WIPO’s new Guide to the Copyright and Related Rights Treaties Administered by WIPO (2nd ed.) contains some complicated messages on the use of open general exceptions, like fair use and fair…
For the first time, a German court has addressed the "Prompter's" claim to authorship in the output. The District Court of Munich (AG München, Judgment of Feb 13, 2026 – 142 C 9786/25) offers a…
In this post we review the recent Court of Appeal decision in AGA Rangemaster Group Ltd v UK Innovations Group Ltd & Anor [2025] EWCA Civ 1622 concerning claims of trade mark and copyright…
The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has reignited long‑standing debates about how copyright law should balance incentives for creation with the societal benefits of…
The question of copyright subsistence in EU copyright law will never get old. In the InfoSoc Directive, the EU legislature harmonised some of the economic rights, but left entirely unaddressed the…
On 10 March the European Parliament adopted a report on copyright and generative artificial intelligence, tabled by the Committee on Legal Affairs. The report urges the European Commission to…
This post continues the discussion initiated in my recent contribution and turns from legislative developments to emerging administrative practice. In late 2025, two related AI-assisted works…
The European Copyright Society published its Opinion in Like Company. The European Copyright Society (ECS) was founded in 2012 with the aim of creating a platform for critical and independent…
In 2019 the heirs of the famous French film director, author of many Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) films, Claude Chabrol who died in 2010, brought a case against the assignees of 14 films he made between…
In bluechip Computer Aktiengesellschaft v Zentralstelle für Überspielungsrechte (ZPÜ), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) further determines the conditions under which EU Member States…
