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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

For example, a vocal recording in a musical performance is likely to be protected under copyright law and constitute personal data. Similarly, this blog post is protected as a literary work under copyright law, but also contains personal data about us as its authors, including for example our names and where we work.

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A Big Win for Dalit Researchers: Implications for IP

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Is there a sui generis protection for computer databases? ( see definition of computer database) Unlike Europe, India does not have sui generis database rights. 2(o) of the Copyright Act provides that literary work includestables and compilation including acomputer database. However, sec.

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Book review: Guidebook to Intellectual Property + discount code

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As someone who has also authored a practical guide ( Copyright in the Music Industry ) that is aimed at a novice audience, this Kat must stress the intended audience of the book and, as such, the lack of references and appendices of legal texts.

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Top 10 Posts on the Kluwer Copyright Blog in 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., A vanishing right? The Sui Generis Database Right and the proposed Data Act by Paul Keller. [T]he AI Music Outputs: Challenges to the Copyright Legal Framework – Part I by Oleksandr Bulayenko , João Pedro Quintais , Joost Poort and Daniel Gervais. Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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The UK government moves forward with a text and data mining exception for all purposes

Kluwer Copyright Blog

On 28 June 2022, the government published both the responses by the 61 participants (among which trade associations in the publishing, technology, and music industries, academics, libraries, and cross-sector bodies) together with its own position as far as legislative changes and next steps are concerned. All-purpose TDM.

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Are AI models’ weights protected databases?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The s ui generis right is granted (only) to EU-based companies and individuals (Article 11) that make a substantial investment in either the obtaining, verification or presentation of the contents of the database. If model weights qualify as a database, what then?

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

The authors look at the issue from the perspective of US and EU approaches to database protection. Their analysis is especially relevant in light of the criticism of the EU sui generis database rights and recent plans to revisit the EU Database Directive.