Jul 01, 2024 Rachel’s Song – Part II: Neighbouring rights in music created by or with artificial intelligence under German copyright law By Dr. Christoph Hendel In one of the many iconic scenes of Ridley Scott’s movie Blade Runner (1982), an artificial “replicant” called Rachel plays piano for the...
Jun 28, 2024 Rachel’s Song – Part I: Rights of authors to music created by or with artificial intelligence under German copyright law By Dr. Christoph Hendel In one of the many iconic scenes of Ridley Scott’s movie Blade Runner (1982), an artificial “replicant” called Rachel plays piano for the...
Feb 23, 2024 The Spanish Supreme Court rules on copyright ownership of characters depicted in artworks By Sorin Vilceanu The Spanish Supreme Court has established a clear distinction between the copyright of artworks and the copyright of characters featured...
Jul 12, 2023 Better data from metadata in the UK music industry? A look behind the streams By Naji Tilley On 31 May 2023, the UK Intellectual Property office (UK IPO) published the “UK Industry Agreement on Music Streaming Metadata”. The...
Jun 13, 2023 Hand Built by Robots: AI-generated music is on the rise By Dan Breen Toby Bond The rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is causing concern among various music industry stakeholders. In the...
May 05, 2023 “Action Replay” – the German Federal Supreme Court submits questions on copyright protection against “cheating” devices for PlayStation Portable games By Dr. Christoph Hendel Dr. Niels Lutzhöft, LL.M. In a legal dispute that has been ongoing for more than 10 years between Sony and the manufacturers and distributors of the “Action...
Feb 17, 2023 UKIPO proposals to TDM exception will not be proceeding By Harry Ferguson Toby Bond UK government announces that UKIPO proposals to introduce TDM exception will not be proceeding. On 1 February 2023, George Freeman MP the...
Feb 15, 2023 The (legal) adventures of Zorro: an update on copyright and parody from the Italian Supreme Court By Margherita Ripamonti To what extent is it permissible to parody a copyright protected fictional character for advertising purposes? A recent judgment by the...
Oct 28, 2022 The Iberia Festival case: The Spanish Supreme Court finds infringement of a deceased artist’s image rights By David Fuentes The Supreme Court declares that the use of the deceased artist's image to advertise a music festival was an infringement of their image...
Oct 05, 2022 “New movies coming soon to the Metaverse near you” – Copyright issues with films in the metaverse By Dr. Niels Lutzhöft, LL.M. Dr. Simon Hembt Will we slip into avatars to see new movie releases in the metaverse in future? Film events have already made their way into today's...
Jun 09, 2022 Literary characters as copyright works: breaking new ground in the UK, as the Court also considers parody, pastiche. By Tristan Sherliker The English Court has handed down its first decision finding that copyright may exist in a literary character per se. In this case the...
Apr 27, 2022 The CJEU judgment in the “Polish challenge” case (C-401/19) By MediaWrites Editorial Prof. Dr. Eleonora Rosati Pawel Lipski In the judgment delivered on 26 April 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union dismissed the action of the Republic of Poland to...
Apr 08, 2022 How Does the Ed Sheeran Case Shape UK Copyright Law? By William Wortley Following an 11-day trial in London, featuring Ed Sheeran briefly singing from the witness stand, the High Court on Wednesday handed down...
Feb 23, 2022 UK aims to be gold standard in IP Counter-Infringement Strategy By Parisa Fard The UK IPO has published its five year strategy for protecting IP with the aim of ensuring that IP rights in the UK are some of the best...
Feb 17, 2022 Justice by procedure – on platforms, best efforts and manifestly infringing content By Rebecca O'Kelley-Gillard Dr. Niels Lutzhöft, LL.M. The Commission Guidance on Article 17 of the “Directive 2019 (790/EC on Copyright in the Digital Single Market”) provides much-sought...
Nov 30, 2021 Better late than never: Spain transposes Directives on copyright and related rights By David Fuentes In order to comply with the transposition obligation – yet with 5 months of delay and with a result that seems to be (at least)...