**Coming Soon** How Legal AI Architectures Take Sides on Jurisprudential Debates

Grant Shanklin, Claudio Novelli, Giovanni Sartor, Luciano Floridi.

The Case for Contextual Copyleft: Licensing Open-Source Training Data and Generative AI

Grant Shanklin, Emmie Hine, Claudio Novelli, Tyler Schroder, Luciano Floridi. International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 2026.

Introduces the Contextual Copyleft AI (CCAI) licence, a novel mechanism extending copyleft obligations from open-source training data to the generative models trained on it, enhancing developer control and mitigating open-washing.

Open-Source AI Made in the EU: Why it is a Good Idea

Luciano Floridi, Carlotta Buttaboni, Emmie Hine, Claudio Novelli, Tyler Schroder, Grant Shanklin. Minds and Machines, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 1–10, 2025.

Argues that the EU’s regulatory framework and ethical commitments uniquely position it to produce trustworthy open-source foundation models, offering a competitive alternative to proprietary and foreign AI systems.