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…
Following up on the initial comment by Sabines Jacques published on this blog about Advocate General (AG) Emiliou’s recent Opinion in the Pelham II case – which examined his interpretation of the…
Image by Pexels from Pixabay Welcome back to Part II of the analysis of AG Emiliou’s Opinion in C-590/23 Pelham II. In Part I (here), we analysed the interpretation of pastiche as an autonomous…
Image by Pexels from Pixabay The long-awaited opinion of Advocate-General (AG) Emiliou in C-590/23 Pelham, the enduring dispute between the electronic music group Kraftwerk against hip-hop…
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…
ChatGPT based on the input of millions of unknown creators of visual artworks on the public internet
There is a bit of excitement in copyright circles about the first case referred to the CJEU that…
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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…
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The concept of lawfulness in relation to user status or user acts has been gradually established in EU digital copyright law as a condition for the enjoyment of certain…
