Exceptions and Limitations

For more than two decades, European copyright policy has pursued the goal of harmonisation. Successive directives have sought to establish a common framework for copyright protection and limitations…

As we are going from one heatwave to another, EU copyright law has not stopped producing exciting developments on the judicial and policy front. In this issue we report on CJEU judgments (including…

The Law: A New Sui Generis Right Within CopyrightIn March 2026 the Cyprus House of Representatives amended the Copyright and Related Rights Law 59/1976, introducing a new sui generis right against…

 The 48th session of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) embraced the first text-based work on Limitations and Exceptions …

Earlier this month the European Commission published a call for evidence relating to the "Report on the review of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive" and a "Targeted initiative for…

On 14 April 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment in Pelham II, bringing partial closure to litigation spanning more than two decades. The dispute originated…

Welcome to our first roundup for 2026. In the first trimester of this year, several important developments have taken place in the EU copyright law arena. As our regular audience will know, in this…

Metaphors are crucial to our (mis)understanding of generative AI (GenAI). For instance, AI is systematically conceptualized in human terms such as neural networks that learn, know and memorize. This…

 Sadly, there won't be a ninth season of "Game of Thrones" anytime soon. However, in the US, ChatGPT has written a sequel to one of the underlying books, and a US court is hearing the case on grounds…