Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

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).

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2024

Police say Huy and Nhan were tasked with downloading, editing and distributing movies, but offered no specific details in relation to that work. Images of all three men have since been published online, but the main focus is on alleged ringleader, Phan Ngoc Tuan.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Of the total domains affected by the deletions, around 20% of the domains were found to carry more than 100 links to unlicensed copies of movies and TV shows. For context, over the three years that the memorandum has been in action, more than 31 million links to pirated content have been carried out using the automated takedown system.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Favouring the press publishers. This prompted some commentators to label this new addition a quasi-moral right – since there is no work of authorship to which the new moral right is attached. Nevertheless, a more precise characterisation is that this is a new related right.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Much has been said about the press publishers’ right, introduced by Article 15 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM). An important but relatively neglected flaw is its silence on the features of the licensing mechanism that Member States may and shall adopt for the management of the press publishers’ right.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 7, 2025

8 The company may not have the bandwidth to engage in additional negotiations, while the publishers of the various scholarly journals would similarly be interested in licensing but would prefer to rely on a more streamlined approach. See Daniel Gervais, Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights Ch. Intellectual Prop.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It is thus clear that TDM does matter - but what should its relationship with copyright and related rights be? Recital 8 acknowledges, on the one hand, the value and potential of TDM but, on the other hand, notes the restrictions that copyright and related rights pose to the doing of TDM activities without a licence.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As reported in February 2022, notices published on the Lumen Database referenced well over one hundred pirate sites, all of which had been previously blocked for copyright infringement under the orders of the High Court in London. Voluntary Deindexing Confirmed Elsewhere in Europe.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Much has been said about the press publishers’ right, introduced by Article 15 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM). An important but relatively neglected flaw is its silence on the features of the licensing mechanism that Member States may and shall adopt for the management of the press publishers’ right.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

The belated Portuguese transposition of the CDSM Directive was finally published in the Portuguese Official Journal (Diário da República) on the 19th of June 2023. The law is silent regarding the possibility of transferring and waiving this right, which suggests such possibilities to be lawful. Museu do Azulejo by G.P.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and related rights and access to and reuse of scientific publications, including open access. The post is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Image by Mediamodifier from Pixabay.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

21, Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 ), New Zealand ( section 5(2)(a), Copyright Act 1994 ), South Africa (section 2(h), Copyright Act 1978 ) and the UK ( Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 9(3) ). We were not aware that the image may have been created by AI” 2.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 13, 2021

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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

In Gtflix , the CJEU held that when a claim relating to the dissemination of allegedly disparaging remarks on the internet is brought, the compensation for the resulting damage from that claim in one Member State may be sought before the courts of that same Member State. CJEU judgments and AG Opinions. Austro-Mechana, C-433/20.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The transformed state of music now also includes remixes which on a substantial purview might engage in conflict with the foundational legal rights of the music produced by the musician. Right to communicate the work to the public. Image Source: Shutterstock].

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This included the highly controversial Articles 15 and 17 on, respectively, the new press publishers’ right (PPR) and the new copyright liability scheme for “online content-sharing services providers” (OCSSPs). The post is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Article 15 CDSMD: the new press publishers’ right (PPR).

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The IPKat

JULY 20, 2023

On 13 July last, in fact, Advocate General (AG) Collins issued his Opinion in Seven.One , C-260/22 , and the Court published its judgment in Ocilion , C-426/21. What those references have in common is that both were made in the field of broadcasting and concern issues of private copying under Article 5(2)(b) of the InfoSoc Directive.

