Google announced it has signed licensing deals with several Italian media publishers to pay for news content. It follows an agreement entered into with some French publishers earlier in the 2021 over the “neighbouring rights” – introduced by the EU Directive 2019/790,...
The artist Nobuki Yamamoto has recently won a suit over a claim that a merchants’ association in western Japan would have copied one of his artworks featuring a telephone booth filled with water and goldfish. In fact, the Osaka High Court, overturning a lower court...
As of 30 March 2019 (i.e. when the United Kingdom will leave the European Union), the EU copyright laws will also cease to apply to the United Kingdom, subject to temporary measures which may be applied. In the document “Withdrawal of the United Kingdom and EU rules...
