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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. Related rights. Special provisions for computer programs (Sections 69a et seqq. 3, second sentence UrhG.

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Hope For Hollywood? Vietnam Police Raid Movie Piracy Group, Three Arrested

TorrentFreak

TV Report on the Arrests According to the authorities, 30-year-old Tuan sought to buy source code for the sites back in 2019. The aim was to launch services that would distribute movies to the public, without permission from rightsholders, for the purpose of generating illegal profits from advertising.

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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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[Guest Post] WIPO’s African Group hits the ground running with a Work Program on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions

The IPKat

WIPO is gearing up for the 42nd session of its Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights and the Africa Group at WIPO has submitted a proposal for a Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions (L&Es). No countries permit cross-border exchange. ” ( EIFL, 2019 ). see here ).

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UK Government axes plans to broaden existing text and data mining exception

The IPKat

It is thus clear that TDM does matter - but what should its relationship with copyright and related rights be? In 2019, however, two new mandatory EU-wide exceptions for TDM were adopted as part of the DSM Directive [I analyze and discuss them in detail in my Commentary here ].

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Africa IP highlights 2023: Reforms in IP policy, legislation and administration

The IPKat

This levy is a fee applied to items capable of carrying copyright-protected content for personal copying and is payable at the point of entry or initial local manufacture. In August , Kenya’s Copyright Board tabled the Copyright and Related Rights Bill, 2023 before Parliament.

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Does food flavouring constitute a “work”?

LexBlog IP

Copies of emails between the parties provided to the Court proved that opinions had been exchanged before the composition of the products was finalised. Compensation presupposes culpability and infringement of IP (or related rights) (i.e., Applicable legal provisions The relevant law in this case was Law 2121/1993.