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‘Cheating’ is not necessarily copyright infringement
Read more: ‘Cheating’ is not necessarily copyright infringementSoftware that facilitates employing unfair practices to secure an illegitimate victory in a video game, once again, made its way to the courts. On 31 July 2025, in a recent judgment (Case no. I ZR 157/21), the German Federal Court of Justice (‘BGH’) had to primarily determine whether cheat software that modifies the original execution of video game software, which is controlled by the underlying computer program, constituted copyright infringement.…
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Single Copyright for a Single Market: why has this longstanding vision not been materialised?
Read more: Single Copyright for a Single Market: why has this longstanding vision not been materialised?The current EU copyright landscape consisting of 27 national copyright laws presents fundamental differences. For example, the use of copyrighted works may be permitted in a certain manner in one Member State but not in another due to the divergent copyright exceptions. Consequently, a lack of a single EU copyright law is a critical restraint withholding the EU from achieving a true digital single market. The previous Reprobel blog analysed…
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Vertical Direct Effect of InfoSoc Directive: the limits of minimum harmonisation in EU copyright law
Read more: Vertical Direct Effect of InfoSoc Directive: the limits of minimum harmonisation in EU copyright lawIntroduction On 14 November 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) delivered its judgment in Case C-230/23 Reprobel CV v Copaco Belgium NV (‘Reprobel’) that certain provisions of the Information Society Directive (‘InfoSoc Directive’) could produce a vertical direct effect, entitling domestic courts of EU Member States to disapply erroneous national transpositions of the InfoSoc Directive. Article 5(2)(a) and (b) of the Directive enables Member States to…
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The AI and Copyright Conundrum: how should the UK balance rights of copyright owners against AI innovation?
Read more: The AI and Copyright Conundrum: how should the UK balance rights of copyright owners against AI innovation?Hrishikesh Chitale explores whether the use of copyrighted datasets to train AI models potentially constitutes copyright infringement.
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Does the Rwanda affair support the repeal of the Rwanda Act or reform of the Human Rights Act 1998?
Read more: Does the Rwanda affair support the repeal of the Rwanda Act or reform of the Human Rights Act 1998?Introduction This blog examines the Rwanda saga and the constitutional dilemma created by the policy and passing of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 (“the Rwanda Act”), together with its human rights implications. Once again, the application of the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”) has enraged the UK Government and increased its desire to depart from the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”).…