AG Opinion, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Case Law, CJEU, Digital Single Market, Round-up, Text and Data Mining (TDM)

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Now that the summer is formally over it is time for the third trimester of the 2024 roundup of EU copyright law. In this edition, we update you on what has happened between July and September 2024 in EU copyright law – all the way from the CJEU, through Advocate General (AG) Opinions, to important…

Case Law, Communication (right of), European Union, Round-up, Software

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Welcome to the second trimester of the 2024 roundup of EU copyright law right in time before the (hopefully) quiet summer period starts. In this edition, we update you on what has happened between March and June 2024 in EU copyright law. As our regular readers know, this roundup series includes Court of Justice (CJEU)…

Copyright, International Agreement, Subject matter (copyrightable)

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This blog post contains an edited version of the European Copyright Society’s Opinion on Case C-227/23, Kwantum Nederland and Kwantum België.   The Berne Convention underscores the national treatment of foreign authors, allowing Union states to protect designs through various means. Article 2(7) introduces a material reciprocity test, limiting copyright protection for works of applied…

AG Opinion, Artificial Intelligence (AI), CDSM Directive, Collective management, Communication (right of), European Union, Legislative process, Round-up, United Kingdom

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Welcome to the first trimester of the 2024 roundup of EU copyright law (though with a slight delay)! In this edition, we update you on what has happened between January and March 2024 in EU copyright law. Interestingly enough, in this issue you will find quite a bit of UK policy reports. As our regular…

AG Opinion, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Case Law, Collective management, European Union, Round-up

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Dear readers, Happy new year! Welcome to the fourth (and last) round up of EU copyright law for 2023! In this edition, we update you on what has happened in the last three months of 2024 in EU copyright law. The end of the year was busy for both the courts and the policy makers….

AG Opinion, Authorship, Case Law, CDSM Directive, CJEU, Communication (right of), Digital Single Market, European Union, Legislative process, Liability, Originality, Private copying, Round-up, Text and Data Mining (TDM)

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Welcome to the third trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this edition, we update you on what has happened between July and September 2023 in EU copyright law. The autumn has started with full speed – the courts and the policy makes have been very active. This round up series…

AG Opinion, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Case Law, CDSM Directive, CJEU, Digital Single Market, European Union, Round-up

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Welcome to the second trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, every three months we update you on what has happened in EU copyright law. This includes Court of Justice (CJEU) and General Court judgments, Advocate Generals’ (AG) opinions, and important policy developments. You can read the previous round-ups…

Artificial Intelligence (AI), European Union, Exceptions and Limitations, Fair Use, Legislative process, Liability, Text and Data Mining (TDM), USA

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TLDR   Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive. In particular,…

AG Opinion, Case Law, CDSM Directive, CJEU, Communication (right of), Contract, European Union, Exceptions and Limitations, Legislative process, Private copying, Reproduction (right of)

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Welcome to the first trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this edition, we report on an AG Opinion that came out late in 2022 and update you on what has happened in the first trimester of 2023 in EU copyright law. This includes Court of Justice (CJEU) and General Court…

Case Law, CDSM Directive, CJEU, Collective management, Communication (right of), Design Rights, Digital Single Market, Enforcement, European Union, Liability, NFTs, Round-up

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Welcome to the fourth (and last) trimester of the 2022 round up of EU copyright law (even though slightly overdue)! While in the last three months of 2022 the CJEU was relatively quiet, the various EU policymakers have been very productive. In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright…