Exceptions and Limitations

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  Image by Alexa from Pixabay As succinctly noted by Susan Bischoff in a prior post, the ongoing legal saga surrounding the 'Metall auf Metall' case continues to yield legal insights. Presently, a…

  Photo by teisco from Pixabay In Greek mythology, the saga of Sisyphus personifies relentless and never-ending toil – condemned by the gods to an eternity of pushing a massive boulder up a steep…

  Photo by Kelly Sikkema via Unsplash With the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) restarting its activities after the vacation break, we look back to one of the late-summer judgement, standing out for…

  Image by Reto Scheiwiller via Pixabay Introduction The current international legal framework for text and data mining (TDM) is highly disharmonized, showing a variety of approaches that span from…

  Context Copyright can be challenging for cultural institutions (or “GLAM“ for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) when pursuing digitization and dissemination activities, as copyright…

  Museu do Azulejo by G.P. The belated Portuguese transposition of the CDSM Directive was finally published in the Portuguese Official Journal (Diário da República) on the 19th of June 2023. The…

  Image by Aida KHubaeva from Pixabay “No artist starts from scratch in a vacuum”. This finding of the Berlin Regional Court seems obvious. But copyright law faces daunting challenges when…

 The H2020 project reCreating Europe performed an unprecedented mapping of EU and Member States’ sources on copyright flexibilities. Part I of this blog post explained the mapping of EU sources and…

 From January 2020 to July 2022, the H2020 project reCreating Europe and its teams at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa) and the University of Szeged performed an unprecedented mapping of EU and…