The Court of Justice of the EU ruled that member states may require online platforms to pay fair compensation to press publishers for use of news snippets, upholding Italian legislation implementing the DSM Copyright Directive.
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in a Grand Chamber decision that online platforms like Meta must provide fair compensation to press publishers when displaying snippets or previews of news articles, clarifying the scope of the EU Copyright Directive (2019/790).
The CJEU Grand Chamber ruled that EU copyright’s ‘pastiche’ exception is not a catch-all defense but covers creations that use characteristic copyrighted elements to engage in recognizable artistic dialogue with existing works — a landmark holding for music sampling, remix culture,
In the latest chapter of the 25-year Kraftwerk sampling dispute, the CJEU Grand Chamber held that the copyright ‘pastiche’ exception is not a catch-all but requires overt, recognizable artistic dialogue with the source work — with major implications for sampling, remix culture, and AI-ge
The CJEU Grand Chamber ruled that pastiche under Article 5(3)(k) of the InfoSoc Directive requires an objectively recognizable artistic dialogue with the source work, expressly excluding concealed imitations and plagiarism.
In a landmark Grand Chamber ruling, the CJEU defined ‘pastiche’ as an autonomous concept in EU copyright law, holding that music sampling can be lawful where the new work establishes a recognizable artistic dialogue with the source material — with major implications for AI-generated cont