As generative machine learning (ML) systems become more mainstream, the discussion about copyright and ML input is back in the spotlight. At the heart of this discussion is the question of whether…
The judgement of the European Court of Justice in case C-401/19 has hardly laid to rest the debates over the use of upload filters in automated copyright enforcement. On the contrary, by declaring…
Judge-rapporteur Marko Ilešic delivering the judgment in Case C-401/19 (Copyright European Union via Europe by Satellite - https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/copyright)
Article 17 is here to stay,…
Tape Robot at the Institute for Sound and Vision, Paul Keller, CC BY 4.0
Last week the European Commission published its proposal for a Data Act. The proposal is the second major element of the…
At the beginning of 2021, half a year before the implementation deadline of the DSM directive, only a single EU member state (the Netherlands) had passed a full implementation of the DSM directive…
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For anyone interested in the discussions about automated content filtering, Christmas came early this week: On Monday YouTube published the first edition of its Copyright…
We have recently published a white paper, authored by Julia Reda (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte) and Paul Keller (Open Future) that proposes to build a public repository of Public Domain and…
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Last week saw the long-awaited publication of Advocate General Saugmangsgaard Øe’s opinion on the Polish request for annulments of parts of Article 17 of the Directive on…
