Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

In December 2023, this study was e xpanded to cover a further 14 countries. 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. This post considers the insights provided by the completion of the study.

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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. Image by Ag Ku via Pixabay.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This post is the third and final instalment in the “Africa IP Highlights 2023" series of posts highlighting some of the key developments in IP in Africa in 2023. The first 2 posts covered copyright and trade marks. This post is about reforms in IP policy, legislation and administration.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It is thus clear that TDM does matter - but what should its relationship with copyright and related rights be? It should be noted at the outset that, on the one hand, some commentators hold the view that TDM would not even be covered by copyright law.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Readers are reminded that they can vote for their favourite intellectual property law books of 2023 in the annual IPKat Book of the Year Awards! Votes must be made via email before 15th January 2024 as per the instructions below.

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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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TorrentFreak

MARCH 28, 2024

In that respect, matters related to intellectual property require the closest attention. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Yet for a country being consumed by war, Ukraine is still taking time to plan for a future in the EU. This is also a confident step towards Ukraine’s European integration.”

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 24, 2025

.” Piracy in the Crosshairs The bill predictably describes piracy as a major economic threat to the sport due to the top clubs’ dependence on broadcasting rights. Figures for 2023 indicate a 290 million loss of revenue due to all pirate sports broadcasts, representing around 15% of the market.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The first 2 posts covered copyright and trade marks. No draft Bill has been seen (yet)… In September, South Africa’s National Assembly passed the Copyright Amendment Bill and sent it to the National Council of Provinces for its concurrence. All the best to everyone over the holidays and see you in 2023.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 13, 2024

Like many other sites of this kind, it was frequently abused by pirates to share copyrighted content. In September 2023, French cloud hosting providers Scaleway and OpCore pulled the plug on Uptobox’s servers. The report revealed that ALPA uploaded a copyright infringing file last year to test the takedown policy.

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Olartemoure Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Spain’s first copyright office will start operating in 2023. All copyright issues had been dealt with before by the IP Subdirectorate of the Ministry of Culture and Sports. La entrada Spain launches its first-ever Copyright Office se publicó primero en OlarteMoure | Intellectual Property.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 22, 2024

DoodStream in the Spotlight In its October 2023 submission to the USTR’s notorious markets report, the MPA’s cyberlocker and video streaming category listed DoodStream front and center as the priority problem. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. 1 to 3 were masked.”

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 24, 2024

Last year saw the introduction of Law 4996/2022, which brought significant changes to IP legislation in Greece, amending several provisions of the existing Copyright Law 2121/1993 as well as Law 4481/2017 on Collective Management. To introduce a mechanism of extended copyright licensing.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

The belated Portuguese transposition of the CDSM Directive was finally published in the Portuguese Official Journal (Diário da República) on the 19th of June 2023. Copyright Code still regulates all the permitted uses of protected works and other subject matter, while Art. 2-x Copyright Code. However, Art.

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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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Garrigues Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The long-awaited Portuguese transposition of the new Copyright Directive has finally been completed with the publication and entry into force of Decree-Law no. 47/2023, of June 19, 2023. However, these were not the only relevant changes made to the copyright and neighboring rights scenario.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 3, 2023

A decision handed down May 31, 2023 at the Sofia City Court requires three Bulgarian internet service providers to block two major torrent platforms. Copyright infringement of any kind causes serious harm to local music ecosystems and diverts money away from those who create and invest in music.”

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Copyright Anastasiia Kyrylenko discussed the recent interpretation of Article 4 of Directive 2004/48/EC by the CJEU in relation to possibility for collective management organisations to bring, in their own name, actions for copyright infringement on behalf of the right holders.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Events 24 February 2023: “What Does My Claim Cover?” Intended and Unintended Consequences of Amendments During Prosecution and Post-Grant Proceedings", in Munich, on 24 February 2023. in particular) in relation to amendments to the description, in judicial proceedings and before the EPO. Click here and here to know more.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Trade Marks Chijioke Okorie provided an overview of the key developments in trade mark law across the African continent as part of the “Africa IP Highlights” series for 2023. The case relates to a trade mark application to register the word mark 'BASMATI' for rice, which is being opposed on the basis of the UK law of passing off.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Image via Pexels Research Grant – University of Udine The University of Udine has just launched an opportunity for a research grant on the topic: Italian copyright law after the EU Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market, and its effects on cultural heritage. European experts, namely Prof.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

Copyright: WIPO. See Love 2023. of the draft allows a contracting Party to limit the rights of a broadcasting organization from another contracting party, when that contracting party provides fewer rights. Requires “exclusive right of authorizing the retransmission to the public” instead of a signal based protection.

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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. idem, footnote 131).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

When the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) issued its fourth ruling in the “Metall auf Metall” copyright sampling case in April 2020, it seemed that the dispute would finally reach the top of the hill (see here ). In 2019, the CJEU clarified that the exclusive right of the phonogram producer under Art. 5 InfoSoc Directive.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 16, 2024

This third part of our four-part series on using synthetic data to train AI models explores the interplay between synthetic data training sets, the EU Copyright Directive and the forthcoming EU AI Act. Stated another way, how can a person wishing to use such content reasonably discover and avoid materials subject to an opt-out?

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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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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In the quaint days of 2019, when the EU issued its Digital Single Market Copyright Directive (DSM) , much attention was focused on issues such as a news publishers’ right and the obligations of platforms to take down infringing materials. Is a copyright notice sufficient? What about the words “all rights reserved?”

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

NATURE OF THE CASE The above decisions dealt with requests for a preliminary ruling related to the interpretation of Article 3 of Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Introduction This case (1) concerned a collective management organisation’s (CMO’s) application for the temporary determination of related and neighbouring rights and copyrights. Endnotes (1) First-instance single-member court of Athens (457/2023). Please click here to view the original publication.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When RARBG suddenly ended its operations at the end of May 2023, the absence of notice coupled with the immediate and comprehensive nature of the shutdown felt different to similar events of the past. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

The new copyright law, the amended Polish Copyright and Related Rights Act of 1994, entered into force in the early autumn of 2024. In February 2023, the European Commission referred 11 Member States , including Poland , to the CJEU for failure to implement the Directive on time.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 20, 2025

Mostly intermittent action continued until 2021 when EDPPI (the Committee for the Notification of Copyright and Related Rights Infringement on the Internet) was handed responsibility for tackling illicit broadcasts of live sporting events. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Patents Rose Hughes analyzed DexCom v Abbott (UPC_CFI_230/2023), the first substantive decision of the Paris Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) on patent validity. In their outcomes report, ICO covered a range of emerging questions relating to the application of UK data protection law to the development and use of generative AI.

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