Kluwer Copyright Blog
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
Promoting research and access to its products has always been a core purpose of copyright law, often expressed in limitations and exceptions for research uses. Recent legal scholarship has examined the need for copyright exceptions for text and data mining (TDM) methodologies, and the doctrines recently enacted to achieve this purpose.
The IPKat
APRIL 5, 2022
There was no JI on the AUCL until 2007. JI 2020) was a minor one with only one change to the JI 2007, i.e., replacing one of the legislation’s grounds from the General Principles of the Civil Law to the Civil Code of China (See the IPKat post on the Civil Code of China here ). The subsequent JI (i.e.
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TorrentFreak
JULY 29, 2021
In the past, those operating unlicensed torrent sites or streaming services in the UK needed to be aware of breaching civil copyright law, action that could result in a damages award but not a custodial sentence. Section 44 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 relates to those intentionally encouraging or assisting an offense.
Michael Geist
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Instead, Common Crawl, a non-profit started in 2007, did. But this case is no slam dunk as it narrowly scopes the claims, fails to proffer much evidence at this stage, and faces some tough battles in interpreting Canadian copyright law. This comes directly from scientists at ChatGPT, who published on the issue in 2020.
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Despite the relatively limited legislative harmonization, over the past several years the copyright laws of individual EU Member States have nevertheless become more and more harmonized, also thanks to the pivotal role played by the Court of Justice of the European Union (which I examine here ).
Intepat
DECEMBER 25, 2024
While the raw data within a database may not be eligible for copyright protection, the originality involved in selecting, organizing, or arranging the data can bring a database under the scope of copyright law. This raises critical questions: What qualifies as originality in the context of database protection?
TorrentFreak
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Following a limited launch in 2007 with just 1,000 titles, Neflix now carries more than 6,600 movies and TV shows for the enjoyment of more than 223 million subscribers. Fraud has been the key charge in several big UK piracy cases over the last few years, despite the key offenses having a direct link to copyright law.
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