Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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…

Image by Mohamed Hassan via PxHere The debate on the use of copyrighted material to train generative AI models is evolving, shifting its focus from whether compensation is due to creators, to…

  Image via Pixabay We have so far seen a considerable (and increasing) discussion on AI and copyright infringement, especially in terms of how current exceptions such as TDM and fair use apply and…

  Photo by Luke Southern from Unsplash Background This blog post follows a previous post that discussed what constitutes “open source” AI, in particular in light of the EU AI Act. This post continues…

 The European Copyright Society (ECS) has published its Opinion on copyright and generative AI.  The Executive Summary is reproduced below and the full Opinion is available here and here.   Executive…

  Image by Aristal Branson from Pixabay Part 1 of this post provided an overview of the relevant provisions of the AI Act and explored enforcement via Section 823(2) of the German Civil Code. This…