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Book review: Guidebook to Intellectual Property + discount code

The IPKat

This is a review of Guidebook to Intellectual Property (seventh edition) authored by Sir Robin Jacob (8 New Square and UCL, Matthew Fisher (UCL) and Lynne Chave (UCL). A discount for IPkat readers has kindly been provided by the publisher, please see below for the code.

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Opinion of the European Copyright Society on selected aspects of the proposed Data Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The revision of the Database Directive that is included in the Data Act does not address the status of public sector data nor does it enable access and use of data for research, but it should. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. by Jan Bernd Nordemann, Christian Czychowski. €

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EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2023

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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. More from our authors: Guide to EU and UK Pharmaceutical Regulatory Law, Eighth Edition by Sally Shorthose € 265

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A vanishing right? The Sui Generis Database Right and the proposed Data Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

But for anyone who had expected the Data Act to include a revision of the Database Directive — an ambition that the Commission had signalled in both the 2020 Data Strategy and the 2020 Intellectual Property Action Plan — the final proposal will be a major disappointment. A right that shall not be exercised.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The Publishers argue that this infringes their exclusive rights to reproduction and to making available their work to the public. At its core, this dispute is about whether HowardsHome’s alert service infringes the Publishers’ press publishers right, copyright and database rights.

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[Book Review] 25 things you should know about artificial intelligence, art and copyright

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Now in its second edition, the book offers a primer on copyright-related challenges that artificial intelligence (AI) presents. For instance, he reviews the UK system of protection for computer-generated works and the EU sui generis database right. This might slow down the development of this market in Europe.

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