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Analysis and commentary on intellectual property developments relevant to cross-border business across Europe, Latin America and Africa. We publish on the matters that affect how intangible assets are protected, exploited and defended — from EUIPO and WIPO practice to the implementation of the EU AI Act and the evolution of intellectual property regimes across Latin American and African jurisdictions.
Publishers v Google over Gemini: scope-limited licences and your deals
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier and Scott Turow sued Google on 10 July 2026 over Gemini training. Why the scope-limited licence theory matters for content licensing in Europe.
Contracts with AI vendors: output ownership, indemnities and data
Who owns AI output, what vendor IP indemnities exclude and whether your data trains the model: the clauses to check in AI vendor contracts, with EU…
MiCA transition ends on 1 July: tokenised IP, NFT projects and brand tokens
From 1 July 2026 only authorised crypto-asset service providers can serve EU clients. How MiCA treats tokenised licences, royalty tokens, NFT collections and brand tokens.
Munich court holds Google liable for AI Overviews: protecting your brand
Munich Regional Court I treated Google's AI Overview as Google's own statement and granted an injunction. What brand owners can learn about monitoring and challenging AI…
How to opt out of AI training in the EU: Article 4 DSM rights reservations
How to reserve your text and data mining rights under Article 4(3) of the DSM Directive, what the LAION case teaches about machine-readable opt-outs and how…
Generative AI use policies: protecting trade secrets and company IP
Why a generative AI use policy is evidence of the reasonable steps trade secret law requires, how it protects inventions and content, and which clauses to…
Who owns AI-assisted works? Human authorship rules in the EU, Spain and the US
Only humans can be authors in Spain, the EU, the US and Mexico. How copyright ownership works for AI-assisted content and what evidence of human contribution…
EU code on AI-generated content: why machine-readable marking matters for IP
The EU code on marking and labelling AI-generated content sets out how Article 50 of the AI Act will work, and why the marks it creates…
