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International copyright law (Article 2(3) of the Berne Convention) mandates the protection of “[t...

What does 'pastiche' mean? A question like this, raised a few years ago, would probably have...

Over the weekend, reports circulated that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has...

Is it true that originality is the only thing that matters in copyright law, including for works...

Joint ownership of IP rights: is it an area governed by national or rather EU law? More...

Can a work that is presented as being entirely AI-generated receive protection under copyright...

A few weeks ago, the 5th Board of Appeal (BoA) of the European Union Intellectual Property Office...

Overwhelmed by AI-related commentaries and looking for something that thinks – at least partly –...

Would you say that the circumstance that a container for liquids was protected by a patent...

Can the Spanish phrase ‘MARICON PERDIDO’, which roughly translates as ‘hopeless faggot’, be...

As students of EU law know, a key principle – which the now Court of Justice of the European...

One of the best-known frames of Todd Phillips’s 2019 Joker film starring Joaquin Phoenix is that...

Over the years, The IPKat has reported on the growing body of case law issued by Italian courts...

Last week, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its much- (though not long-)...

A few days ago, the District Court of Hamburg delivered what appears to be the first judgment in...

The owner of the rights to children's book series Der Räuber Hotzenplotz ('The Robber Hotzenplotz...

One of the cornerstones of international copyright law – specifically: the Berne Convention (BC) ...

If you, like me, are now experiencing the full post-traumatic stress disorder caused by failing...

When it comes to contemporary art, I must admit at the outset that there are fewer artists who I...

After it was referred back in 2021, a few days ago the Grand Board of the European Union...