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‘Copying into Copyright Law’: Ireland’s minimalist transposition of Directive 2019/790

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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Comparative Report on the National Implementations of Articles 15 & 17 CDSMD – 14 New Countries

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Belgium and Croatia , like France and Hungary before them, offer no explicit protection for the holders of related rights over subject matter incorporated in press publications. The Czech Republic and Croatia provide no protection from the press publishers’ right for works or other subject matter for which protection has expired.

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Hope For Hollywood? Vietnam Police Raid Movie Piracy Group, Three Arrested

TorrentFreak

Police say Huy and Nhan were tasked with downloading, editing and distributing movies, but offered no specific details in relation to that work. According to the authorities, the men never met in person, since all duties were assigned via Telegram.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 3 of 4: Related rights and exceptions and limitations

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Related rights. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights. This personal intellectual creation is lacking if the photographs in question are “mere reproductions of other photographs” in which an original has been merely reproduced (copied) as closely as possible.

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EU copyright law round up – fourth trimester of 2021

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This seems to have pushed EU Member States towards compliance – the latest examples here are the Irish European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021 (19 November), the Italian Decree (published on 27 November), and the Estonian Act implementing the Directive (8 December). Stay tuned!

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Establishment and operation of CMOs in Greece

LexBlog IP

Cost of rights management by CMOs. Law 4481/2017 also regulates the cost of rights management by CMOs, which must be reasonable. Also, article 18(3) of Law 4481/2017 states as follows: Management fees of the collective management organisation shall not exceed the justified and documented costs in managing copyright and related rights.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Specifically, a group called Spice DAO purchased an NFT displaying a copy of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ for $3 million, assuming it would grant them the ability to produce derivative works, such as an animated Dune series. It shows ‘the intent to sign’ and legally digitally captures the acceptance of a binding contract.