Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

This becomes quite evident when one looks at the number of institutional policy reports that have been issued in the past three months. European Parliament, Report on the situation of artists and cultural recovery in the EU. See Communia’s report of the initial meeting here. We reported on this here. CJEU judgments.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2024

Vietnam’s approach to the protection of intellectual property rights has long been criticized by the United States, earning the country prominent placement in successive USTR Special 301 Reports. Alleged Leader Arrested Reports that authorities had made three arrests first appeared on Tuesday.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Whether the government has taken any steps to address concerns raised by creative writers and artists in their lawsuits against AI-powered Large Language Models, especially regarding issues such as the source of training, systematic theft, violation of moral rights, threat to livelihoods, and royalty payment.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 8, 2022

b) the services of the ISP are used by a third party to infringe copyright or related rights in the territory of that Party. However, it specifically references a report from the U.S. In the same report, the Copyright Office also stressed that further research would be required on the effect and impact of a U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 16, 2024

In a report published this week, BREIN said the VR worlds specifically catered to pirates, offering thousands of links to pirated streams, which could be enjoyed through VR headsets. BREIN reported these pirate worlds to San Francisco-based VRChat, which took them offline in response.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 22, 2024

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. The defendant reportedly pleaded guilty to his role in the BestBuyIPTV operation.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 24, 2025

With amendments to Article 10, the bill introduces specific offenses based on the offense of copyright infringement and related rights provided for by the Intellectual Property Code. This is most evident where sentences for copyright offenses are perceived to be less punitive than those available for crimes like fraud, for example.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 22, 2024

Videos uploaded to the platform were embedded on many other streaming sites, the MPA reported, and as a result, traffic was booming. The Paris court noted that the site “encouraged the infringement of copyright and related rights by setting up tools specifically designed for the mass and illicit sharing of protected content.”

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2022

More on this in a separate post… And here are matters this Kat is keeping 3 of the 5 senses, alert for: As reported on The IPKat in May , the Africa Group at WIPO proposed a Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions (L&Es) to WIPO's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (WIPO-SCCR).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

31, 2022): When an individual’s decision to disseminate an Instagram post is the “very thing the article [is] reporting on,” the use of the Instagram post and its copyrighted material in the reporting has been deemed sufficiently transformative to support a fair use defense. UMG Recordings, Inc. Grumpy Cat Limited v.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 9, 2024

The Court of Milan’s decision, dated Monday August 5, and reported by Cloudflare’s Italian legal team, fills in most of the gaps. A second claim, reportedly relating to Cloudflare’s behavior, was also dismissed. But even then, what Serie A hoped to achieve and under what legislation still wasn’t made clear.

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The IPKat

APRIL 29, 2022

WIPO is gearing up for the 42nd session of its Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights and the Africa Group at WIPO has submitted a proposal for a Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions (L&Es). At the wake of the pandemic, the mode of conducting the SCCR’s sessions changed drastically.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 1, 2021

Here is his report. The first case ( 4 Ob 40/21t – in German) relates to the operation of an online video recording device. Former GuestKat Peter Ling was recently made aware of two referrals for a preliminary ruling made by the Supreme Court of Austria on the interpretation of Art. 3(1) and Art. 2(a) and (e) and Art.

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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. There is some controversy as to how the right of communication to the public as mentioned in Art. Image of conolan on Pixabay.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Copyright Anastasiia Kyrylenko discussed the recent interpretation of Article 4 of Directive 2004/48/EC by the CJEU in relation to possibility for collective management organisations to bring, in their own name, actions for copyright infringement on behalf of the right holders.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2022

The author gave food for thought on the reproduction of works of art on book covers, on possible moral rights in the discussion, and on Walter Benjamin's notion of the "aura" of a work.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

On 23 September 2021, the UKIPO published a report looking into how creators earn in the digital era and, more specifically, through streaming. EU Parliament, Draft report on IP Action Plan. EU Parliament, Draft report on IP Action Plan.

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The IPKat

MARCH 24, 2023

The Copyright Act 2022 as previously reported here on The IPKat is aimed inter alia at protecting the rights of authors and providing appropriate limitations and exceptions to guarantee access to creative works. Last week, Nigeria’s President signed the Copyright Act 2022 which repeals the Copyright Act of 2004 (the old Act).

