Legislative process

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 Introductory remarks The Greek legislator transposed Directive (EU) 2019/790 (CDSMD) with considerable delay, enacting L. 4996/2022 in November 2022 (ΦΕΚ Α´ 2022/24.11.2022), which amended the basic…

Photo by Antoine Schibler on Unsplash Works generated through complex AI systems, such as machine learning and text-to-image generation models, have recently stirred up many discussions and even…

  Image by Pexels from Pixabay Introduction: Brazilian Copyright Framework and the existing L&Es Brazil has signed most Intellectual Property (IP) law Treaties, but notably it has not adhered to the…

  Photo by Norbert Braun from Unsplash Part I of this post discussed the changes to copyright contract law and the new text and data mining exemption provisions that formed part of the 2021 copyright…

  Photo by Norbert Braun from Unsplash In the last year, the German Copyright Act has experienced what is probably its most substantial reform since it first came into force in 1966. The reason for…

As we enter a new year, we would like to take this opportunity to pass on our best wishes for 2023 to all of our readers, as well as reflect on developments in copyright over the past year. Last year…

Photo by Bruno Martins on Unsplash Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and I will conquer the world.   This quote is often attributed to Johannes Gutenberg, Benjamin Franklin, Karl Marx, or all of…

  Image by Mediamodifier from Pixabay In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and related rights and access to and…

  Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay In 2019, the EU’s Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) was adopted. This included the highly controversial Articles 15 and 17 on,…