Legislative process

A few weeks ago, the Spanish Ministry of Culture released a legislative proposal aimed at introducing extended collective licensing (ECL) for the development of general-purpose AI models. The first…

  Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash As the discussion on AI regulation is intensifying around the globe, the Australian Government’s Department for Industry, Science and Resources has recently…

  Generated with OpenAI's DALL-E 3 model based on a prompt corresponding to the wording of Recital 106 AI Act Introduction The interaction between the AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) and the exceptions…

  Image by M. Richter from Pixabay Copyright is not averse to new technologies. Its history is intrinsically linked to technological development. At each stage, revisions, adjustments, and…

The Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam, in collaboration with Kluwer Law International, publisher of the Information Law Series, has launched an online archive of…

  Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay As reported in earlier posts on this blog, in a 2022 study, I examined the national implementations in the 11 Member States that had at that time…

  Image by Andreas Grönberg from Pixabay In Canada, the Federal Government has just announced a $2.4 billion package of measures “to secure Canada’s world-leading AI advantage.” This sum is in…

  Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. WIPO negotiators appear prepared to…

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the first trimester of the 2024 roundup of EU copyright law (though with a slight delay)! In this edition, we update you on what has happened between…