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…
Copyright exhaustion has an environmental problem. In the EU, transforming a lawfully purchased physical copy can move the act beyond the exhausted distribution right and trigger the copyright holder…
The idea of scientific research as an activity that deserves specific treatment under EU Law has been around for over 30 years. In the 1992 Rental and Lending Directive (Article 10(d)), it was…
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…
Who “owns” content generated with a person’s personal AI twin? In this post, we briefly explain the technology underlying personal AI twins and offer three possible answers to this question. We…
Any suggestion that copyright might be linked in any way to a registry is enough to raise concerns amongst legal scholars and rightsholders. Yet, notwithstanding the questionable choice of term - one…
On 28 May 2026, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) published its study on “Mapping of EU Databases and Metadata Standards Providing Information on Copyright-Protected Works” (…
Territorial copyright and the borderless Internet have never sat comfortably together. The CJEU’s judgment in Anne Frank Fonds (C-788/24), delivered on 9 July, demonstrates that this tension remains…
A few months ago, a very valuable interdisciplinary workshop took place at UCL looking at the well-rehearsed but endless topic of genAI and copyright law. What made this meeting different and…
