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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

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. related rights, performers rights), trade marks (incl., related rights, performers rights), trade marks (incl., Winners will be announced in February 2025.

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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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EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2023

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

While sports events, as such, are not protected by copyright and related rights, the origanisers of these events may benefit from specific protection under national law. It introduces the deadline of 17 November 2025 until which the Commission together with the EUIPO Observatory will monitor the effects of the recommendation.

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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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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

Jurisdiction According to the EU AI Act and its Recital 106 providers of general-purpose AI models should put in place a policy to comply with Union law on copyright and related rights. The next IBIL roundtable will take place on 10 February 2025 at UCLs Faculty of Laws and focuses on visual outputs.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

While many anticipate the CJEU’s forthcoming decision in mid-2025, this contribution seeks to advocate that distinguishing between parody, pastiche, and caricature in copyright law may be ineffective.

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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

Members of the band Kraftwerk brought an action against these acts of reproduction and distribution, claiming infringement of their copyright and their related rights as performers and phonogram producers of “Metall auf Metall”.

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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. “The operation was conducted within the framework of the European Multidisciplinary Platform for Combating Criminal Threats (EMPACT). .

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Part 2 of the Report ( here ), released on 29 January 2025, tackled the copyrightability of outputs created using generative AI (GenAI), in which inter alia it was stated that: The existing principles of copyright law are flexible enough to apply to AI as they have applied to tech innovations in the past. Events INTA 2025 Annual Meeting.

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

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Oliver Fairhurst reported on a recent judgment concerning distinctiveness in the context of a dispute between Abbott and Sinocare [2025] EWHC 206 (Ch). The case focuses on the attempt to use shape marks to protect against similar products. IP events and opportunities Alessandro Cerri informed the Readers of events and opportunities.

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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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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

Saturday Sundries

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Deadline extension: IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2024

EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2023

Monday Miscellany

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

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

Sunday Surprises

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

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)

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

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