This blogpost is part of a series marking the publication of the fourth edition of the book Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights, edited by Daniel Gervais and João Pedro Quintais. The blogpost provides a short presentation of the authors’ chapter with the same title. Given rapid and far-reaching changes due to digitalization,…
This blogpost is part of a series marking the publication of the fourth edition of the book Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights, edited by Daniel Gervais and João Pedro Quintais. The blogpost provides a short presentation of the authors’ chapter (with Franciska Schönherr): “Limitation-based remuneration rights as a compromise between access and remuneration…
This blogpost is part of a series marking the publication of the fourth edition of the book Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights, edited by Daniel Gervais and João Pedro Quintais. A new book, “Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights,” edited by the two coauthors of this post and just published by Kluwer…
This series of posts presents the implementation of the CDSM Directive in Poland and discusses some of the controversies linked to the new provisions in Polish law. The first post gave an overview of the implementation, including the new provisions on TDM and the implementation of Article 17 of the CDSM. This second post discusses…
Recently, there has been a lot of suggestions that the U.S. Copyright Office is registering “AI-generated works.” Nonetheless, these are not actually AI-generated works, nor are they breakthrough decisions. The U.S. Copyright Office has already registered hundreds of works related to AI-generated material – the key to obtaining registration is to specify AI-generated elements in…
Once the dust has settled after a difficult lawmaking process, commentators may succumb to the temptation of simply accepting and rubberstamping whatever result has been achieved. After all, much time and effort has been spent on developing the newly adopted rules. The legislator has spoken. It makes perfect sense to explore the full potential of…
Slightly overdue, but here comes the first roundup of 2025. The EU courts have issued just one judgment in this trimester, but to make up for it, there have been several interesting policy initiatives. As a reminder, in this post we update you on developments in EU copyright law between January and March 2025 —…
Introduction Discussions about copyright have once again returned to the political agenda in Brazil. Various national – and international – regulatory initiatives seek to address the accumulating challenges. Until recently, no significant legislative progress had been made since the enactment of the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet (Marco Civil da Internet) and the…
On March 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed the denial of Stephen Thaler’s application to register A Recent Entrance to Paradise, a purportedly machine-authored work, holding that the Copyright Act of 1976 “requires all eligible work to be authored in the first instance by a human…
Last year we reported on the European AI Office facilitating the drawing-up of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (the “Code”). The first draft of the Code was published on 14 November 2024. Our article on the first draft of the Code can be found here. This blog post is to report on the updates…
