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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 3 of 4: Related rights and exceptions and limitations

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Related rights. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights. This personal intellectual creation is lacking if the photographs in question are “mere reproductions of other photographs” in which an original has been merely reproduced (copied) as closely as possible.

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Establishment and operation of CMOs in Greece

LexBlog IP

Further, according to article 8(2) of Law 4481/2017, a CMO may exist under the form of a public limited company (SA), but all of its shares must be mandatorily registered. Legal forms of CMOs. In practice, most CMOs in Greece have chosen the form of limited liability civil cooperatives. to be organised on a non-profit basis.

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Does food flavouring constitute a “work”?

LexBlog IP

In 2017, he met the first defendant, a high-ranking executive in an international food-industry company. Copies of emails between the parties provided to the Court proved that opinions had been exchanged before the composition of the products was finalised. Applicable legal provisions The relevant law in this case was Law 2121/1993.

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Google’s Permanent Deindexing of Pirate Sites Spreads Across Europe

TorrentFreak

A deal announced in 2017 revealed that Google would adjust its algorithms ( pdf ) to make pirate sites less easy to find. This means that the domain names of all websites blocked by LRTK decisions and their copies will not be published on the Google search platform.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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Understanding well-known trademarks application in India

Selvam & Selvam Blog

THE PROCEDURE FOR SEEKING A WELL-KNOWN TRADEMARK STATUS IN INDIA: The determination of well-known marks – before the introduction of Trademark Rules, 2017 (hereinafter, “the Rules”) was primarily through judicial pronouncements. Additionally, they can send supporting documents, if any.

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When must public performances of musical works be reported to CMOs?

LexBlog IP

The introduction of Law 4481/2017 into the Greek legislation aimed to regulate the collective management of IP and relative rights, thus amending the EU Collective Rights Management Directive. (1) What is the reporting obligation? This article was originally edited by, and first published on, www.lexology.com.