Kluwer Copyright Blog
MARCH 4, 2022
The proposal is the second major element of the European Data Strategy presented in 2020 and complements the Data Governance Act that is expected to be formally adopted this spring. In the impact assessment report this intervention is now described as a targeted review of the Database Right. A right that shall not be exercised.
The IPKat
JANUARY 17, 2022
In a recent case before the Dutch (district) court of Midden-Nederland, the question arose whether database rights can be invoked to prevent third parties reusing and offering data retrieved from the national company register. For those Kats accessing a company register frequently, the decision is certainly worth the read.
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The IPKat
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
by Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Sam Berriman IPKat-approved scraping As regular readers of the IPKat will be aware, the UK government is currently undertaking a consultation on AI and copyright , previously covered here and here. What does this mean for the AI and copyright consultation?
Kluwer Copyright Blog
AUGUST 24, 2022
The outcome of the consultation is supposed to inform the government with respect to a potential legislative reform of the UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA). With respect to the CGW provision the government has decided to make no changes to the law. The consultation closed in the beginning of January 2022.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
AUGUST 18, 2021
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. Stage II: The Data Governance Act. But the Data governance act would do more. 1(6) Open data directive).
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JANUARY 16, 2025
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.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JUNE 21, 2021
Although this decision only concerns the “re-utilization” of databases protected by the sui generis right (related right) of the EU Database Directive 96/9, there are strong arguments that the decision also applies to Art. 3 InfoSoc Directive as a conflict of law rule governing its international application.
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