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Nov 16, 2025, 3:28:51 PM (4 days ago) Nov 16
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Events


EUIPO Conference on Copyright.

🎶The autumn leaves of red and gold🎶
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) will hold its first Conference on Copyright on 20 and 21 November 2025. The hybrid event will address, inter alia, the copyright infrastructure in the age of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), copyright enforcement, and new paradigms of copyright. The EUIPO Copyright Knowledge Centre will also be launched during the Conference. More information is available here.

ALADDA Study Day and General Assembly.

On 21 and 22 November 2025, the ALADDA Study Day and General Assembly will be held in Málaga. The event, organized by ALADDA, the Spanish group of ALAI, will cover, inter alia, copyright and generative AI, publishers' rights, and the CJEU’s ruling C‑575/23 ONB, which concerns the assignment of related rights. Further details here.


The CJEU Mio/konektra Referrals: An Insider’s View.

PermaKat Eleonora Rosati is organizing the session ‘The CJEU Mio/konektra Referrals: An Insider’s View’, which will take place on 8 December 2025. The session is part of the module' Copyright and Transborder Litigation’ in the LLM in European Intellectual Property Law at Stockholm University. The speaker is Mr Henrik Wistam, who will provide insights into the case Mio/konektra. The hybrid session will be exceptionally open to everyone, given the importance of the topic. Register here.


Opportunities


CopyrightX.

Applications are open for the Harvard Law School CopyrightX - Turin University Affiliated Course. The program is free of charge and will commence in early December. The format is online and will comprise recorded lectures, weekly case readings, and seminar discussions. The deadline for submissions is 23 November 2025. Further details here.

2026 ABC International Excellence Award.

WIPO’s Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) is calling for nominations for the 2026 ABC International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing. The award is granted to a publisher and a project initiative that demonstrate exceptional leadership and innovation in advancing the accessibility of digital publications for people who are blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print-disabled. Nominations must be submitted before 2 February 2026. More information here.


Other developments


Long-awaited AI rulings: Getty Images v Stability, and GEMA v OpenAI.

This month, two landmark rulings were handed down, marking a significant development in the ongoing debate over copyright and AI.
In the case Getty Images v Stability AI, Getty sued Stability “over (1) the use of Getty Images' database of images and associated text to train the generative AI (diffusion) model that trades as Stable Diffusion, and (2) the outputs of that model, some of which which resembled Getty's content and even included versions of Getty's watermark”. By the conclusion of the trial, two central claims left: “(1) the outputs said to infringe Getty's trade marks, and (2) the question of whether Stable Diffusion is itself an 'infringing copy' having been allegedly trained on copyright materials”. The High Court of England & Wales found no copyright infringement as the models did not contain a copy of any works, given that the model weights “are purely the product of the patterns and features which they have learnt over time during the training process”. However, the judge found trademark infringement under s.10(2) in relation to the iStock watermarks solely for earlier versions of Stable Diffusion (see IPKat post here).
Meanwhile, in the case GEMA v OpenAI concerning the verbatim reproduction of lyrics of German songwriters by the chatbot, the Munich Regional Court sided with GEMA, finding that both “the memorization of the lyrics in the language models and the reproduction of the lyrics in the chatbot's outputs constitute infringements of copyright exploitation rights. These infringements are not covered by limitations, in particular the limitation for text and data mining”. Stay tuned for the IPKat post on the way.

EUIPO: ‘Influencers and IP’.

The Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights of EUIPO published the study ‘Influences and IP’. The publication analyses how influencers engage with IP and to what extent they may contribute to preventing IP infringement. The study revealed that 51% of influencers utilize AI tools for their activities, 72% are aware of the potential IP infringement related to AI-generated output, and 47% are concerned about the reuse of their content using AI. More information is available here. Read the publication here.

EUIPO: Early TM Screening.

EUIPO has released the ‘Early TM Screening’ tool for trademark pre-assessment. Certain features are powered by AI, such as the detection of potential conflict with earlier trademarks based on the plugin from EUIPO’s TMview tool, the newest pre-assessment check for non-distinctiveness or descriptiveness, and the identification of similar decisions based on absolute grounds for refusal. The release aligns with the EUIPO's responsible AI governance. Further details here.


Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.

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