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Welcome to the third trimester of the 2022 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. On 8 September 2022, the CJEU issued its judgment in RTL Television. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash. You can read the previous round-ups here.
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