This historical pairing raises a strong presumption: opting out of a specific mode of exploitation cannot automatically be deemed a prohibited formality. Ginsburg confirms this, citing the 1908 Berlin ...

The opt-out model, the argument goes, reintroduces formality through the back door, a de facto formality of sorts. This shifts the burden onto authors and rights holders to actively monitor or manage ...

The United States calls on the IGC to recommend to the General Assembly that the mandate reduce the number of sessions in the next biennium. In our view, this will lead to better meeting preparation ...

On May 27, 2025, EIFL launched an updated version of its Draft Law on Copyright, featuring a new provision on Secondary Publication Rights (SPRs) (more information about the process can be found here ...

The first thing that stands out about the report appears right on its first page: “pre-publication version”: a label reported as unusual and potentially unprecedented. 1 The 113-page document ...

This blog post is in two parts: Part I deals with the procedural history that led to the Presidential Referral of the Bill and sets out an overview of the referral proceedings, and Part II deals with ...

In Part I of this blogpost, I briefly set out the procedural history of the copyright reform process that led to the Presidential Referral of the Bill to the Constitutional Court. I also briefly ...

TK’s defiance of epistemic borders is its reality before the current melding of all kinds of boundaries – disciplinary, ...

In February 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released the report “Identifying the Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Copyright Policy: Context and Direction for Economic Research”, ...