My academic work focuses on EU Intellectual Property law, especially copyright, alongside key topics in digital content distribution, consumption, and the evolving digital markets. Beyond intellectual property, my interests extend to privacy and data protection, IT law, and the broader legal frameworks governing the digital economy. In addition to my work on EU/EEA law, I am engaged in the harmonization of Ukrainian law with the EU acquis and Ukraine’s ongoing journey toward EU membership.

I obtained my PhD from the University of Tartu in Estonia with a thesis on "Reconciling the Material and Immaterial Dissemination Rights in Light of Developments under the EU Copyright Acquis". The thesis explores the developments under the EU copyright acquis against technological advancements and the distinction drawn between material and immaterial dissemination rights, restricting the application of a general limit to exclusive rights (‘exhaustion principle’) to tangible copies of a work. I argued for a need for reconciling the approaches in respect of secondary communication which would take into account the lawfulness of the initial communication as well as competing rationales of copyright protection. To this end, a normative framework for evaluating the justifiability of extending the reach of exclusive rights beyond authorising every initial dissemination of a work is offered.

In addition to my research, my practical experience in technology spans IT operations, server infrastructure management, contract negotiations for hardware and software resources, and ensuring IT compliance for the adoption of emerging technologies within organizations. This combination of legal research and hands-on technology experience enables me to bridge the gap between law and the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Jeg underviser og veileder innenfor

• Immaterialrett
• Personvern
• EU/EØS rett 

Emneansvarleg

2026

JUS2314 EU Copyright Law

JUS3514 EU Copyright Law

DIGI113 GDPR og personvern (sammen med Malgorzata Cyndecka)

2025

JUS2314 EU Copyright Law

JUS3514 EU Copyright Law

JUS3551 Immaterialrett (sammen med Tore Lunde, Knut Martin Tande og Torger Kielland)

DIGI113 GDPR og personvern (sammen med Malgorzata Cyndecka)

DIGI613 GDPR og personvern (sammen med Malgorzata Cyndecka)

2024

JUS2314 EU Copyright Law

JUS3514 EU Copyright Law

DIGI113 GDPR og personvern (sammen med Malgorzata Cyndecka)

2023

JUS277-2-C EU Copyright Law

JUS277-2-B International Copyright Law

DIGI113 GDPR og personvern (sammen med Malgorzata Cyndecka)

JUS260-2-B Opphavsrett

2022

JUS260-2-B Opphavsrett

DIGI113 GDPR og personvern (sammen med Malgorzata Cyndecka)

Podkast

• Gaiane Nuridzhanian; Yuliya Chernykh; Liliia Oprysk (2026). UA-KLAR Podcast | Podcast on Spotify. (ekstern lenke)

