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EU court copyright ruling raises questions over critical works protection

By Douglas Clarke-Williams ( March 20, 2026, 16:13 GMT | Insight) -- Critical works, consisting of a version of a work in the public domain accompanied by original commentary, fall under copyright protection, the EU’s highest court has said. But the decision could undermine existing EU law designed to address exactly such works.An academic work published by a Romanian scholar could be entitled to copyright protection despite consisting primarily of a revised version of an older work, the EU highest court has said in a ruling that has raised questions about copyright law in the bloc....

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