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Alina Trapova, James Hall (University College London), Thomas Margoni, Leona King (KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law)

Copyright across the genAI lifecycle – views from computer science and law

August 13, 2026

A few months ago, a very valuable interdisciplinary workshop took place at UCL looking at the well-rehearsed but endless topic of genAI and copyright law. What made this meeting different and…

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Thomas Margoni (KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law), Martin Kretschmer (CREATe, University of Glasgow), Axel Metzger (Humboldt University), João Pedro Quintais (Institute for Information Law (IViR)), Tatiana Synodinou (University of Cyprus)

The concept of lawful access and its implications for user freedoms in the EU copyright acquis: Opinion of the European Copyright Society

August 10, 2026

The advent of digital technologies and connected patterns of production and consumption has progressively displaced ownership in favour of access as the predominant mode of enjoyment of works of…

Marketa Trimble (William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

The Underappreciated Third U.S. Fair Use Factor in Copyright Infringement Cases Concerning AI Training

August 5, 2026

In many copyright infringement cases filed in the United States against AI companies because of their unlicensed use of copyrighted works in the training of AI models, defendants raise fair use as a…

Luiz Guilherme Valente (Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM) and Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio (ITS-Rio))

Can Collective Management Presume Copyright in AI-Generated Music? Lessons from Brazil

August 3, 2026

On 31 July 2025, in Spitz Park v ECAD (Agravo de Instrumento No. 5032376-37.2025.8.24.0000), the Court of Justice of Santa Catarina, a state in southern Brazil, considered whether a collective…

Danilo Ruggero Di Bella (Bottega Di Bella)

How US Artists and Record Labels Could Claim Overseas Royalties through Arbitration

July 29, 2026

This post addresses the overseas allocation of broadcast and performance royalties belonging to American music artists and record labels. It suggests how affected stakeholders can reclaim these…

Alexander Strehn, Benjamin Kotterba (ATEUS Attorneys at Law)

Can a building code decide a copyright case? Communal antennas and the “new public”

July 27, 2026

Few rights look more thoroughly harmonised than the right of “communication to the public”. Article 3(1) of the InfoSoc Directive, and the CJEU’s “new public” doctrine built to give it a uniform…

Early depiction of a ‘Dutch telescope’ from the “Emblemata of zinne-werck” (Middelburg, 1624) of the poet and statesman Johan de Brune (1588-1658). The print was engraved by Adriaen van de Venne, who, together with his brother Jan Pieters van de Venne, printed books not far from the original optical workshop of Hans Lippershey.

Ariadna Matas (Europeana Foundation), Maarten Zeinstra (KVAN / IP Squared)

Out-of-commerce regime does not solve access to 20th century heritage

July 22, 2026

The European Commission is reviewing the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive 2019/790 (CDSM Directive). This may be followed by updates to the Directive based on the evidence gathered…