Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. There is such a provision in current Article 10, mandating prohibitions of signal piracy in any regulatory framework. But Articles 6-9 promote exclusive rights. Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 24, 2023

Here's what Kateryna and Liubov write : New Ukrainian Law on Copyright and Related Rights by Kateryna Militsyna and Liubov Maidanyk Last year, the Ukrainian copyright reform got on its fast track. In July the Ukrainian parliament approved one of the legislative proposals on copyright and related rights as a basis.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 4, 2022

It was formed following a state license, in order to collect, among other things, the equitable remuneration provided by article 49 of Law 2121/93 in favour of producers, performers, and musicians for the public performance of legitimately released sound carriers. The direct licensing of in-store music was not covered by the agreement.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 30, 2023

The third defendant was licensed to produce and market the disputed foods and spices under its own name and at its own expense, paying a fixed fee to the plaintiff for each individual product sold. Compensation presupposes culpability and infringement of IP (or related rights) (i.e., Emphasis added.)

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

These classifications are then used, among other things, to establish what business licensing is necessary for a given industry. Under the Indonesian regulatory regime, ESPs are subject to various requirements and obligations related to, among other things, the. Patent: Blockchain-related inventions can be protected as patents.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

Compulsory intellectual property policies for the most powerful AI systems Among the special obligations that the AIR requires of providers of general-purpose AI (GPAI) systems, which are the most powerful and versatile, are those aimed at ensuring respect for third-party intellectual property rights.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and related rights and access to and reuse of scientific publications, including open access. Moreover, like most of the E&Ls of Article 5 ISD, the research exception remains optional for the Member States.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Rights to distribute and reproduce the work exclusively, as well as the right to grant a license that will allow the copyright holder to collect royalties, are included in this property. According to Section 30, the holder of copyrights may license all or part of his rights to another party.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Just like the Croatian legislator when implementing Article 15 of the DSM Directive. This inclusion was criticised as a redundant addition since newspaper articles are already considered literary works. Furthermore, it introduces an accompanying new moral right of attribution for the first source of the ‘news of the day’.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

31, 2022): When an individual’s decision to disseminate an Instagram post is the “very thing the article [is] reporting on,” the use of the Instagram post and its copyrighted material in the reporting has been deemed sufficiently transformative to support a fair use defense. The focus of the article is Ms. Buzzfeed, Inc.

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The IPKat

MAY 8, 2022

. • The practice set out in the Examination Guide is silent as to how the Registrar’s enforcement of the protection of famous names under section 3(6) is to be reconciled with the existence of a relative right to object and the express prohibition contained in Article 2 of the Trade Marks (Relative Grounds) Order 2007.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

21, Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 ), New Zealand ( section 5(2)(a), Copyright Act 1994 ), South Africa (section 2(h), Copyright Act 1978 ) and the UK ( Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 9(3) ).

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The IPKat

AUGUST 1, 2021

The second case ( 4 Ob 44/21f – in German) relates to an online streaming platform aimed at émigrés from the territory of former Yugoslavia. The defendant operated the platform based on license agreements with TV channel operators. The claimant is the owner of the copyright in several TV shows broadcast on the relevant TV channels.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 1, 2023

In doing so, it amended Law 2121/1993 , the Greek Copyright Law, as well as Law 4481/2017 , the law that regulates the collective management of copyright and related rights. The ‘old’ analogue exception for teaching Until the enactment of Law 4996/2022 the teaching exception was exclusively regulated by Article 21(1).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

In addition to significantly changing the Portuguese Copyright Code , the Decree-Law also affects Law 26/2015 on collective management organizations and Decree-Law 122/2000 on databases, and creates a new dispute resolution mechanism called “specialized institutionalized arbitration and mediation in matters of copyright and related rights”.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2022

Its massive use brings legal consequences for classic IP rights and offers real challenges in particular to trade marks, copyright and related rights and patents. FIDE - The Metaverse As A Challenge To Classical IP - 29 June 2022 - Online The Metaverse steadily developed, and its role became even more central to the business.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Thus, the COVID 19 pandemic has underlined the importance of waiving patents and other IP-related rights linked to healthcare products, vaccines, and scientific processes to ensure the accessibility of the same on a global level. Outcomes of the subsequent meetings held after introducing the proposal.

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There is a constant debate of balancing the monopolistic rights against the right of public access to essential commodities like pharmaceuticals and medical products. This is where the concept of compulsory licensing gains popular attention. What is Compulsory Licensing? Reasons for Granting Compulsory License.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 18, 2021

The European Union (EU) Court of Justice Advocate General, Saugmandsgaard ØE, recently published the long-awaited opinion on the action brought by the Republic of Poland against the contentious Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright and Related Rights in Digital Single Market.