Konferanseforedrag

• Liliia Oprysk (2025). The first of its kind in Europe: sui generis right to non-original objects generated by a computer programme under Ukrainian copyright law and the EU internal market. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). How much “new” public is too much? The CJEU in VG Bild-Kunst and non-exhaustive control over consumption of works protected by copyright. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2024). Ukraine on the way to EU membership. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). Restrictions on the use of the digital content and the Digital Content Directive: EULAs, terms and conditions and beyond. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2024). Trademark applications at the EUIPO sparked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and public policy or accepted principles of morality as a ground for refusal. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2017). Applying copyright exhaustion to e-books // Tired but not exhausted. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2016). Balancing incentives to create and public access to copyright protected works in digital age: copyright exhaustion and dissemination of literary works. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2019). In search of flexibility under the EU copyright acquis: reconciling the approaches to material and immaterial dissemination rights. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2019). In search of flexibility under the EU copyright acquis: reconciling the approaches to material and immaterial dissemination rights. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2016). The forthcoming Data Protection Regulation in the EU: Higher Compliance Costs Might Slow-Down Small and Medium Enterprises in Adopting Infrastructure as a Service. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2016). Distinguishing between the right of distribution and right of communication to the public in the online environment. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2019). AI and sui generis copyright protection. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2018). The reference in C-263/18 TomKabinet case and the paradox of the CJEU’s functional equivalent approach. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2017). Reconciling right of distribution and right of communication to the public in online environment. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2018). “Digital exhaustion” serving the digital markets. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2017). Reconciling right of distribution and right of communication to the public in online environment. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2018). 90-ies revisited: mitigating the lack of imagination in copyright harmonisation. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2017). Development of a Secondary Market for E-books: The Case of Amazon. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2018). Making “digital” exhaustion serve the EU Digital Single Market. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2018). I can haz your e-book: the reference in TomKabinet case and the paradox of functional equivalent approach. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2021). Digital Consumer Contract Law without Prejudice to Copyright: EU Digital Content Directive, Reasonable Consumer Expectations and Competition. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2024). The Ambiguity of Purchasing Digital Content: EU Digital Consumer Contract Law to Limited Avail?. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). Chasing a moving target of EU copyright acquis amid full-scale Russian invasion: gradual approximation or a major leap for Ukrainian copyright. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). The Ambiguity of Purchasing Digital Music in the Streaming Era: EU Digital Consumer Contract Law to Limited Avail?. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). The Ambiguity of Purchasing Digital Music in the Streaming Era: EU Digital Consumer Contract Law to Limited Avail?. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). Chasing the moving target of EU copyright acquis amid the full-scale Russian invasion: Ukraine’s multi-faced recovery?. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). The Ambiguity of Purchasing Digital Music in the Streaming Era: EU Digital Consumer Contract Law to Limited Avail?. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). Commercial use of national symbols in IP and marketing. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). Embedding of Freely Available Digital Content as an Infringement of Copyright under the EU law: CJEU Judgment in VG Bild-Kunst. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig bokkapittel

• Liliia Oprysk (2026). Harmonization of Copyright Law. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2026). Article 3(3) InfoSoc Directive under the CJEU jurisprudence. (ekstern lenke)
• Paloma 4. Krõõt Tupay; Liliia Oprysk; Martin Ebers (2023). Accountability and Liability. (ekstern lenke)
• Martin Ebers; Liliia Oprysk; Paloma Krõõt Tupay (2023). Safety and Security. (ekstern lenke)
• Paloma Krõõt Tupay; Liliia Oprysk; Martin Ebers (2023). Fairness and Equal Treatment. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). Intellectual Property Rights and Data Ownership. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2020). “Digital” Exhaustion and the EU (Digital) Single Market. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2019). The CJEU Judgment in Ranks and Vasilevics: You Can Buy a Used License, but Will a Copy Follow?. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2025). Harmonisation with the EU Acquis amid the Resistance to Russian Aggression as a Catalyst of Ukrainian Copyright Recovery. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). The Ambiguity of Purchasing Digital Music in the Streaming Era: EU Digital Consumer Contract Law to Limited Avail?. (ekstern lenke)

Forelesning

• Harald Irgens-Jensen; Liliia Oprysk (2026). Nyheter på opphavsrettsområdet siden sist. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). Ukraine on the way to EU membership. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2024). Approximation with the EU copyright acquis as a matter of both economics and culture. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). Ukraina – krigsforbrytelsene og flyktningene. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). Status of internally displaced persons in Ukraine amid the Donbas war and annexation of Crimea and the full-scale Russian war against Ukraine launched on February 24, 2022. (ekstern lenke)
• Johanne Berge Kalsaas; Martin Paulsen; Knut Einar Skodvin et al. (2022). Hvorfor er det krig i Ukraina?. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). Ukraine on the way to EU membership. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). Memes in Ukrainian society dialogue in times of war. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2023). Russia’s war against Ukraine: the role of civil society, research, and education. (ekstern lenke)
• Harald Irgens-Jensen; Liliia Oprysk (2025). Nyheter på opphavsrettsområdet siden sist. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk; Ingunn Lunde; Svitlana Arabadzhy et al. (2025). Russia's forcible deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children: Continuation of Russian colonial policies in Ukraine. (ekstern lenke)

