According to Rundfunk, Edelweiss must thus pay the appropriate fees to obtain authorisation from the right holders.

The Referring Court stayed the proceedings and referred two questions for a preliminary ruling to the ECJ.

The Copyright Directive will create favourable conditions for cross-border distribution of television and radio programmes online.

Advocate General Villalon issued a non-binding Opinion for the benefit of the ECJ in Case C-201/13, Deckmyn en Vrijheidsfonds.

In accordance with its national strategy for Artificial Intelligence1, France is tackling a central issue concerning the use of copyright-protected content by generative AI technology.

On 4 October 2011, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") gave judgment in joined cases C-403/08 Football Association Premier League Ltd, NetMed Hellas SA, Multichoice Hellas SA v QC Leisure, David Richardson, AV Station plc, Malcolm Chamberlain, Michael Madden, SR Leisure Ltd, Philip George Charles Houghton and Derek Owen and C-429/08 Karen Murphy v Media Protection Services Ltd (the "Judgment").

In the worldwide market for handheld devices, Apple and Samsung are engaged in fierce competition that has given rise to a flood of intellectual property litigation before courts worldwide.

The procedure had been brought by three Flemish television broadcasters: NV Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie, NV Medialaan and NV SBS Belgium.

On 13 February 2007, the Brussels Court of First Instance found Google Inc. guilty of copyright violations as a result of its unauthorised reproduction and making available to the public of newspaper content, including full articles, headlines, snippets of text and pictures.

In a case brought by two nonprofit organisations against the judgment of the EU General Court (the EU junior court) upholding the European Commission's decision...

On 12 November 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union gave judgment in a dispute that had arisen between Hewlett-Packard Belgium and Reprobel.

First, the European Commission aims to ensure a wider access to online content across Europe.

Does European law preclude the cancellation of a trademark bearing a creator's name when used by the assignee in such a way as to effectively create the impression that the creator is still involved...

Applying these principles to the case at hand, the ECJ first found that users of TPB were given access to copyright-protected works at all times and in all places.

The Court of Justice of the European Union issued a preliminary ruling after a referral by the Regional Court of The Hague relating to the sui generis database right.

In this second episode, we will focus on two significant uses of artificial intelligence (AI) in video games: driving non-player characters (NPCs) and adapting game worlds.

On 27 April 2017, the President of the Dutch-language Commercial Court of Brussels decided a case concerning the repackaging of parallel imported pharmaceuticals, in which it applied the so-called...

It is now clear that EU Member States must afford copyright protection to designs or "works of applied art" if the harmonized conditions are met, regardless of the country of origin of these works or the nationality of the author.

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Chances are you have already interacted with generative AI – whether by prompting ChatGPT to write a poem about the unbearable lightness of being on a Thursday night, or by generating images of "Pikachu riding a horse in Tuscany, ukiyo-e style" with Dall-E.