In February 2026, a first instance court in Munich ruled that three logos created with the help of commercial generative artificial intelligence do not enjoy copyright protection under German law. The decision contributes to the emerging European case law on AI-generated content and clarifies how courts interpret the requirement of individual intellectual creation.
On 19 February 2026, the Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) programme launched the action plan “Safeguard Access, Empower Europe – An Action Plan to Let Libraries be Libraries”, which is aimed at policy makers, legal professionals and libraries. It provides a structured legal framework to support libraries in the digital environment.
On Wednesday, 18 February 2026, the 8th expert meeting of the European Rights Retention Community of Practice took place, where representatives from Finland and Germany presented strategies and challenges for the national implementation of Rights Retention (RR).
The AI Impact Summit 2026 is taking place in India from February 16 to 20, for the fourth time and the first time in the Global South. The three guiding principles of the event are people, planet and progress, in the sense of AI that serves people, uses resources responsibly and is not concentrated in the hands of a few.
The Nova smer association is selling a promotional T-shirt on its website featuring the famous painting by Ivana Kobilca “Kofetarica”, which is not holding a cup of coffee, but a machine gun. This tasteless exploitation of a national monument was pointed out in Mladina last week. Does the tasteless reworking of the painting constitute an infringement of moral copyright, for which a civil lawsuit can be filed, or does the desecration of one of the most important paintings by Slovenian painter Ivana Kobilca constitute grounds for criminal prosecution? What other legal grounds should be considered when judging the illegality of the act?
In December 2025, Italian television company RTI SpA and film production company Medusa Film SpA filed a civil lawsuit against Perplexity AI Inc. before the Court of Rome for alleged unlawful use of copyrighted works in training Perplexity’s large language model (LLM) called Sonar.
On Wednesday, February 11, 2026, at 10:00 AM, a webinar by the non-profit organization Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) will be held for journal editors, publishers, librarians, and others involved in DOI registration.
Member of the European Parliament Axel Voss prepared an initiative report on copyright and generative artificial intelligence, which was discussed and adopted by the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) on 28 January.