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IP and Legal Filings
AUGUST 19, 2022
A lot of electronic databases’ creators are willing to accept the risk and obligation of gathering a lot of raw data and then having to use it, despite the fact that the need for databases like phone directories is expanding in the business world as a whole. The copyright of a database is safeguarded by the Copyright Act of 1957.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
AUGUST 18, 2021
The consultation document restates the fundamental right to intellectual property as the fundamental principle of ‘protection of the intellectual creations of individuals in the online space’ but is otherwise silent on IP. So effectively, the 2013 directive already curtailed public sector bodies’ copyright and sui generis rights in data.
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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.
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.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
AUGUST 24, 2022
As previously reported , between October 2021 and January 2022 the UK Intellectual Property Office held a public consultation on the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property laws (more specifically, copyright and patents). The consultation closed in the beginning of January 2022.
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