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AG Hogan advises CJEU to rule that private copying exception also applies in the cloud but that an additional private copying levy might be unavailable

The IPKat

Kat cloud Does the private copying exception and, with it, the fair compensation requirement under Article 5(2)(b) of the InfoSoc Directive apply to reproductions carried out by using cloud-based recording services? In Austro-Mechana , the question is once again one of private copying in the cloud.

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Private Copying Levy for Social Purposes – Draft Changes in Poland and Compatibility with EU Law – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The Polish Ministry of Culture has announced draft changes to the Polish copyright law on the collection and division of the private copying levy (also known as the blank media tax or levy). In Part I of this set of posts, I describe draft changes to the Polish copyright law on the collection and division of the private copying levy.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 3 of 4: Related rights and exceptions and limitations

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Related rights. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights. This personal intellectual creation is lacking if the photographs in question are “mere reproductions of other photographs” in which an original has been merely reproduced (copied) as closely as possible.

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Private Copying Levy for Social Purposes – Draft Changes in Poland and Compatibility with EU Law – Part II

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The Polish Ministry of Culture has announced draft changes to the Polish copyright law on the collection and division of the private copying levy. The draft law on the rights of professional artists will significantly change how the private copying levy system has been functioning in Poland so far.

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Who is entitled to fair compensation for private copying? And what happens when a Member State has failed to transpose correctly EU law? AG Collins answers both in Seven.One Opinion

The IPKat

What those references have in common is that both were made in the field of broadcasting and concern issues of private copying under Article 5(2)(b) of the InfoSoc Directive. In this specific case, the question is whether broadcasters are entitled to fair compensation for private copying of fixations of their broadcasts.

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UK Government axes plans to broaden existing text and data mining exception

The IPKat

It is thus clear that TDM does matter - but what should its relationship with copyright and related rights be? It is evident that the eventual scope of Section 29A owed to the possibilities and constraints under Article 5(3)(a) of the InfoSoc Directive.

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Hope For Hollywood? Vietnam Police Raid Movie Piracy Group, Three Arrested

TorrentFreak

The confirmed prosecution will be for “Infringement of copyright and related rights” under Article 225 of the Penal Code; when a person (without the permission of the copyright holder) intentionally copies a copyrighted work and/or distributes copies of the work to the public, that person can be criminally prosecuted.