Kluwer Copyright Blog
MARCH 4, 2022
Last week the European Commission published its proposal for a Data Act. 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.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JANUARY 16, 2025
The plaintiffs are the Belgian media companies DPG Media and Mediahuis (both dominant in the Dutch online commercial news sector with a combined market share of over 90% ), together with Mediahuis Dutch newspaper NRC (together: the Publishers). Facts The Publishers offer national and regional dailies that also include websites.
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The IPKat
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
In any event, it is important to distinguish between the ability for an owner of a large collection of copyright protected works, such as a newspaper publisher, to enter a copyright licence with AI developers in relation to a collection of works and their ability to licence personal data within that collection.
The IPKat
JANUARY 30, 2022
The IPKat has published several posts over the past two weeks! COPYRIGHT Katfriend Moritz Sutterer posted on a new competition tool that the German Competition Authority recently tried out against Google in relation to press publishers' neighbouring right.
The IPKat
MARCH 18, 2023
A discount for IPkat readers has kindly been provided by the publisher, please see below for the code. The fourth part explains copyright and related rights including performers rights and moral rights as well as confidential information. It provides an outline of the basic legal principles and how the IP system works.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
AUGUST 18, 2021
For public sector bodies — producers and holders of vast quantities of data — as well as for the companies that act as suppliers, the sui generis database right has been slowly eroded since 2003. because there is no public access regime that applies, or because third parties own intellectual property rights.
The IPKat
MARCH 6, 2022
In February, the Commission published its proposal for a " Data Act ", which in principle aims to revise the legal framework of Directive 96/9/EC. COPYRIGHT Networked and interoperable devices have proliferated over the past two decades, and the advent of cloud services has created a standard for data sharing.
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