European Journal of Criminology, Ahead of Print. Population ageing and accelerated digitalization pose significant challenges for the digital inclusion of older adults, particularly
from a criminological perspective. This study examines how fear of cybercrime and insecurity in the use of information and ... [...]
Medical Law International, Ahead of Print. Current debates on adolescent gender-affirming care often revolve around questions of decision-making capacity and informed consent.
Rather than asking whether adolescents are capable of providing informed consent, this article takes a different starting ... [...]
AbstractIn Getty Images v Stability AI, the High Court delivered the first English judgment considering generative artificial intelligence (AI) and IP law. Anticipated as a
landmark decision, the final arguments advanced were narrower than many expected.This article provides an account of the factual background and procedural history, [...]
AbstractIn a landmark decision, the Federal Court of Australia has clarified the meaning of ‘principal director’, held that moral rights cannot be subject to general contractual
waiver, and found that inaccurate credit in film promotion contravened the Australian Consumer Law. [...]
AbstractThe rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) poses significant challenges to copyright law, particularly regarding AI-generated outputs. Unlike
deterministic systems, generative AI employs advanced machine learning models to autonomously produce text, images, music and multimodal content, often in unpredictable [...]
AbstractThe morality provisions of the European Patent Convention (EPC) and the European Union (EU) Biotechnology (Biotech) Directive govern the patentability of biotech inventions
across 39 EPC (40 from 1 June 2026, when Moldova accedes) and 27 EU member states. [...]
AbstractMonitoring and compliance obligations relating to genetic resources (GRs) and associated traditional knowledge (TK) under Articles 15–17 of the Nagoya Protocol constitute
one of the key responsibilities imposed on member countries to enable access and benefit-sharing. [...]
AbstractEuropean Union (EU) copyright law treats the concepts of ‘work’ and ‘originality’ as autonomous notions of EU law, intended to secure a uniform ‘fair balance’
across the Single Market. Lithuania is a revealing stress-test of that autonomy. Although the Lithuanian Copyright Law can be read in the EU law conforming way, the [...]
AbstractIn Meril v Edwards Lifesciences, the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) establishes its foundational approach to inventive step. Central to the framework,
the objective technical problem is first determined by what the claimed invention adds over the prior art, before the question turns to whether the skilled person [...]