European Union, Exceptions and Limitations, Infringement

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In an age where digital access defines education, research, and participation, European libraries face serious legal and technical barriers to lending electronic books. Despite the digital shift, outdated or restrictive interpretations of copyright law often prevent libraries from fulfilling their public mission online. A new report led by the Future Law Lab at Jagiellonian University…

Copyright, European Union, Exceptions and Limitations, Infringement

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In an era where digital access to knowledge shapes the frontiers of education, research, and participation, European libraries face significant legal and technical obstacles in lending electronic books. While the shift from paper to digital is well underway in many sectors, libraries — long seen as guardians of knowledge and enablers of equal access —…

Artificial Intelligence (AI), European Union

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The rise of generative AI and automated content generation has raised legal and ethical issues, making them a focal point in creative and technological sectors. As stakeholders navigate this new terrain, the EU AI Act appears as a benchmark regulatory framework. This blog briefly examines the transparency provisions and trade secret protection under the Act,…

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Conference, United Kingdom, USA

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On 4 March 2025, the London School of Economics (LSE) hosted an event dedicated to exploring the intersection of AI and IP within the creative industries. The discussion has been prompted by the recent developments in this area in the EU, the UK and the US. Four distinguished academics shared their insights on this complex…

Collective management, Cyprus

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On 9 April 2025, the Supreme Constitutional Court of Cyprus handed down an Opinion concerning the constitutionality of two amendments to Section 26 of Law 65(I)/2017 on collective rights management and the granting of multi-territorial licenses for online use of musical works (Reference No. 5/2024). The amendments had been enacted by the House of Representatives…

Case Law, CJEU, Design Rights, European Union, Originality

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On 8 May, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII, Advocate General Szpunar delivered his long-awaited opinion in joined cases Mio/konektra (C-580/23 and C-795/23). The two cases were referred by the Svea Court of Appeal, Patent and Commercial Court of Appeal in Stockholm and the German Federal Court of Justice in cases…

Artificial Intelligence (AI), USA

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In October 2023, several music companies (Concord, ABKCO Music & Records, Universal Music) sued Anthropic AI in the US for alleged harm to their business interests because (a) its AI chatbot, Claude, was trained with unauthorized music lyrics data  and (b) Claude’s outputs in response to user queries contained  copies of (parts of) these lyrics…

Artificial Intelligence (AI), CJEU, European Union, Text and Data Mining (TDM)

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There is a bit of excitement in copyright circles about the first case referred to the CJEU that directly addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the EU copyright framework. The request for a preliminary ruling — Like Company v Google (C-250/25) — originates from the Budapest Capital Regional Court (Budapest Környéki Törvényszék) and…

Copyright, Design Rights, ESG

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The ongoing public discourse on Sustainability – meant here not in its plain-language meaning but rather in its evolving definition in law- and policy-making (see e.g. Verschuuen) – pivots, to a significant extent, on the need to promote better models of consumption and production. This need to optimize the exploitation of natural resources and reduce…

Artificial Intelligence (AI), European Union, Germany, Legislative process, USA

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Introduction Not long ago, artificial intelligence (“AI”) was a concept brought to life by human actors – whether through Scarlett Johansson’s voice in Her (2013) or as Alicia Vikander’s eerie humanoid presence in Ex Machina (2014). Today, the roles have reversed: it is AI that is creating on-screen performances that appear convincingly human. From de-aging…