Interior of a bookshop in 1815
This week, COMMUNIA released a new report detailing unfair practices in the licensing of digital resources to libraries (as a PDF file). This report describes contractual practices identified by licensing managers from public and academic libraries across Europe during a meeting organised by COMMUNIA under the Chatham House
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Copyright against culture: Do restrictions on e-book availability and use undermine library laws? Part 2
Chris Downer / Wimborne Minster: later books in the chained library / CC BY-SA 2.0
This two-part blog looks at the provisions that exist in library laws across European countries concerning the building of collections and what libraries can do with them. It then assesses how far the achievement of these mandated functions is…
Copyright against culture: Do restrictions on e-book availability and use undermine library laws? Part 1
Chris Downer / Wimborne Minster: later books in the chained library / CC BY-SA 2.0
This two-part blog looks at the provisions that exist in library laws across European countries concerning the building of collections and what libraries can do with them. It then assesses how far the achievement of these mandated functions is frustrated…
Third European Court Decision on the General Purpose TDM Exception Is Out
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Regular readers of the Kluwer Copyright Blog may already be familiar with the excellent reviews of the first two rulings on the European Union’s new text and data mining (TDM) exception – one from Germany (see the Kneschke v. LAION ruling here, here and here) and one…
Can Musk’s New X/Twitter Rules Be Reconciled with EU Copyright Law?
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On the 10th of April 2025, new rules came into force as part of Elon Musk’s crackdown on impersonation accounts on X (formerly known as Twitter). Under these rules, any account that impersonates, parodies, or caricatures another comes under two requirements: first, that their username must begin with a…
The long and bumpy road to copyright for the digital market – implementation of the CDSM in Poland – III: Press Publishers’ Rights
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This series of posts presents the implementation of the CDSM Directive in Poland and discusses some of the controversies linked to the new provisions in Polish law. The first post gave an overview of the implementation, including the new provisions on TDM and the implementation of Article 17…
Essential Economics of Collective Copyright Management in the Twenty-First Century
This blogpost is part of a series marking the publication of the fourth edition of the book Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights, edited by Daniel Gervais and João Pedro Quintais. The blogpost provides a short presentation of the authors’ chapter with the same title.
Given rapid and far-reaching changes due to…
Limitation-Based Remuneration Rights: An Underexplored Approach to Balancing Copyright Interests in the EU
This blogpost is part of a series marking the publication of the fourth edition of the book Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights, edited by Daniel Gervais and João Pedro Quintais. The blogpost provides a short presentation of the authors’ chapter (with Franciska Schönherr): “Limitation-based remuneration rights as a compromise between access and…
New Book Explores Collective Management of Copyright in the Digital Age
This blogpost is part of a series marking the publication of the fourth edition of the book Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights, edited by Daniel Gervais and João Pedro Quintais.
A new book, “Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights,” edited by the two coauthors of this post and just…
The long and bumpy road to copyright for the digital market – implementation of the CDSM in Poland – II: Right to Remuneration
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This series of posts presents the implementation of the CDSM Directive in Poland and discusses some of the controversies linked to the new provisions in Polish law. The first post gave an overview of the implementation, including the new provisions on TDM and the implementation of Article 17 of the CDSM.…