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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The underlying claim concerned the alleged infringement of database rights and copyright in various aspects of the Bitcoin System. Dr Wright claims to own database rights in various iterations of the Bitcoin Blockchain and literary copyright in the White Paper and in what is referred to in the claim as the “Bitcoin File Format”.

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Please share nicely — From Database directive to Data (governance) acts

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The consultation document restates the fundamental right to intellectual property as the fundamental principle of ‘protection of the intellectual creations of individuals in the online space’ but is otherwise silent on IP. What ideas the Commission has with respect to the Database directive is difficult to gauge from the consultation.

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The German LAION decision: A problematic understanding of the scope of the TDM copyright exceptions and the transition from TDM to AI training

The IPKat

The scope of TDM exceptions: extraction and reproduction Like the corresponding EU provisions, the German sections considered by the court are exceptions to specified restricted acts under copyright and other rights: Like Art. As also discussed in greater detail in this research article here (at p.

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EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2023

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The document is available on the institution’s internal system. On the copyright side, it stresses that some of the sources used to research the sector may be subject to copyright and database rights and as such it warns against infringement with an important focus on exceptions.

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EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

European Commission, Staff Working Document on the Portability Regulation. As for the text and data mining exception, the government has decided to introduce a new copyright and database right exception which allows text and data mining for any purpose. Read more here. With respect to the UK computer-generated provision under s.9(3)