‘Is Pastiche an Autonomous Concept of EU Copyright Law? Hearing of Pelham II in the CJEU’

On 14 January 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) heard oral arguments in the much-anticipated case C-590/23 Pelham II, where the German Federal Court submitted a request for preliminary ruling on the interpretation of ‘pastiche’. The purpose was to ascertain whether a two-second sample from a phonogram could fall under the scope of the (undefined and unharmonized) pastiche exception to copyright infringement … (part 1, part 2)

[Enzo Rebelo, Kluwer Copyright Blog, 5-6 March 2025]

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