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

The IPKat

January: In Kenya, prospective importers were required from January 1, 2023 to declare particulars of intellectual property rights for goods to be imported into the country. 102, outline the criteria for Collective Management Organizations to determine license fees for music usage.

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Does food flavouring constitute a “work”?

LexBlog IP

However, the Court rejected the action as: not legal, insofar as it concerned the protection of recipes as works of intellectual property; and unfounded, because recipes are assimilated to ideas and not to works enjoying copyright protection under Greek (and EU) law. dishes and seasonings) as works of IP. (1)

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The EUIPO has published the second phase of its research on Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technologies

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On September 22, 2022 , the European Union Intellectual Office (EUIPO), through its European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights, published a discussion paper entitled " Automated Content Recognition: IP Enforcement and management use cases ".

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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 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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ALLEA Statement on Open Access Publication under “Big Deals” and the New Copyright Rules

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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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