The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Can a work entirely created by a machine be protected by copyright? In 2019, the Copyright Office rejected the application, holding that human authorship is necessary to support a copyright claim. First, held the Board, a machine cannot enter into any binding legal contract.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. It is interesting to look at this Report against the background of the 2019 EU rules for the liability of platforms like YouTube through the famous Art. 17 DSM Directive 2019/790 (“DSMD”). . Part II is available here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

This examined the problem of authors’ remuneration: authors’ contracts tend to result in disproportionately low revenues relative to the returns of investors and intermediaries. Free alienability Common law favours the easy alienability of authors’ rights, which is particularly evident in the United States (U.S.). On this prompt, Prof.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

Part I covers decisions in the areas of copyright protection and exploitation rights, as well as exceptions and limitations. Part II will focus on copyright contract law and claims under copyright law. I. Copyright protection 1.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Photo by Christian Wiediger from Unsplash The implementation transposition of the Copyright Directive 2019/790 (DSMD) in the summer of 2021 represented probably the greatest reform in German copyright law since the German Copyright Act (UrhG) came into force. Germany’s implementation of Art.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

Photo by Christian Wiediger from Unsplash Part I of this annual post reporting on the copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof covered decisions in the areas of copyright protection and exploitation rights, as well as exceptions and limitations. IV. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Ubertazzi was one of the leading intellectual property academics in Italy (as well as a great lawyer), founder and editor of the most important Italian copyright journal (AIDA) and editor and author of the most widely used Commentary on Italian intellectual property laws. WIPO conference hall – picture by David Matthiessen) Prof.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

The copyright owner in Runt is seeking to enjoin director William Coakley from releasing a behind-the-scenes project about alleged on-set bullying and sexual harassment that it claims he fabricated. In 2019, actor Cameron Boyce , star of Disney franchises Jesse and Descendants , died tragically following a sudden epileptic seizure.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Ricolfi sees the need to revise the classical paradigm of intellectual property not only by calling for the intervention of the legislator, but rather by rediscovering the classical elements of civil and private law: · role of the contract; · civil tort; · collective actions, recalling the importance of Directive 2020/1828.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

At the time that Directive 2019/790/EU ( DSM Directive ) was being developed, much media attention was focussed, over a period of many months, on the liability of online content sharing service providers for content uploaded by their users. 8 UrhDaG); general responsibility under copyright law for user uploads is established in Sec.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

” Dark patterns are deceptive tactics or design patterns that impair people’s autonomy, decision-making, or choice to force them to do something. However, it may be more appropriate to consider trademark law as a comparable framework for comprehending the extent of the personality right. link] Luthra, S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 18, 2021

Much bigger pressures come from the 2019 Open data and public sector information directive , the 2020 proposal for a Data governance regulation , and the still to be announced proposal for a Data Act. So effectively, the 2013 directive already curtailed public sector bodies’ copyright and sui generis rights in data. by Tito Rendas. €

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. The Court interpreted the clause on ownership of work made during a contract of service (Section 17(c)) to not apply in situations where there is a contract between equals.

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Copyright Lately

JULY 17, 2022

According to Tammy’s complaint, her grandfather set up a number of trusts which were “specifically designed in more than 15 years of estate planning legal advice with competent estate planning counsel” to hold Jay songwriter’s royalties and “to assure his daughter and granddaughter received their respective shares.”

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

. “You must ensure that you do not place digital advertisements on websites providing unauthorized access to copyrighted content and must take all reasonable steps to ensure that third parties with whom you contract do similar,” the regulator warns. if they have been blocked under Australian law.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

It would also seem that that designation would prohibit Woodward from private ownership of the copyright in the full work, a concept that Woodward would surely resist and with which his own copyright registrations are inconsistent. 54 (2019), also concurring opinion, para. ’” Id. Teranet, 43 SCC, para.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lawsuit involves sound recordings of 19 interviews that then-President Trump voluntarily gave to Woodward between December 2019 and August 2020, plus one interview from 2016 (when Trump was still a candidate). Simon & Schuster, Inc. 3:23-cv-02333 (N.D. complaint filed Jan.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Particularly, it was argued that against the backdrop of the pandemic, the medicines produced were in high demand due to their characteristics of relieving some of the major symptoms exhibited by the patients who had contracted the Covid-19 virus. This patent protection was challenged by La Renon before the IPAB under section 64.

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