Exceptions and Limitations

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…

The global debate over generative AI (genAI) and copyright has, by now, produced a voluminous body of commentary. Courts in the United States have wrestled with fair use factors in Kadrey v. Meta and…

 WIPO’s new Guide to the Copyright and Related Rights Treaties Administered by WIPO (2nd ed.) contains some complicated messages on the use of open general exceptions, like fair use and fair dealing…