TorrentFreak

MARCH 24, 2025

Draft Law Aims to Tackle Sport’s ‘Structural’ Problems Senators Michel Savin and Laurent Lafon presented a bill last week aimed at reforming professional football through recommendations spanning how the sport is organized, managed and financed. . “These new offenses would not target users of illegal services.

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The IPKat

JULY 12, 2024

This Regulation ensures the free movement, cross-border, of AI-based goods and services, thus preventing Member States from imposing restrictions on the development, marketing and use of AI systems, unless explicitly authorised by this Regulation ”. This sprawling regulation comprises 180 recitals and 113 articles.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Parts 1 and 2 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here and here , and part 4 will be published on the blog shortly. Related rights. Reporting on current events (Section 50 UrhG) and right of quotation (Section 51 UrhG).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Article 17 Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (“DSM Directive”) is currently being implemented into national law in the EU Member States. 17 DSM Directive into the laws of the EU Member States. Image of conolan on Pixabay. 17 DSM Directive was introduced in 2019.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

Welcome to the first trimester of the 2022 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. We report here on one case, issued late in December 2021, which may be of interest to our copyright readers, despite its focus on private international law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq. Claims under copyright law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

EU Law On 26th February 2014, the CRM Directive was adopted. Italian Law Historically speaking, the Italian regulation of CMOs is peculiar. In fact, until 2017, when the Decree-Law No. Also, in light of the above, the provision of Italian law may be contrary to the objectives of the CRM Directive’s competition principles.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 7, 2025

Underwood Chair in Law, Vanderbilt University), Noam Shemtov (Professor in Intellectual Property and Technology Law/Deputy Head of CCLS, Queen Mary University of London), Haralambos Marmanis (Executive Vice President and CTO, CCC), and Catherine Zaller Rowland (Vice President and General Counsel, CCC).

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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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The IPKat

JANUARY 18, 2025

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. More information here. Further details here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 15, 2021

The Polish Ministry of Culture has announced draft changes to the Polish copyright law on the collection and division of the private copying levy (also known as the blank media tax or levy). In Part I of this set of posts, I describe draft changes to the Polish copyright law on the collection and division of the private copying levy.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 22, 2024

The subscription platform has been repeatedly called out as a notorious piracy market by the US Trade Representative, as recently as this year. The defendant has violated the provisions of the law which protect the copyright and related rights of the Motion Picture Association’s members and the English Premier League,” Judge Le Hai Yen said.

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IPilogue

JULY 8, 2021

On 19 April 2019, the European Parliament and Council adopted the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market. June 7, 2021 was the deadline for the member states to enact their national laws in accordance with the Directive. Candidate at University of British Columbia. .

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 26, 2022

Internet Law: A Concise Guide to Regulation Around the World. The CDSM Directive was published in May 2019 (see here and here for an overview), following a controversial legislative process at EU level. More from our authors: Practical Guide to Successful Intellectual Property Valuation and Transactions. by Alexander Puutio. € by Edward J.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2021

Beach + sunbathing + copyright = the perfect summer As readers with an interest in EU copyright are well aware, EU Member States had time until 7 June to transpose the DSM Directive 2019/790 [Katposts here ] into their own national laws. It is true that there are provisions in the Directive that leave Member States significant discretion.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Further, according to article 8(2) of Law 4481/2017, a CMO may exist under the form of a public limited company (SA), but all of its shares must be mandatorily registered. Legal forms of CMOs. In practice, most CMOs in Greece have chosen the form of limited liability civil cooperatives. to be organised on a non-profit basis. Emphasis added.).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Introduction In November 2022, almost 18 months after the transposition deadline, Law 4996/2022 (Of. In doing so, it amended Law 2121/1993 , the Greek Copyright Law, as well as Law 4481/2017 , the law that regulates the collective management of copyright and related rights.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

We are pleased to bring you a guest post by Mili Baxi, on the development of a publisher’s right in digital media. Mili is a graduate of Institute of Law, Nirma University, currently completing her LLM at LSE. The EU took the Intellectual Property route by introducing a related right under its copy right law.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

It is worth noting that, as of today and despite the deadline of 7 June 2021, 8 Member States (Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Latvia, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, and Sweden) have yet to adopt measures to transpose the DSM Directive into their own laws. One such example relates to the blocking of content pending the resolution of a complaint.

