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 ”). 3(2) Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (the “ Act ”).

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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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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.). Chapter 2, authored by David Musker, considers the overlaps between patents and designs.

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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. A vanishing right? The Sui Generis Database Right and the proposed Data Act by Paul Keller. [T]he

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 25, 2023

The first report of this project was published on 15 March 2023 (the “ Vallance Report ”), and the UK Government released its response (the “ Government’s Response ”) shortly after. ” As such, the ICO noted that they may require additional funding from the Government for these proposals to succeed.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The last source, scraping internet data, has been the most controversial so far and given rise to concerns from both intellectual property and data protection perspectives, and nascent litigation in various jurisdictions when the scraping has been done without permission of the copyright/database right holders.

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