Some preliminary evidence suggests the antiviral drug remdesivir can accelerate recovery from COVID-19, although (as of writing) there is no clear evidence it can actually save the lives of people with COVID-19. Given its promise, remdesivir has been given emergency use authorization by the Food...

As organisations that negotiate and grant licences for the use of copyright-protected materials and collect and distribute royalties to copyright owners, collecting societies are one of the important institutions of the copyright industry. Although good corporate governance is a sine qua non for...

In 2015, the Munich District Court dealt with the staging of the play "Baal" by Bertolt Brecht in Munich Residenztheater. The heirs of the author claimed that the director of the play, Frank Castorf, a giant of German "Regietheater" (Director's Theater) had taken too much liberty in working with...

This article analyses Canada’s approach to the problem of unlocateable copyright owners, more commonly called the problem of orphan works. Section 77 of the Copyright Act empowers the Copyright Board of Canada to issue a non-exclusive licence to an applicant whose reasonable efforts to locate...