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New Case: AGL Files Complaint Under EU Digital Services Act over Meta’s Removal of Artist’s Instagram Account

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 17 June 2026

Today, Avant-Garde Lawyers filed a complaint with the Spanish Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) on behalf of artist, journalist and activist Emma Shapiro, asserting that Meta failed to comply with several obligations under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) when it suspended and subsequently terminated the Instagram account associated with Ms Shapiro’s long-running artistic project Exposure Therapy.

Syria post-Assad: Questions and views on freedom of artistic expression

In post-Assad Syria, artists and cultural workers test the limits of newly gained freedom. Through lived experiences, this essay examines censorship, fear, and the struggle to reclaim art as a public, political act.

The Sound of Music in the Age of AI: When Your ‘Likeness’ Becomes Both Input and Output — Can Personality Rights Keep in Tune, or Is a Copyright Renaissance Due?

A practical legal explainer for artists in the music industry

Intellectual Property Support for Artists and Creative Professionals

Expert legal support for artists and creatives on copyright, contracts, and IP offered by AGL on a solidarity-based, non-profit model.

Free Expression in Sport: The Case of Manizha Talash – Examining restrictions on speech in sport under international law, with a focus on Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter

MONDIACULT Side Event | September 24, 2025 | 3pm CET | online As part of MONDIACULT 2025, Avant-Garde Lawyers will host an online discussion exploringRead More »Free Expression in Sport: The Case of Manizha Talash – Examining restrictions on speech in sport under international law, with a focus on Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter

The 2005 UNESCO Convention in its 20th Anniversary: Towards a Protocol Addressing the Diversity of Cultural Expressions in the Digital Environment?

Can the the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions adapt fast enough to safeguard cultural diversity in the digital age?

Module 3: Know Your Enemy: Long- term Strategies for Resistance

https://youtu.be/ciKR_jz9GT4 Module 3: Know Your Enemy: Long-term Strategies for Resistance Expert: Tania BrugueraCuban Artist and Activist, Senior Lecturer at Harvard University 11.06.2025 | 16-17.30 CETRead More »Module 3: Know Your Enemy: Long- term Strategies for Resistance

Module 3: Art(ificial) Ownership: Copyright & Law in the Age of AI

https://youtu.be/a908nH6Loqo Module 3: Art* – Art(ificial) Ownership: Copyright & Law in the Age of AI Expert: Atreya MathurDirector of Legal Research,Centre for Art Law 04.06.2025Read More »Module 3: Art(ificial) Ownership: Copyright & Law in the Age of AI

Module 3: AI, Law and the Future of Creativity: Challenges and Opportunities

https://youtu.be/O-dBBlOghCQ Module 3: Art* – AI, Law and the Future of Creativity: Challenges and Opportunities Expert: Natasha Mangal, Legal and Policy Advisor at CISAC 02.06.2025Read More »Module 3: AI, Law and the Future of Creativity: Challenges and Opportunities

Module 3: Trajectories: learnings from lumbung one (FKA documenta fifteen)

https://youtu.be/DfThUxnaW2w Module 3: Art* – Trajectories: learnings from lumbung one (FKA documenta fifteen) Experts: farid rakun, ruangrupa and Gudskul Lara Khaldi, independen curator and ArtisticRead More »Module 3: Trajectories: learnings from lumbung one (FKA documenta fifteen)