Top EU court’s advisor says manipulating transient data is not copyright infringement

One of the reasons that today’s copyright is such a bad fit for the modern digital world is that its roots lie deep in 18th-century law and analogue objects like books. This fact has created a kind of legislative drag that means copyright is always decades behind the latest technological developments. A case in point is the phenomenon of “cheating” in video games. Despite the negative […]

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How copyright exceptionalism in France risks undermining the EU legal system

Back in May, Walled Culture wrote about an important case before the EU’s top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). It involved the “High Authority for the dissemination of works and the protection of rights on the Internet” (Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur internet – the infamous HADOPI), and …

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https://walledculture.org/how-copyright-exceptionalism-in-france-risks-undermining-the-eu-legal-system/