Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash On 14 January 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) heard oral arguments in the much-anticipated case C-590/23 Pelham II, where the German Federal Court submitted a request for preliminary ruling on the interpretation of “pastiche”. The purpose was to ascertain whether a two-second sample from … Read more
Image by Peter Mello via Flickr In the first part of this blog, we explored the structure of formalised copyright councils, finding that efforts to ensure balance between the interests of rightsholders and users were the exception not the rule. Furthermore, it was only in a small minority of cases that the representation of research … Read more
Image by Peter Mello via Flickr The interests of research are not necessarily heard or represented when decisions are being made about copyright laws that affect them. Both permanent and temporary consultation structures more often than not fail to ensure that there is a channel open for this. Part one of this two-part blog introduces … Read more
Photo by Kevin Snow on Unsplash In a recent decision, the UK IPEC has considered whether the format of a comedy show can be protectable as a dramatic work in copyright. The claim was brought by Joshua Rinkoff (the “Claimant”) for copyright infringement of a comedy show he wrote, produced and acted in called “Shambles”. … Read more
The European Copyright Society (ECS) has published its Opinion on copyright and generative AI. The Executive Summary is reproduced below and the full Opinion is available here and here. Executive Summary The ECS considers that the current development of generative artificial intelligence (AI), under the regulatory framework set up by the Directive on Copyright … Read more
