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[Book Review] 25 things you should know about artificial intelligence, art and copyright

The IPKat

This Kat is happy to review “ 25 things you should know about artificial intelligence, art and copyright ” by Pablo Fernández Carballo-Calero (Aranzadi, 2023, 160 p.). Part I, “Artificial Intelligence, Art and Copyright”, offers its readers a general overview of how AI affects cultural and creative sectors.

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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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Art. 17 DSM Directive: International Application in EU cross-border scenarios – Or: Why the EU needs a faithful implementation into national law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Article 17 Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (“DSM Directive”) is currently being implemented into national law in the EU Member States. This has caused extensive debates on the national level comparable to the debate that took place when Art. 17 DSM Directive and Art.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

For public sector bodies — producers and holders of vast quantities of data — as well as for the companies that act as suppliers, the sui generis database right has been slowly eroded since 2003. because there is no public access regime that applies, or because third parties own intellectual property rights.

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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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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”). .

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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.