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IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2024

The IPKat

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Deadline The voting is open until 31 January 2025. Winners will be announced in February 2025. The IPKat is thrilled to announce the launch of the 2024 Book of the Year Awards, continuing its cherished end-of-year tradition! Only books published in 2024 are eligible for the award.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Events ALAI 2025 Congress (Opatija, Croatia, 9-11 October 2025) The Association Litteraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI) has announced that its next Annual Congress will be taking place in Opatija, Croatia, between 9-11 October 2025. For further details and to register, click here (available soon).

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Deadline extension: IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2024

The IPKat

JANUARY 29, 2025

For those of you still finishing up their IP book pile, The IPKat team is extending the deadline to vote for your favourite IP books of 2024 until 10 February 2025.

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Report on a roundtable on academic publishing and genAI deals – GenAI and copyright series at the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In the complicated landscape of genAI and copyright law, several different themes have emerged as particularly thorny and triggering the interests of different stakeholders. The roundtable is part of IBILs series on genAI and copyright. In copyright law terms, very often that data could correspond to individual human expression.

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Saturday Sundries

The IPKat

JANUARY 18, 2025

GuestKats and InternKats will start in February 2025. The deadline for submissions to the IPKat Book of the Year awards is 31 January 2025. Vote here for your favourite books in the categories of patents, copyright (incl., related rights, performers rights), trade marks (incl., EPIP Annual Conference 2025.

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EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2023

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! In this series, every three months we update you on what has happened in EU copyright law. According to the AG, it follows from Article 297 TFEU that EU law is, in principle, not capable of benefiting from copyright protection.

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The Parody Exception: Revisiting the Case for a Distinct Pastiche Exception

Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Presently, a new reference from the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) asks the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for vital interpretive guidance concerning the parody exception within copyright law. This approach, initially applied to cultural politics by Dentith, can be similarly adopted within copyright law.

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The next chapter in the “Metall auf Metall” saga – Pastiche to be clarified by the CJEU

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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RARBG Shut Down in the Middle of a Bulgarian Piracy Crackdown

TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One major topic of discussion at the conference was EMPACT, the European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats, which in the current cycle 2022-2025 has IP crime as a priority. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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New Vatican AI Guidelines for the development and use of AI models: from AI training to Vatican’s authorship and ownership of AI-generated outputs (at least within the Vatican City State)

The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2025

Shortly before the Holidays, the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State released the Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence ( here for the English version : note, however, that the English version is not entirely accurate insofar as it translates from Italian) to be applied within this state as of 1 January 2025. CXCVII, Sept.

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Copyright Office Report on AI. Copyright Office Report on the legal and policy issues related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and copyright. AI usage for assisting creation processes or including AI-generated material in a more extensive human-generated work does not prevent copyrightability. Review Part 1 here.

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Copyright and AI Katfriends Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Sam Berriman discussed the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) response to its consultation series on generative AI. 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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First draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice has been released

Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Further drafts are to be prepared, with the final version of the Code forecast to be released by 2 May 2025, in accordance with Article 56 (Codes of Practice) of the EU AI Act. The AI Offices idea is to provide a future-proof Code that will also be appropriate for the next generation of AI models released after the May 2025 deadline.

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IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2024

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Deadline extension: IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2024

Report on a roundtable on academic publishing and genAI deals – GenAI and copyright series at the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law

Saturday Sundries

EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2023

The Parody Exception: Revisiting the Case for a Distinct Pastiche Exception

The next chapter in the “Metall auf Metall” saga – Pastiche to be clarified by the CJEU

RARBG Shut Down in the Middle of a Bulgarian Piracy Crackdown

New Vatican AI Guidelines for the development and use of AI models: from AI training to Vatican’s authorship and ownership of AI-generated outputs (at least within the Vatican City State)

Sunday Surprises

Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

First draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice has been released

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