Category Archives: Copyright & royalties

Copyright and Protection Of Simple Photographs: What Changes With Italy’s Simplification Law

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With Law No. 182 of 2 December 2025, the legislature has intervened decisively, and in many respects unexpectedly, in the field of copyright, amending a provision that had remained substantially unchanged for decades. The subject of the intervention is Article 92 of the Italian Copyright Law (LdA), which governs the protection of so-called “simple photographs”, […]

Artificial intelligence: the first draft of the European Code of Conduct on the Transparency of AI-generated content

The European Commission has made public the first draft of the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, a document intended to play a central role in the implementation of Article 50 of the AI Act. The Code aims to provide a shared operational framework to ensure that content generated or manipulated by artificial […]

Use of editorial content by GenAI: the case Like Company vs Google before the Court of Justice of the EU

The Court of Justice of the European Union has been asked to rule on a preliminary question submitted by the Budapest Court, which sees, on one side, Like Company, publisher of Hungarian online newspapers, and on the other side, Google Ireland Limited, as provider of GenAI services. The case: Like Company vs. Google Like Company […]

AI Training Data and Fair Use: The Thomson v. ROSS Decision Doesn’t Close the Case

“A smart man knows when he is right; a wise man knows when he is wrong.” With these words, Judge Bibas of the Delaware District Court opens his latest Opinion, in which he changes his previous stance on fair use in the case Thomson v. Ross (Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. ROSS Intelligence Inc., […]