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…
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…
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…
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…
In the lead-up to Australia’s 2025 federal election, residents of Burnie, a coastal city in Tasmania (Australia), were asked to listen to a recording of Senator Jacqui Lambie outlining a re-election…
As we are going from one heatwave to another, EU copyright law has not stopped producing exciting developments on the judicial and policy front. In this issue we report on CJEU judgments (including…
In the first part of this post I examined what GPT-NL's rightholder-aligned data sourcing policy costs in terms of model performance. Here I turn to a second question: do the rightholders who…
As in many other places the abrupt removal of access to Anthropic’s Fable model has caused a lot of hand wringing about dependency on US frontier AI models in the Netherlands. What makes the Dutch…
Earlier this month the European Commission published a call for evidence relating to the "Report on the review of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive" and a "Targeted initiative for…
