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Rights to distribute and reproduce the work exclusively, as well as the right to grant a license that will allow the copyright holder to collect royalties, are included in this property. According to Section 30, the holder of copyrights may license all or part of his rights to another party.
WIPO is gearing up for the 42nd session of its Standing Committee on Copyright and RelatedRights and the Africa Group at WIPO has submitted a proposal for a Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions (L&Es). This is made worse by the difficulty in accessing funds to purchase licenses for online resources from publishers.
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). Once recorded, a recordation mark will be issued, giving the IPR owner an exclusive right to import into Kenya any goods/products bearing the recorded IPR.
This seems to have pushed EU Member States towards compliance – the latest examples here are the Irish European Union (Copyright and RelatedRights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021 (19 November), the Italian Decree (published on 27 November), and the Estonian Act implementing the Directive (8 December).
From a copyright law perspective, the initial use of copyright works by the platform for machine learning is infringing unless the platform used licensed or out-of-copyright works or could rely on a copyright defence, such as use for research purposes. Is the output infringing copyright?
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The use of AI technology to generate images or music and other creative works, has legal implications for copyright and relatedrights of creators and rightsholders. As the creative industry is responsible for 6% of the UK’s GDP, the dialogue is particularly important with regards to the protection of the rights of the creatives.
Damages in cases of copyright infringement Article 65(2) of the Copyright Law provides as follows: A person who by intent or negligence infringes copyright or a relatedright of another person shall be liable for compensation of damages and for restitution of moral damages. 2916/2022. (2) Endnotes (1) Decision No. 438/2018. (6)
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.
The rapid change and uncertainty in the realm of AI and copyright raises the inevitable question of how to legally enable users to access high quality and compliant materials for use in AI systems, given the variability and attendant uncertainty about the scope of rights and exceptions and limitations.
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.
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'.
While the Irish Copyright and RelatedRights Act includes a similar provision concerning the authorship of computer-generated works, Irish academics have noted this provision may be inconsistent with the EU acquis.
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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 ".
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 relatedrights.
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 ’.
The third defendant was licensed to produce and market the disputed foods and spices under its own name and at its own expense, paying a fixed fee to the plaintiff for each individual product sold. Compensation presupposes culpability and infringement of IP (or relatedrights) (i.e.,
Background In 2022, Belgium adopted a law that transposed the DSM Directive into the Belgian Code of Economic Law. In so doing, the Belgian legislator arguably went beyond what was required by the Directive and introduced new statutory remuneration rights for authors and performers. 216/1 and XI.216/2) 216/2) Art.
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.
It is thus clear that TDM does matter - but what should its relationship with copyright and relatedrights be? On the other hand, the debate around TDM has not developed in a context devoid of licensing practices, at least in Europe.
Unless these rights are contractually assigned or licensed, it is for the authors, and the institutions that employ them, to determine the conditions under which their works are to be published, reproduced, and otherwise used (including by way of OA) – not for the publishers. About ALLEA.
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?
The relevant act, seeking to bring Ireland in line with the Directive, is the Statutory Instrument 567/2021 ‘European Union (Copyright and RelatedRights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021’ (hereinafter ‘ the Regulations’ ). The Irish legislative transposition finally became law on 19 November 2021. Section 53A).
The 2022 study on the application of the OWD and the flaws of the OWD Over seven years later than the date established in Article 10 OWD, the review of the Directive was initiated. The OWD and the CDSM Directive’s OOCW provisions now coexist as two distinct options that cultural heritage institutions can rely on for clearing rights.
In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and relatedrights and access to and reuse of scientific publications, including open access. Image by Mediamodifier from Pixabay. Legislative Initiatives.
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). However, attention is necessary: the PPR is a relatedright and its subject matter does not need to qualify as (a part of) a “work”.
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As such, the exemption is reduced to a priority for individual licensing. VGG, an extended collective licensing mechanism, something which is set out as optional under EU law (see below). The new relatedright for press publishers (Sections 87 et seqq. d) Caricature, parody and pastiche.
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4996/2022 in November 2022 ( ΦΕΚ Α´ 2022/24.11.2022 ), which amended the basic Greek Copyright Law ( L. 2121/1993 on “Copyright, RelatedRights and Cultural Matters” ), as well as L. 4481/2017, on “Collective Management of Copyright and RelatedRights” ( ΦΕΚ Α’ 100/20.7.2017 ). More specifically, Art.
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. 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. Further information is available here.
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