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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2023

The IPKat has received and is happy to host this guest contribution by Deborah De Angelis (Studio Legale DDA) on the highly publicized halted licensing negotiations between Italian collecting society SIAE and Meta regarding the availability of the music repertoire administered by the former on the latter’s services. 17 (4), a). 17 (4), c).

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IP Whiteboard

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For instance, the traditional principles behind patents (being exclusive rights granted on a temporary basis in exchange for making the details of an invention publicly available), and the usual grounds for establishing infringement of a patent, may not apply where an AI retains these details in a ‘black box’. Copyright and related rights.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This was to be done by imposing as few conditions as possible, using standardized licenses wherever possible, making information technically open (open formats, electronic delivery, etc.) So effectively, the 2013 directive already curtailed public sector bodies’ copyright and sui generis rights in data. 1(6) Open data directive).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

2121/1993 on “Copyright, Related Rights and Cultural Matters” ), as well as L. 4481/2017, on “Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights” ( ΦΕΚ Α’ 100/20.7.2017 ). As it introduces a new related/neighbouring right for press publishers (PPR), the provision has been placed in Section VII of L.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This article originally appeared in The Scholarly Kitchen and is republished with permission. In the quaint days of 2019, when the EU issued its Digital Single Market Copyright Directive (DSM) , much attention was focused on issues such as a news publishers’ right and the obligations of platforms to take down infringing materials.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

The introduction of Law 4481/2017 into the Greek legislation aimed to regulate the collective management of IP and relative rights, thus amending the EU Collective Rights Management Directive. (1) Any type of reporting on the user’s part towards a specific CMO may only concern the use of rights that the specific CMO represents.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

If adopted in this form, such a provision would significantly strengthen the position of creators and rights holders to prevent or license the use of their works for the purpose of training generative AI models as foreseen in the CDSM Directive. Convergence on opt-outs?

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 16, 2024

It seems that one of the intended purposes of the obligation to disclose training data is to enable better enforcement, through an ex-post tool, of the above-mentioned opt-out mechanism under Article 4 of the Copyright Directive. 4 provides exceptions or limitations for the purposes of text and data mining for other purposes.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Much has been said about the press publishers’ right, introduced by Article 15 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM). As a result, the original text of Article 15 CDSM was subject to a number of amendments. The Italian press publishers’ “creative” negotiation and licensing scheme.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2021

With a few exceptions [see Communia tracker here ] , because of a number of reasons - ranging from COVID to the delayed Article 17 Commission's guidance [Katpost here ] to some important pending rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the majority of EU Member States missed this deadline.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Much has been said about the press publishers’ right, introduced by Article 15 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM). As a result, the original text of Article 15 CDSM was subject to a number of amendments. The Italian press publishers’ “creative” negotiation and licensing scheme.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

By now, Article 15 of Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSM Directive) needs no wordy introductions. Put briefly, the provision requires Member States to introduce a related (or neighbouring) right for press publishers, applicable to online uses of their publications.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 28, 2023

The Court’s decision arose in the context of injunction proceedings relating to the defendants’ unauthorised use of software programs. The plaintiff, a leading multinational software manufacturer, owned the rights to exploit the programs.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

The 2021 copyright law reform also saw the exemption provisions concerning teaching purposes being updated in line with the requirements of the DSMD, specifically to implement Article 5 of the DSMD. As such, the exemption is reduced to a priority for individual licensing. This is based on Article 6 and Article 8 of the DSMD.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The relevant act, seeking to bring Ireland in line with the Directive, is the Statutory Instrument 567/2021 ‘European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021’ (hereinafter ‘ the Regulations’ ). The exception is broadly similar to that contained in Article 3 of the Directive.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

If the use has clearly taken place and ceased before the exercise of the application, article 49 of Law 2121/1993 is applicable, dealing with reasonable and uniform remuneration in the context of regular proceedings or trials. Law 4481/2017 Article 6 of Law 4481/2017 states: 1. the award of the equitable remuneration).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Some consider that the Government was influenced by the French union of book publishers Syndicat National de l’Edition – SNE when it decided to leave out the term ‘appropriate’ when transposing the principle of ‘ appropriate and proportionate remuneration ’ of articles 18 and 20 of the CDSM.

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IPilogue

JULY 8, 2021

On 19 April 2019, the European Parliament and Council adopted the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market. Articles 3 and 4 of the Directive , introduce text and data mining as a new copyright law exception. The Highly-Debated Article 17. However the debate around Article 17 continues.

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