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…
The European Commission is reviewing the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive 2019/790 (CDSM Directive). This may be followed by updates to the Directive based on the evidence…
For more than two decades, European copyright policy has pursued the goal of harmonisation. Successive directives have sought to establish a common framework for copyright protection and limitations…
Copyright protection of everyday (utility) objects is one of the most challenging and controversial areas of copyright law. The legal framework for such cases has recently been refined by the rulings…
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…
