Upcycling has become one of the trendiest buzzwords for people with a sustainability-oriented mindset. While the term might refer to various forms of recollection, improvement and reuse of data or (raw) materials, this post adopts a narrower focus. It is limited solely to reviewing how upcycling might be approached from a copyright perspective (for approaches to upcycling from a trademark law perspective, see the previous blog posts in this symposium by Martin Senftleben and Irene Calboli). For the purposes of this analysis, we might define upcycling as the transformative – recontextualized or repurposed – recycling and redistribution of tangible copies of works or goods (or components thereof) that represent, embody, visualise, or otherwise express content protected by intellectual property (IP) law … (more)
[Péter Mezei, Verfassungsblog, 18 April 2025]
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