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EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2021

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Welcome to the second trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. This case relates to the sui generis database right and its application to the activity of search engines. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.

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The UK government moves forward with a text and data mining exception for all purposes

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Presently in the UK, TDM is permitted with respect to the use of copyright protected works without the rightholders’ permission only for non-commercial scientific research. This is now set to change. The consultation outcome – rightholders vs users. All-purpose TDM.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

The second edition offers revised, or wholly rewritten chapters to the overlaps discussed in the first edition so as to reflect recent developments, as well as to include new chapters (the overlap between privacy and copyright law; privacy and secrecy; trademarks certification marks and collective marks; and IP and traditional knowledge).