A group of leading international academics has published an open letter concerning the right of revocation. This new right, regulating copyright contracts, is provided for in article 22 of the recent…
To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the top 3 most-read posts from each of our…
The legislative agenda of the past two decades - both in Europe and further afield - has been about adapting copyright to the requirements of the information society. The administrative means to make…
By now everyone in the world must have heard of Sweden, especially European copyright lawyers. This post concerns two recent preliminary rulings from the CJEU, both at the request of Swedish courts.…
In the last few months of 2020 there have been further developments in Italy with regards to private and administrative enforcement against illicit distribution of copyright content over the…
Substantial similarity was lacking because the TV show used reported facts in combination with tone, dialogue, and themes that were different from the book.
Scenes in the Netflix drama Narcos did not…
On Tuesday, November 10, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU or Court) heard case C-401/19. This case is a request by the Polish government to annul the filtering obligation…
Appellate court declines to reopen infringement judgment for a case that was not open on direct review.
In a copyright infringement case brought by Christ Center of Divine Philosophy, Inc. for…
While EU Member States are implementing the newly introduced press publishers’ right into their national laws, Australia is about to introduce its own version of the right. On 31 July 2020, the…
The first part of this blogpost analysed the main theoretical foundations of the AG’s Opinion in the VG Bild-Kunst case (C‑392/19). The second part focuses on the application of this…
