Proposal for a Directive on Collective Rights Management and (some)...
Institute for Information Law (IViR) On July 11 the European Commission published its first official draft of the Proposal for a Directive “on collective management of copyright and related rights and...
View ArticleTo register or not to register?
Institute for Information Law (IViR) On 27 September, the Dutch government introduced what at first glance would seem an inconsequential proposal, e.g. to amend the Register Act of 1970 whereby the...
View ArticleThe problem with the validity of on-line copyright licenses under Turkish law
Koç University, Istanbul “In addition to the requirement of written form, any transaction or notice aiming at the relinquishment of copyright and thus releasing the work into the public domain further...
View ArticleUK: Extended Collective Licensing
On the 1st October 2014, the Copyright and Rights in Performances (Extended Collective Licensing) Regulations 2014 came into force in the UK.1 Licensing bodies and collecting societies already...
View ArticleSpain: An excessive fee for concert licensing
Elzaburu Competition and collecting societies: a special application of European legal doctrine in Spain. “It seems to utilise the previous methods in a forced manner, even though those methods had led...
View ArticleWhat does the new Dutch Copyright Contract Law have to offer?
Karlijn van den HeuvelThe Dutch Copyright Contract Law entered into force on July 1st 2015. According to the legislator it aims to strengthen the position of the author and performer in exploitation...
View ArticleBulgaria: Decision No. 214 on commercial case No. 3088 of 2014, Supreme Court...
Teodora TsenovaInstitute of Private International LawThe Supreme court of Bulgaria held that the term “unless agreed otherwise” in Art. 42 (2) of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights should be...
View ArticleBlockchain Copyright Symposium
Balázs Bodó and Joao Pedro Quintais Blockchain technology seems to be all the rage nowadays. In simple terms, blockchain enables parties who do not know or trust each other to maintain a common set of...
View ArticleGermany: No Damages when Violating the GPL?
Stefan LabesiusLegal enforcement of open source software license violations, in particular violations of the General Public License (GPL), has been established in Germany for quite some time. Back in...
View ArticleExcessive pricing and copyright industry: still blurred lines?
Marco D'Ostuni and Marianna MerianiThis post was first published on the new Kluwer Regulating for Globalization Blog. On September 14, 2017, the EU Court of Justice issued a preliminary ruling in Case...
View ArticleAustralian copyright law is inhibiting the development of AI – what options...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly pervading our lives. AI-based face recognition technology has been employed in surveillance and policing. In medicine, AI is already diagnosing various...
View ArticleWhy Metadata Matter for the Future of Copyright
The legislative agenda of the past two decades – both in Europe and further afield – has been about adapting copyright to the requirements of the information society. The administrative means to make...
View ArticleUKIPO’s public consultation on AI and IP – text and data mining (Part 2)
Photo by Gabriella Clare Marino on Unsplash Running from 29 October 2021 to 7 January 2022, the “Artificial Intelligence and IP: copyright and patents” consultation formed the latest round in an...
View ArticleCreative Commons and NFTs – is CC licensing compatible with the new...
Photo by Markus Winkler On 9 September 2022, Creative Commons issued their new FAQs on NFTs. This article provides a brief overview of the use of Creative Commons licensing in relation to NFTs based on...
View ArticleThe SIAE and Meta tug-of-war: an Italian affair of European relevance
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay The removal of SIAE’s repertoire from Meta’s social networks “This song is currently unavailable” or “The audio track in your reel is no longer available. You can...
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