Collective management

  Photo by Olga Naydav on Unsplash On 21 March 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its ruling in case C-10/22 Liberi Autori ed Editori (LEA) v. Jamendo SA. The decision…

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…

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Dear readers, Happy new year! Welcome to the fourth (and last) round up of EU copyright law for 2023! In this edition, we update you on what has happened in the…

Sleeping Beauty by Victor Gabriel Gilbert ‘Sleeping Beauty’: The previous legal regime And now the time has come to write about the lengthy story already mentioned here, the story of the public…

Photo by Michele Bitetto on Unsplash The Italian Antitrust authority (AGCM) has launched an investigation to assess whether the conduct of META towards SIAE, the largest Italian copyright collecting…

  Photo by Danny Howe on Unsplash Background On 8 September 2022, the Brussels court of appeal delivered a long-awaited judgment in a case between the collective management organisation “Belgian…

  Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay The removal of SIAE’s repertoire from Meta’s social networks “This song is currently unavailable” or “The audio track in your reel is no longer available. You can…

  Photo by Christian Wiediger from Unsplash 2021 saw a very active German Bundesgerichtshof (“BGH” - Federal Supreme Court) in the area of copyright law. This article covers the most relevant…

  Photo by Michele Bitetto on Unsplash 1. Introduction Last week, a preliminary hearing took place before the European Court of Justice (CJEU), in a case dealing with the implementation of the…