IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As of this writing, there is no explicit regulation governing the NFT market or the way NFTs should be produced, acquired, gathered, coined, etc. 5 of 2020, dated November 16, 2020, regarding ESP in the Private Sector, as amended by MOCI Regulation No. Provisions of intellectual property law will be applicable to NFTs.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In a 2020 consultation , the government sought to broadly understand the implications of AI for IP. That call concerned patents, copyright and related rights, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 24, 2022

This post is the second instalment of an analysis of a recent report , a part of the reCreating Europe project, on the application of EU copyright and related rights law to outputs generated by or with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, tools or techniques (AI outputs), with a focus on outputs in the musical domain.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

This seems to have pushed EU Member States towards compliance – the latest examples here are the Irish European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021 (19 November), the Italian Decree (published on 27 November), and the Estonian Act implementing the Directive (8 December). Stay tuned!

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Member States, of course, have their own tradition with collective management (as amply demonstrated in the rich 2021 Study on emerging issues on collective licensing practices ), which they have adopted as a mandatory tool for exercising the rights of authors and other right holders in a wide variety of situations (as acknowledged under rec.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Courts have reshaped and defined the boundaries of exclusive rights in order to protect core values of the constitutional order (see Geiger & Izyumenko 2014 ; Geiger & Izyumenko 2020 ). Fundamental rights have helped to adapt rules that were shaped for the analogue world to the digital environment.

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