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The WIPO Files I: the quest to protect user rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

For most of its existence, international copyright policy at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has focused on the creation and harmonization of exclusive rights. This led the Committee to embark on a decade-long process of commissioning expert studies relating to L&Es.

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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. The exhaustion of copyright in computer programs, which is harmonised under European law in Article 4(2) of the Computer Programs Directive (2009/24), was transposed into law in Germany in Section 69c No.

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UK Government axes plans to broaden existing text and data mining exception

The IPKat

It is thus clear that TDM does matter - but what should its relationship with copyright and related rights be? In other legal systems, specific E&L relating to content to which lawful access has been secured have been adopted instead.

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

The IPKat

After applying for a trade mark called ‘Fauré Le Page’ in 1989, Saillard sold this trade mark to Fauré Le Page Paris in 2009. Through this post you can have a better understanding of reproduction under copyright and related rights , quotation and pastiche , artists’ contracts and internet piracy as well as the Creation Records case.