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Book review: Guidebook to Intellectual Property + discount code

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The fourth part explains copyright and related rights including performers rights and moral rights as well as confidential information. The fifth part is aptly titled ‘Miscellaneous Matters’ and covers an array of related issues including customs seizure, privacy, database rights, exhaustion of rights and competition law.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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.

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat the past 2 weeks!

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The author gave food for thought on the reproduction of works of art on book covers, on possible moral rights in the discussion, and on Walter Benjamin's notion of the "aura" of a work.

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A Closer Insight into Copyright related Issues in the Position Statement of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition on the Commission’s Proposal for a Data Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This post focuses on selected copyright and related rights matters that the Institute details in its Position Statement. The Data Act Proposal explicitly addresses the relationship between the new right to access and share IoT data and the sui generis database right provided for in Article 7 of Directive 96/9/EC.

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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

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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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Art. 17 DSM Directive: International Application in EU cross-border scenarios – Or: Why the EU needs a faithful implementation into national law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Article 17 Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (“DSM Directive”) is currently being implemented into national law in the EU Member States. There is some controversy as to how the right of communication to the public as mentioned in Art. Image of conolan on Pixabay.

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EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2023

Kluwer Copyright Blog

While sports events, as such, are not protected by copyright and related rights, the origanisers of these events may benefit from specific protection under national law. European Parliament, AI Act – negotiation position adopted On 14 June 2023, the European Pariament adopted its negotiating position on the AI Act.