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BREAKING: First CJEU referral on press publishers’ related right (Italian-style)

The IPKat

DECEMBER 13, 2023

After the first DSM Directive-related referral from Belgium on the provisions concerning contracts of authors and performers [IPKat here ] , it is now the turn of Article 15 (the related right for press publishers) as implemented into Italian law. All this would serve to ‘foster the availability of reliable information’.

Key 2023 update: EU Directive implemented in Greek copyright law

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 24, 2024

It has several aims, including the following: To facilitate copyright and related rights licensing in protected works and other subject matters in certain television transmissions and radio programs. To introduce a mechanism of extended copyright licensing.

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Whither a Signal-Based Broadcast Treaty?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. There is such a provision in current Article 10, mandating prohibitions of signal piracy in any regulatory framework. But Articles 6-9 promote exclusive rights. See Love 2023. Copyright: WIPO.

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The Portuguese Government completes the transposition of the new European Copyright Directive

Garrigues Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

47/2023, of June 19, 2023. However, the government has introduced amendments and additions to the “old” Portuguese Code of Copyright and and Related Rights (CDADC), incorporating special features in the Portuguese law with respect to the wording and legal regime of the Copyright Directive.

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

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It is thus clear that TDM does matter - but what should its relationship with copyright and related rights be? On the other hand, the debate around TDM has not developed in a context devoid of licensing practices, at least in Europe.

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[Guest post] New Ukrainian Law on Copyright and Related Rights

The IPKat

JANUARY 24, 2023

Here's what Kateryna and Liubov write : New Ukrainian Law on Copyright and Related Rights by Kateryna Militsyna and Liubov Maidanyk Last year, the Ukrainian copyright reform got on its fast track. In July the Ukrainian parliament approved one of the legislative proposals on copyright and related rights as a basis.

AI and copyright in 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

21, Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 ), New Zealand ( section 5(2)(a), Copyright Act 1994 ), South Africa (section 2(h), Copyright Act 1978 ) and the UK ( Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 9(3) ).

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A summary look at the Portuguese transposition of the CDSM Directive

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

The belated Portuguese transposition of the CDSM Directive was finally published in the Portuguese Official Journal (Diário da República) on the 19th of June 2023. 2-g: the Portuguese transposition did not opt for any licensing carve-out nor any fair compensation schemes. 15 and 17 CDSM Directive. 2-x Copyright Code.

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Training AI models on Synthetic Data: No silver bullet for IP infringement risk in the context of training AI systems (Part 3 of 4)

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 16, 2024

It seems that one of the intended purposes of the obligation to disclose training data is to enable better enforcement, through an ex-post tool, of the above-mentioned opt-out mechanism under Article 4 of the Copyright Directive. 4 provides exceptions or limitations for the purposes of text and data mining for other purposes.

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Protecting Commercial AI Rights Is Harder Than You Think – EU Edition

Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This article originally appeared in The Scholarly Kitchen and is republished with permission. In the quaint days of 2019, when the EU issued its Digital Single Market Copyright Directive (DSM) , much attention was focused on issues such as a news publishers’ right and the obligations of platforms to take down infringing materials.

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Court clarifies process for CMO equitable remuneration

LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

If the use has clearly taken place and ceased before the exercise of the application, article 49 of Law 2121/1993 is applicable, dealing with reasonable and uniform remuneration in the context of regular proceedings or trials. Law 4481/2017 Article 6 of Law 4481/2017 states: 1. the award of the equitable remuneration).

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[Guest post] Litigation commenced against the developers of AI image generation software

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

While the Irish Copyright and Related Rights Act includes a similar provision concerning the authorship of computer-generated works, Irish academics have noted this provision may be inconsistent with the EU acquis.

Litigation

Litigation Copying Copyright Designs

The Orphan Works Directive is broken but the Commission won’t fix it!

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

The provision only applies to literary works, audiovisual work, phonograms, and visual works embedded into these works e.g. books (article 1(2) OWD). The cultural heritage institutions that want to use this system must conduct a diligent search for the rightholders (article 3 OWD). billion periodicals could be orphan works.

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BREAKING: First CJEU referral on press publishers’ related right (Italian-style)

Key 2023 update: EU Directive implemented in Greek copyright law

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Whither a Signal-Based Broadcast Treaty?

The Portuguese Government completes the transposition of the new European Copyright Directive

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

[Guest post] New Ukrainian Law on Copyright and Related Rights

AI and copyright in 2022

A summary look at the Portuguese transposition of the CDSM Directive

Training AI models on Synthetic Data: No silver bullet for IP infringement risk in the context of training AI systems (Part 3 of 4)

Protecting Commercial AI Rights Is Harder Than You Think – EU Edition

Court clarifies process for CMO equitable remuneration

[Guest post] Litigation commenced against the developers of AI image generation software

The Orphan Works Directive is broken but the Commission won’t fix it!

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