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Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash Welcome back for the second part of the C-590/23 Pelham II hearing commentary. In part one (here), we covered the interpretation of pastiche. However, a very…

  Photo by Matt Popovich on Unsplash Introduction The 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive is a complex legislative text that raises several questions of legal interpretation…

  Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Now that 2024 is behind us, it’s time to report on the fourth trimester. Here is our final roundup of that AI-rich year. This post marks the fourth year of…

  Generated with OpenAI's DALL-E 3 model based on a prompt corresponding to the wording of Recital 106 AI Act Introduction The interaction between the AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) and the exceptions…

  The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) has for many years supported the move away from proprietary models of scholarly publishing towards Open Access (OA).[1] ALLEA…

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Now that the summer is formally over it is time for the third trimester of the 2024 roundup of EU copyright law. In this edition, we update you on what has…

  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…

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 Caught In Joy on Unsplash The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is about to write yet another chapter in the never-ending, or so it seems, ‘Metall auf Metall’ saga. The facts of…