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[Guest post] New Ukrainian Law on Copyright and Related Rights

The IPKat

Here's what Kateryna and Liubov write : New Ukrainian Law on Copyright and Related Rights by Kateryna Militsyna and Liubov Maidanyk Last year, the Ukrainian copyright reform got on its fast track. In July the Ukrainian parliament approved one of the legislative proposals on copyright and related rights as a basis.

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Book review: Performers' Rights

The IPKat

This is a review of Performer's Rights by the Rt Hon Sir Richard Arnold, Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. The book covers the rights of performers, particularly the rights conferred under Part II of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended).

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[Guest post] CJEU: New licensing rules for the provision of guest TVs in Germany?

The IPKat

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following contribution by former GuestKat Mirko Brüß (Brüß Law) analyzing two recent decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on the evergreen right of communication to the public. Here’s what he writes: CJEU: New licensing rules for the provision of guest TVs in Germany?

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France Mulls Instant IPTV Blocks, €750K Fines & New Piracy Crime of ‘Incitement’

TorrentFreak

The dispute still isn’t settled, but after DAZN reportedly paid an estimated 70 million in licensing fees owed for February alone, one aspect of the current crisis was at least kicked a little further down the road. The scope of potential punishments appears to leave prosecutors and the courts with plenty of room for maneuver.

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A summary look at the Portuguese transposition of the CDSM Directive

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Generally speaking, the approved transposition follows the text of the Directive rather closely, similarly to other delayed implementations such as the Irish one , without embracing a more “creative” legislative design, as has been the case for instance in Germany and Greece. 19 CDSM Directive. º-B and 74.º-D º-D of the Copyright Code.

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How artificial intelligence works in relation to copyright

The IPKat

Of course, this does not affect some restrictions on using someone's programs, but it is just a matter of choosing the proper license (e.g., In the interim, at least, related rights, trade secrets, or protection against unfair competition, might provide some helpful alternatives. [A Disco Diffusion under MIT and Apache 2.0 ).

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[Guest post] Litigation commenced against the developers of AI image generation software

The IPKat

The current generation of AI image generation tools such as Stable Diffusion , Midjourney and DALL·E 2 are designed to take a text description or prompt from a user and generate an image that matches the prompt. What is AI image generation software?