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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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CJEU has received first reference on DSM Directive

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The Royal Decree concerning the related rights of artistic staff of the ONB was finally adopted and published in the Belgian Official Journal on 4th June of 2021. This is because ONB musicians have the status of “agents statuaires”, a figure close to civil servants, and their rights shall be primarily governed by a statute.

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

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

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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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Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs: Historical Perspective and Infringement Analysis

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The full article can be read in the Journal of the Copyright Society. This is potentially costly both to AI companies, which may end up paying large statutory and compensatory damages in multiple jurisdictions, and to authors and other rights holders whose livelihoods are directly affected by LLMs.

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Saturday Sundries

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related rights, performers rights), trade marks (incl., geographical indications), designs, best foreign language/non-English IP book and IP in general (books covering diverse IP rights). The deadline for submissions to the IPKat Book of the Year awards is 31 January 2025. The deadline for submissions is 26 January 2025.

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Study on Copyright and Scientific Publications: Encouraging Access and Re-use

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In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and related rights and access to and reuse of scientific publications, including open access. Image by Mediamodifier from Pixabay.

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