Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

However, de facto they merely owned proof of ownership without any proprietary value, as all copyright and any related rights were retained and not granted upon purchase. For instance, CrypToadz is a prominent CC0 NFT project wherein the artwork related to the NFT is in the public domain.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

However, under German copyright law, photographs that do not meet the originality requirement under Section 2(1) of the UrhG can still be protected as Lichtbilder (photographs) by means of a specific related right under Section 72 of the UrhG. Differently again, Italy has adopted a “threefold system” for the protection of photographs.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

The legal doctrines involved are closely related to copyrights and related rights systems. This refers to the identification, documentation, transmission, revitalization and promotion of cultural heritage. Now, this documentation may raise concerns about protection of IP as it may fall into the public domain.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

There are also numerous benefits to AI-generated works remaining in the public domain, including including enabling low-cost access to those works by others and their use for the generation of new (scientific) knowledge’. A third alternative: the related rights approach. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

Part II will present our conclusions regarding EU rules on related rights and outline policy recommendations for EU legislators in this field. As noted below, however, it might still benefit from protection under related rights. This two-part blog post contains a summary of our report’s conclusions and recommendations.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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

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The IPKat

AUGUST 11, 2022

KECOBO did mention that a work may be in the public domain because copyright has expired and companies should conduct due diligence before engaging in meme creation].

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