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As reported in earlier posts on this blog, in a 2022 study, I examined the national implementations in the 11 Member States that had at that time…
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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 new…
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The belated Portuguese transposition of the CDSM Directive was finally published in the Portuguese Official Journal (Diário da República) on the 19th of June 2023. The…
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As testified by collections such as those of Trinity College’s Old Library, copying and illustrating manuscripts by hand was such a well-developed…
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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 (CJEU…
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 basic…
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In the last year, the German Copyright Act has experienced what is probably its most substantial reform since it first came into force in 1966. The reason for…
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In 2019, the EU’s Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) was adopted. This included the highly controversial Articles 15 and 17 on,…
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Much has been said about the press publishers’ right, introduced by Article 15 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM). Aimed at ensuring remuneration…
