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Navigating User Lawfulness in European Copyright Law: From Lawful Use to Lawful Access

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image created by AI The concept of lawfulness in relation to user status or user acts has been gradually established in EU digital copyright law as a condition for the enjoyment of certain copyright exceptions. In the Copydan judgment, the CJEU was more explicit regarding the conditions governing the lawful source.

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Training AI Using ‘Pirated’ Content Can Be Fair Use, Law Professors Argue

TorrentFreak

IP Professors Back Meta’s Fair Use Argument This week, a group of IP Law Professors submitted a “ friend of the court ” or amicus brief, backing Metas fair use defense. The Profs The brief stresses that Meta’s alleged use of pirated books as training data can be considered fair use.

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Book Release: Second Edition of “Imperfect Recollections: The Indian Supreme Court on Trade Mark Law” by Eashan Ghosh

SpicyIP

The second edition of Eashan Ghosh’s 2020 book “Imperfect Recollections: The Indian Supreme Court on Trade Mark Law” is out now! The first week of August 2021 was a critical hinge in the modern history of Indian trade mark law. Much of this scaffolding had been built atop Supreme Court case law.

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[Guest post] The UK’s AI and copyright consultation – will data protection law render any commercial TDM exception ineffective?

The IPKat

Heres what they write: The UKs AI and copyright consultation will data protection law render any commercial TDM exception ineffective? By way of brief overview of data protection law, under the UK GDPR personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

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Taming the ‘LAION’: Lessons for Harmonising AI and Copyright Law

SpicyIP

She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. Text and Data Mining under §44b of the German Copyright Act (“the Act”) §44b acknowledges TDM as a limitation on an author’s copyright, thereby constituting use permitted by law. How can the law address TDM activities?

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Pirate IPTV-Selling ‘Law Enforcement Officer’ Faces Wiretapping Claim

TorrentFreak

“Moy held himself out as a Chicago-area law enforcement officer when selling the Service,” the lawsuit adds, referencing the images below. “Moy’s resellers were informed that he was a law enforcement officer and that message was spread in the Telegram groups, including by group moderators working for Moy. .

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Safeguarding Access to Culture in the Digital Era in European Copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Traditionally, the purchase of the tangible copy of a work afforded the buyer or every lawful acquirer of the tangible copy the possibility to enjoy the work as long as the physical object incorporating the work exists. However, the shift from a market of goods to a market of services has changed this paradigm.