The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2022

The IPKat has published several posts over the past two weeks! PermaKat Eleonora Rosati posted about last week's General Court judgment on the partial invalidity of the shape mark of an icon of Italian fashion design and history: the Moon Boots. Background, analysis and comments are provided by GuestKat Anastasiia Kyrylenko.

Moral Rights 73

Moral Rights Database Right Design Designs 73

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. because there is no public access regime that applies, or because third parties own intellectual property rights.

Government 54

Government Database Right Intellectual Property Copyright 54

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. A vanishing right? The Sui Generis Database Right and the proposed Data Act by Paul Keller. [T]he T]he European Commission published its proposal for a Data Act. 17 DSM Directive 2019/790 (“DSMD”). .

Copyright 93

Copyright Blogging Fair Use Reporting 93

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.

Government 93

Government Intellectual Property Licensing Copyright 93