On 14 April 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment in Pelham II, bringing partial closure to litigation spanning more than two decades. The dispute originated…
Sadly, there won't be a ninth season of "Game of Thrones" anytime soon. However, in the US, ChatGPT has written a sequel to one of the underlying books, and a US court is hearing the case on grounds…
Following up on the initial comment by Sabines Jacques published on this blog about Advocate General (AG) Emiliou’s recent Opinion in the Pelham II case – which examined his interpretation of the…
Image by Pexels from Pixabay Welcome back to Part II of the analysis of AG Emiliou’s Opinion in C-590/23 Pelham II. In Part I (here), we analysed the interpretation of pastiche as an autonomous…
Image by Pexels from Pixabay The long-awaited opinion of Advocate-General (AG) Emiliou in C-590/23 Pelham, the enduring dispute between the electronic music group Kraftwerk against hip-hop producers…
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Welcome back for the second part of the C-590/23 Pelham II hearing commentary. In part one (here), we covered the interpretation of pastiche. However, a very…
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On 14 January 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) heard oral arguments in the much-anticipated case C-590/23 Pelham II, where the German…
In its latest opinion, the European Copyright Society has reviewed the German Federal Court of Justice's (BGH) referral in the Pelham II (a.k.a. Metall auf Metall) case.
Although the beginning of…
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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is about to write yet another chapter in the never-ending, or so it seems, ‘Metall auf Metall’ saga. The facts of…
