The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

While the Irish Copyright and Related Rights Act includes a similar provision concerning the authorship of computer-generated works, Irish academics have noted this provision may be inconsistent with the EU acquis.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

As such, the exemption is reduced to a priority for individual licensing. VGG, an extended collective licensing mechanism, something which is set out as optional under EU law (see below). The new related right for press publishers (Sections 87 et seqq. d) Caricature, parody and pastiche.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

That call concerned patents, copyright and related rights, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. Responses from the earlier call for views have raised the need to improve licensing mechanisms for TDM purposes. 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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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As noted in the current draft of the EU’s AI Act , “[t]ext and data mining techniques may be used extensively in this [training] context for the retrieval and analysis of such content, which may be protected by copyright and related rights.” There are many situations in which this is not true. First, there is pirated content.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

If adopted in this form, such a provision would significantly strengthen the position of creators and rights holders to prevent or license the use of their works for the purpose of training generative AI models as foreseen in the CDSM Directive.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

As far as material damages in the form of an appropriate licence fee are concerned, the BGH confirmed, in a 2018 decision , that the starting point is the fictitious conclusion of a licensing agreement. In the view of the BGH, an infringement of the film producer’s related right does not require that a copyright protected part had been used.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 18, 2021

The consultation document restates the fundamental right to intellectual property as the fundamental principle of ‘protection of the intellectual creations of individuals in the online space’ but is otherwise silent on IP. because there is no public access regime that applies, or because third parties own intellectual property rights.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2022

In order to carry out this activity, company A signed contracts with certain suppliers from which it acquired all of the copyrights and related rights regarding the specific musical repertoire. The advertising messages are played at a higher volume than the music. Emphasis added.).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

A third alternative: the related rights approach. We followed the approach of distinguishing between creation and dissemination of works, so as to propose transforming the current CGWs provisions into a neighbouring rights provision. The UKIPO has rightly proceeded cautiously on the matter. by Christopher Heath. €

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

First, an opt-out mechanism is proposed as a way to license (or gain consent for) the use of protected works for AI training (see interesting comments by J.P. The document (see pp. The discussion seems to be focused on a number of remuneration schemes, three of which deserve special attention. Quintais, especially on pp. Geiger and V.

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