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Book review: Copyright in the Digital Single Market

The IPKat

Many readers will already be familiar with this title, since it won our IPKat book of the year award 2021 for best copyright book! But, for those who are yet to pick up a copy, here is what is in store: The EU legislature adopted Directive 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) in 2019.

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Understanding Copyright, Trademark and Halloween Costumes

Plagiarism Today

As we’ve discussed in the past , copyright has played an oddly oversized role in our modern Halloween festivities. However, one of the areas that is generally less talked about is copyright’s impact on Halloween costumes. However, one of the areas that is generally less talked about is copyright’s impact on Halloween costumes.

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Copyright as an Access Right: Concretizing Positive Obligations for Rightholders to Ensure the Exercise of User Rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The purpose of copyright, at its very basic level, finds its normative implementation in the interplay between access to protected works and the protection of the moral and material interest of creators (see Geiger, 2017 ). From this constitutional dimension of copyright emerged the notion of ‘user rights’ ( Geiger, 2020 ).

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Court Overturns ‘Pirate’ IPTV Prison Sentences Due to Unenforceable Copyrights

TorrentFreak

A few years ago, Advanced TV Network (ATN) was a dominant player in the Swedish IPTV market. However, that all changed in 2016, when local police raided its Malmo office. No Prison, No Copyright Damages. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. Prison Sentences for IPTV Operators.

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When Do Defendants Have Access to Copyrighted Works Posted to the Internet?–Cooley v. Target Corp.

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The plaintiff, NOC, is a teenager who has copyrighted designs in hand-drawn dots that Target allegedly copied in the clothing line. This picture shows the copyrighted works and Target’s efforts: At issue is whether Target independently created the works. The work was also posted to Facebook and Instagram in 2016.

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Examples of Text and Data Mining Research Using Copyrighted Materials

Kluwer Copyright Blog

A series of recent amendments to copyright law, including in the EU Copyright and the Digital Single Market Directive (Art. 3 and 4) and in Singapore’s new Copyright Act (Art. 243, 244), seek to protect the ability of text and data mining researchers to use copyrighted content in their work. million abstracts.

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Beyond the Limit: The Battle Over Copyright Back-Damages in Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy

Patently-O

By Dennis Crouch and Timothy Knight* The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on February 21 in an important copyright case – Warner Chappell Music v. ” Copyright’s statute of limitations bars claims not “commenced within three years after the claim accrued.” ” 17 U.S.C. §

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