In February 2025, the Spanish Supreme Court brought lengthy judicial proceedings to an end concerning a claim for infringement of authors’ moral rights in relation to a streetlamp known as the Farola…
The European Copyright Society (ECS) recently published its Opinion on the interface of rights to access public sector information and copyright. The Executive Summary is reproduced below…
The UK did not implement the CDSM Directive with its two text and data mining (TDM) exceptions (Articles 3 and 4). Neither does the UK have any horizontal AI regulation such as the AI Act.…
We tend to think that bad policy begins in parliament buildings, in closed-door meetings, or in regulatory working groups. But often, it starts elsewhere — on the street, in a café queue, or on…
Part 1 of this post examined how the OLG Hamburg’s ruling in Kneschke v. LAION gives concrete meaning to the requirement that TDM opt-outs be machine-readable and machine-actionable, while also…
Last week, the OLG Hamburg provided the first genuinely substantive judicial engagement with what constitutes a machine-readable rights reservation under Article 4(3) of the DSM Directive in an AI…
The U.S. Supreme Court seems likely to shake up American copyright law by articulating a different—and likely a stricter—legal standard for what constitutes contributory copyright infringement…
Part 1 of this post outlined the decision in GEMA v OpenAI and placed it in the action workflow of large language models (LLMs) as well as explaining why treating training as “reproduction”, in…
My impulse to write this piece came from a question at a recent Conference, where I was speaking about AI training, fair use and EU text-and-data mining (TDM). During the Q&A, someone asked…
As 2025 draws to a close, we can start looking back on a particularly turbulent year for music streaming. One that might come to be understood as a tilting point for streaming and the music sector at…
