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Content creation on YouTube reportedly reached a new peak during the second half of 2023, meaning that the platform experienced a surge in infringing uploads on the one hand, and copyright actions by…

  Image by yousafbhutta from Pixabay On 26 September 2024, the Belgian Constitutional Court referred a highly topical issue of fair remuneration of authors and performers on online streaming…

  Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay As reported in earlier posts on this blog, in a 2022 study, I examined the national implementations in the 11 Member States that had at that time…

The Digital Services Act (DSA) transparency database, while proving to be rather useless for misinformation or hate speech researchers, is very enlightening on copyright moderation.  Platform…

  Image by Engin Akyurt from Pixabay The discussion on creators’ remuneration is gaining momentum. The main reason: the growing popularity of generative AI and its potential to substitute human…

Photo by Sara Kurfeß on Unsplash Today marks the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. It is hard to remember how divisive and…

Photo by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash On 7 May 2024, Open AI published its approach to data and AI (ADAI). This statement sets out OpenAI’s vison for a ‘social contract for content in AI’. In this…

  Image via Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt Public Domain Mark 1.0 For more than seven decades, international law has consistently led countries to embrace culture as a…

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the first trimester of the 2024 roundup of EU copyright law (though with a slight delay)! In this edition, we update you on what has happened between…