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A compulsory license is an authorization provided by a national authority to an individual without seeking the consent of the titleholder but after payment of royalties/compensation for the exploitation of the subject matter protected by the law on patents or other IPRs. Reasons for Granting Compulsory License.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Yesterday, the Constitutional Court of Belgium issued a ruling in joined cases 7922, 7924, 7925, 7926, 7927, concerning the validity of the Belgian law that transposed Directive (EU) 2019/790 [DSM Directive; see an earlier post on this case here ]. 7924, 7926 and 7927) of the Code of Economic Law. Press publishers’ right (Arts.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In 2019, the EU’s Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) was adopted. This included the highly controversial Articles 15 and 17 on, respectively, the new press publishers’ right (PPR) and the new copyright liability scheme for OCSSPs (“online content-sharing services providers”).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the second trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, every three months we update you on what has happened in EU copyright law. According to the AG, it follows from Article 297 TFEU that EU law is, in principle, not capable of benefiting from copyright protection.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As of this writing, there is no explicit regulation governing the NFT market or the way NFTs should be produced, acquired, gathered, coined, etc. While NFT platforms are not yet specifically regulated, they are subject to the provisions on Electronic System Providers (“ESPs”) contained in several regulations, as follows: • Law No.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 12, 2022

The officials dealing with copyright were generalist administrators, and expertise on international copyright laws in academia was sparse […]. ” Interestingly, it turns out that our very own Prashant Reddy seems to have been a trigger for the writing of the book!

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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2023

Other Italian and foreign copyright and related rights collecting societies have also claimed that their music catalogues were taken down illegitimately and have requested Meta to restore their music on the relevant services. SIAE claims that Meta did not negotiate transparently. It could test the applicability of Art. 17 (4), a).

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The exemption is contained in EU Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market Directive. A court in Hamburg, Germany, has decided a copyright infringement case in a way that sheds light on how European courts may apply the text and data mining (TDM) exemption to AI model developers.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Under the law of copyright, the authors of works of science are the copyright owners of their published articles. Other relevant limitations and exceptions in EU law permit the use of “quotations for purposes such as criticism or review” 9b and the making available of articles on dedicated terminals in library networks.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In 2019, the EU’s Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) was adopted. This included the highly controversial Articles 15 and 17 on, respectively, the new press publishers’ right (PPR) and the new copyright liability scheme for “online content-sharing services providers” (OCSSPs).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Welcome to the third trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. More from our authors: Exceptions in EU Copyright Law: In Search of a Balance Between Flexibility and Legal Certainty. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash. Stay tuned!

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Image by Peter Mello via Flickr The interests of research are not necessarily heard or represented when decisions are being made about copyright laws that affect them. This concern was a key reason for the creation of Knowledge Rights 21. There are also two representatives of consumer organisations.

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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. Leaving the law aside, generative AI triggered some backlash in 2022.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Much has been said about the press publishers’ right, introduced by Article 15 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM). This is particularly visible in the definition of the negotiation and licensing scheme envisioned for the exercise of the new related right. Image via needpix.

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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 RCEP provides the framework to harmonise trade laws and promote the adoption of best global trade facilitation practises.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

The approved Decree-Law 47/2023 to a large extent corresponds to a legislative project ( Project 52/XV ), which, in turn, was a variation of a previous project ( Project 114/XIV ) that failed due to a political crisis that led to early elections in the country. However, Art. 15 and 17 CDSM Directive. 2-x Copyright Code.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

copyright law that would meaningfully improve press publishers’ ability to block or seek remuneration for news aggregators’ use of their works would necessarily avoid or narrow limitations on copyright that have critical policy and Constitutional dimensions.

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