Exceptions and Limitations

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  Photo evan p. cordes on Flickr CC BY 2.0 DEED I Wonder … What if our “belief” in something turns into our “faith” in it? For the last few months, I have been wondering if our belief in “fair…

  Photo by Udo Pohlmann via Pixabay Over the last decades, European lawyers got used to the – at times remarkable and even forceful – interventions of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in…

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash Free spaces in copyright law are fundamental. They allow us to use and enjoy copyright works, ultimately supporting the creation of future works. Yet, since the…

  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…