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Patent cases also involve aspects of secrecy—such as unpublished patent applications that might bear on validity and business strategy related to damages—but trade secret litigation goes to the very heart of the cause of action: that the information that was allegedly misappropriated was not known or readily ascertainable.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

There is a significant push at this week’s meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights to approve a Diplomatic Conference on a Broadcasting Organizations Treaty that is not strictly limited to combating unlawful interception of traditional broadcast signals.

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The IPKat

MAY 22, 2023

The use of AI technology to generate images or music and other creative works, has legal implications for copyright and related rights of creators and rightsholders. As the creative industry is responsible for 6% of the UK’s GDP, the dialogue is particularly important with regards to the protection of the rights of the creatives.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It does this by recognising performers’ and producers’ exclusive and absolute right, in some cases, (and in other cases a simple relative right to ask for an equitable remuneration) to allow or prohibit certain uses of their contributions.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The total number of countries examined in the report is now 25, excluding only Poland and Bulgaria – the first of which has not yet implemented the Directive and the second of which only implemented it after the work on updating the study had begun. By contrast, the Dutch implementation (as reported by the national expert Prof.

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IP Whiteboard

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For instance, the traditional principles behind patents (being exclusive rights granted on a temporary basis in exchange for making the details of an invention publicly available), and the usual grounds for establishing infringement of a patent, may not apply where an AI retains these details in a ‘black box’. Copyright and related rights.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Related rights. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights. Reporting on current events (Section 50 UrhG) and right of quotation (Section 51 UrhG).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In order to engage in text and data-mining (TDM) some tech companies are reported to have approached different publishers , hoping to secure access to their catalogues on reasonable terms. This post does not seek to reflect a verbatim of the roundtable, but picks several themes to report on. One such theme is attribution.

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The IPKat

MAY 19, 2022

Last month, Katfriends Desmond Oriakhogba and Dick Kawooya provided a highlight of the key portions of the Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions (L&Es) proposed by the Africa Group to WIPO's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (WIPO-SCCR). The 42nd session of the WIPO SCCR was held from 9 to 13 May 2022.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For most of its existence, international copyright policy at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has focused on the creation and harmonization of exclusive rights. This led the Committee to embark on a decade-long process of commissioning expert studies relating to L&Es.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As reported in February 2022, notices published on the Lumen Database referenced well over one hundred pirate sites, all of which had been previously blocked for copyright infringement under the orders of the High Court in London. Voluntary Deindexing Confirmed Elsewhere in Europe. They too were destined for search result oblivion.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The 42nd session of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) took place from 9 to 13 May 2022 in Geneva. Image by Ag Ku via Pixabay. This was the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic started that most of the delegates were reunited in person.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

AI-generated works have won awards: The Crow , an “AI-made” film won the Jury Award at the Cannes Short Film Festival and the story of an AI artwork winning the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition was reported in The New York Times. AI-generated art was used for magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan and The Economist.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Katfriends Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst from Lewis Silkin report on recent litigation in the UK against the developers of AI generation software. Last year the IPKat reported that the US Copyright Office refuses to register AI-generated works and requires human authorship as a prerequisite to copyright protection.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

The introduction of Law 4481/2017 into the Greek legislation aimed to regulate the collective management of IP and relative rights, thus amending the EU Collective Rights Management Directive. (1) What is the reporting obligation? What is the reporting obligation? When does the reporting obligation apply?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 13, 2024

To address this, Uptobox had a takedown policy to swiftly remove those files in response to rightsholders’ reports. While Genius Servers hoped to turn the case around, Marc Rees at l’Informé reports that this initial attempt failed. of the links reported by movie industry groups were promptly removed.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In the view of the BGH, an infringement of the film producer’s related right does not require that a copyright protected part had been used. The BGH assumed that an infringement of the related right of the film producer had occurred.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 3, 2023

Reporters who attempted to interview Geshev as he left court suddenly found themselves attacked by security guards. Research cited in the blocking decision reported 27,000 files containing music available via The Pirate Bay and 44,000 on Zamunda. ” Bulgarian ISPs Fight Back One of the ISPs, identified only as ‘N.1’

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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”). The report was commissioned by C4C , but written in complete academic independence. Interaction with other types of liability.

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