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Kluwer Copyright Blog
AUGUST 18, 2021
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. A major issue on the Commission’s agenda is Business to Business (B2B) sharing of data. Stage I: to the Open data directive.
IP and Legal Filings
AUGUST 19, 2022
A lot of electronic databases’ creators are willing to accept the risk and obligation of gathering a lot of raw data and then having to use it, despite the fact that the need for databases like phone directories is expanding in the business world as a whole.
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Kluwer Copyright Blog
JULY 14, 2023
In a policy paper , copyright and art-law experts led by the author clarified the general copyright law principles applicable to stakeholders dealing with digital cultural heritage worldwide and formulated recommendations, addressed to policy-makers, to facilitate their digital activities. Proposal 4.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JANUARY 17, 2024
For these reasons, authors such as Hao-Yun Chen , Peter Slowinski , and Begoña Gonzalez Otero seem to reject the protection of models under copyright law. However, in the EU there is another strong candidate for protecting model weights: the sui generis protection for databases established in Directive 96/9.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JANUARY 9, 2023
As we enter a new year, we would like to take this opportunity to pass on our best wishes for 2023 to all of our readers, as well as reflect on developments in copyright over the past year. A vanishing right? The Sui Generis Database Right and the proposed Data Act by Paul Keller. [T]he Part II is available here.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
AUGUST 24, 2022
Following the consultation, the UK government has now decided to introduce a new copyright and database right exception which allows TDM for any purpose, i.e. including commercial uses. Licensing will no longer be an issue and rightholders will not be able to opt-out or contract out of the exception.
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