Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man (c. 1490). Pen and brown ink with wash over metalpoint on paper (34.4 x 24.5 cm), Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia.
In late 2022, the Court of Venice issued an…
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Despite the increasing use of streaming services, where media content is not stored on local devices, but merely accessed online, the private copying exception (Art 5(…
Niklas Jansson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
On 30 December 2022, the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) issued an order that intervened again on the interpretation of the quotation…
According to French law, to fall under the parody exception, the second work must evoke the pre-existing work and present significant differences from it so there is no possible confusion with the…
'Laziness by Ramón Casas, provided by the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, available here'
In August 2020, a review of the Orphan Works Directive (2012/28/EU), or OWD, was initiated by the…
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The European Commission has referred six Member States (Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Poland and Portugal) to the Court of Justice of the European Union…
Pastiche is one of the newer harmonized user rights in EU copyright law. The exception for caricature, parody and pastiche was made mandatory as part of Article 17 of the Copyright in the Digital…
Launched in January 2020, the H2020 project reCreating Europe (Rethinking digital copyright law for a culturally diverse, accessible, creative Europe), is pleased to announce its final…
Introductory remarks
The Greek legislator transposed Directive (EU) 2019/790 (CDSMD) with considerable delay, enacting L. 4996/2022 in November 2022 (ΦΕΚ Α´ 2022/24.11.2022), which amended the…
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…
