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Access to information and competition concerns enter the sui generis right’s infringement test – The CJEU redefines the database right

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In a nutshell, a specialist search engine engaging in re-use of substantial parts of the database of a job adverts website was accused of violating sui generis database right. This judgment thus breaks this trend and gives a more measured and mature view of the right.

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A Big Win for Dalit Researchers: Implications for IP

SpicyIP

The Legal Battle In 2014, Drs. The laptop contained the raw data collected during the survey conducted in 2014 and other research data. Is there a sui generis protection for computer databases? ( see definition of computer database) Unlike Europe, India does not have sui generis database rights.

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The German LAION decision: A problematic understanding of the scope of the TDM copyright exceptions and the transition from TDM to AI training

The IPKat

The scope of TDM exceptions: extraction and reproduction Like the corresponding EU provisions, the German sections considered by the court are exceptions to specified restricted acts under copyright and other rights: Like Art. In turn, the copying of even a seemingly simple picture may trigger the right of reproduction. (2)

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[Guest post] AI training data, copyright and the UK consultation

The IPKat

The last source, scraping internet data, has been the most controversial so far and given rise to concerns from both intellectual property and data protection perspectives, and nascent litigation in various jurisdictions when the scraping has been done without permission of the copyright/database right holders.