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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Fast forward and see: The Database directive stands unchanged and there is still no clear evidence that the then-new intellectual property right is an effective instrument. because there is no public access regime that applies, or because third parties own intellectual property rights.

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Copyright Protection For Databases In India

IP and Legal Filings

The Indian Penal Code, 1860, prohibits data theft, and because the corporal property is included in the definition of movable property, information stored on a computer is also covered by the definition. The Indian Contract Act may be invoked by including a separate clause in the contract for database confidentiality.

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Are AI models’ weights protected databases?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Much has been written about the legal challenges and qualifications of the training process (knowing whether it’s legally permissible to train these models on copyright-protected material) and the outputs of these models (especially if there is copyright in the results generated) see here , here , here and here.

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The UK government moves forward with a text and data mining exception for all purposes

Kluwer Copyright Blog

As previously reported , between October 2021 and January 2022 the UK Intellectual Property Office held a public consultation on the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property laws (more specifically, copyright and patents). Photo by Kevin Ku on Unsplash.

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Top 10 Posts on the Kluwer Copyright Blog in 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Following the Report this means: Copyright infringement needs to be addressed; unjustified requests have to be taken seriously, but seem to be an exceptional scenario in particular by qualified rightholders; and there is no real alternative to automation on larger platforms. A vanishing right? Part II is available here.