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…
The advent of digital technologies and connected patterns of production and consumption has progressively displaced ownership in favour of access as the predominant mode of enjoyment of works of…
In many copyright infringement cases filed in the United States against AI companies because of their unlicensed use of copyrighted works in the training of AI models, defendants raise fair use as a…
On 31 July 2025, in Spitz Park v ECAD (Agravo de Instrumento No. 5032376-37.2025.8.24.0000), the Court of Justice of Santa Catarina, a state in southern Brazil, considered whether a collective…
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…
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…
