Liability

Caterina Sganga (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)

ReCreating Europe’s report, datasets and data analysis on EU and comparative copyright flexibilities now available online – Part I

May 17, 2023

From January 2020 to July 2022, the H2020 project reCreating Europe and its teams at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa) and the University of Szeged performed an unprecedented mapping of EU and…

João Pedro Quintais (Institute for Information Law (IViR))

Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act

May 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or…

Jan Bernd Nordemann , Julian Waiblinger (NORDEMANN)

German Federal Court of Justice: Copyright Case Law of 2021 – Part II

February 24, 2023

Photo by Christian Wiediger from Unsplash 2021 saw a very active German Bundesgerichtshof (“BGH” - Federal Supreme Court) in the area of copyright law. This article covers the most relevant…

Matt Hervey (Gowling WLG)

AI and copyright in 2022

February 2, 2023

This post looks back at the key developments in AI and copyright in 2022, covering generative AI, text and data mining exceptions, the pastiche exception, deep fakes, voice cloning and infringement…

Alina Trapova (University College London) , João Pedro Quintais (Institute for Information Law (IViR))

EU copyright law round up – fourth trimester of 2022

January 13, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the fourth (and last) trimester of the 2022 round up of EU copyright law (even though slightly overdue)! While in the last three months of 2022 the CJEU…

Sabine Jacques (University of Liverpool)

A Two-Tier System for Freedom of Expression: Towards a Right to be Heard?

November 14, 2022

[embed]https://vimeo.com/754249687?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=106928130[/embed] COMMUNIA and Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte co-hosted the Filtered Futures conference on 19 September…

Tito Rendas (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

The not-so-optional parody exception

November 3, 2022

Image by Perlenmuschel via Pixabay This post is a summary of an editorial forthcoming in IIC – International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law. A pre-print is available for free…

Finn Hümmer (Stockholm University)

Implications from C-401/19 for national transpositions in the light of freedom of expression

November 1, 2022

[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…

Jasmin Brieske (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)

The Impact of the German Implementation of Art. 17 CDSM Directive on Selected Online Platforms

October 26, 2022

[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…