In her recent post, Molly Stech of STM, the international association of scientific publishers, discusses Problems Presented by the Secondary Publication Right. According to its website, “STM…
In the lead-up to Australia’s 2025 federal election, residents of Burnie, a coastal city in Tasmania (Australia), were asked to listen to a recording of Senator Jacqui Lambie outlining a re-election…
As we are going from one heatwave to another, EU copyright law has not stopped producing exciting developments on the judicial and policy front. In this issue we report on CJEU judgments (including…
On 15 January 2026, Advocate General Rantos delivered his Opinion in Anne Frank Fonds (C-788/24), a reference from the Dutch Supreme Court. It puts a familiar problem back before the Court of…
Scholarly publishing is a complex and diverse ecosystem, encompassing a multiplicity of publishers, business models, and disciplines. At their core, these organizations are united by the common…
In the first part of this post I examined what GPT-NL's rightholder-aligned data sourcing policy costs in terms of model performance. Here I turn to a second question: do the rightholders who…
As in many other places the abrupt removal of access to Anthropic’s Fable model has caused a lot of hand wringing about dependency on US frontier AI models in the Netherlands. What makes the Dutch…
The European Copyright Society (ECS) recently published its Opinion on the interface of rights to access public sector information and copyright. The Executive Summary is reproduced below and…
The Law: A New Sui Generis Right Within CopyrightIn March 2026 the Cyprus House of Representatives amended the Copyright and Related Rights Law 59/1976, introducing a new sui generis right against…
On 12 May 2026, the CJEU issued its ruling in Meta (C-797/23). This case raised significant media attention. It focuses on the rights of publishers of press publications pursuant to Article 15…
