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[Guest post] The UK’s AI and copyright consultation – will data protection law render any commercial TDM exception ineffective?

The IPKat

Heres what they write: The UKs AI and copyright consultation will data protection law render any commercial TDM exception ineffective? For example, a vocal recording in a musical performance is likely to be protected under copyright law and constitute personal data. What does this mean for the AI and copyright consultation?

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat the past 2 weeks!

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COPYRIGHT Katfriend Moritz Sutterer posted on a new competition tool that the German Competition Authority recently tried out against Google in relation to press publishers' neighbouring right. Reminder: last call to vote for your best IP book of 2021 by participating in the poll here !

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Copyright Protection For Databases In India

IP and Legal Filings

In the Indian scenario, protection: India does not have a separate database protection law as the European Union does. Sui generis protection does not exist in India because the government believes that the Copyright Act’s current level of protection is adequate and that a need for further protection has not yet arisen.

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Art. 17 DSM Directive: International Application in EU cross-border scenarios – Or: Why the EU needs a faithful implementation into national law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Article 17 Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (“DSM Directive”) is currently being implemented into national law in the EU Member States. There is some controversy as to how the right of communication to the public as mentioned in Art. Image of conolan on Pixabay.

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Digital collections from GLAM institutions: Policy Paper

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Context Copyright can be challenging for cultural institutions (or “GLAM“ for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) when pursuing digitization and dissemination activities, as copyright governs whether a given work can be used and if so, how (as shown in recent studies for museums , archives or libraries ). Proposal 1.

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Copyright in the Bitcoin File Format: a question of content over structure

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Summary In the case of Wright & Ors v BTC Core & Ors [2023] EWHC 222 the High Court was faced with a technical copyright question about whether literary copyright can subsist in the file format used for the Bitcoin System (the “ Bitcoin File Format ”). 3(2) Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (the “ Act ”).

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DPG Media et al vs. HowardsHome – A national ruling on DSM’s press publishers’ rights and TDM exceptions

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Photo by Matt Popovich on Unsplash Introduction The 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive is a complex legislative text that raises several questions of legal interpretation. The Publishers argue that this infringes their exclusive rights to reproduction and to making available their work to the public.