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Welcome to the third trimester of the 2022 round up of EU copyrightlaw! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyrightlaw. This is a preliminary reference from the Portuguese Supereme Court, which interprets the notion of “cable restransimission”.
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The relevant act, seeking to bring Ireland in line with the Directive, is the Statutory Instrument 567/2021 ‘European Union (Copyright and RelatedRights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021’ (hereinafter ‘ the Regulations’ ). The Irish legislative transposition finally became law on 19 November 2021.
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The Polish Ministry of Culture has announced draft changes to the Polish copyrightlaw on the collection and division of the private copying levy (also known as the blank media tax or levy). In Part I of this set of posts, I describe draft changes to the Polish copyrightlaw on the collection and division of the private copying levy.
Photo by Chris Spiegl on Unsplash The EU laws on digital services ( Digital Services Act – DSA ) and artificial intelligence (AI Act, cited here according to EP document P9_TA(2024)0138 of 13 March 2024) are intended to ensure safety and trustworthiness on the Internet and in dealing with AI. 34 and 35 DSA). According to Art.
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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. ” The composer of a musical composition is the exclusive owner of the work’s copyright. Image Source: Shutterstock].
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When the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) issued its fourth ruling in the “Metall auf Metall” copyright sampling case in April 2020, it seemed that the dispute would finally reach the top of the hill (see here ). In 2019, the CJEU clarified that the exclusive right of the phonogram producer under Art. 5 InfoSoc Directive.
The Polish Ministry of Culture has announced draft changes to the Polish copyrightlaw on the collection and division of the private copying levy. The draft law on the rights of professional artists will significantly change how the private copying levy system has been functioning in Poland so far. ↑ 1 [link].
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Would they be infringing your copyright though? Is the output infringing copyright? From a copyrightlaw perspective, the initial use of copyright works by the platform for machine learning is infringing unless the platform used licensed or out-of-copyright works or could rely on a copyright defence, such as use for research purposes.
The plaintiff, a leading multinational software manufacturer, owned the rights to exploit the programs. The Court made specific reference to certain European Court of Justice decisions in this respect. (3) The Court held that this applies regardless of the existence of contractual clauses that prohibit further transfer.
This said, the Directive is technologically agnostic, as it does not refer to any specific filtering technology. Such acknowledgement, continued the AG, would reflect CJEU case law itself. Automatic content recognition (ACR) tools are based on different techniques, inter alia including hashing, watermarking and fingerprinting.
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4996/2022 in November 2022 ( ΦΕΚ Α´ 2022/24.11.2022 ), which amended the basic Greek CopyrightLaw ( L. 2121/1993 on “Copyright, RelatedRights and Cultural Matters” ), as well as L. 4481/2017, on “Collective Management of Copyright and RelatedRights” ( ΦΕΚ Α’ 100/20.7.2017 ).
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It will then explain why this implementation approach runs counter to the fundamental freedom of information and to basic principles of copyrightlaw. First, limiting the reach of the VSE carve-out opens the door to the inclusion of facts and news of the day in the scope of the press publishers’ right.
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For example, reference is made to Directive 2000/31/EC (Directive on electronic commerce), which provides that service providers must act immediately to remove the illegal information stored or disable access to it as soon as they receive notice of the illegal nature of the same, according to the “notice and take down” mechanism.
This approach, referred to as “private ordering” or “self-regulation”, has been reflected in several EU Directives, and has long provided a useful workaround for governments by empowering industry actors to design and implement their own rules and methods of enforcement (given that they comply with existing law).
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