepfake Realm’ in Thomas Bennett and Rebecca Moosavian (eds), Deepfakes and the Law: Challenges, Responses, and Critique (Routledge 2025). (forthcoming)

 

•Basak Bak, ‘Social Acceptability of Data-Driven Health Research: Participation, Legitimate Interest and Public Trust in Berengere Legros (ed), Acceptabilité Sociale et Mutations des Droits de la Biomédecine et de la Santé, pp 287-297 (LEH Edition 2024).

 

•Basak Bak and Armagan Yuksel, ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in Armagan Yuksel, Basak Bak and Selime Arslanova (eds), Futurist Law. AI, Biobanks and Food Capsules (Aristo 2018), pp 5-37. (ISBN:9786052332382) (50%)

 

3. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

 

•Basak Bak & Rebecca Nocella (2023) ‘Unveiling Copyright Law Double Bind through Pragmatist Feminism: Adult Content Creators as Authors’ Porn Studies, 10 (4), pp. 431-451. ISSN: 2326-8751. (50%)

 

•Basak Bak (2022) 'Reviving a European Idea: Author's Right of Withdrawal and the Right to be Forgotten under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)' (2022) 19 SCRIPTed 1, pp. 120-149.

 

• Basak Bak, ‘The Right-of-Way under Electronic Communications Law as a Special Kind of Predial Servitude’ (2018) 67/4 AUHFD, pp 657-697, (ISSN: 1301-1308).

 

•Basak Bak, ‘The Legal Status of Artificial Intelligence with Regard to Civil Law and The Liability Thereof’ (2018) 35 TAAD, pp. 211-232. (ISSN: 13096826)

 

•Basak Bak, ‘A Review on Divergent Approaches Concerning Moral Rights of Authors in Continental European and Anglo-Saxon Legal Systems’ (2018) 140 Terazi, pp. 14-24. (ISSN: 1306-9802)

 

•Basak Bak, ‘New Provisions and a Review of Publishing Agreements under the Turkish Code of Obligations Numbered 6098’ (2012) 25/101 TBBD, pp. 13-30. (ISSN 1304-2408)

 

•Basak Bak, ‘Compulsory Patent Licensing for Pharmaceuticals’ (2011) 69/3 ABD, pp. 106-126. (ISSN: 13009885)

 

•Basak Bak, ‘Stock Market Option Contracts’ (2009) 64/4 AUSBF, pp. 39-75. (ISSN 1309-1034) (cited more than 58 times)

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Selected Presentations
 

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  • Basak Bak, ‘Generative AI and the Copyright Conundrum’, Framing IP Rights in Legal, Economic, and Cultural Settings, University of Swansea, 12-13 June 2024.
     

  • Basak Bak, ‘What If Neither Laborious Nor Creative? Conferring Copyright to Generative AI’ The Biennial Modern Studies in Commercial Law Conference. Embedding Innovative Technologies into Commercial Law: Challenges and Opportunities, University of Reading, 28 September 2023.
     

  • ​Basak Bak, ‘Social Acceptability in Scientific Research’, Colloque international pluridisciplinaire : Acceptabilité sociale et mutations des droits de la biomédecine et de la santé, University of Lille, France, 28-29 June 2023. 

 

  • Basak Bak, ‘Introducing the Elephant in the Room: The Copyrightability of Adult Content Creations in the UK', Sexuality Studies Association Conference 20-22 May 2022.
     

  • Basak Bak, ‘Authorship in Musical Works’, International Conference on Critical Debates in Social Sciences (ICCDSS), Izmir Democracy University, Izmir, 5 – 7 October 2018.
     

  • Basak Bak, ‘Towards A New Era in Human-Machine Interactions: Personality and Liability Issues of Artificial Intelligence From A Private Law Perspective’, Artificial Intelligence and Industry 4.0 IP Law Summit, Ankara University, Ankara, 12 February 2018. 

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  • Basak Bak, ‘Personality and Liability Issues of Artificial Intelligence’, 7th Congress on AI from a Consumer Law Perspective, Institute of Consumer Law, Istanbul, 23-24-25 November 2017. 

 

  • Basak Bak, ‘A New Era in Law of Persons: Electronic Personhood’, 6th International Congress on Current Debates in Social Sciences, Istanbul 14 – 16 December 2017.

 

  • Basak Bak, ‘Intellectual Property Protection in The Turkish Food Sector’, 2nd World Conference on Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Istanbul University, Istanbul, 12 – 14 May 2017.

 

  • Basak Bak, ‘A Comparative Analysis of Copyright Laws of the UK and Turkey’, International Workshop on Intellectual Property Law in Perspective of Economic Growth and Wealth Creation, Izmir, 16 – 19 August 2017.

 

  • Basak Bak, ‘The Right of Withdrawal in Distance Contracts’, Socio-Int15- 2nd International Conference on Education, Social Sciences and Humanities, Istanbul, 8 – 10 June 2015.

 

  • Basak Bak, ‘Patentability’, World Conference on Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WCTIE 2015), Istanbul University, Istanbul 28 – 30 May 2015.

 

  • Basak Bak, ‘Publishing Agreement’, Symposium on New Code of Obligations, Ankara Bar Association, 7 November 2012.

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