The French Senate has unanimously adopted in plenary session on April 8 the bill proposing to amend the country's Code of Intellectual Property by introducing a presumption of use of cultural content by artificial intelligence providers. The bill reads: "Unless proven otherwise, in any civil dispute, a work or object protected by copyright or related rights, as defined in this code, is presumed to have been used by the supplier of the artificial intelligence model or system, provided that an in...

The Australian Government has passed a copyright reform designed "to providing Australians greater legal certainty when using ‘orphan works’ (copyright material where the copyright owner is unknown or unlocatable)." The orphan works scheme is the first ever under Australian copyright law. It will provide "reasonable scope for copyright owners to come forward and assert their rights in the rare case an owner is later identified," according to the Albanese government.

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Belgium's Constitutional Court has affirmed on March 26 the validity of the country's implementation decree of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS), which introduced obligations for video streaming platforms to contribute to the financing of local content. Netflix challenged the decree in court. The Court rejected most of Netflix's criticisms in its appeal to annul the AVMS decree, which included the mandatory contribution system for audiovisual production. The Court also referred pre...