Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  Image created with AI I. Introduction Not long ago, artificial intelligence (“AI”) was a concept brought to life by human actors – whether through Scarlett Johansson’s voice in Her (2013) or as…

  Image by mcmurryjulie from Pixabay The debate on whether works protected by copyright can be used for the training of artificial intelligence (AI) has reached India. While dozens of US District…

  Interior of a bookshop in 1815 This week, COMMUNIA released a new report detailing unfair practices in the licensing of digital resources to libraries (as a PDF file). This report describes…

  Image by Jakub Wyczik, using AI. Recently, there has been a lot of suggestions that the U.S. Copyright Office is registering “AI-generated works.” Nonetheless, these are not actually AI-generated…

Photo by CrowN on Unsplash Once the dust has settled after a difficult lawmaking process, commentators may succumb to the temptation of simply accepting and rubberstamping whatever result has been…

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Slightly overdue, but here comes the first roundup of 2025. The EU courts have issued just one judgment in this trimester, but to make up for it, there have been…

  Introduction Discussions about copyright have once again returned to the political agenda in Brazil. Various national - and international - regulatory initiatives seek to address the accumulating…

  Image by Jorge Franganillo from Pixabay On March 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed the denial of Stephen Thaler’s application to register A…

  Photo by BoliviaInteligente on Unsplash Last year we reported on the European AI Office facilitating the drawing-up of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (the “Code”). The first draft of the…