The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The first 2 posts covered copyright and trade marks. It is now an offence for any person to import into Kenya any goods or items bearing an IP right that has not been recorded with the Kenya Anti-Counterfeit Authority (ACA). 102, outline the criteria for Collective Management Organizations to determine license fees for music usage.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2022

The event is designed to encourage interactive discussions among participants through panel debates, with each of them covering 4 or 5 key topics related to each specific sector. and Copyright in Graffiti and Street Art). The webinar is scheduled for 7 July 2022 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm (CEST) and would be open to SMEs from the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 30, 2023

However, the Court rejected the action as: not legal, insofar as it concerned the protection of recipes as works of intellectual property; and unfounded, because recipes are assimilated to ideas and not to works enjoying copyright protection under Greek (and EU) law. It defines the extent of protection.

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The IPKat

MAY 22, 2023

This post is brought to you by Oprah Nwobike , who is a lawyer and doctoral researcher at Brunel University London focusing on copyright and artificial intelligence in the music industry, under the supervision of IPKat's Dr Hayleigh Bosher. This has become a lingering question in the minds of consumers of online content.

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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 ). Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash.

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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. The consultation closes on 7 January 2022. That call concerned patents, copyright and related rights, designs, trade marks and trade secrets.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Introduction In November 2022, almost 18 months after the transposition deadline, Law 4996/2022 (Of. In doing so, it amended Law 2121/1993 , the Greek Copyright Law, as well as Law 4481/2017 , the law that regulates the collective management of copyright and related rights.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Welcome to the fourth and final trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. The consultation closes on 7 January 2022. The rapporteur is very well-known to all copyright enthusiasts – Mr Axel Voss.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The relevant act, seeking to bring Ireland in line with the Directive, is the Statutory Instrument 567/2021 ‘European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021’ (hereinafter ‘ the Regulations’ ). The Irish legislative transposition finally became law on 19 November 2021. Section 53A).

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azrights

AUGUST 11, 2022

As AI platforms like Midjourney , or Dall-E2 are widely adopted the question that is increasingly being asked is about the copyright position. It’s possible to create striking artistic images, music, poems and the like using Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms so people naturally wonder who owns the rights in the output?

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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.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The new copyright rules relevant to “Big Deals”. Under the law of copyright, the authors of works of science are the copyright owners of their published articles. Under the law of copyright, the authors of works of science are the copyright owners of their published articles.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Within days, stock image supplier Getty Images announced that it was one of the “folks” who disagreed – and disagreed so strongly that it had commenced legal proceedings in the High Court in London alleging copyright infringement. This litigation has arisen amongst a flurry of recent interest in AI generated works.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Events IP Lawyers Tool - 1st World Robot Patent Drafting Symposium - 23 and 24 September 2022 - Cannes, France IP Lawyers Tool will hold the 1st World Robot Patent Drafting Symposium on 23 and 24 September 2022 from 1:00pm to 8:00pm (CEST). Further information about the 2022 Conference Program and registration can be found here.

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The IPKat

MAY 22, 2022

The Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law (IFIM) at Stockholm University is proud and delighted to announce its new, in-person event to be held in English at Stockholm University on Thursday, June 2, 2022, on the topic: 'The DSM Directive 3 years on: The Polish challenge to Article 17 and the national transposition maze'.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 11, 2024

The press sector strongly supports this position, with the argument usually phrased as media organisations, not individual journalists, benefitting from licensing. In May 2022 AFP reached an agreement with journalists’ organisations to pay an annual fee of 275 EUR to each full-time AFP journalist. While it is art.

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The IPKat

MAY 31, 2022

Cat in the Box " by admiller is licensed under CC BY 2.0. TRADE MARKS The impact of Brexit on trade mark cases involving UK-based rights has been a hot topic over the past two years. But for how long will UK-based rights continue to play a role in deciding EU trade mark disputes? Can a slogan be protected by copyright?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

4996/2022 in November 2022 ( ΦΕΚ Α´ 2022/24.11.2022 ), which amended the basic Greek Copyright Law ( L. 2121/1993 on “Copyright, Related Rights and Cultural Matters” ), as well as L. 4481/2017, on “Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights” ( ΦΕΚ Α’ 100/20.7.2017 ).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

The Directive does this through a mandatory exception for copyright infringement that allows cultural heritage institutions and educational institutions to reproduce and make available orphan works from their collections to the public. As a result, the impossibility to disseminate valuable cultural heritage remained.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 28, 2023

The Court’s decision arose in the context of injunction proceedings relating to the defendants’ unauthorised use of software programs. The plaintiff, a leading multinational software manufacturer, owned the rights to exploit the programs.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 4, 2022

On September 22, 2022 , the European Union Intellectual Office (EUIPO), through its European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights, published a discussion paper entitled " Automated Content Recognition: IP Enforcement and management use cases ".

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Likewise, when the Uffizi Museum sent a letter to the French maison Jean Paul Gauthier back in April 2022 asking to cease all uses of “ the Birth of Venus ” in their Le Musée collection, it possibly thought it would eventually receive – at the very least – some kind of reply. Yet, she kept ignoring him.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Conseil d’Etat , the French administrative Supreme Court, handed down an important ruling on 15 November 2022 which annuls Order no. Article 18 of the CDSM provides that where authors license or transfer their exclusive rights for the exploitation of their works, they are ‘ entitled to receive appropriate and proportionate remuneration ’.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In 2019, the EU’s Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) was adopted. This included the highly controversial Articles 15 and 17 on, respectively, the new press publishers’ right (PPR) and the new copyright liability scheme for “online content-sharing services providers” (OCSSPs). Licensing the PPR.

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