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The IPKat

APRIL 29, 2022

WIPO is gearing up for the 42nd session of its Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights and the Africa Group at WIPO has submitted a proposal for a Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions (L&Es). This is made worse by the difficulty in accessing funds to purchase licenses for online resources from publishers.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In other words: a copy-and-paste transposition of Article 17 is to be preferred to too a creative approach. In this post, I will summarize the content of my intervention, which concluded and recommended – along the lines of what I wrote here – a minimalistic approach to the transpositions of Article 17.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Most significantly, “the development of blockchain technology” has been accepted as a legal business activity by the Indonesian standard industrial business categorization code, which was published in 2020. They may file a claim for damages and/or for the cessation of all conduct relating to the use of said mark.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Some consider that the Government was influenced by the French union of book publishers Syndicat National de l’Edition – SNE when it decided to leave out the term ‘appropriate’ when transposing the principle of ‘ appropriate and proportionate remuneration ’ of articles 18 and 20 of the CDSM. and certain specific rules.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 28, 2023

As always, readers can vote for books in five categories: Patents, Copyright (including related rights and performers’ rights), Trade Marks (including Geographical Indications), Designs and Intellectual Property (any book that covers more than one type of IP). You can check out the previous nominees and winners here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This contribution is based on a paper published in 44 European Intellectual Property Law Review 595 (2022). . The threshold to meet these requirements is similar to the traditional common law «skill, labour and judgement» test, and is often met whenever the photograph was not copied and shows a modicum of technical skill.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2023

IPR Recordation was introduced through the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act of 2018 under Section 34B of the Anti-Counterfeit Act which requires all intellectual property rights relating to goods imported into Kenya to be recorded with the ACA. These tariffs, published in Kenya Gazette Supplement No.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Part 2 explores further exemptions for users of works, new aspects of the right of communication to the public and the press publishers’ right. However, the making of copies for the purposes of cataloguing, indexing or making available remains reserved, even after the reform has come into force, for non-commercial organisations.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This included the highly controversial Articles 15 and 17 on, respectively, the new press publishers’ right (PPR) and the new copyright liability scheme for OCSSPs (“online content-sharing services providers”). The post is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Subject matter and right-holders.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

While sports events, as such, are not protected by copyright and related rights, the origanisers of these events may benefit from specific protection under national law. The next step in the legislative process are the trilogue meetings between the Commission, the European Parliament and the Council to agree on a final text.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 28, 2023

Accordingly, the Court held that the holder of the IP right to a computer program cannot object to the resale of a copy thereof where such a copy is accompanied by a licence for unlimited use, whether material or immaterial. This article was originally edited by, and first published on, www.lexology.com. 2916/2022. (2)

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This eagerly awaited AG Opinion was published on 15 July 2021. 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. This seems to have pushed some EU Member States towards compliance, as at the end of September Portugal became the latest country to publish a national transposition proposal for the Directive.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq. In this context, the BGH issued a decision in 2014 in relation to the games console, Nintendo DS.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

The introduction of Law 4481/2017 into the Greek legislation aimed to regulate the collective management of IP and relative rights, thus amending the EU Collective Rights Management Directive. (1) This article was originally edited by, and first published on, www.lexology.com.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 30, 2023

Copies of emails between the parties provided to the Court proved that opinions had been exchanged before the composition of the products was finalised. Compensation presupposes culpability and infringement of IP (or related rights) (i.e., This article was originally edited by, and first published on, www.lexology.com.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The claimant had duly published a fee schedule for businesses who may have wished to use the musical works (such as cafes, restaurants, coffee shops, refreshment rooms, fast-food restaurants, coffee-patisseries, internet cafes, etc).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

20 years later, Pelham composed (together with a second defendant), produced and released the hip-hop rap song “Nur mir”, which is underlain by a continuous loop of a two-second rhythmic sequence of metallic drum sounds that had been electronically copied from the “Metall auf Metall” phonogram.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Statement of case should include details of successful enforcement of the trademark-related Evidence supporting the applicant’s rights and Details of successful enforcement of the trademark-related rights – specifically to the extent that it has been recognized as a well-known trademark by a Court in India or Registrar of Trademarks.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

NATURE OF THE CASE The above decisions dealt with requests for a preliminary ruling related to the interpretation of Article 3 of Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We are happy to announce that going forward we will be publishing an annual review of the case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof, authored by Jan Bernd Nordemnann (NORDEMANN law firm). This first part covers the definition of a work, authorship and moral rights. Germany has always had an extensive judicial practice in copyright law.

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