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Access to information and competition concerns enter the sui generis right’s infringement test – The CJEU redefines the database right

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In a nutshell, a specialist search engine engaging in re-use of substantial parts of the database of a job adverts website was accused of violating sui generis database right. The CJEU says that Melons does give “users access, on its own website, to job advertisements contained in [CV-Online Latvia’s] database […].”

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EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2021

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This case relates to the sui generis database right and its application to the activity of search engines. This is somewhat surprising, since the Commission itself was remarkably late in issuing its Guidance on art. UKIPO, UK’s future exhaustion of intellectual property rights regime. The AG suggests that art.

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EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2023

Kluwer Copyright Blog

On the copyright side, it stresses that some of the sources used to research the sector may be subject to copyright and database rights and as such it warns against infringement with an important focus on exceptions. Stay tuned!