Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

In addition to significantly changing the Portuguese Copyright Code , the Decree-Law also affects Law 26/2015 on collective management organizations and Decree-Law 122/2000 on databases, and creates a new dispute resolution mechanism called “specialized institutionalized arbitration and mediation in matters of copyright and related rights”.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Also, article 18(3) of Law 4481/2017 states as follows: Management fees of the collective management organisation shall not exceed the justified and documented costs in managing copyright and related rights. Management fees should not exceed, on average, 20% of the gross rights revenue of the collective management organisation.

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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). An important but relatively neglected flaw is its silence on the features of the licensing mechanism that Member States may and shall adopt for the management of the press publishers’ right.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

This blog examines how press publishers have claimed rights over their content on digital media platforms like Facebook, Google News, which give a preview of two-three lines along with a hyperlink to the press publication. The EU took the Intellectual Property route by introducing a related right under its copy right law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

2121/1993 on “Copyright, Related Rights and Cultural Matters” ), as well as L. 4481/2017, on “Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights” ( ΦΕΚ Α’ 100/20.7.2017 ). As it introduces a new related/neighbouring right for press publishers (PPR), the provision has been placed in Section VII of L.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Exceptionally, copyright accommodates other forms of licensing that restrict the author’s individual exercise of rights. For instance, in the 2019 copyright reform, the European legislator used the mechanism of mandatory collective management of the retransmission right (art. 12 DSM Directive). 12 DSM Directive).

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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). An important but relatively neglected flaw is its silence on the features of the licensing mechanism that Member States may and shall adopt for the management of the press publishers’ right.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

With the adoption of both the Directive on Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) and the Digital Services Act (DSA), the European Union has moved away from the notice-and-takedown model for copyright enforcement and content moderation. Click here and here to know more. Click here to know more.

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The IPKat

MAY 31, 2022

Cat in the Box " by admiller is licensed under CC BY 2.0. TRADE MARKS The impact of Brexit on trade mark cases involving UK-based rights has been a hot topic over the past two years. But for how long will UK-based rights continue to play a role in deciding EU trade mark disputes? One week is over and the next one has just begun.

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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. Tugce Kucukali is an IPilogue Writer and incoming LL.M. Candidate at University of British Columbia. .

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In the quaint days of 2019, when the EU issued its Digital Single Market Copyright Directive (DSM) , much attention was focused on issues such as a news publishers’ right and the obligations of platforms to take down infringing materials. This article originally appeared in The Scholarly Kitchen and is republished with permission.

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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) The A & K Metaxopoulos & Partners Law Firm website can be accessed at www.metaxopouloslaw.gr.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Unless these rights are contractually assigned or licensed, it is for the authors, and the institutions that employ them, to determine the conditions under which their works are to be published, reproduced, and otherwise used (including by way of OA) – not for the publishers. 8] (a) Art. 18, (b) Recital 74 and (c) Art.3 9] (a) Art.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

This prompted some commentators to label this new addition a quasi-moral right – since there is no work of authorship to which the new moral right is attached. Nevertheless, a more precise characterisation is that this is a new related right. These licensing schemes only cover professional journalists and photographers.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 12, 2022

And it’s published under a creative commons license, with the text available on his website here. ” 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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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 16, 2024

In light of criticism following the announcement of the political deal – and renewed warnings that the AI Act risks will hamper innovation in the European market – there may still be room for debate over the final terms of the AI Act before ratification. [13] 4(1) and 4(3).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

As such, the exemption is reduced to a priority for individual licensing. VGG, an extended collective licensing mechanism, something which is set out as optional under EU law (see below). The new related right for press publishers (Sections 87 et seqq. d) Caricature, parody and pastiche.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 18, 2021

The European Union (EU) Court of Justice Advocate General, Saugmandsgaard ØE, recently published the long-awaited opinion on the action brought by the Republic of Poland against the contentious Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright and Related Rights in Digital Single Market.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2021

This said, based on what is already available, it is apparent that the provisions that the EU legislature adopted in 2019 to establish a ‘Digital Single Market’ will be implemented in different – if not altogether creative – ways across the EU. Examples of the latter are the articles on authors’ and performers’ contracts (Articles 18 to 23).

