[Chapter-delegates] WEBCAST OCT 25 – What’s in a Joke? Assessing Humor in Free Speech Jurisprudence and Content Moderation

Fri Oct 25 12:36:17 PDT 2024

Humor is a serious matter! No Joke!

No Real time Text, but a transcript will be forthcoming.

On *Friday October 25, 2024*, at *14:30-17:30 EDT* (18:30-21:30 UTC) *Columbia
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hosts
a panel and roundtable on the upcoming toolkit '*What’s in a Joke?
Assessing Humor in Free Speech Jurisprudence and Content Moderation
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University in NYC.

Humor is often at the center of *complex legal cases
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and
content moderation decisions regarding free speech and its limits. How can
judges – or social media platforms – navigate the gray areas between satire
and defamation, provocative jokes and hate speech, or parody and copyright
violation? These challenges have become increasingly daunting in the
digital age, with ironic ambiguity and context collapse playing a key role
in online communication. Moreover, generative AI (e.g. deepfakes) has
further muddled the line between legitimate creative reuse on the one hand
(as in parody or satire), and the violation of personal or IP rights on the
other.

The toolkit, which is scheduled for release in January 2025, is primarily
intended for legal professionals and Trust & Safety agents, with the aim of
helping them establish an informed, well-balanced, and consistent approach
to humorous expression in light of both human rights law and
interdisciplinary humor research. However, it will also be of interest to
policymakers and advocacy groups, by addressing topical questions
concerning both the protection of lawful humorous expression and the
adjudication of illegal or borderline (albeit superficially humorous)
content. Lastly, it aims to assist humor creators of all types – from
comedians and cartoonists to ‘ordinary’ social media users – in gaining
awareness of their rights, while also highlighting the links between
certain types of derogatory humor, hate, and harm.

The authors will present on the four main sections of the toolkit: I.
Interpreting humor in context, II. Authoritarian crackdowns on humor and
satire, III. Humor, online harm and content moderation, and IV. Humor and
Intellectual Property law. This will be followed by an open Q&A ,and a
roundtable with four members of the project’s Advisory Board.

(All times EDT = UTC-4)

*14:45 Toolkit presentation and open Q&A*
*Alberto Godioli* (University of Groningen)
*Sabine Jacques* (University of Liverpool)
*Jennifer Young* (University of Groningen)
Moderator: *Hawley Johnson* (Columbia Global Freedom of Expression)

*16:00 Roundtable and Q&A on humor and free speech*
*Lady Justice Stella Isibhakhomen Anukam* (African Court on Human and
Peoples’ Rights)
*JUDr. Barbora Bukovská* (ARTICLE 19)
*Mehdi Benchelah* (UNESCO)
*Judge Darian Pavli *(European Court of Human Rights)
Moderator:* Laura Littl*e (Temple University Law School)
Moderator: *Alberto Godioli* (University of Groningen)

The event will be simulcast by the *Internet Society New York Chapter
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