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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. This must have been the key insight at the Polish Culture and National Heritage Ministry when the…
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The two US class actions against Meta
We have previously analysed US class actions against Open AI (here) and Google (here) for unauthorized use of copyright works in the…
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In his classic work, ‘Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy’, Josef Schumpeter referred to the ‘waves of creative destruction’ to describe how monopoly rents…
Machine readable opt-outs from TDM
As we head into the last month of the current EU legislative term, there are increasing signs that EU lawmakers are unable to agree on the AI Act, which was…
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…
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…
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Introduction: Brazilian Copyright Framework and the existing L&Es
Brazil has signed most Intellectual Property (IP) law Treaties, but notably it has not…
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It is well known that self-driving vehicles are a positive development. I, for one, living in the US and thus having no access to decent public transport, must…
Promoting research and access to its products has always been a core purpose of copyright law, often expressed in limitations and exceptions for research uses. Recent legal scholarship has examined…
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Our daily life is studded with hints unveiling how the Internet is becoming a society within our society. From the terms and conditions we subscribe to in…