From Infopaq to the Cantemir manuscript: originality at its lower edge?The concept of the “work” is the cornerstone of copyright protection. Only works are capable of being protected (“protectable…
Welcome to our first roundup for 2026. In the first trimester of this year, several important developments have taken place in the EU copyright law arena. As our regular audience will know, in this…
The question of copyright subsistence in EU copyright law will never get old. In the InfoSoc Directive, the EU legislature harmonised some of the economic rights, but left entirely unaddressed the…
The French brand Christian Louboutin is known to the general public for its refined luxury shoes, and to IP lawyers and scholars for the numerous cases in which it has obtained judgments confirming…
On 8 May, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII, Advocate General Szpunar delivered his long-awaited opinion in joined cases Mio/konektra (C-580/23 and C-795/23). The two cases were…
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Recently, there has been a lot of suggestions that the U.S. Copyright Office is registering “AI-generated works.” Nonetheless, these are not actually AI-generated…
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In a decision of 20 February 2025 the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) denied copyright protection as a work of applied art for two sandal designs. The ruling…
The long-awaited and much anticipated judgment of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (“IPEC”) in Waterrower (UK) Limited v Liking Limited (t/a TOPIOM) [2024] EWHC 2086 (“WaterRower”) was…
Yesterday, the European Copyright Society (ECS) published its Opinion on the CJEU MIO/konektra cases C- 580/23 and C-795/23 (originality and infringement test of works of applied art). The…
