Contracts Copyright Law Database Right 
The IPKat
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Equally, a significant portion of online material is also likely to contain personal data, and there is likely to be a significant overlap in relation to specific pieces of content which are protected by both copyright law and by data protection law.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JANUARY 9, 2023
Following the Report this means: Copyright infringement needs to be addressed; unjustified requests have to be taken seriously, but seem to be an exceptional scenario in particular by qualified rightholders; and there is no real alternative to automation on larger platforms. A vanishing right? Part II is available here.
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Kluwer Copyright Blog
AUGUST 18, 2021
For public sector bodies — producers and holders of vast quantities of data — as well as for the companies that act as suppliers, the sui generis database right has been slowly eroded since 2003. What ideas the Commission has with respect to the Database directive is difficult to gauge from the consultation. by Tito Rendas. €
Kluwer Copyright Blog
AUGUST 24, 2022
Following the consultation, the UK government has now decided to introduce a new copyright and database right exception which allows TDM for any purpose, i.e. including commercial uses. Licensing will no longer be an issue and rightholders will not be able to opt-out or contract out of the exception.
IP and Legal Filings
AUGUST 19, 2022
The Indian Contract Act may be invoked by including a separate clause in the contract for database confidentiality. The Information Technology Act’s Section 66E outlines the penalties for violating privacy laws, among other things. The copyright of a database is safeguarded by the Copyright Act of 1957.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JULY 14, 2023
In a policy paper , copyright and art-law experts led by the author clarified the general copyright law principles applicable to stakeholders dealing with digital cultural heritage worldwide and formulated recommendations, addressed to policy-makers, to facilitate their digital activities. Proposal 4.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JANUARY 17, 2024
For these reasons, authors such as Hao-Yun Chen , Peter Slowinski , and Begoña Gonzalez Otero seem to reject the protection of models under copyright law. However, in the EU there is another strong candidate for protecting model weights: the sui generis protection for databases established in Directive 96/9.
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