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BREAKING: First CJEU referral on press publishers’ related right (Italian-style)

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After the first DSM Directive-related referral from Belgium on the provisions concerning contracts of authors and performers [IPKat here ] , it is now the turn of Article 15 (the related right for press publishers) as implemented into Italian law.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 3 of 4: Related rights and exceptions and limitations

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Related rights. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights. The manuscript relies on the early reports on copyright case law by the author with Christian Czychowski and Julian Waiblinger in the German law journal, Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW).

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Copyright and the meta-regulation of intermediary services and artificial intelligence

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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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Understanding well-known trademarks application in India

Selvam & Selvam Blog

This leads to the question – Is it essential for businesses targeting the Indian market to register their trademark as a well-known trademark? THE BENEFITS OF A WELL-KNOWN TRADEMARK STATUS IN INDIA: In India, to date, there are 117 trademarks registered as well-known trademarks , including Cartier, Whirlpool, and Kit Kat.

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Sunday Surprises

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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. FIDE - The Metaverse As A Challenge To Classical IP - 29 June 2022 - Online The Metaverse steadily developed, and its role became even more central to the business.

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The journalists’ share

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Looking back, the transfer of value from big tech to creators, infamously referred to as ‘the value gap’ problem, was a core issue for the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive to tackle. While it is art. 15(5) CDSM Directive gives an entitlement to ‘authors of works incorporated in a press publication’ in general.

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ALLEA Statement on Open Access Publication under “Big Deals” and the New Copyright Rules

Kluwer Copyright Blog

ALLEA, therefore, welcomes recent studies showing that OA publication in scientific journals is on the rise. [2] While the downstream costs of journal subscriptions are gradually falling, the upstream costs of publication, made up of the APCs, have risen sharply. Additionally, an increasing number of Member States (e.g.,

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