Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In a 2020 consultation , the government sought to broadly understand the implications of AI for IP. That call concerned patents, copyright and related rights, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. This is not the first time the UKIPO has engaged with a public call for views on the topic of AI and IP.

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The IPKat

MAY 22, 2023

With the sudden popularity and accessibility of AI systems such as Open AI’s ChatGPT, there has been a lot of attention regarding the regulation and governance of the industry. The use of AI technology to generate images or music and other creative works, has legal implications for copyright and related rights of creators and rightsholders.

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IP Whiteboard

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The consultation covers five key areas of IP – patents, copyright, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. Copyright and related rights. According to the UK IPO, AI cannot currently be recognised as the author or owner of a design because AI does not have legal personality. copyright protection for AI software.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Patent cases also involve aspects of secrecy—such as unpublished patent applications that might bear on validity and business strategy related to damages—but trade secret litigation goes to the very heart of the cause of action: that the information that was allegedly misappropriated was not known or readily ascertainable.

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The IPKat

JULY 15, 2024

Pestana, where it already held that Directive 93/83 only governs the exercise of the cable retransmission right in the relationship between copyright owners and holders of related rights, on the one hand, and ‘cable operators’ or ‘cable distributors’, on the other, and that these concepts designate the operators of traditional cable networks.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

There is a significant push at this week’s meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights to approve a Diplomatic Conference on a Broadcasting Organizations Treaty that is not strictly limited to combating unlawful interception of traditional broadcast signals.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Under German law, there are no special rules governing liability in cases of intellectual property rights infringements. The plaintiff in “ uploaded II ” was a scientific publisher that held exclusive rights of making available to the public in medical books.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

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?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

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. Articles 36.º-A º-A and 36.º-B

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IIPRD

JUNE 24, 2024

As states attempt to protect and capitalize on the fruits of human ingenuity, deciphering the complex web of international treaties and accords governing intellectual property rights have become critical. The “WIPO Copyright Treaty” incorporates the “exclusive rights of authorizing the reproduction”. [9]

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azrights

AUGUST 11, 2022

Section 178 Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA) introduced this law in 1980s. The CDPA designates the author of such a work as “the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the work are undertaken” (s9(3) CDPA). Most of these computer-generated works are protected by copyright in the UK.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Regarding the IPR matters, Cambodia has issued the following legal documents: • Law concerning Marks, Trade Name and Acts of Unfair Competition dated January 8, 2002; • Law on Patents, Utility Model Certificates and Industrial Designs, in force since January 2003; • Law on Copyright and Related Right, in force since March 2003.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

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. [T]he European Commission published its proposal for a Data Act. Copyright law and football matches: impossible to match? Part II is available here.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The main role of the incumbent is to provide assistance to Member States in drafting and updating their national legislation and adhering to and implementing the WIPO copyright and related rights treaties, and to conduct legal research and draft legal documents related to legislative assistance and treaty adherence and implementation.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 18, 2022

Thus, to circumvent the costly, and at times politically sensitive, task of regulating conduct online, governments rather encouraged private actors themselves to structure, implement and enforce their own sets of rules and procedures preventing illegal conduct.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Collective licensing with extended effect covers various mechanisms in national copyright law to fill the gaps in the repertoire of the collective management organization (“CMO”), which can then conclude licences for works of right holders who are not affiliated to the CMO. 9 of the SatCab Directive (with an exception for broadcasters in art.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

With its ruling in Poland v Commission ( C-401/19 ) on 26 April 2022 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) dismissed an action to annul Article 17 of Directive (EU) 790/2019 on copyright and related Rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSM Directive).

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