The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is an institute devoted to education and research in intellectual property and is a constituent part of the University of Strasbourg. CEIPI analyses and comments the main developments in the area of intellectual property at...

This article discusses the proposed introduction in EU law of neighbouring rights for press publishers for the digital uses of their publications. This proposal is included in the European Commission’s Draft Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market of 14 September 2016, which forms...

New data are created by the quintillions of bytes every day. This explosion of data makes possible fast-developing machine learning and artificial intelligence technology. These technologies thrive on repurposing and processing big data streams. In the big data era, orienting within this magma...

Renaissance genius Pico della Mirandola dreamed of making all knowledge accessible in one place. The Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market could help Pico’s dream come true. The proposal, inter alia, aims at facilitating wider access to Europe’s cultural heritage...

Our society is in the midst of an explosion of data: ‘there was 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days, and the pace is increasing’. In 2014, there were 2.4 billion internet users. That number...

On the basis of the analysis of norms, cases and practices in the EU and 12+1 selected Member States (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and UK), this study identifies, describes and compares key aspects of blocking...

The French Supreme Court established that businesses using on their premises devices provided by third parties for making background music are per- forming an act of communication to the public in the sense of Art. L214-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code (CPI). The Court qualified...