Territorial copyright and the borderless Internet have never sat comfortably together. The CJEU’s judgment in Anne Frank Fonds (C-788/24), delivered on 9 July, demonstrates that this tension remains…
Few rights look more thoroughly harmonised than the right of “communication to the public”. Article 3(1) of the InfoSoc Directive, and the CJEU’s “new public” doctrine built to give it a uniform…
On 15 January 2026, Advocate General Rantos delivered his Opinion in Anne Frank Fonds (C-788/24), a reference from the Dutch Supreme Court. It puts a familiar problem back before the Court of…
Anyone working with online copyright in the EU is familiar with the underlying tension: copyright remains territorially structured, while online access routinely crosses borders. That mismatch has…
The U.S. Supreme Court seems likely to shake up American copyright law by articulating a different—and likely a stricter—legal standard for what constitutes contributory copyright infringement in…
IntroductionLast August, Brazil became the stage for a new chapter in the controversies of Generative AI (Gen AI) and copyright – its first high-profile case, in which OpenAI faces a lawsuit from…
This article is an adapted and shortened English version of the German language article „Haftung für Urheberrechtsverletzungen im Output generativer KI-Systeme“, published in Gewerblicher…
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There is news from Germany on the EU liability concept for indirect infringers. The German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH) has ruled on the liability of…
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Once again, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will be asked to provide clarity on the concept of “communication to the public” as laid down in…
