sutton044

A Thursday thunder of events! Copyright exceptions have been partially harmonised at the EU level. But are Member States transposing them correctly? The new Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive will impose the adoption of new exceptions. What freedom do Member States enjoy in shaping national rules? This and other questions will be addressed during the event  Beauty and the Beast ... and the Memes! Copyright exceptions under EU and national laws organised by Wikimedia Movement and the Free Knowledge Advocacy Group and    presented by IPKat own Eleonora.  The event will take place at 17:00 on 3 December 2018 at The Office, rue d ' Arlon 80 in Brussels: all welcome! For registration and more information on the event, click here .  The use and creative reuse of audiovisual works play an increasingly crucial role in education. In this context, understanding what uses are covered by licensing schemes, such as the ERA licence, and can be enable...

Readers who have been following the EU copyright reform saga may be familiar with the argument that the new directive, if adopted, would make it impossible to share GIFs and memes in Europe due to the requirements under Article 13.  But can a meme be pulled also on other grounds than what, quite scarily, copyright has been accused – rightly so or not – of?  This is indeed what happened in what frankly looks like a bizarre decision of the Board of the Swedish Advertising Ombudsman (the Board) a few weeks ago. According to the Board’s decision , the well-known Distracted Boyfriend meme (a stock image come to fame) used for advertisement would be sexually discriminatory and should be consequently banned.         In 2018 the Swedish internet service provider Bahnhof [which readers might recall has also been involved in several cases relating to blocking injunctions] turned to social media in a witty move to advertise available positions within ...