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Despite the increasing use of streaming services, where media content is not stored on local devices, but merely accessed online, the private copying exception (Art 5…
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2021 saw a very active German Bundesgerichtshof (“BGH” - Federal Supreme Court) in the area of copyright law. This article covers the most relevant…
The increasing costs of publication under the Gold Open Access model and “Big Deals”
The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) has for many years supported the move…
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…
According to Article 16 EU DSM Directive 2019/790 (“DSM Directive”), a “publisher” may have a claim to a share of the author’s statutory remuneration claims – such as fair compensation for private…
Judgment nº208/2021 of Madrid Commercial Court nº16 (December 20th, 2021)
Context and facts
This case concerns a dispute between the collecting management organisation CEDRO[1] and GOOGLE DISCOVER…
In the recent case of Estonian Performers Union (EEL) v vs. MTÜ Urban Style, the Estonian Supreme Court examined the circumstances that should be taken into account in determining the amount of the…
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Introduction
When we launched the Copyright Evidence Portal, our ambition was no less than to create a catalogue of all existing empirical studies about copyright. This ambition,…
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In 2015, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) set out to conduct empirical research on the impact of copyright exceptions. We…
