SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

In response to a series of unstarred questions regarding copyright infringement by generative AI, directed towards the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Shri. Whether the government plans to amend the Copyright Act of 1957 to update copyright laws to cover AI-generated content.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 2, 2023

D Bansal, alleged that the novelization of the screenplay and the publication of the novel is in violation of the plaintiff’s copyright as per Section 51 of the Copyright Act. The First Owner of the Copyright of a Screenplay in a Film – the Author or the Producer?

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azrights

AUGUST 11, 2022

As AI platforms like Midjourney , or Dall-E2 are widely adopted the question that is increasingly being asked is about the copyright position. It’s possible to create striking artistic images, music, poems and the like using Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms so people naturally wonder who owns the rights in the output?

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 12, 2022

Published in late 2021, Dr R.V.Vaidyanatha Ayyar’s 421 paged “ Present at Creation: The Making of Internet Treaties 1996 ” is perhaps the first book that focuses on the negotiating history of the two 1996 Internet Treaties – the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT).

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The IPKat

AUGUST 1, 2021

After legal analysis, the referring court indicated that it is inclined to find in favor of the copyright holder on both questions (ie, that the operation of the online video recorder constitutes a communication to the public and thus copyright infringement under the InfoSoc Directive). 2(a) and (e) and Art.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Welcome to the third trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. The AG suggests that the private copyright exception applies in the cloud, but a separate levy may not be payable. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 31, 2022

However, in this aspect, what needs to be duly noted is that staying on top of Copyright Laws , rules, and regulations on a content-rich internet can be challenging. However, it is undoubtedly imperative for online content creators to know the ABCs of copyright terminology for safeguarding their unique content.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

These classifications are then used, among other things, to establish what business licensing is necessary for a given industry. Under the Indonesian regulatory regime, ESPs are subject to various requirements and obligations related to, among other things, the. cross-border transfer of personal data. electronic data deletion.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

6-7 April 2023: “From the DMCA to the DSA: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Online Platform Liability and Copyright Law” The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology will hold its 27th annual symposium, on 6 and 7 April 2023, at the International House, UC Berkeley. Click here and here to know more. Click here to know more. More information here.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The first 2 posts covered copyright and trade marks. Also in January in Kenya, a call for public participation on the Draft Copyright Tribunal (Procedure) Regulations , 2022 was issued, allowing the public to review and comment. 102, outline the criteria for Collective Management Organizations to determine license fees for music usage.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2022

In order to carry out this activity, company A signed contracts with certain suppliers from which it acquired all of the copyrights and related rights regarding the specific musical repertoire. For more information on the collective management of copyright and neighbouring rights in Greece, click here.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

EUI - Florence Patent Licensing Academy - 3 to 6 October 2022 - Florence, Italy and online The Florence Patent Licensing Academy is organised by the Florence Competition Programme and the Florence School of Regulation – Communications and Media of the European University Institute. For more information and to register, click here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

Copyright: WIPO. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. of the draft allows a contracting Party to limit the rights of a broadcasting organization from another contracting party, when that contracting party provides fewer rights.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 4, 2022

It was formed following a state license, in order to collect, among other things, the equitable remuneration provided by article 49 of Law 2121/93 in favour of producers, performers, and musicians for the public performance of legitimately released sound carriers. The direct licensing of in-store music was not covered by the agreement.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On 29 October 2021, the UK Intellectual Property Office launched a public consultation looking at how the copyright and patent regimes should deal with artificial intelligence. That call concerned patents, copyright and related rights, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. Photo by Rock’n Roll Monkey on Unsplash.

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The IPKat

MAY 22, 2023

This post is brought to you by Oprah Nwobike , who is a lawyer and doctoral researcher at Brunel University London focusing on copyright and artificial intelligence in the music industry, under the supervision of IPKat's Dr Hayleigh Bosher. This has become a lingering question in the minds of consumers of online content.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

Running from 29 October 2021 to 7 January 2022, the “ Artificial Intelligence and IP: copyright and patents ” consultation formed the latest round in an ongoing national conversation between the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) and interested stakeholders (see here ). Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash. or should they go?

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In the quaint days of 2019, when the EU issued its Digital Single Market Copyright Directive (DSM) , much attention was focused on issues such as a news publishers’ right and the obligations of platforms to take down infringing materials. Is a copyright notice sufficient? What about the words “all rights reserved?”

