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The IPKat
MAY 7, 2024
Kat (re-)unification Should the EU unify the copyright laws of its Member States and introduce, over thirty years after the start of the harmonization process, a unitary copyright title? Indeed, in 1997, the proposal for what would be eventually adopted as the InfoSoc Directive in 2001 was released.
IP and Legal Filings
JANUARY 2, 2025
Copyright law is in charge of controlling how literary, artistic, and theatrical works, among others, are used. The law of copyright regulates the activities of copying and disseminating the words of someone who has copyright over something online without that person’s consent.
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The IPKat
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Kat friend Iana Kazeeva provides an enlightening discussion on steps taken by the Russian government and courts with respect to IP following the invasion of Ukraine. The common denominator is the use of changes to the IP law as a political instrument towards states taking “unfriendly” actions against Russia.
SpicyIP
JANUARY 20, 2024
While the question made sense ever since I read the post, it started making more sense (and bothering me more) after working on the SpicyIP Open IP Syllabus where I witnessed a relative “over-accessibility” of US-European IPR scholarship. I began to wonder – are there actually fewer IP scholars in India (or the Global South in general)?
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
As IPKat readers know, unlike other areas of IP, the creation of an EU-wide copyright title has never appeared like a concrete possibility. Indeed, the history of EU copyright harmonization has progressed in steps, with several directives (and a couple of regulations) being adopted over a period of 30+ years.
Intellectual Property Law Blog
JANUARY 11, 2023
Even though the number of registered mask works is not enormous, they are still an important component of chip companies’ IP portfolio. For example, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) registered 191 mask works between 1990-2001. Copyright Office while register the software aspect of the designs (e.g., source code) under copyright law.
The IPKat
JULY 15, 2021
Here's what Frederic writes: The General Court of the EU wanders into copyright law, and gets disoriented by Frederic Blockx No access for Kats Traditionally, the last few days of the Term yield an impressive harvest of cases out of Luxembourg. In doing so, the Court draws arguments from copyright law, which warrant closer attention.
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