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BREAKING: First CJEU referral on press publishers’ related right (Italian-style)

The IPKat

As expected, now that most – though not all – EU Member States have completed their own transpositions of the DSM Directive 2019/790 [IPKat here ] , the time for litigation has come and, with that, referrals for a preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Kat-negotiations.

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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

Parts 1 and 2 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here and here , and part 4 will be published on the blog shortly. Related rights.

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The EU AI Act has been published

The IPKat

IP-related impact Recitals 104 to 109 and Article 53 have a direct impact on copyright. These must be read in conjunction with Directive 2019/790 , and in particular Article 4(3) thereof, that is: the more general exception or limitation for text and data mining (as opposed to the more specific one found in Article of that Directive).

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CJEU has received first reference on DSM Directive

The IPKat

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has received its first request for preliminary ruling concerning the interpretation of Directive (EU) 2019/790 (DSM Directive). The Royal Decree concerning the related rights of artistic staff of the ONB was finally adopted and published in the Belgian Official Journal on 4th June of 2021.

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Vietnam Convicts Pirate Site Operators; a Rare Case Completed in Record Time

TorrentFreak

Trio on Trial The men faced trial at the People’s Court of Quang Binh province starting July 11, with local media confirming charges of “Infringement of copyright and related rights” under Article 225 of the Penal Code.

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3 Count: Time’s Side

Plagiarism Today

However, Starz was unaware of the infringements and only learned about them in August 2019. Finally today, Chhun Sunly at the Khmer Times reports that, in the nation of Cambodia, the government is encouraging authors to report issues of copyright infringement to the local police, not the Department of Copyright and Related Rights (DCRR).

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US Copyright Office advises not to introduce ancillary copyright protection for press publishers in the US

The IPKat

In 2019, the EU legislature introduced an EU-wide related right (Article 15 of the DSM Directive , on which see Katposts here ) for EU-based press publishers in relation to online uses of their press publications by information society service providers, including news aggregation services, social media, and search engines.