Photo by Christian Wiediger from Unsplash 2021 saw a very active German Bundesgerichtshof (“BGH” – Federal Supreme Court) in the area of copyright law. This article covers the most relevant…
…the German Copyright Act (UrhG) came into force. Germany’s implementation of Art. 17 DSMD was discussed in an earlier blog post by Julian Waiblinger and Jonathan Pukas. The other changes…
…exception in Article 4 of the Directive that is most relevant to the current discussion. The Article 4 exception – which is the result of extensive advocacy by researchers, research…
…management of copyright is regulated by the combined provisions of Article 4(2) of the Decree and Article 180 of the Italian Copyright Law. Article 4(2) of the Decree provides for…
…on copyright-related reasoning, but instead on the goal of establishing an internal market as per Article 114 TFEU. To that end, the EU would typically introduce secondary copyright legislation whenever…
…Music Group and almost immediately dropped following complaints of cultural insensitivity. A journalist used Midjourney to illustrate an article in The Atlantic and was attacked on social mediafor not hiring…
…sentence of Article 11 and Article 13(1) of the Enforcement Directive (2004/48) as being relevant, and specifically the term infringer, which can also include indirect infringers. There seem to be…
…by Statement 115 set by the Federal Justice Council: “The limitations of copyright established in articles 46, 47 and 48 of the Copyright Law must be interpreted extensively, in accordance…
…is based on Article 6 and Article 8 of the DSMD. Specifically, this means that acts of reproduction for the purposes of preserving copies of works within the scope of…
…Art. 17 DSMD, was implemented into a separate legislative act, the German Copyright Service Provider Act, called in German “UrhDaG” (see III. below). All German copyright laws affected by the…
