The idea of scientific research as an activity that deserves specific treatment under EU Law has been around for over 30 years. In the 1992 Rental and Lending Directive (Article 10(d)), it was…
In France, the press publishers’ right of Article 15 of the CDSM Directive was implemented in articles L.218‐1 et seq. of the intellectual property code (‘IPC’) (here for our presentation…
Who “owns” content generated with a person’s personal AI twin? In this post, we briefly explain the technology underlying personal AI twins and offer three possible answers to this question. We…
Any suggestion that copyright might be linked in any way to a registry is enough to raise concerns amongst legal scholars and rightsholders. Yet, notwithstanding the questionable choice of term - one…
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…
