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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The IPKat

MARCH 24, 2023

Last week, Nigeria’s President signed the Copyright Act 2022 which repeals the Copyright Act of 2004 (the old Act). The Copyright Act 2022 as previously reported here on The IPKat is aimed inter alia at protecting the rights of authors and providing appropriate limitations and exceptions to guarantee access to creative works.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 22, 2024

The Motion Picture Association’s interest in file-hosting platform DoodStream first came to light in a submission to the USTR in October 2022. million visits in August 2022, while using the services of DDoS-Guard in Russia and OVH in France. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Not a copyright dispute … and the non-role of Article 14 of the DSM Directive In sum: the CHC provides a way to control for-profit reproductions of Italian cultural heritage, irrespective of their copyright status (it is in any case worth recalling that under Italian copyright law moral rights protection is … perpetual).

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The possibility of linking such data with files containing information that reveals the title of protected works, in cases where the same person repeats an activity infringing copyright or related rights, must be subject to review by a court or an independent administrative body.

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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). In August , Kenya’s Copyright Board tabled the Copyright and Related Rights Bill, 2023 before Parliament.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

On 22 September 2022, the Advocate General provided his opinion on the case. In April 2021, the Austrian Supreme Court referred two questions of principle to the CJEU concerning the activity of a satellite TV package provider (Austrian Supreme Court, 4Ob195/20k ).

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The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2022

COPYRIGHT Katfriend Moritz Sutterer posted on a new competition tool that the German Competition Authority recently tried out against Google in relation to press publishers' neighbouring right. Voting closes at midnight on January 31, 2022, and winners will be announced thereafter.

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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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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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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This new authority, which should come into being on 1 January 2022, will replace the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel and the Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur Internet. ARCOM will assist right holders to do this in using the new tools detailed below.

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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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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This post looks back at the key developments in AI and copyright in 2022, covering generative AI, text and data mining exceptions, the pastiche exception, deep fakes, voice cloning and infringement and enforcement of copyright using AI. Generative AI Computer-generated art reached a tipping point in 2022.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 7, 2025

The following is an excerpt from the article The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs, authored by Daniel Gervais (Milton R. The full article can be read in the Journal of the Copyright Society. 1 Where does the law come down on the creation of LLMs, both in the input and output of existing copyrighted materials?

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The IPKat

MAY 19, 2022

Last month, Katfriends Desmond Oriakhogba and Dick Kawooya provided a highlight of the key portions of the Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions (L&Es) proposed by the Africa Group to WIPO's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (WIPO-SCCR). The 42nd session of the WIPO SCCR was held from 9 to 13 May 2022.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The 42nd session of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) took place from 9 to 13 May 2022 in Geneva. The first of this series of blog posts on copyright reform at WIPO analyzes the history of the discussions on L&Es.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

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 is the first of a series of blog posts on copyright reform at WIPO. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. by Christopher Heath. €

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The objective was to assess the national implementations of the two articles for compliance with the internal market objective of the CDSMD and with the EU’s law of fundamental rights. The study was commissioned by Copyright 4 Creativity , but written in complete academic independence.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

As we enter a new year, we would like to take this opportunity to pass on our best wishes for 2023 to all of our readers, as well as reflect on developments in copyright over the past year. YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 – A step towards “factfulness” by Jan Bernd Nordemann. Since then, courts in the U.S.

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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

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

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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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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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As reported in February 2022, notices published on the Lumen Database referenced well over one hundred pirate sites, all of which had been previously blocked for copyright infringement under the orders of the High Court in London. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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The IPKat

JULY 4, 2022

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.

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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. Remuneration of authors under French copyright law before the 2021 Order.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 28, 2024

After more than two years of incalculable losses following Russia’s full-blown invasion in 2022, Ukraine continues to defy the odds as it fights for the right to exist as an independent state. In that respect, matters related to intellectual property require the closest attention.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Therefore, case law plays a huge role in ensuring the establishment of a fair and balanced liability regime, in particular as concerns the issue of (indirect) liability for internet service providers and other intermediaries whose services are used to commit copyright infringements. That has now changed.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This contribution is based on a paper published in 44 European Intellectual Property Law Review 595 (2022). . Photographs are included in Article 2(1) of the Berne Convention as copyrightable artistic works. All Berne Union Member States must thus provide copyright protection to photographic works.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

On 23 February 2022, the European Commission (EC) published a Proposal for a ‘Regulation on harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data (Data Act)’. This post focuses on selected copyright and related rights matters that the Institute details in its Position Statement. Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and related rights and access to and reuse of scientific publications, including open access. Current EU copyright framework. Image by Mediamodifier from Pixabay.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 25, 2023

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. At a later stage of the proceedings, plaintiffs also argued that this runs contrary to EU copyright directives.

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