The IPKat

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It had to be decided how the marks would be perceived by the average consumer, in the relevant market, who is reasonably well-informed and observant, taking account of the type of goods and how they are marketed. The degree of similarity of the goods should be considered in relation to the degree of similarity of the marks.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On 29 October 2021, the UK Intellectual Property Office launched a public consultation looking at how the copyright and patent regimes should deal with artificial intelligence. That call concerned patents, copyright and related rights, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. Photo by Rock’n Roll Monkey on Unsplash.

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The IPKat

MAY 8, 2022

Background In early 2021, Global Trademark Services Ltd (“GTS”) filed applications for the following marks in relation to ‘clothing, footwear, headgear’ in class 25: (UK Application No. The latter restricts the Registrar’s power to act pre-grant for the protection of section 5 rights. • 3587268 and No.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

Running from 29 October 2021 to 7 January 2022, the “ Artificial Intelligence and IP: copyright and patents ” consultation formed the latest round in an ongoing national conversation between the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) and interested stakeholders (see here ). A third alternative: the related rights approach.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 28, 2023

The term includes, according to the decision, all forms of marketing of the copy of the computer program that include a right of time-limited use for a price. Such usage aims to provide to the rights holder the possibility of receiving remuneration corresponding to the economic value of the copy in question. (4) 766/2021; No.

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Barry Sookman

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2021-12-11 [link] 2021-12-12. Canadian courts confirm significant limits on privacy class actions [link] 2021-12-13. Judge Cote Grants Google a TRO Against Operators of Malicious "Botnet" [link] 2021-12-13. link] 2021-12-13. 567/2021 [link] 2021-12-13.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Related rights. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights. This English language article has been published in full already in “Auteurs & Media” 2021/1, page 33 et seq. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. by Jan Bernd Nordemann, Christian Czychowski. €

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Remuneration of authors under French copyright law before the 2021 Order. The administrative court more generally found that the 2021 Order did not correctly implement the CDSM as it ‘ does not provide that the authors […] have the right to receive appropriate remuneration ’ (§15). The Conseil d’Etat’s judgment.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This is only not the case if the internet platform provides third parties the possibility of issuing offers and the operator of the internet market place does not present itself as the seller (and is thus the hosting provider). d) Liability of managing directors ( Geschäftsführer ). More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 4, 2022

© Entrupy, " How to use Entrupy Luxury Authentication ", 2021, Vimeo Use Case 3: Solutions to recognise 3D printing files and 3D-printed products The third use case provides an overview of ACR-based solutions for marking, tracking and identifying the computer-aided design (CAD) and the finished 3D printed products.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In 2021, OpenAI’s Dall·E was able to create images in response to text prompts, including those combining unrelated concepts (such as “a snail made of harp”), but the results were merely competent in artistic terms. Generative AI Computer-generated art reached a tipping point in 2022.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Missed deadline and transposition In the same way as many EU member states, Ireland missed the transposition deadline (7 June 2021). The Irish legislative transposition finally became law on 19 November 2021. The key element to note here is that the Regulations are a type of secondary legislation, known as a Statutory Instrument.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 – A step towards “factfulness” by Jan Bernd Nordemann. At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. 17 DSM Directive 2019/790 (“DSMD”). . [The] DJs are Phonogram Producers, says Dutch Supreme Court by P. Bernt Hugenholtz.

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Garrigues Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Portuguese Law 82/2021 has been published on November 30, dealing with the supervision, control, removal and impediment of access in a digital environment to protected content, trying to make it a safer and more regulated place for right holders.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 21, 2023

2021-580 of 12 May 2021 (‘transposition Order’) of the French Government implements articles 2(6) and 17 to 23 of the EU Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (‘CDSM’). Image by Pexels from Pixabay Order no.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 31, 2022

2021, 4 Ob 132/21x ). For monetizing uploaded videos, the uploading user has to confirm that they have read the copyright provisions and have the copyright or usage rights to the videos. More from our authors: Practical Guide to Successful Intellectual Property Valuation and Transactions. by Alexander Puutio. €

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The IPKat

APRIL 13, 2022

Three years after its adoption, the discussion of and around the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital SingleMarket 2019/790 (‘DSM Directive’) is anything but exhausted. A significant number of EU Member States is yet to complete the national transposition process, despite the deadline of 7 June 2021.

