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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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Are AI models’ weights protected databases?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Of course, it’s possible to argue that there is not an inherent limitation on the kinds of expressions of computer programs (after all, a text in an invented language [but not the language itself ] can still be protected by copyright) and that compiled code is numerical (binary code), rather than textual, also unreadable by humans.

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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). Ownership for patent inventions. Licensing will no longer be an issue and rightholders will not be able to opt-out or contract out of the exception.