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Stephen Wyber (Knowledge Rights 21, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)

Mission without definition no more? Towards a definition of scientific research in EU information law

September 9, 2026

The idea of scientific research as an activity that deserves specific treatment under EU Law has been around for over 30 years. In the 1992 Rental and Lending Directive (Article 10(d)), it was…

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Brad Spitz (REALEX and University Paris-Saclay (UVSQ))

Press Publishers’ Right: The French Competition Authority Orders Meta to Negotiate in Good Faith

September 1, 2026

In France, the press publishers’ right of Article 15 of the CDSM Directive was implemented in articles L.218‐1 et seq. of the intellectual property code (‘IPC’) (here for our presentation of these…

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…