Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Single Market, European Union, Research, Text and Data Mining (TDM)

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This week, COMMUNIA released a new report detailing unfair practices in the licensing of digital resources to libraries (as a PDF file). This report describes contractual practices identified by licensing managers from public and academic libraries across Europe during a meeting organised by COMMUNIA under the Chatham House Rule. The report also contains clauses from…

Education, European Union, Exhaustion

(Knowledge Rights 21, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)/ /Leave a comment

This two-part blog looks at the provisions that exist in library laws across European countries concerning the building of collections and what libraries can do with them. It then assesses how far the achievement of these mandated functions is frustrated by a lack of access to e-books.   The first part of this blog provided…

Distribution (right of), Education, European Union, Exhaustion

(Knowledge Rights 21, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)/ /Leave a comment

This two-part blog looks at the provisions that exist in library laws across European countries concerning the building of collections and what libraries can do with them. It then assesses how far the achievement of these mandated functions is frustrated by a lack of access to eBooks. This first part introduces the issue and covers…

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

(University of Szeged, Hungary)/ /Leave a comment

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

(University College London)/ /Leave a comment

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…