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AG Szpunar suggests that statutory assignment of performers’ rights against performers’ will is contrary to EU law (C-575/23)

The IPKat

3 and 7 to 9 of Directive 2006/115. Conformity with Directive 2001/2 and Directive 2006/115 The AG first reminded that, in light of international treaties and the EU acquis, performers’ rights are exclusive rights and not remuneration rights. 2 and 3 of Directive 2001/29 as well as Arts.

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Whither a Signal-Based Broadcast Treaty?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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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EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE: Judgment in Joined Cases C?775/21 and C?826/21

LexBlog IP

NATURE OF THE CASE The above decisions dealt with requests for a preliminary ruling related to the interpretation of Article 3 of Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society.

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Copyright Protection of Photographs: a Comparative Analysis Between France, Germany and Italy

Kluwer Copyright Blog

At the same time, however, Article 6 of the Term Directive ( Directive 2006/116/EC ) also states that “Member States may provide for the protection of other photographs” and thus leaves to each Member State’s own discretion the decision of whether to provide some protection to non-original photographs in addition to “original” ones.

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EU copyright law round up – third trimester of 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

On 22 September 2022, the AG Szpunar issued his opinion in the AKM case on the interpretation of communication to the public by a satellite. European Commission, European Media Freedom Act. In September, the European Commission proposed a new Regulation targeting media pluralism and independence in the EU.

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Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs: The Path Forward

Velocity of Content

↩︎ See Ginsburg & Ricketson , supra note 49, ¶¶ 11.30 – 11.41 (discussing the rights of reproduction and adaptation in the Convention) [ read full article here ]. ↩︎ See, e.g., German Act on Copyright and Related Rights (Urheberrechtsgesetz – UrhG), § 3 – Adaptations, Copyright Act of 9 September 1965 (Federal Law Gazette I, p.

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Bulgarian ISPs Will Block Pirate Bay & Zamunda, But Not Before a Fight

TorrentFreak

With torrent sites dominating the high seas of piracy in 2006, Bulgarian authorities decided to arrest Eliyan Geshev, administrator of the the country’s most popular tracker, ArenaBG. Public uproar in Bulgaria was significant but just a day later, Geshev was a free man once again.

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