A series of recent amendments to copyright law, including in the EU Copyright and the Digital Single Market Directive (Art. 3 and 4) and in Singapore’s new Copyright Act (Art. 243, 244), seek…
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2021 saw a very active German Bundesgerichtshof (“BGH” - Federal Supreme Court) in the area of copyright law. This article covers the most relevant…
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The implementation transposition of the Copyright Directive 2019/790 (DSMD) in the summer of 2021 represented probably the greatest reform in German…
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1. Introduction
Last week, a preliminary hearing took place before the European Court of Justice (CJEU), in a case dealing with the implementation of the…
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Works generated through complex AI systems, such as machine learning and text-to-image generation models, have recently stirred up many discussions and even…
This post looks back at the key developments in AI and copyright in 2022, covering generative AI, text and data mining exceptions, the pastiche exception, deep fakes, voice cloning and infringement…
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This contribution was posted first on 17 January 2023 on The Digital Constitutionalist under the title: Safeguarding the Constitutional Role of Media as Fourth…
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Part I of this post discussed the changes to copyright contract law and the new text and data mining exemption provisions that formed part of the 2021…
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In the last year, the German Copyright Act has experienced what is probably its most substantial reform since it first came into force in 1966. The reason…
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Welcome to the fourth (and last) trimester of the 2022 round up of EU copyright law (even though slightly overdue)! While in the last three months of 2022 the CJEU…
