Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Copyright councils exist in many countries within Europe, typically serving as a space for ongoing discussion around emerging issues, as well as acting as a source of semi-official opinions on legislative proposals or other documents. They sometimes exist independently or may sit within a wider intellectual property council.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 6, 2024

It is worth recalling that the specific type of content at issue here – that is: photographs – can be protected through copyright (if the pictures are sufficiently original) but also through national related rights (irrespective of their originality), in accordance with the freedom afforded to EU Member States under Art.

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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. The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority had emphasised this in its April 2021 guidance on advertising cryptocurrencies.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The 42nd session of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) took place from 9 to 13 May 2022 in Geneva. Image by Ag Ku via Pixabay. This was the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic started that most of the delegates were reunited in person.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 13, 2024

Photo by Chris Spiegl on Unsplash The EU laws on digital services ( Digital Services Act – DSA ) and artificial intelligence (AI Act, cited here according to EP document P9_TA(2024)0138 of 13 March 2024) are intended to ensure safety and trustworthiness on the Internet and in dealing with AI. 34 and 35 DSA).

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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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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The Thomas Edison Innovation Law and Policy Fellowship promotes excellent academic research about IP and related rights in the innovative and creative communities. The deadline for completing the application form and for the submission of references and all required documents is 31 January 2022.

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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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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

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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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

DECEMBER 1, 2021

That call concerned patents, copyright and related rights, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. Reading the consultation documents, and more specifically the impact assessment , one is often left with the impression that according to the UKIPO, the main (and perhaps only) rationale for protecting IP is incentivising investment.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

The German Legislative Draft Documents also suggest that every form of derivative artistic creation, like remixes or mashups, shall fall within the scope of Section 51a UrhG (GERMAN BUNDESTAG Printed Paper 19/27426, p. The new related right for press publishers (Sections 87 et seqq.

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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

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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Selvam & Selvam Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The application must be submitted along with the following documents: Statement of case describing the applicant’s right on the trademark and supporting their claim that their trademark is well-known. Additionally, they can send supporting documents, if any.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

We suggest that as a first step, the Commission should publicly identify data sources, protocols and standards that allow authors and rightholders to express a machine-readable rights reservation in accordance with Article 4(3) CDSM, that are freely available and whose functionality is publicly documented.

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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

JUNE 29, 2023

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. The document is available on the institution’s internal system.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

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. The BGH assumed that an infringement of the related right of the film producer had occurred.

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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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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2022

The registration process is straightforward and requires minimum documentation and information because the copyright protection centers conduct a formality examination only. Because there is no evidence discovery process in China, this new rule can help alleviate the burden of proof from the shoulders of copyright owners.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

17 CDSM Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSMD) : According to the Grand Chamber of the CJEU, the provision imposes a de facto obligation on service providers to use automatic content recognition tools in order to prevent copyright infringements by users of the platform.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 11, 2022

One of KECOBO's functions as stipulated in section 5(e) of Kenya's Copyright Act is to "enlighten and inform the public on matters relating to copyright and related rights".

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

According to AGCOM, DAZN’s evidence was supported by a declaration that the reported domain names are “unequivocally intended for the violation of copyright or related rights of audiovisual works,” including sporting events broadcast live.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

The systemic argument is also noteworthy: since some countries, such as Poland, have adopted ECL for the related right of press publishers , the rationale for such a system for TDM seems at least as adequate. The document (see pp.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Transparency also means documenting and providing upon the AI Offices request information about data sources used for training, testing and validation, and authorisations to access and use protected content for the development of the GPAI. They should also provide details about crawlers and their robots.txt features.

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