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

The IPKat

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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The EU AI Act has been published

The IPKat

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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Role Of Intellectual Property Rights In The Era Of Quantum Technology

IIPRD

Recent advances in the technical field of quantum technologies have not only experienced high amount of attention in information science and software engineering disciplines but also gained a wide interest of government due to its complexity and global significance. What kinds of IP related rights would apply to quantum computing technology?

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Open Access Book on Negotiating History of the WCT and WPPT by Dr. R.V.V. Ayyar

SpicyIP

In India, for example, Internet for general users arrived only in August 1995; […] email was a novelty confined to technology buffs and even such buffs knew little about the fledgling digital technologies. It illustrates the grave challenges that developing countries had to face for meaningfully participating in the DipCon.

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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Indonesia

IP and Legal Filings

As of this writing, there is no explicit regulation governing the NFT market or the way NFTs should be produced, acquired, gathered, coined, etc. The Indonesian government has examined the existence of blockchain technology cautiously, leaning more toward acceptance of the new technology than outright prohibition. Conclusion.

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Portugal strengthens copyright protection on the Internet

Garrigues Blog

There is a need for strong, clear and effective EU and national legal frameworks on copyright and related rights protection, but these frameworks should also avoid contributing to the digital environment becoming, as is feared, an over-regulated, censored place.

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[Guest post] CJEU: New licensing rules for the provision of guest TVs in Germany?

The IPKat

Pestana, where it already held that Directive 93/83 only governs the exercise of the cable retransmission right in the relationship between copyright owners and holders of related rights, on the one hand, and ‘cable operators’ or ‘cable distributors’, on the other, and that these concepts designate the operators of traditional cable networks.