Annen presentasjon

• Liliia Oprysk (2025). Copyright cross-roads in Europe: Empires, the Berne Convention, and the minorities in the late XIX – early XX centuries Ukraine. (ekstern lenke)

Lederartikkel

• Liliia Oprysk (2024). GenAI, Free Speech, Author’s Moral Rights?. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk; Terje Einarsen (2023). Lov og rett i Ukraina – hvorfor et internasjonalt rettsoppgjør med aggresjonsforbrytelsen nå?. (ekstern lenke)

Populærvitenskapelig artikkel

• Liliia Oprysk (2021). CJEU in C-597/19 Mircom: users of P2P networks might be infringing the right of making works available to the public. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2019). Ranks aftermath, or TomKabinet reference versus reality. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2021). CJEU in C-597/19 Mircom: users of P2P networks might be infringing the making available right if duly informed. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig artikkel

• Liliia Oprysk; Karin Sein (2020). Limitations in End-User Licensing Agreements: Is There a Lack of Conformity Under the New Digital Content Directive?. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2021). Digital Consumer Contract Law without Prejudice to Copyright: EU Digital Content Directive, Reasonable Consumer Expectations and Competition. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2020). Secondary communication under the EU copyright acquis after Tom Kabinet: between exhaustion and securing work’s exploitation. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk; Raimundas Matulevičius; Aleksei Kelli (2017). Development of a Secondary Market for E-books: The Case of Amazon. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). How Much “New” Public Is Too Much? The CJEU’s VG Bild-Kunst Judgment and Non-Exhaustive Control Over a Work’s Consumption. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2016). The Forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation in the EU: Higher Compliance Costs Might Slow Down Small and Medium- sized Enterprises’ Adoption of Infrastructure as a Service. (ekstern lenke)

Fremhevet artikkel i media

• Monica Naime; Liliia Oprysk (2022). Norge bør intervenere i Ukraina v. Russland ved ICJ. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). Har noen spurt flyktningene?. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk (2022). Krig til tross: Ukraina er på vei mot EU-medlemskap. (ekstern lenke)
• Liliia Oprysk; Terje Einarsen (2022). Vi må støtte et spesialtribunal for Ukraina nå!. (ekstern lenke)

Tidsskriftomtale

• Liliia Oprysk (2023). Heiko Richter (ed): Competition and Intellectual Property Law in Ukraine. (ekstern lenke)

Doktorgradsavhandling

• Liliia Oprysk (2020). Reconciling the material and immaterial dissemination rights in the light of the developments under the EU copyright acquis. (ekstern lenke)

Se en fullstendig oversikt over publikasjoner i NVA.

University of Bergen experiences technical problems and the publication list cannot be fetched.

Most of my research can be found on ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Liliia-Oprysk) and/or SSRN (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2766712).

Vitenskapelige stillinger

2021-nå: Førsteamanuensis, Det juridiske fakultet, Universitetet i Bergen

2020: Postdoktor, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, München

2016-2019: Forsker i IT-rett, Universitetet i Tartu

2017-2019: Gjesteforsker

• Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, München, 2017-2018, 2019
• Institute for Information Law (IViR), Universitetet i Amsterdam, 2017
• Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute, Stockholms Universitet, 2017
• Universitetet i Oslo, 2018

 

Utdanning

2020 PhD, Universitetet i Tartu (Estland)

2016 MA i jus og teknologi, Tallinns tekniske universitet (Estland)

2013 MA i internasjonal rett, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraina)

2012 BA i internasjonale relasjoner og rett, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraina)

 

Næringslivserfaring

2020-2021: IT Compliance Manager, PwC Deutschland

2014: Kontraktsspesialist, Itera ASA

2011-2014: Incident, Problem and Change Management, EVRY Sverige AB