The recent judgment of the Court of Justice in Gandul Media (C‑598/24) tackles two crucial EU copyright law issues: (i) the notion of a copyright work; and (ii) the Member State implementation…
The Deepfake ProblematicThe phenomenon of deepfakes challenges existing image and voice protection. Unlike before, AI systems can now generate audio and video content that mimics a real person to the…
In France, the press publishers’ right of Article 15 of the CDSM Directive was implemented in articles L.218‐1 et seq. of the intellectual property code (‘IPC’) (here for our presentation…
This post addresses the overseas allocation of broadcast and performance royalties belonging to American music artists and record labels. It suggests how affected stakeholders can reclaim these…
Few rights look more thoroughly harmonised than the right of “communication to the public”. Article 3(1) of the InfoSoc Directive, and the CJEU’s “new public” doctrine built to give it a uniform…
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…
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…
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…
