Image by Mediamodifier from Pixabay In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and related rights and access to and reuse of scientific publications, including open access. The study analyses the relationship between...
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Preliminary Reflections on the ICJ Decision in the Dispute between Chile and Bolivia Over the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala
Chile and Bolivia, for the past six years, have engaged in a dispute before the International Court of Justice over the waters of the Silala. On 01 December 2022 the Court released its decision. This summary highlights some key facts and the outcome of the case, and raises a number of preliminary...
(Re)newing economic governance in the EU: History repeating?
Blogpost 53/2022 On November 9, 2022, after conducting a year-long debate (the debate had been originally launched in February 2020, but then re-launched after the COVID-19 pandemic on October 2021), the European Commission proposed an overhaul of the European Union’s (EU) economic governance...
Copyright implications of Augmented Reality for cultural goods – Part 2
Image by Tumisu from Pixabay Part 1 of this post outlined augmented reality (AR) technology, its applications in the cultural heritage sector and its potential copyright implications. This part discusses the relevant copyright exceptions and limitations. Exceptions enabling AR for fostering...
The MH17 Judgment: An Interesting Take on the Nature of the Armed Conflict in Eastern Ukraine
On 17 November 2022, some eight years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (‘MH17’) was shot down in eastern Ukraine, the Hague District Court delivered a verdict against the four accused in the MH17 Trial: Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy, Leonid Kharchenko and Oleg Pulatov. The first three were found...
How to Convince Your Stakeholders You Need a New Contract Management Solution
Contracts. Nearly every business engages with them—from their employees to their customers to their vendors and suppliers, and beyond. This can add up to hundreds, if not thousands, of contracts being negotiated, signed, and renewed each year. When it comes to managing these contracts and the...
Ofcom’s discussion document on media plurality and online news: Lessons for future regulatory interventions in the UK and beyond
Photo by Dominika Greguu0161ovu00e1 on Pexels.com On 16 November, Ofcom published a discussion document on media plurality and online news. The discussion document sets out Ofcom’s understanding of the role that online platforms, such as social media, search engines and news aggregators, play in...
J.I. v. Croatia: Violence against Roma women – discrimination not an issue?
J.I. v. Croatia (8.09.2022) is the first European Court of Human Rights case arising from domestic violence against a Roma woman and the second related to sexual violence against a Roma girl. Police were neglectful. The intervener exposed systemic police normalisation, and disregard of, Roma...
Some additional thoughts on the General Court’s judgment in Google Android
This is the second post on the General Court’s judgment in Google Android (T-604/18) delivered earlier this year (which Google has in the meantime appealed to the Court of Justice). As in the first post (available here), I would like to discuss some issues that caught my attention while reading...
Copyright implications of Augmented Reality for cultural goods – Part 1
Image by Tumisu from Pixabay Augmented Reality (AR) is a fast-evolving technology enabling the overlap of digital images with those from the real world. It makes use of several technological developments and in particular computing devices with wireless connectivity that let the user connect to...
Two Weeks in Review, 20 November – December 4
New Issue of EJIL (Vol. 33 (2022) No. 3) The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 33 (2022) No. 3) is now out. EJIL subscribers have full access to the latest issue of the journal at EJIL’s Oxford University Press site. Apart from articles published in the last 12...
Announcements: CfA Emile Noël Fellowship Program; CfA Global Fellows Program; CfA Visiting Doctoral Researcher Program; Postdoctoral Research Grant Vacancy; CfP The Global South and Liberal Values; CfP American Review of International Arbitration; UN Audiovisual Library of International Law; CfP Entanglements in Refugee and Migration Law; Migrations, Rule of Law and European Values Workshop
1. Call for Applications: Emile Noël Fellowship Program. New York University School of Law is currently accepting applications for the Emile Noël Fellowship Program. Deadline 15 January 2023. The principal objective of the Emile Noël Fellowship program is scholarship and the advancement of...
10 Good Reads 2022
Here is my pick of ‘Good Reads’ from the books I read in 2022. I want to remind you, as I do every year, that these are not ‘book reviews’, which also explains the relative paucity of law books or books about the law. Many excellent ones have come my way in 2022, as in previous years, but an...
Comparative Report on the National Implementations of Articles 15 & 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market – Part 2
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay In 2019, the EU’s Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) was adopted. This included the highly controversial Articles 15 and 17 on, respectively, the new press publishers’ right (PPR) and the new copyright liability scheme for OCSSPs...
Are sovereignty referendums but a tool to legitimize territorial claims of the powerful?
This is the impression one could be left with in the wake of the popular votes organized by Russia in the occupied Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia. This impression might be reinforced by the fact that, as recently shown by Sze Hong Lam on these pages, these were by...