National copyright decisions round-up 2021

In 2021, national courts in individual EU Member States and the UK delivered a series of important rulings in the copyright field. This contribution provides a round-up of the most significant judgments issued in the period 1 January–31 December 2021. The selection has been made by giving precedence to areas in which EU harmonization has occurred (including economic rights, exceptions and limitations, and enforcement), so that guidance provided by national courts in a certain country might be useful also to practitioners and courts in other EU Member States. The analysis is divided by area (economic and related rights, exceptions or limitations, and other issues, including copyright subsistence, authors’ contracts, derivative works, and enforcement).