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Safeguarding Access to Culture in the Digital Era in European Copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This change of paradigm endangers the implicit dogma that copyright law shall ultimately serve access to culture in the long term. Furthermore, in a dematerialized reality of access to copyright-protected works, it is also important to safeguard the necessary balance between copyright protection and the public domain.

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Protecting Application Programming Interfaces (API) Through Intellectual Property Laws

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Copyright and APIs. Copyright is the most obvious and preferred choice for protecting an API due to the basic reasons that it is permissible within the copyright laws of different nations. Google , the Federal Circuit Court held that the Java API in question was copyrightable. In the landmark case of Oracle v.

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Research Exceptions in Comparative Copyright Law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Promoting research and access to its products has always been a core purpose of copyright law, often expressed in limitations and exceptions for research uses. Recent legal scholarship has examined the need for copyright exceptions for text and data mining (TDM) methodologies, and the doctrines recently enacted to achieve this purpose.

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Copyright law and football matches: impossible to match? (Part I)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This post is based on the chapter “Audiovisual Coverage of Sports Events and Copyright Law: Originality in the Details?” Intellectual Property and Sports: Essays in Honour of P. Bernt Hugenholtz, Kluwer Law International, 2021. But, could they be considered as works in the sense of European copyright law?

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Copyright law and football matches: impossible to match? (Part II)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This post is based on the chapter “Audiovisual Coverage of Sports Events and Copyright Law: Originality in the Details?” Intellectual Property and Sports: Essays in Honour of P. Bernt Hugenholtz, Kluwer Law International, 2021. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. by Christopher Heath. €

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EU copyright law round up – fourth trimester of 2021

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Welcome to the fourth and final trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. Stay tuned as a comment on the judgment is coming soon in the blog. Stay tuned as a comment on the study is coming soon in the blog.

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Call for Papers: Symposium on the Right to Research in International Copyright Law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

CALL FOR PAPERS : Symposium on the Right to Research in International Copyright Law. American University International Law Review (AUILR). We are tentatively planning to have this meeting in-person at American University Washington College of Law, in Washington D.C., More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.