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Please share nicely — From Database directive to Data (governance) acts

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The consultation document restates the fundamental right to intellectual property as the fundamental principle of ‘protection of the intellectual creations of individuals in the online space’ but is otherwise silent on IP. What ideas the Commission has with respect to the Database directive is difficult to gauge from the consultation.

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Opinion of the European Copyright Society on selected aspects of the proposed Data Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The aim of the Data Act’s sui generis clause (art. 35) to reduce the availability of IP rights over some datasets is welcome. The European Copyright Society posted an opinion on selected aspects of the proposed Data Act. However, its drafting is flawed and risks creating even more fragmentation in the laws of Member States.

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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!

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Top 10 Posts on the Kluwer Copyright Blog in 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

It is interesting to look at this Report against the background of the 2019 EU rules for the liability of platforms like YouTube through the famous Art. A vanishing right? The Sui Generis Database Right and the proposed Data Act by Paul Keller. [T]he 17 DSM Directive 2019/790 (“DSMD”). .