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Utilizing the Annual Copyright License Across Your Organization

Velocity of Content

Fast-paced organizations that rely on and invest heavily in R&D should not only regard published content as the heart of innovation, but also possess a deep appreciation of the system of copyright protecting this intellectual property. How Do Different Departments Use the Annual Copyright License?

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Study on Copyright and Scientific Publications: Encouraging Access and Re-use

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and related rights and access to and reuse of scientific publications, including open access. Current EU copyright framework.

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Copyright as an Access Right: Concretizing Positive Obligations for Rightholders to Ensure the Exercise of User Rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The purpose of copyright, at its very basic level, finds its normative implementation in the interplay between access to protected works and the protection of the moral and material interest of creators (see Geiger, 2017 ). licenses for specific uses). However, it is only a first step towards making user’s rights a reality.

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The case law of the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) and selected other German courts in 2022 – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Part I covers decisions in the areas of copyright protection and exploitation rights, as well as exceptions and limitations. Part II will focus on copyright contract law and claims under copyright law. I. Copyright protection 1. This follows from the LG’s Berlin decision in The Unknowable.

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Copyright Of Cinematograph Films: Indian Scenario

IP and Legal Filings

According to Section 2(d)(v) of the Copyright Act, the producer of a cinematograph film is considered the work’s creator. [1] This preference for producers in copyright law has recently been questioned. As per section 18(1), the author, not the copyright holder, is entitled to receive royalties. Cornish, D.

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California’s Proposed Fix to the Journalism Crisis Is Unconstitutional and Worse Than Socialism (Comments on the California Journalism Protection Act, CJPA)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

California’s latest entry into this Internet death-spiral is the California Journalism Protection Act (CJPA, AB 886). The CJPA engages with a critical problem in our society: how to ensure the production of socially valuable journalism in the face of the Internet’s changes to journalists’ business models?

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Introducing a zero-embargo Secondary Publication Right in Bulgaria

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Typically, in the case of scholarly publications, authors are publicly funded through payment under a standing contract with a university or research institute, or through project funding, including EU funding. Pre-existing Bulgarian provision The SPR is not an entirely novel concept to Bulgarian copyright law. of the Directive.