Open data are held to contribute to a wide variety of social and political goals, including strengthening transparency, public participation and democratic accountability, promoting economic growth and innovation, and enabling greater public sector efficiency and cost savings. However, releasing...

EU law’s impact on the meaning of the copyright work for a long time seemed limited to software and databases. But recent judgments of the Cour of Justice of the EU (Infopaq, BSA, Football Association [Murphy], Painer) suggest we have entered an era of harmonization of copyright...