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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. These classifications are then used, among other things, to establish what business licensing is necessary for a given industry. Image source: iStock]. cross-border transfer of personal data.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

In the meantime, it continues to be crucial to find a solution that addresses the challenge of digitising and disseminating cultural heritage items the copyright of which cannot be cleared, and in fact, the adoption of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (2019/790/EU) Directive (CDSM Directive) offers some light at the end of the tunnel.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

It could be copyright infringement to continue serving photos from servers after the license expired. From the Copyright Office : The Copyright Office “does not recommend adopting additional copyright-like rights for press publishers in the United States. . * Evox Productions, LLC v. Verizon Media, Inc., 2K Games, Inc. ,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The relevant act, seeking to bring Ireland in line with the Directive, is the Statutory Instrument 567/2021 ‘European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021’ (hereinafter ‘ the Regulations’ ). The Irish legislative transposition finally became law on 19 November 2021. Section 53A).

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 30, 2023

The third defendant was licensed to produce and market the disputed foods and spices under its own name and at its own expense, paying a fixed fee to the plaintiff for each individual product sold. Compensation presupposes culpability and infringement of IP (or related rights) (i.e.,

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The IPKat

MAY 22, 2022

The Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law (IFIM) at Stockholm University is proud and delighted to announce its new, in-person event to be held in English at Stockholm University on Thursday, June 2, 2022, on the topic: 'The DSM Directive 3 years on: The Polish challenge to Article 17 and the national transposition maze'.

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The IPKat

MAY 8, 2022

. • The practice set out in the Examination Guide is silent as to how the Registrar’s enforcement of the protection of famous names under section 3(6) is to be reconciled with the existence of a relative right to object and the express prohibition contained in Article 2 of the Trade Marks (Relative Grounds) Order 2007. Germany license.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

EUI - Florence Patent Licensing Academy - 3 to 6 October 2022 - Florence, Italy and online The Florence Patent Licensing Academy is organised by the Florence Competition Programme and the Florence School of Regulation – Communications and Media of the European University Institute. For more information and to register, click here.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 28, 2023

The term includes, according to the decision, all forms of marketing of the copy of the computer program that include a right of time-limited use for a price. Such usage aims to provide to the rights holder the possibility of receiving remuneration corresponding to the economic value of the copy in question. (4) 2916/2022. (2)

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Article 18 of the CDSM provides that where authors license or transfer their exclusive rights for the exploitation of their works, they are ‘ entitled to receive appropriate and proportionate remuneration ’. The principle of appropriate and proportionate remuneration of articles 18 and 20 of the CDSM.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

Attempting to pre-empt the advancement of AI in the late 1980s, they reflect neither the contemporary technological reality of algorithmic and ML achievements nor our shared expectations from technological and market developments. A third alternative: the related rights approach.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

This seems to have pushed EU Member States towards compliance – the latest examples here are the Irish European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021 (19 November), the Italian Decree (published on 27 November), and the Estonian Act implementing the Directive (8 December).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

By now, Article 15 of Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSM Directive) needs no wordy introductions. Put briefly, the provision requires Member States to introduce a related (or neighbouring) right for press publishers, applicable to online uses of their publications.

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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. We were not aware that the image may have been created by AI” 2.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

That call concerned patents, copyright and related rights, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. Responses from the earlier call for views have raised the need to improve licensing mechanisms for TDM purposes. This is not the first time the UKIPO has engaged with a public call for views on the topic of AI and IP.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It's well known that 3D printing consists of two main phases (and related implications from an IP perspective - e.g. licensing and distribution of files and finished products): the creation of the digital design of the object and the printing with a 3D printer.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

While the Irish Copyright and Related Rights Act includes a similar provision concerning the authorship of computer-generated works, Irish academics have noted this provision may be inconsistent with the EU acquis.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

If adopted in this form, such a provision would significantly strengthen the position of creators and rights holders to prevent or license the use of their works for the purpose of training generative AI models as foreseen in the CDSM Directive.

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