CDSM Directive, Digital Single Market, European Union, Exceptions and Limitations, Hungary, Press Publishers ’ Right, Text and Data Mining (TDM)

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Regular readers of the Kluwer Copyright Blog may already be familiar with the excellent reviews of the first two rulings on the European Union’s new text and data mining (TDM) exception – one from Germany (see the Kneschke v. LAION ruling here, here and here) and one from the Netherlands (see the DPG Media v….

CDSM Directive, European Union, Exceptions and Limitations

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On the 10th of April 2025, new rules came into force as part of Elon Musk’s crackdown on impersonation accounts on X (formerly known as Twitter). Under these rules, any account that impersonates, parodies, or caricatures another comes under two requirements: first, that their username must begin with a keyword like ‘fake’ or ‘parody’; and…

CDSM Directive, Digital Single Market, Poland, Press Publishers ’ Right

(Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań )/ /Leave a comment

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, and the second post…

Collective management

(Erasmus University Rotterdam) and (University of Canterbury)/ /Leave a comment

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,…

Collective management, Digital Single Market, Remuneration (equitable)

(Luiss Guido Carli University) and (University College Dublin)/ /Leave a comment

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…

Collective management, Contract, Digital Single Market

(Vanderbilt University Law School) and (Institute for Information Law (IViR))/ /Leave a comment

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…

CDSM Directive, Digital Single Market, Poland, Remuneration (equitable)

(Jean Monnet Chair, Adam Mickiewicz University) and (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań )/ /Leave a comment

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…

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Authorship, Originality, USA

(University of Silesia (Katowice))/ /Leave a comment

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…

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Collective management, European Union, Exceptions and Limitations, Infringement, Text and Data Mining (TDM)

(Institute for Information Law (IViR) )/ /Leave a comment

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…

Artificial Intelligence (AI), CDSM Directive, CJEU, Collective management, European Union, Legislative process, Round-up, Text and Data Mining (TDM)

(University College London) and (Institute for Information Law (IViR))/ /Leave a comment

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 —…