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

The IPKat

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.

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Key 2023 update: EU Directive implemented in Greek copyright law

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Last year saw the introduction of Law 4996/2022, which brought significant changes to IP legislation in Greece, amending several provisions of the existing Copyright Law 2121/1993 as well as Law 4481/2017 on Collective Management. To introduce a mechanism of extended copyright licensing.

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Whither a Signal-Based Broadcast Treaty?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Copyright: WIPO. that allows a contracting party to limit the rights of a broadcasting organization from another contracting party when that contracting party provides fewer rights. See Love 2023. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. International License. But the present draft clearly reaches such content. [2]

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

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Trade Marks Chijioke Okorie provided an overview of the key developments in trade mark law across the African continent as part of the “Africa IP Highlights” series for 2023. The case relates to a trade mark application to register the word mark 'BASMATI' for rice, which is being opposed on the basis of the UK law of passing off.

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The WIPO Files II: is international lawmaking on copyright still possible?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The 42nd session of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) took place from 9 to 13 May 2022 in Geneva. The first of this series of blog posts on copyright reform at WIPO analyzes the history of the discussions on L&Es. Image by Ag Ku via Pixabay.

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

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It is thus clear that TDM does matter - but what should its relationship with copyright and related rights be? It should be noted at the outset that, on the one hand, some commentators hold the view that TDM would not even be covered by copyright law.

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A summary look at the Portuguese transposition of the CDSM Directive

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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. Copyright Code still regulates all the permitted uses of protected works and other subject matter, while Art. 2-x Copyright Code. However, Art.

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