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Book Review: Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd Edition

The IPKat

The first edition of Intellectual Property Law in China (IPLCN) was the first of a bunch of goodies this Kat enthusiastically gathered from the incomparable IP library of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (MPI). This Kat has a relevant JIPLP article here ).

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Event announcement - The DSM Directive 3 years on: The Polish challenge to Article 17 and the national transposition maze

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Three years after its adoption, the discussion of and around the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital SingleMarket 2019/790 (‘DSM Directive’) is anything but exhausted.

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Shaping the Digital Services Act: What impact on intellectual property? An online event

The IPKat

An analysis of the interplay between the DSA and Article 17 of the DSM Directive 2019/790 (DSMD) will be also provided. Following an overview of the current state of negotiations, some of the key stakeholders will offer their views on points which are currently being debated in the context of such negotiations.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 2 of 4: Exploitation rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Part 1 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 is available here , and parts 3 and 4 will be published on the blog over the coming days. . The BGH arrived at the same ruling as in Cordoba II in another judgment in 2019 called Testversion.

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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

Parts 1 and 2 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here and here , and part 4 will be published on the blog shortly. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights.

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The Impact of Russia Legalizing Piracy

Plagiarism Today

That is difficult to say, it is relatively unprecedented for a country to simply decide to ignore intellectual property laws. According to a Moscow Times article in 1996, the amount then was 91 percent. According to a 2019 survey , some 91% of Russians preferred pirated content over legal alternatives.

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Data libraries are not eligible for protection as computer programs

Garrigues Blog

In this regard, the Barcelona Provincial Appellate Court concluded, as was to be expected, that said libraries do not form part of the computer program and therefore, cannot claim protection under the Intellectual Property Law as software (article 96 et seq. of the Intellectual Property Law.