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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 3 of 4: Related rights and exceptions and limitations

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Related rights. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights. This personal intellectual creation is lacking if the photographs in question are “mere reproductions of other photographs” in which an original has been merely reproduced (copied) as closely as possible.

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Africa IP highlights 2023: Reforms in IP policy, legislation and administration

The IPKat

January: In Kenya, prospective importers were required from January 1, 2023 to declare particulars of intellectual property rights for goods to be imported into the country. In August , Kenya’s Copyright Board tabled the Copyright and Related Rights Bill, 2023 before Parliament.

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Does food flavouring constitute a “work”?

LexBlog IP

However, the Court rejected the action as: not legal, insofar as it concerned the protection of recipes as works of intellectual property; and unfounded, because recipes are assimilated to ideas and not to works enjoying copyright protection under Greek (and EU) law. dishes and seasonings) as works of IP. (1)

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The next chapter in the “Metall auf Metall” saga – Pastiche to be clarified by the CJEU

Kluwer Copyright Blog

20 years later, Pelham composed (together with a second defendant), produced and released the hip-hop rap song “Nur mir”, which is underlain by a continuous loop of a two-second rhythmic sequence of metallic drum sounds that had been electronically copied from the “Metall auf Metall” phonogram. 5(5) InfoSoc Directive.

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EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE: Judgment in Joined Cases C?775/21 and C?826/21

LexBlog IP

NATURE OF THE CASE The above decisions dealt with requests for a preliminary ruling related to the interpretation of Article 3 of Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society. 2) Does Article 3 of Directive 2001/29/EC.

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The EU DSM Copyright Directive: Implementation in Germany 2021 – Part II

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Specifically, this means that acts of reproduction for the purposes of preserving copies of works within the scope of Sections 60e, 60f, 60h UrhG may, from now on, also be made by commercial organisations in the field of cultural heritage. The new related right for press publishers (Sections 87 et seqq.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Section 95a UrhG stipulates that technical measures employed for the protection of a copyrighted work or protected subject matter may not be circumvented without the authorisation of the rightholder, Section 95a UrhG being the transposition into German law of Article 6 of the InfoSoc Directive (2001/29). by Christopher Heath. €