The French brand Christian Louboutin is known to the general public for its refined luxury shoes, and to IP lawyers and scholars for the numerous cases in which it has obtained judgments confirming…
Member States may not require performing musicians to transfer their neighbouring rights without their consent through an administrative order. On 6 March 2025, the Court of Justice of the European…
Member States may not require performing musicians to transfer their neighbouring rights without their consent through an administrative order. On 6 March 2025, the Court of Justice of the European…
More than forty copyright-related lawsuits have been filed in U.S. courts against developers of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) systems. The most common complaint is that the developers…
On 8 May, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII, Advocate General Szpunar delivered his long-awaited opinion in joined cases Mio/konektra (C-580/23 and C-795/23). The two cases were…
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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…
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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…
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In a decision of 20 February 2025 the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) denied copyright protection as a work of applied art for two sandal designs. The ruling…
The commercial teaching kit use the artist’s works in their entirety and encouraged the students to create their own art based on them.
An art center that sold “art kits” for use by children made a…
