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Report on a roundtable on academic publishing and genAI deals – GenAI and copyright series at the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In order to engage in text and data-mining (TDM) some tech companies are reported to have approached different publishers , hoping to secure access to their catalogues on reasonable terms. Old contracts many of the contracts that were signed by authors and academics pre-date the LLM/genAI era. One such theme is attribution.

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US Copyright Office advises not to introduce ancillary copyright protection for press publishers in the US

The IPKat

In 2019, the EU legislature introduced an EU-wide related right (Article 15 of the DSM Directive , on which see Katposts here ) for EU-based press publishers in relation to online uses of their press publications by information society service providers, including news aggregation services, social media, and search engines.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq. 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.

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EU copyright law round up – fourth trimester of 2021

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This becomes quite evident when one looks at the number of institutional policy reports that have been issued in the past three months. European Parliament, Report on the situation of artists and cultural recovery in the EU. See Communia’s report of the initial meeting here. We reported on this here. CJEU judgments.

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France Mulls Instant IPTV Blocks, €750K Fines & New Piracy Crime of ‘Incitement’

TorrentFreak

It has been unable to secure a long-term broadcasting contract to guarantee its financial stability. “The proliferation of matches and competition from other audiovisual content, both sporting and non-sporting, creates an overabundance of content that challenges the balance of the football audiovisual exploitation rights market.”

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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

However, de facto they merely owned proof of ownership without any proprietary value, as all copyright and any related rights were retained and not granted upon purchase. Copyright that is transferred upon selling an NFT may explicitly be outlined in the self-executing smart contract governing the sale. Valid Transfer of Rights?

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Top 10 Posts on the Kluwer Copyright Blog in 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 – A step towards “factfulness” by Jan Bernd Nordemann. At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. In any case, this first YouTube Report is indeed a promising start (Paul Keller, op cit.), Factfulness, p.