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Does food flavouring constitute a “work”?

LexBlog IP

Compensation presupposes culpability and infringement of IP (or related rights) (i.e., See: Supreme Court 1420/2019; Supreme Court 1215/2019; Supreme Court 415/2018; Supreme Court 1051/2015; Supreme Court 1625/2014; Supreme Court 537/2010; and Supreme Court 4/2022. (3) 7) CJEU, C-406/2010, ECLI:EU:C:2012:259, paragraph 33.

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Protecting Product and Packaging Designs in China Part II – Copyright

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*SPC’s Guiding Cases are not binding precedents but “have guiding effect on adjudication and enforcement work in courts throughout the country,” according to the Provisions of the Supreme People’s Court Concerning Work on Case Guidance issued on November 26, 2010. Like in the U.S.,

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Disclosure of Pirates’ Identities “Compatible With EU Privacy Laws”

TorrentFreak

A decree adopted in 2010 allows Hadopi to request subscriber information from ISPs in response to the provision of IP addresses, mostly obtained from BitTorrent swarms.

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‘Copying into Copyright Law’: Ireland’s minimalist transposition of Directive 2019/790

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In the matter on which the first decision was based, the collective remuneration rules for freelance, full-time journalists for daily newspapers from January 2010 were able to be cited for guidance purposes although the plaintiff was claiming remuneration for a period not covered by the remuneration rules.

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CJEU Gives File-Sharer Surveillance & Data Retention a Green Light

TorrentFreak

As part of anti-piracy scheme featuring warning letters, fines, and ISP disconnections, France has monitored and stored data on millions of internet users since 2010. Digital rights groups insist that as a general surveillance and data retention scheme, the ‘Hadopi’ program violates fundamental rights.

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