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Denmark has prepared amendments to national copyright rules to grant people more control over their voices and images in AI-generated deepfakes. It proposes a novel approach that would introduce new personality rights utilising copyright law. While there seems to be an appetite to tackle harmful deepfakes more effectively across the Union, there is also a debate about the most appropriate legal framework to do so and the need for new rights in the first place.

The rise of generative AI has presented a global challenge to copyright law regarding authorship and human creativity. This has implications for the ability of creators to control and monetise their work, in addition to incentives to use innovative technologies. Currently, the EU lacks specific rules on the copyrightability of AI-generated works, but existing case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and developments at Member State level demonstrate a strong need for human creativity ...

Champions' League finals, the Olympic Games, World Cup football matches – millions of people worldwide watch them live. The nature of live events makes their economic value diminish after the event, when the result is known and the public loses interest, but real-time blocking of illegal broadcasting is challenging. However, together with the removal of illegal content, it appears to be a meaningful tool to limit damage for rights holders.

Die COVID-19-Pandemie hat deutlich gemacht, dass während einer Krise schneller Zugang zu kritischen Erfindungen erforderlich ist. Aus dieser Erfahrung heraus haben die Gesetzgeber der EU ein System für Zwangslizenzen ausgehandelt, um die rasche Nutzung von Patenten zu ermöglichen und gleichzeitig mittels eines starken Patentschutzes Innovationsanreize zu erhalten. Die beiden gesetzgebenden Organe haben den Vorschlag der Europäischen Kommission zugunsten der Patentinhaber maßgeblich abgeändert. Die ...

According to Eurostat, EU research and development expenditure relative to GDP stood at 2.26 % in 2023, while in comparison it stood respectively at 3.59 % in the United States, and 2.56 % in China (2022). In his 2024 report on the future of European Competitiveness, Mario Draghi identified this gap as one of the root causes of the EU's lack of competitiveness. Against this backdrop, the proposed 10th EU framework programme for research and innovation should help to preserve EU research and innovation ...

Quantum technologies are developing rapidly. They have extensive uses in secure communications, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, defence and security, and space, and may bring about a change of paradigm in technological capabilities. Their economic and strategic value makes them a high priority for EU strategic autonomy. The new Quantum Europe Strategy intends to establish the EU as a global leader in quantum technologies by 2030. This paper explores the potential paths the EU can take to establish ...

In order to help national authorities improve their capacity to implement reforms, the European Parliament and the Council adopted a regulation in 2021 that established the Technical Support Instrument (TSI). This note outlines the TSI’s key features, procedures, and reporting requirements, and takes a critical look at the latest TSI Annual Report for 2024, focussing in particular on what it says about support for reforms set out in national Recovery and Resilience Plans.

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted both the need for a resilient healthcare system and for quick access to inventions and technologies in challenging situations. Following this experience, EU lawmakers negotiated a compulsory licensing scheme intended to facilitate rapid use of patents while preserving strong patent protection as an incentive to innovate. Views on the original European Commission proposal diverged. Civil society organisations supported broad application of the compulsory licensing ...

On 25 June 2025, the Commission published a proposal for a regulation on the safety, resilience and sustainability of space activities in the European Union (EU) ('the EU space act'). A majority of Member States have already adopted or are considering adopting legislation on space activities. The regulation's relevance was highlighted by Mario Draghi's report on the future of European competitiveness, which explained the role of space systems and services in supporting the EU's sovereignty and economy ...

The impact assessment (IA) defines the problems, their drivers, the objectives and the policy options of the initiative in a robust intervention logic. The IA presents four options, proposing varying degrees of stringency in addressing the general and specific objectives (binding and non-binding measures). It is questionable whether they fully qualify as alternative options under the Better Regulation Guidelines (BRG). When comparing and scoring the options against the BRG criteria of effectiveness ...