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Africa IP highlights 2023: Reforms in IP policy, legislation and administration

The IPKat

102, outline the criteria for Collective Management Organizations to determine license fees for music usage. License payments are due annually, and joint invoices must be settled within one month of issuance. Each license remains valid for one year from the date of issue. These tariffs, published in Kenya Gazette Supplement No.

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Does food flavouring constitute a “work”?

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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 EU DSM Copyright Directive: Implementation in Germany 2021 – Part II

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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). 31, 36, 37, 39 – Pelham, in the context of the phonogram producer’s right (with the same basis in EU law in Article 2 InfoSoc Directive)).

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EU copyright law round up – third trimester of 2021

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The Stichting Brein preliminary reference related to the liability of an operator of a platform for Usenet services for communication to the public, while the Puls 4 TV reference concerned the application of the hosting safe harbour to online video platforms. Austro-Mechana, AG Hogan, C-433/20. In this case, Public.Resource.Org, Inc.

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Why the implementation of the Italian press publishers’ right might not be compatible with EU Law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Aimed at ensuring remuneration for publishers when their publications are reused online by news aggregators, Article 15 grants press publishers the right of reproduction and the right of making available for online uses of their press publications by information society service providers.

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Why the implementation of the Italian press publisher rights might not be compatible with EU Law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Aimed at ensuring remuneration for publishers when their publications are reused online by news aggregators, Article 15 grants press publishers the right of reproduction and the right of making available for online uses of their press publications by information society service providers.

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The Orphan Works Directive is broken but the Commission won’t fix it!

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The Orphan Works Database contains 6,031 works as of March 6th 2023, whereas a 2001 estimate showed for instance that up to 1.25 The narrow permitted uses, consisting of making copies for digitisation purposes and disseminating online via non-commercial websites are problematic. billion periodicals could be orphan works.

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