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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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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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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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

is not sufficient and therefore is in breach of the law, and in a judgment of 30 November 1999, the same court ruled that a clause providing for 0% for the first 1,000 copies sold, 7% for the next 2,000 copies and 10% beyond 3,000 copies sold, was null. and certain specific rules. The implementation of the CDSM into French law.

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The IPKat

JULY 20, 2023

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. In this specific case, the question is whether broadcasters are entitled to fair compensation for private copying of fixations of their broadcasts.

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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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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

A digital asset that is held on a blockchain, such as music, art, in-game items, or films, is referred to as an NFT. They may file a claim for damages and/or for the cessation of all conduct relating to the use of said mark. Copyright: NFTs are closely related to artworks that are the subject to copyright and related rights protection.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

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.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Presently, a new reference from the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) asks the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for vital interpretive guidance concerning the parody exception within copyright law. In summary, parody, pastiche, and caricature all rely on imitation and copying as a means of generating new expressions.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As opposed to Article 15 CDSMD, Article 17 CDSMD does not introduce a new related right to EU copyright law. Instead, it expands the protections already afforded by copyright and related rights law. To the extent that such rights fall outside of the EU acquis such gold-plating is arguably unproblematic.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While “form” is less interesting for the purposes of this analysis, with regard to methods, Member States are presented with two important choices: a) between literal (“copy-out”) transposition and an “elaboration” on the rules set out in the directive; and. Most of the examined Member States have taken a copy-out approach to the exclusion.

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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. The Court made specific reference to certain European Court of Justice decisions in this respect. (3)

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Stichting Brein preliminary reference related to the liability of an operator of a platform for Usenet services for communication to the public, while the Puls 4 TV reference concerned the application of the hosting safe harbour to online video platforms. Austro-Mechana, AG Hogan, C-433/20. Coming soon and latest referrals.

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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. Articles 4(1) and (3) concern the individual powers of the author on moral rights and article 12(2) concerns the transfer of intellectual rights (property and moral).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

The reference in Section 60b(2) UrhG has been updated accordingly. Specifically, this means that acts of reproduction for the purposes of preserving copies of works within the scope of Sections 60e, 60f, 60h UrhG may, from now on, also be made by commercial organisations in the field of cultural heritage.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 31, 2022

When you enforce your copyright, you enforce your copyright-related rights, which fall under Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). Do you think about the fight between musicians concerning stolen or copied song lyrics? It involves their exclusive right to control and make copies of their creative works.

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azrights

AUGUST 11, 2022

If each output is unique and another user gets a different output even if their query is identical to yours, it means someone else could only use the same visual images as you by copying yours. Would they be infringing your copyright though? Is the output infringing copyright? Copyright position.

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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. By judgment of 8 April 2019, the UCMR – ADA’s action was upheld.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

But on 14 September 2023, the case was not only back at the BGH, but also referred to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) – again. Assigned the case for the third time, the BGH then referred to the CJEU for a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of the relevant EU law ( BGH, 1.6.2017 – I ZR 115/16 ; commented here ).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

As readers know, many Member States missed the deadline, so in February 2023 the Commission referred 11 of them to the CJEU for failure to fully transpose the Directive. 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.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Aimed at ensuring remuneration for publishers when their publications are reused online by news aggregators, Article 15 grants press publishers the right of reproduction and the right of making available for online uses of their press publications by information society service providers.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Aimed at ensuring remuneration for publishers when their publications are reused online by news aggregators, Article 15 grants press publishers the right of reproduction and the right of making available for online uses of their press publications by information society service providers.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It does this by recognising performers’ and producers’ exclusive and absolute right, in some cases, (and in other cases a simple relative right to ask for an equitable remuneration) to allow or prohibit certain uses of their contributions.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Notably, the Supreme Court referred to the requirement that exceptions to copyright be (i) strictly interpreted and (ii) construed in light of the three-step test (Article 5(5) InfoSoc Directive). In so doing, the Austrian Supreme Court also dismissed the request that the case be referred to the CJEU.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

Therefore, a copy-paste implementation of the provision during the implementation process is simply not an option if no additional guidelines are provided on how the safeguards can be made operational in practice. This means that only obviously unlawful uploads are subject to a preventive filtering obligation for OCSSPs.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This first part covers the definition of a work, authorship and moral rights. Parts 2 to 4 will address exploitation rights, related rights, exceptions and limitations, copyright contract law and enforcement. Germany has always had an extensive judicial practice in copyright law.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 27, 2025

Case C-840/24 concerns the distribution, by collective management organisations (CMOs), of proceeds from private copying and lending rights. The request asks whether publishers may benefit from a fund, run by a CMO and funded through compensation for private copying exception and public lending rights.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 20, 2025

Mostly intermittent action continued until 2021 when EDPPI (the Committee for the Notification of Copyright and Related Rights Infringement on the Internet) was handed responsibility for tackling illicit broadcasts of live sporting events. For scale, a 256GB thumb drive can hold around 83,333 320kbps MP3 files.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

The new copyright law, the amended Polish Copyright and Related Rights Act of 1994, entered into force in the early autumn of 2024. In February 2023, the European Commission referred 11 Member States , including Poland , to the CJEU for failure to implement the Directive on time.

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

7 When copyrighted works are used, AI systems typically make copies of the works to train and power AI outputs. 9 The reproduction right essentially gives copyright owners the exclusive right to make copies of their work or to authorize others to do so. Ginsburg & R. Dreyfuss eds., ↩︎ See Grokster, 545 U.S.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 30, 2024

The Council of State referred the matter to the Constitutional Council, which in turn referred questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for interpretation under EU law. EU member states may not pass national laws that allow for the general and indiscriminate retention of traffic and location data.

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