How Does Increased Investor Protection Enhance the Dissemination of Knowledge?

This article is the second part of a three-piece series written by Lukas Vanhonnaeker (for the first part, see …

Business models for digital goods in the face of the ‘culture of free’?

Piracy of digital goods is an issue that we have already addressed many times on this blog. Here is …

The risk of patent trolls in the U.S. and in Europe: a sequel to a never ending story

The issue of ‘patent assertion entities’ (PAEs) or ‘patent trolls’, i. e. of companies that acquire patent portfolios to …

When solving copyright cases requires to balance fundamental rights

Copyright cases until recently were mainly decided with reference to the rules contained in the statutes (the relevant Copyright …

Blocage et filtrage sur internet: analyse de la situation actuelle

La problématique du blocage de sites internet et du filtrage de fichiers a connu d’importants développements jurisprudentiels récents. Il …

The hidden treasure of piracy?

You probably know “Game of Thrones”, the most popular TV series of the moment. The first two seasons were …

Where to sue in a case of alleged online copyright infringement?

Readers who follow all things copyright will remember Case C-170/12 Pinckney, an exciting reference from the French Court of Cassation concerning …

The economics of copyright protection

A few weeks ago (September 14, 2013), the blog American Thinker published quite a vocal piece, entitled “Copyright Strangulation”, condemning …

CJEU asked to clarify copyright questions regarding online infringement, transformation and … exhaustion

With autumn officially started, it is time to get back to school, buy a “bouquet of newly sharpened pencils” …

How entrepreneurial should the state be?

  In a chapter that I wrote in 2008 for the book “Intellectual Property and the Theories of Justice” …