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.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

Last year was another busy one in the copyright world, with ongoing European copyright reform, a number of landmark CJEU decisions and notable developments in a number of jurisdictions. A vanishing right? The Sui Generis Database Right and the proposed Data Act by Paul Keller. [T]he

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

The outcome of the consultation is supposed to inform the government with respect to a potential legislative reform of the UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA). The consultation closed in the beginning of January 2022. Conversely, users were very much in favour of an exception as it would remove the need for licensing.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 7, 2022

An agreement was reached in April 2022 between the European Parliament and EU Member States on the Digital Services Act, which was followed by an endorsement by the Parliament’s Internal Market Committee later in June 2022 and (although strictly not in this second trimester) the final text was approved on 5 July.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 25, 2023

Fairness : the use and outcomes of AI systems should not undermine the legal rights of individuals or organisations, discriminate unfairly against individuals or create unfair market outcomes.

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