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ORIGINALITY IN DATABASE: UNDERSTANDING COPYRIGHT THRESHOLDS

Intepat

While the raw data within a database may not be eligible for copyright protection, the originality involved in selecting, organizing, or arranging the data can bring a database under the scope of copyright law. This raises critical questions: What qualifies as originality in the context of database protection?

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MYTH VS. REALITY: CAN YOU PATENT AN IDEA?

Intepat

MYTH 5: IT’S FREE TO USE IF IT IS ON THE INTERNET Anything available online is not free for public use. Copyright law protects most of the content that is available online, and therefore if the protected content is used without permission, it leads to copyright infringement.

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Implementing Article 15 of the CDSMD into the Greek legal order: “creative” or further confirmation of the EU press market’s fragmentation?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

4996/2022 in November 2022 ( ΦΕΚ Α´ 2022/24.11.2022 ), which amended the basic Greek Copyright Law ( L. 2121/1993 on “Copyright, Related Rights and Cultural Matters” ), as well as L. 4481/2017, on “Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights” ( ΦΕΚ Α’ 100/20.7.2017 ).

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Best practices to avoid copyright infringement

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

There’s a significant probability that someone already owns the rights to the content even if you cannot locate an explicit declaration stating that it is intended for public use. It would be preferable to obtain written authorization from the copyright owners before using the original content.

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Data science needs law: reflections on the experiences of data scientists working in Africa

The IPKat

In this regard, the role of legal frameworks such as copyright law, data protection laws and contract law in regulating and structuring data access is significant. A good number of funders in Africa require data scientists to license datasets using Creative Commons (CC) licences.

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Their Copyrights Expired. The Legal Threats Keep Coming.

Copyright Lately

Between their public announcement at Angoulme and private correspondence with Duke, Tintinimaginatio and the Herg Foundation have doubled down on a campaign of misinformation aimed at deterring anyone who might seek to legally use the earliest works of the newly liberated character in the United States. copyright protection for Tintin.

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Federal Circuit Narrows Scope for Copyrighting Software Function

Patently-O

In that case, the Court found that Google’s use of Java API naming conventions in its Android operating system was fair use under copyright law. Because its fair use decision decided the case, the court did not rule separately on whether the API was even copyrightable in the first place.