This post is based in part on an amicus brief filed by the Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic on behalf of Authors Alliance and ComicMix before the United States Supreme Court in Jack Daniels v. VIP Products.…
Grand Production d.o.o. v GO4YU GmbH (Case C‑423/21)
The facts of the case are representative of the grey areas of the application of copyright territoriality in the digital era. The applicant…
Photo by Christian Wiediger from Unsplash
2021 saw a very active German Bundesgerichtshof (“BGH” - Federal Supreme Court) in the area of copyright law. This article covers the most relevant…
Photo by Christian Wiediger from Unsplash
The implementation transposition of the Copyright Directive 2019/790 (DSMD) in the summer of 2021 represented probably the greatest reform in German…
As generative machine learning (ML) systems become more mainstream, the discussion about copyright and ML input is back in the spotlight. At the heart of this discussion is the question of whether…
Image by Alexandra_Koch via Pixabay
The recent blog post by Matt Hervey provides an interesting summary by someone who clearly has a good understanding of the subject matter. It does seem a…
Photo by Michele Bitetto on Unsplash
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…
Photo by Antoine Schibler on Unsplash
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…
Photo by Christian Lue from Unsplash
The decisions of the BGH (German Federal Court of Justice) in “YouTube II”, “uploaded II” and “uploaded III” have changed things, at least for hosting…
