Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

post on the judgment is coming soon in the blog, so watch this space. Stay tuned as a comment on the AG Opinion is coming soon in the blog. The Report examines the question: How can and should EU copyright and related rights law protect AI musical outputs? The AG opinion was commented previously on this blog.A

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 24, 2022

This post is the second instalment of an analysis of a recent report , a part of the reCreating Europe project, on the application of EU copyright and related rights law to outputs generated by or with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, tools or techniques (AI outputs), with a focus on outputs in the musical domain.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This contribution is based on a paper published in 44 European Intellectual Property Law Review 595 (2022). . As is known, originality has always been the essential requirement of copyright law, and only works that show some minimum amount of this attribute usually fall within the scope of protection.

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A compulsory license is an authorization provided by a national authority to an individual without seeking the consent of the titleholder but after payment of royalties/compensation for the exploitation of the subject matter protected by the law on patents or other IPRs. For more visit: [link].

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

This two-part blog post contains a summary of our report’s conclusions and recommendations. Part II will present our conclusions regarding EU rules on related rights and outline policy recommendations for EU legislators in this field. As noted below, however, it might still benefit from protection under related rights.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 12, 2022

However, Member States can provide for such a right in their legislations. Even if Member States remain free to establish cable retransmission rights both for copyright holders and holders of related rights, these rights should be construed through the harmonised conceptual framework of this Directive.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

Both Article 7b(2)(c) of the Dutch Neighbouring Rights Act and Section 87g(2)(4) of the German Copyright and Related Rights Act very much stick to the wording of Article 15(1) of the CDSM Directive. Therefore, the narrower the scope of the VSE limitation, the lower the threshold for the right to kick in.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

That call concerned patents, copyright and related rights, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. This is not the first time the UKIPO has engaged with a public call for views on the topic of AI and IP.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In the view of the BGH, an infringement of the film producer’s related right does not require that a copyright protected part had been used. The BGH assumed that an infringement of the related right of the film producer had occurred. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. by Christopher Heath. €

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

A third alternative: the related rights approach. We followed the approach of distinguishing between creation and dissemination of works, so as to propose transforming the current CGWs provisions into a neighbouring rights provision. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Regarding the entitlement to the rights, the recording and broadcast of a sports event are protected by related rights, which are respectively granted to producers of audiovisual works for the first fixation of the film and to broadcasting organisations for the transmission of broadcast signals for public reception.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The license is not triggered in most open licenses if applied to subject matter not protected by copyright (or related rights). Thus, questioning whether EU copyright law provides adequate protection for ML models is not a naïve endeavour. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. by Christopher Heath. €

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Firstly, the mandatory collective management of rights prevents the author, performer, producer and, since the DSM Directive, publisher from individually exercising their exclusive rights under copyright or related rights. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 31, 2022

When you enforce your copyright, you enforce your copyright-related rights, which fall under Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). Whether you want to license your creative work or be duly credited for your unique creation, the law is there to help you. ? For more visit: [link].

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Barry Sookman

JUNE 27, 2021

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SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

We are pleased to bring you a guest post by Mili Baxi, on the development of a publisher’s right in digital media. Mili is a graduate of Institute of Law, Nirma University, currently completing her LLM at LSE. The EU took the Intellectual Property route by introducing a related right under its copy right law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In order to bring readers up to date on earlier developments, over the next few days we will be republishing in four parts an article (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law from 2015 to 2019 organised by topic. This first part covers the definition of a work, authorship and moral rights.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The adoption of the Directive on Copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market ( Directive (EU) 790/2019 , CDSM Directive) brought about important changes in the distribution of rights and responsibilities in copyright law. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. by Christopher Heath. €

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