Legislative process

Photo by Emily Wang on Unsplash The UK’s attempt to deal with generative AI, training data and copyright law has taken yet another turn. On 6 February 2024, in its response to the AI White Paper…

  Basia Łabaj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. This must have been the key insight at the Polish Culture and National Heritage Ministry when the new…

Photo by Alexander Andrews on Unsplash Europeans are the biggest producers of electronic equipment waste (‘e-waste’); according to recent numbers, in 2018 approximately 4 million tons of e-waste…

Photo by Joey Csunyo on Unsplash In recent years, copyright departments in governments around the world have been preoccupied with AI’s effects on copyright industries and, more recently, copyright…

As we enter a new year, we would like to take this opportunity to pass on our best wishes for 2024 to all of our readers, as well as reflect on developments in copyright over the past year. Last year…

  Image by Виктор Сапожников via Pixabay More than two years after the transposition deadline, and with another infringement proceeding under its belt, Bulgaria is one of the last Member States to…

  Image generated from DALL-E 3 with the prompt 'ASEAN Ministers discussing the ASEAN AI Framework Guidelines during the ASEAN Summit 2024 in Bali, Indonesia.' Setting the Scene Much ink has been…

 On Friday evening, after 38 hours of negotiations, representatives of the European Parliament, EU member states and the European Commission reached a provisional agreement on the proposed AI Act…

 Machine readable opt-outs from TDM As we head into the last month of the current EU legislative term, there are increasing signs that EU lawmakers are unable to agree on the AI Act, which was…