The awards ceremony was held at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
Adepi holds a new edition of its Intellectual Property Awards
The founder and CEO of Fairly Trained, Ed Newton-Rex, and intellectual property lawyer Antonio Castán Pérez-Gómez were honored with awards. In addition, Blanca Berasategui, a key figure in Spanish cultural journalism, received the Adepi Award for Cultural Outreach.
Madrid, 11 July 2025 — Once again, the Association for the Development of Intellectual Property (Adepi), of which the Society of Artists AIE is a member, has held a new edition of its Intellectual Property Awards at a ceremony hosted at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
In its 2025 edition, the awards were presented to Ed Newton-Rex, founder and CEO of Fairly Trained, and Antonio Castán Pérez-Gómez, a lawyer specialized in intellectual property. In addition, the Adepi Award for Cultural Outreach was granted to Blanca Berasategui, editor and founder of El Cultural and recipient of the 2017 National Prize for Cultural Journalism.
The Adepi Intellectual Property Awards were established in 2019 to recognize the work of individuals and institutions who advocate for intellectual property rights in general, and collective rights management in particular. These awards acknowledge those who facilitate the work of authors, artists, publishers, and producers from various fields such as politics, education, economics, and law, helping them continue to create culture within a fair and sustainable framework.
The awardees
Ed Newton-Rex is one of the world’s leading experts in Artificial Intelligence. He worked at Snapchat and was vice president and director of the Audio division at Stability AI, the creators of Stable Diffusion, from which he resigned due to disagreements over training AI models with protected works without permission. In late 2024, he founded Fairly Trained, a non-profit organization that provides “model certifications” for any AI that does not use copyright-protected content without authorization or license.
Antonio Castán Pérez-Gómez is one of the leading legal experts in intellectual property. A professor at the Pontifical University Comillas and managing partner of the legal department at Elzaburu since 2000, he is the author of numerous publications and books on the subject, including “El plagio y otros estudios de propiedad intelectual” (Plagiarism and Other Studies in Intellectual Property), “Propiedad intelectual y también, poesía” (Intellectual Property and Also, Poetry), and “Las patentes en el ecosistema digital y otros estudios sobre propiedad industrial” (Patents in the Digital Ecosystem and Other Studies on Industrial Property).
Blanca Berasategui is one of the most experienced journalists in Spanish cultural journalism. With an extensive career that began in 1973 at the newspaper ABC, where she quickly became a prominent figure in the Culture section and took responsibility for its literary pages starting in 1980, Berasategui participated in the creation of ABC Cultural in 1991, leading it for seven years. In 1999, she co-founded the weekly magazine El Cultural with Luis María Anson, a leading publication in the fields of literature, arts, music, theater, cinema, and science, where she still serves as editor today.