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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2021-12-04

Barry Sookman

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2021-11-27 [link] 2021-11-28. 'Out 'Out of step with other nations': Canada's Crown copyright laws in need of an overhaul, say library associations [link] 2021-12-01. Getting ready for Quebec’s Bill 64 privacy law impacts on outsourcing [link] 2021-12-02.

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A vanishing right? The Sui Generis Database Right and the proposed Data Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

But for anyone who had expected the Data Act to include a revision of the Database Directive — an ambition that the Commission had signalled in both the 2020 Data Strategy and the 2020 Intellectual Property Action Plan — the final proposal will be a major disappointment. A right that shall not be exercised.

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The UK government moves forward with a text and data mining exception for all purposes

Kluwer Copyright Blog

As previously reported , between October 2021 and January 2022 the UK Intellectual Property Office held a public consultation on the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property laws (more specifically, copyright and patents). Photo by Kevin Ku on Unsplash. All-purpose TDM.