Kluwer Copyright Blog
JUNE 29, 2023
Summary In the case of Wright & Ors v BTC Core & Ors [2023] EWHC 222 the High Court was faced with a technical copyright question about whether literary copyright can subsist in the file format used for the Bitcoin System (the “ Bitcoin File Format ”). Dr Wright also alleges infringement of the White Paper and the Bitcoin File Format.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JUNE 29, 2023
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the second trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! LEA, AG Opinion, C-10/22 AG Szpunar took on another copyright case in his opinion issued on 25 May 2023 which focused on the delicate collective rights management situation in Italy.
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SpicyIP
MARCH 25, 2025
2023, the Bombay HC (Nagpur Bench) delivered a salient judgement , with significant implications for both the SC/ST Act and Intellectual Property. Is there a sui generis protection for computer databases? ( see definition of computer database) Unlike Europe, India does not have sui generis database rights.
The IPKat
JULY 30, 2023
This Kat is happy to review “ 25 things you should know about artificial intelligence, art and copyright ” by Pablo Fernández Carballo-Calero (Aranzadi, 2023, 160 p.). For instance, he reviews the UK system of protection for computer-generated works and the EU sui generis database right.
LexBlog IP
DECEMBER 12, 2023
This is because training of GenAI models requires processing of large amounts of data that potentially contain copyrighted works, as well as materials displaying trademarks and data compilations which may be protected by sui generis database rights in the EU, or other information the use of which may be restricted by contract or terms of use.
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. A vanishing right? The Sui Generis Database Right and the proposed Data Act by Paul Keller. [T]he
The IPKat
MAY 29, 2023
This Kat is pleased to review the “ Overlapping Intellectual Property rights ”, edited by Neil Wilkof [full disclosure: a member of the IPKat team], Shamnad Basheer, and Irene Calboli (OUP, 2023, 864 pp.). The authors look at the issue from the perspective of US and EU approaches to database protection.
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