Infringement

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The district court erred in taking the statute of limitations into account in determining who was the prevailing party. A defendant in a copyright infringement action is not the prevailing party for…

Photo: Shantanu Kumar from pexels Generative AI (GenAI) is promising to revolutionise higher education. Whether it concerns legal scholars using ChatGPT to write their essays, computer science…

The Digital Services Act (DSA) transparency database, while proving to be rather useless for misinformation or hate speech researchers, is very enlightening on copyright moderation.  Platform…

  AI-generated image by DALL-E 3 (through Microsoft Copilot) based on Gabriele Cifrodelli’s prompt: ‘Terms and Conditions on a cracked computer screen’ Although large, general purpose AI (GPAI) or …

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…

The rise in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has attracted a great deal of attention from copyright practitioners and aficionados. And why is that? Basically, because an NFT is an encoded…

On 19 March 2024, the Court of Appeal handed down its decision on the appeal in the Lidl v Tesco case ([2024] EWCA Civ 262), holding as follows.   First instance (High Court) decision Court of…

  Photo by TheoRivierenlaan from Pixabay The Austrian Supreme Court (hereinafter: “ASC”) ruled on 19th of December 2023 (4 Ob 112/23h) in a case concerning the 2019 film "Yesterday". The Plaintiff…

  The Kurasov image is available here: Kurasov Tackling the blurred lines between counterfeiting and ingenuity in the art world is certainly not an easy endeavor. Indeed, in a world where “nothing…