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Protecting Application Programming Interfaces (API) Through Intellectual Property Laws

Kashishipr

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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[Guest post] Book review: ‘Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law: 20 Years of the IPKat’

The IPKat

The book, titled Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law. And, speaking of the book, we are happy to re-publish the review that Bill Patry (Mayer Brown) provided of it, as just published by the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice.

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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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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.

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Nintendo’s Actions Demonstrate Our Intellectual Property Laws are Broken

JIPEL Copyright Blog

ROMs which are possessed or distributed without the copyright holders’ permission likely violate copyright law in various ways. Since there is very little chance of copyright law reform, this slow change of heart is seemingly the best option that the Smash community can hope for.

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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

This Kat is having a haunted October This post promises to take readers around the IP blogs in eight posts. Copyright The Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice published an Author's Take piece considering what the way forward for the press publishers' right might be under EU copyright law.

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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?