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  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,…

  The Conseil d’Etat, the French administrative Supreme Court, handed down an important ruling on 15 November 2022 which annuls Order no. 2021-580 of 12 May 2021 (‘2021 Order’) of the French…

[embed]https://player.vimeo.com/video/754250827?h=6a58ab740e?dnt=1[/embed]   COMMUNIA and Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte co-hosted the Filtered Futures conference on 19 September 2022 to discuss…

 On 21 September 2022, Egypt officially launched its first-ever National Intellectual Property Strategy (NIPS) in a ceremony held in the New Administrative Capital and in the presence of Daren Tang,…