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 French brand Christian Louboutin is known to the general public for its refined luxury shoes, and to IP lawyers and scholars for the numerous cases in which it has obtained judgments confirming…
Following the successful launch of IViR’s Information Law Series Archive in 2024, another trove of books has now been become freely available online. These include three ground-breaking dissertations…
Member States may not require performing musicians to transfer their neighbouring rights without their consent through an administrative order. On 6 March 2025, the Court of Justice of the European…
Member States may not require performing musicians to transfer their neighbouring rights without their consent through an administrative order. On 6 March 2025, the Court of Justice of the European…
In a previous blog post, we explained how the Restatement of the Law, Copyright was prepared, how it is structured, and how it was approved as of May by the membership of the American Law Institute (…
Deepfakes are flooding the internet. Thanks to generative AI, politicians say things on camera they never said, celebrities star in porn clips they never dreamt about, and the Pope dons a puffer…
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…
In May 2025, the membership of the American Law Institute (ALI) completed a milestone in our understanding and interpretation of U.S. copyright law: the approval of its first-ever Restatement of the…
