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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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The US class action against Google Bard (J.L. v. Alphabet Inc, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, No. 3:23-cv-03440)
In a recent post…
Judgment nº208/2021 of Madrid Commercial Court nº16 (December 20th, 2021)
Context and facts
This case concerns a dispute between the collecting management organisation CEDRO[1] and GOOGLE DISCOVER…
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The decade-long titanic battle between Oracle and Google over whether copyright law forbids unlicensed reimplementations of parts of the Java Application Program…
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As reported in a previous blog post, the Australian government has been intensively negotiating the Australian version of the press publishers’ right, the News…
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…
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Overview
After fierce lobbying, European press publishers, backed by the French government, obtained the much criticized press publishers’ right (see e.g. here; here; and here) in…
While EU Member States are trying to implement the press publishers’ right (also known as ‘link tax’) that was recently introduced in Art 15 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single…
Could copyright put an end to the challenges the news industry faces while it tries to manage its position on the Internet? This question lay at the heart of the conference “Copyright, Related Rights…