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. What ideas the Commission has with respect to the Database directive is difficult to gauge from the consultation.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

A vanishing right? The Sui Generis Database Right and the proposed Data Act by Paul Keller. [T]he Garrix had entered into a record production contract with the label at a very young age. Having become a successful DJ and finding the terms of the contract unfair, Garrix sought annulment for a variety of legal reasons.

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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). Licensing will no longer be an issue and rightholders will not be able to opt-out or contract out of the exception. The narrower EU exceptions.

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