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 28, 2023

The Court’s decision arose in the context of injunction proceedings relating to the defendants’ unauthorised use of software programs. The plaintiff, a leading multinational software manufacturer, owned the rights to exploit the programs.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

According to article 107 CCH “ The Ministry, the Regions and other territorial government bodies may permit the reproduction as well as the instrumental and temporary use of the cultural properties committed to their care, without prejudice to the provisions in paragraph 2 and those with regard to copyright”. This is exactly the case here.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Introduction This case (1) concerned a collective management organisation’s (CMO’s) application for the temporary determination of related and neighbouring rights and copyrights. This was for equitable remuneration for public reproduction of intellectual works by catering businesses (ie, coffee shops).

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IP Whiteboard

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The consultation covers five key areas of IP – patents, copyright, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. Copyright and related rights. copyright protection for AI software. for training AI) or increased facilitation of licensing. for training AI) or increased facilitation of licensing.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 7, 2025

The following is an excerpt from the article The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs, authored by Daniel Gervais (Milton R. The full article can be read in the Journal of the Copyright Society. 1 Where does the law come down on the creation of LLMs, both in the input and output of existing copyrighted materials?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq. German copyright law stipulates that the author is entitled to appropriate remuneration for every use of their work (Section 32 UrhG). Claims under copyright law. Protection of technical measures (Section 95a UrhG).

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The IPKat

JANUARY 24, 2023

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following legislative update on the new Ukrainian Copyright Law from Kateryna Militsyna and Liubov Maidanyk (both Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv). In July the Ukrainian parliament approved one of the legislative proposals on copyright and related rights as a basis.

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The IPKat

JULY 15, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following contribution by former GuestKat Mirko Brüß (Brüß Law) analyzing two recent decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on the evergreen right of communication to the public. Here’s what he writes: CJEU: New licensing rules for the provision of guest TVs in Germany?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This post looks back at the key developments in AI and copyright in 2022, covering generative AI, text and data mining exceptions, the pastiche exception, deep fakes, voice cloning and infringement and enforcement of copyright using AI. Very few jurisdictions expressly provide for copyright in computer-generated works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In the complicated landscape of genAI and copyright law, several different themes have emerged as particularly thorny and triggering the interests of different stakeholders. The roundtable is part of IBILs series on genAI and copyright. In copyright law terms, very often that data could correspond to individual human expression.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Within days, stock image supplier Getty Images announced that it was one of the “folks” who disagreed – and disagreed so strongly that it had commenced legal proceedings in the High Court in London alleging copyright infringement. This litigation has arisen amongst a flurry of recent interest in AI generated works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

In addition to significantly changing the Portuguese Copyright Code , the Decree-Law also affects Law 26/2015 on collective management organizations and Decree-Law 122/2000 on databases, and creates a new dispute resolution mechanism called “specialized institutionalized arbitration and mediation in matters of copyright and related rights”.

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Garrigues Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The long-awaited Portuguese transposition of the new Copyright Directive has finally been completed with the publication and entry into force of Decree-Law no. The CDADC imposes criminal penalties in cases of infringement, and disputes related to copyrights and neighboring rights are subject, in some cases, to mandatory arbitration.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Yet the Croatian legislator caters to the printed press thrice in its ‘new and better version’ of the Croatian Copyright Act (CCA). Works of authorship are protected through economic and moral rights afforded to the copyright holder. Nevertheless, a more precise characterisation is that this is a new related right.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The relevant act, seeking to bring Ireland in line with the Directive, is the Statutory Instrument 567/2021 ‘European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021’ (hereinafter ‘ the Regulations’ ). The Irish legislative transposition finally became law on 19 November 2021. Section 53A).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Those versed in the intersection between IP rights and technology know that computer programs protection has always caused inevitable frictions IP law. Additionally, all proprietary and open source software licensing rely on copyright protection. ML models are learners that generate an output by making inferences from data.

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The IPKat

MAY 22, 2022

26 May 2022 | 18:15 (BST) | BLACA | Seminar: “ Time for a new Copyright Act? ” (in-person) The British Literary & Artistic Copyright Association, BLACA, is organising an event on whether the United Kingdom needs a new copyright Act. It's getting hot out there! Picture by idea-saras. The appointment will be on UCL Grade 8.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Article 18 of the CDSM provides that where authors license or transfer their exclusive rights for the exploitation of their works, they are ‘ entitled to receive appropriate and proportionate remuneration ’. Remuneration of authors under French copyright law before the 2021 Order.

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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2023

The IPKat has received and is happy to host this guest contribution by Deborah De Angelis (Studio Legale DDA) on the highly publicized halted licensing negotiations between Italian collecting society SIAE and Meta regarding the availability of the music repertoire administered by the former on the latter’s services. 17 (4), a). 17 (4), a).

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