Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

There is uncertainty over how much selection and refinement is needed to produce the best work (see examples of selection, refinement and reworking here and here ) and getting the right prompt is challenging enough to have created a market for effective prompts.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Photo by Sara Kurfeß on Unsplash The European Commission has referred six Member States (Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Poland and Portugal) to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for failure to notify complete transposition measures on copyright in the Digital Single Market ( Directive (EU) 2019/790 ) (CDSM Directive).

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

By integrating 16 nations’ markets, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) aspires to make it simpler for each nation’s goods and services to be available throughout the region. The government’s free and open economic and trade policies have been a major contributor to the growth of the Cambodian economy.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 26, 2022

263 TFEU was filed by the Polish Government in relation to aspects of Article 17 of the CDSM Directive. The CDSM Directive was published in May 2019 (see here and here for an overview), following a controversial legislative process at EU level. In addition, an action for annulment under Art.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Some consider that the Government was influenced by the French union of book publishers Syndicat National de l’Edition – SNE when it decided to leave out the term ‘appropriate’ when transposing the principle of ‘ appropriate and proportionate remuneration ’ of articles 18 and 20 of the CDSM.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Indeed, the Spanish transposition of the CDSM Directive , which was approved overnight by means of a Government Decree published on the 3 rd of November and which entered into force the following day, came with some surprises, including an apparent carve out from the liability exemption granted in Art. 17(4) of the CDSMD.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The Congress is aimed at discussing six main topics and their relation to the Metaverse: the European Digital Acts, the Legal Status of Avatars and Digital Identity, Privacy and Personal Data Protection, Content and Conduct Moderation, Virtual Worlds as Markets and Cybersecurity. The deadline is set on the 20 December 2023.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

15 of DSM Directive introduced a related right for press publishers to control the online uses of their press publications by information society service providers (ISSPs). They also claimed that this new system goes against the traditional set-up of licensing practices in Europe and will lead to market fragmentation.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

In addition to significantly changing the Portuguese Copyright Code , the Decree-Law also affects Law 26/2015 on collective management organizations and Decree-Law 122/2000 on databases, and creates a new dispute resolution mechanism called “specialized institutionalized arbitration and mediation in matters of copyright and related rights”.

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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

JULY 20, 2021

In its long-awaited Opinion on an action brought by Poland to annul certain parts of Article 17 of the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSM Directive), Advocate General (AG) Saugmandsgaard Øe demarcates the borders of permitted filtering of users’ uploads.

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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. Part II is available here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

One of its main purposes is to set common minimum requirements regarding the governance, financial management, transparency and reporting of the CMO themselves (for an earlier analysis, see here ). The CRM Directive aims inter alia at strengthening the protection of the interests of members of CMOs, rightholders and third parties.

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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. Copyright that is transferred upon selling an NFT may explicitly be outlined in the self-executing smart contract governing the sale.

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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, 2022

This is because the National Archives has today taken over responsibility for the external publication of court judgments, creating the first publicly accessible government database of judgments.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Recent advances in the technical field of quantum technologies have not only experienced high amount of attention in information science and software engineering disciplines but also gained a wide interest of government due to its complexity and global significance. What kinds of IP related rights would apply to quantum computing technology?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 13, 2024

These overall aims also include the protection of copyright and related rights. 85 AI Act only sets out a “right to lodge a complaint with a market surveillance authority”, and recital 170 AI Act suggests that this right exhausts the available remedies available to private parties. 34 and 35 DSA).

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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

MAY 1, 2024

The Dutch Supreme Court seeks clarity on whether EU law mandates copyright limitation through reciprocity, especially concerning non-EU right holders. In EU law, the Design Directive and Regulation govern the relationship between copyright and design protection for works of applied art.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 21, 2023

2021-580 of 12 May 2021 (‘transposition Order’) of the French Government implements articles 2(6) and 17 to 23 of the EU Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (‘CDSM’). Image by Pexels from Pixabay Order no.

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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. Conclusion.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Of the respondents, only Google explicitly positions its opt-out protocol as an implementation of Article 4(3) of the CDSM Directive: Google-Extended is an example of an approach that complies with the European Union Digital Single Market Copyright Directive, and specifically Article 4’s reference to machine-readable opt-out tools.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Member States, of course, have their own tradition with collective management (as amply demonstrated in the rich 2021 Study on emerging issues on collective licensing practices ), which they have adopted as a mandatory tool for exercising the rights of authors and other right holders in a wide variety of situations (as acknowledged under rec.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Jurisdiction According to the EU AI Act and its Recital 106 providers of general-purpose AI models should put in place a policy to comply with Union law on copyright and related rights.

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IP Whiteboard

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For instance, the traditional principles behind patents (being exclusive rights granted on a temporary basis in exchange for making the details of an invention publicly available), and the usual grounds for establishing infringement of a patent, may not apply where an AI retains these details in a ‘black box’. Copyright and related rights.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It is divided into three parts: Part I discusses the origin and statutory provisions governing well-known trademarks in India; Part II analyzes the benefits of gaining a well-known trademark status for businesses; Part III details out the procedure for seeking a well-known trademark status, and Part IV concludes the article.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

According to article 107 CCH “ The Ministry, the Regions and other territorial government bodies may permit the reproduction as well as the instrumental and temporary use of the cultural properties committed to their care, without prejudice to the provisions in paragraph 2 and those with regard to copyright”.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2022

Government who will present and discuss subjects having significant importance for SMEs and being of major priority for policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic. Its massive use brings legal consequences for classic IP rights and offers real challenges in particular to trade marks, copyright and related rights and patents.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Article 3(63) of the AI Act defines a GPAI model as an AI model which displays significant generality and is capable of competently performing a wide range of distinct tasks regardless of the way the model is placed on the market and that can be integrated into a variety of downstream systems or applications .

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Especially in times of change, they serve as guiding principles for citizens, governments and, if push comes to shove, the judiciary. It introduced new roles for actors who constitute the infrastructure of the internet and entrusted them with tasks that directly affect the fundamental rights of users online.

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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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