Legislative process

As we enter a new year, we would like to take this opportunity to pass on our best wishes for 2026 to all of our readers, as well as reflect on developments in copyright over the past year. Last year…

The UK did not implement the CDSM Directive with its two text and data mining (TDM) exceptions (Articles 3 and 4). Neither does the UK have any horizontal AI regulation such as the AI Act…

As 2025 draws to a close, we can start looking back on a particularly turbulent year for music streaming. One that might come to be understood as a tilting point for streaming and the music sector at…

Around the world, governments are developing legal frameworks to address artificial intelligence. The European Union has adopted a comprehensive AI Act regulating high-risk systems, while South Korea…

In May 2025, the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia unanimously (with 76 votes in favour and none against) adopted an amendment to the Scientific Research and Innovation Activity Act (Slo…

In August, I spoke at the Panama International Book Fair, in an event co-hosted by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Panama Copyright Office, the Ministry of Culture, and the…

As the EU continues to wrestle with large-scale unauthorised use of works in AI training and outputs, the rapid convergence of search and AI answers is further complicating an already lagging…

In a previous blog post, we explained how the Restatement of the Law, Copyright was prepared, how it is structured, and how it was approved as of May by the membership of the American Law Institute …

Deepfakes are flooding the internet. Thanks to generative AI, politicians say things on camera they never said, celebrities star in porn clips they never dreamt about, and the Pope dons a puffer…