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The IPKat

MAY 31, 2022

In two judgments (Basmati, T-342/20 - which we reported on some time ago - and APE TEES, T-281/21), the General Court found that they are relevant (the cases were decided in October 2021 and March 2022, respectively). The Kluwer Trademark Blog provides a summary of the background and outcome of the above decisions.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 11, 2024

Looking back, the transfer of value from big tech to creators, infamously referred to as ‘the value gap’ problem, was a core issue for the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive to tackle. However, an offer of 220 EUR per year made by Le Figaro in 2021 was rejected, as was the offer of 3% of revenues made by 20 Minutes.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2021

This said, based on what is already available, it is apparent that the provisions that the EU legislature adopted in 2019 to establish a ‘Digital Single Market’ will be implemented in different – if not altogether creative – ways across the EU. I will consider the Italian case to illustrate all this, in particular the latter aspect.

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IPilogue

JULY 8, 2021

On 19 April 2019, the European Parliament and Council adopted the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market. June 7, 2021 was the deadline for the member states to enact their national laws in accordance with the Directive. Tugce Kucukali is an IPilogue Writer and incoming LL.M.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 26, 2022

The Directive entered into force in June 2019 and had to be transposed by Member States by 7 June 2021. The CDSM Directive was published in May 2019 (see here and here for an overview), following a controversial legislative process at EU level.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

The need of further legal means for combating the piracy of live sport events has recently lead the European Parliament to issue a Resolution of 19 May 2021 with recommendations to the Commission on challenges of sports events organizers in the digital environment. The new Resolution of the European Parliament on sport events: the background.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 18, 2021

Public sector bodies are in principle barred from exercising their sui generis rights in information that is subject to the Open data and public sector information directive. The implementation deadline for the revamped directive has just passed (17 July 2021). But the Data governance act would do more.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

17 Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSMD) with a new Act on the Copyright Liability of Online Content Sharing Service Providers (OCSSP Act), which entered into force on 1 August 2021. This very interesting paper suggests some risks in that direction.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

However, de facto they merely owned proof of ownership without any proprietary value, as all copyright and any related rights were retained and not granted upon purchase. The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority had emphasised this in its April 2021 guidance on advertising cryptocurrencies.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Under the new rules of the 2019 Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which have been recently implemented in most EU Member States, authors that license or assign their rights “for the exploitation of their works” are entitled to receive appropriate and proportionate remuneration, [8] a except where they have granted OA licences.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Photo by Sara Kurfeß on Unsplash The European Commission has referred six Member States (Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Poland and Portugal) to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for failure to notify complete transposition measures on copyright in the Digital Single Market ( Directive (EU) 2019/790 ) (CDSM Directive).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Earlier directives impose the mandatory management of rights, most notably for the cable retransmission right in art. 10 SatCab Directive) or they allow the Member States to impose the collective management of rights, such as the resale right (art. 12 of the Collective Rights Management (CRM) Directive ).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 20, 2021

In its long-awaited Opinion on an action brought by Poland to annul certain parts of Article 17 of the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSM Directive), Advocate General (AG) Saugmandsgaard Øe demarcates the borders of permitted filtering of users’ uploads.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

It is worth noting that, as of today and despite the deadline of 7 June 2021, 8 Member States (Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Latvia, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, and Sweden) have yet to adopt measures to transpose the DSM Directive into their own laws. One such example relates to the blocking of content pending the resolution of a complaint.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

17 CDSM Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSMD) : According to the Grand Chamber of the CJEU, the provision imposes a de facto obligation on service providers to use automatic content recognition tools in order to prevent copyright infringements by users of the platform.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 16, 2024

In light of criticism following the announcement of the political deal – and renewed warnings that the AI Act risks will hamper innovation in the European market – there may still be room for debate over the final terms of the AI Act before ratification. [13]

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Available from: [link] ; [accessed on 09/10/2024] [3] Caso, Roberto & Dore, Giulia, Academic copyright, open access and the “moral” second publication right (2021).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Part I of this post discussed the changes to copyright contract law and the new text and data mining exemption provisions that formed part of the 2021 copyright law reform. Part 2 explores further exemptions for users of works, new aspects of the right of communication to the public and the press publishers’ right. b) Teaching.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Much has been said about the press publishers’ right, introduced by Article 15 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM). 177/2021 , issued on the basis of a parliamentary delegation, which amended the Italian Legge sul diritto d’autore (l.aut.). Image via needpix. Article 43bis l.aut.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Much has been said about the press publishers’ right, introduced by Article 15 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM). 177/2021 , issued on the basis of a parliamentary delegation, which amended the Italian Legge sul diritto d’autore (l.aut.). Image via needpix. Article 43bis l.aut.

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