Copyright Law Database Right Licensing 
The IPKat
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Equally, a significant portion of online material is also likely to contain personal data, and there is likely to be a significant overlap in relation to specific pieces of content which are protected by both copyright law and by data protection law.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
AUGUST 24, 2022
In this respect, in order to carry out TDM for commercial purposes, which lie beyond the scope of the present UK exception, the consultation sought evidence on the available licensing models. Users reported mixed experiences with licensing. It is especially interesting to contrast the UK proposed approach with current EU law.
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Kluwer Copyright Blog
AUGUST 18, 2021
For public sector bodies — producers and holders of vast quantities of data — as well as for the companies that act as suppliers, the sui generis database right has been slowly eroded since 2003. So effectively, the 2013 directive already curtailed public sector bodies’ copyright and sui generis rights in data.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JULY 14, 2023
In a policy paper , copyright and art-law experts led by the author clarified the general copyright law principles applicable to stakeholders dealing with digital cultural heritage worldwide and formulated recommendations, addressed to policy-makers, to facilitate their digital activities. Proposal 3. Proposal 4.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2021
This is pertinent from a copyright perspective because the regime of protection granted by copyright will be different depending on whether the ML model qualifies as a computer program, as a mathematical method, or as another type of work. Additionally, all proprietary and open source software licensing rely on copyright protection.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JANUARY 17, 2024
For these reasons, authors such as Hao-Yun Chen , Peter Slowinski , and Begoña Gonzalez Otero seem to reject the protection of models under copyright law. However, in the EU there is another strong candidate for protecting model weights: the sui generis protection for databases established in Directive 96/9.
The IPKat
DECEMBER 20, 2024
The last source, scraping internet data, has been the most controversial so far and given rise to concerns from both intellectual property and data protection perspectives, and nascent litigation in various jurisdictions when the scraping has been done without permission of the copyright/database right holders.
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