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Background
On 8 September 2022, the Brussels court of appeal delivered a long-awaited judgment in a case between the collective management organisation “Belgian…
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The removal of SIAE’s repertoire from Meta’s social networks
“This song is currently unavailable” or “The audio track in your reel is no longer available. You can…
A new French Law provides that search engines using thumbnails will have to pay royalties via a compulsory collective management for the reproduction of photographs and images.
The French Act No…
What is an appropriate royalty for a broadcaster to pay for the right to include music in its broadcasts? This is a question the UK Copyright Tribunal considered recently in a rather dry but…
An auction house may transfer the responsibility of paying the artist’s ‘droit de suite’ from the seller to the buyer.
This judgment, rendered by the European Court of Justice on 26 February 2015 in…
Can an auction house transfer the responsibility of paying the resale right royalty from the seller to the buyer?
Directive 2001/84/EC created a resale right (‘droit de suite’) in the EU for the…
Yesterday, the European Parliament adopted a resolution by which it urges EU Member States to combat tax fraud and evasion. The resolution was adopted by a large majority, 538 votes in favour to 73…
