With AI and copyright debates continuing around the world, the Australian Productivity Commission recently released its interim report on Harnessing Data and Digital Technology. The report focuses on…
In his post of September 4th, 2025, author Eugen Stoica argued for an assertion of sui generis database right protection measures as a means to counter the problem of increased web-scraping and…
Universities have long served as custodians of knowledge, investing in infrastructure - such as institutional repositories - to ensure research outputs are preserved, discoverable, and freely…
The European Copyright Society (ECS) has published its Opinion on an EU copyright framework for research. The Executive Summary is reproduced below and the full Opinion is available here. Executive…
ChatGPT based on the input of millions of unknown creators of visual artworks on the public internet
There is a bit of excitement in copyright circles about the first case referred to the CJEU that…
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The debate on whether works protected by copyright can be used for the training of artificial intelligence (AI) has reached India. While dozens of US District…
Image: Interior of a bookshop in 1815This week, COMMUNIA released a new report detailing unfair practices in the licensing of digital resources to libraries (as a PDF file). This report describes…
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Regular readers of the Kluwer Copyright Blog may already be familiar with the excellent reviews of the first two rulings on the European Union’s new text and…
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Once the dust has settled after a difficult lawmaking process, commentators may succumb to the temptation of simply accepting and rubberstamping whatever result has been…
