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Copyright Protection For Databases In India

IP and Legal Filings

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.

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[Guest post] The UK’s AI and copyright consultation – will data protection law render any commercial TDM exception ineffective?

The IPKat

Such rights reservations are often informally described as opt outs. By way of brief overview of data protection law, under the UK GDPR personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

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Digital collections from GLAM institutions: Policy Paper

Kluwer Copyright Blog

use of indigenous content, model contracts and/or national laws on limitations and exceptions). Minimize database rights to favour access to and use of digital works. The Policy paper does not aspire to be carved out in stone but rather represents a work-in-progress that can be updated into a 2.0 Proposal 4.

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Please share nicely — From Database directive to Data (governance) acts

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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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Top 10 Posts on the Kluwer Copyright Blog in 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

A vanishing right? The Sui Generis Database Right and the proposed Data Act by Paul Keller. [T]he Garrix had entered into a record production contract with the label at a very young age. Having become a successful DJ and finding the terms of the contract unfair, Garrix sought annulment for a variety of legal reasons.

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The UK government moves forward with a text and data mining exception for all purposes

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The outcome of the consultation is supposed to inform the government with respect to a potential legislative reform of the UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA). Licensing will no longer be an issue and rightholders will not be able to opt-out or contract out of the exception.

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Are AI models’ weights protected databases?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

As the Court put it “ classification as a database is dependent, first of all, on the existence of a collection of ‘independent’ materials, that is to say, materials which are separable from one another without their informative, literary, artistic, musical or other value being affected.”(§29)