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A Proposal to leverage Article 17 to build a public repository of Public Domain and openly licensed works

Kluwer Copyright Blog

We have recently published a white paper , authored by Julia Reda ( Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte ) and Paul Keller ( Open Future ) that proposes to build a public repository of Public Domain and openly licensed works.

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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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. For instance, CrypToadz is a prominent CC0 NFT project wherein the artwork related to the NFT is in the public domain.

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[Guest post] SIAE vs Meta: no more Italian music available on Facebook and Instagram?

The IPKat

The IPKat has received and is happy to host this guest contribution by Deborah De Angelis (Studio Legale DDA) on the highly publicized halted licensing negotiations between Italian collecting society SIAE and Meta regarding the availability of the music repertoire administered by the former on the latter’s services. 17 (4), a).

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Whither a Signal-Based Broadcast Treaty?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. No amendment offered in public session. of the draft allows a contracting Party to limit the rights of a broadcasting organization from another contracting party, when that contracting party provides fewer rights.

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Unrequited love at the times of French maisons: the Museum vs Le Musée

Kluwer Copyright Blog

We have an artwork, displayed in a museum and which is in the public domain. However, no fees shall be paid for certain specific uses, such as in the case of personal use, use for study purposes or public entities’ use with the aim of enhancing the assets themselves. This is exactly the case here. Second, Art.

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The Jungle Bird, El Diablo, and the Zombie or Machine Learning Models, Computer Programs and Copyright put to the test

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Additionally, all proprietary and open source software licensing rely on copyright protection. The license is not triggered in most open licenses if applied to subject matter not protected by copyright (or related rights). Assessing ML models as independent works does not bring much better results.

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UKIPO’s public consultation on AI and IP – computer-generated works (Part 1)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

There are also numerous benefits to AI-generated works remaining in the public domain, including including enabling low-cost access to those works by others and their use for the generation of new (scientific) knowledge’. A third alternative: the related rights approach.

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