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Mark Fenwick (Kyushu University Graduate School of Law), Paul Jurcys (Vinted and Vilnius University), Vytautas Mizaras (Constitutional Court of Lithuania and Vilnius University)

Who Owns Outputs Generated with AI Twins?

August 27, 2026

Who “owns” content generated with a person’s personal AI twin? In this post, we briefly explain the technology underlying personal AI twins and offer three possible answers to this question. We…

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Stefano Gentile (European Commission)

TDM registry: effective optout through content-based fingerprinting technologies

August 25, 2026

Any suggestion that copyright might be linked in any way to a registry is enough to raise concerns amongst legal scholars and rightsholders. Yet, notwithstanding the questionable choice of term - one…

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Marianna Foerg (Hamlins LLP and King's College London)

The EUIPO’s Metadata Mapping Study: Towards a European Copyright Infrastructure

August 18, 2026

On 28 May 2026, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) published its study on “Mapping of EU Databases and Metadata Standards Providing Information on Copyright-Protected Works” …

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Elena Izyumenko (IViR, University of Amsterdam)

State-of-the-Art Geo-Blocking is Good Enough, Even if VPNs Enable Circumvention: The CJEU on Territorial Copyright and the Public Domain in Anne Frank Fonds

August 18, 2026

Territorial copyright and the borderless Internet have never sat comfortably together. The CJEU’s judgment in Anne Frank Fonds (C-788/24), delivered on 9 July, demonstrates that this tension remains…

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

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…