Kluwer Copyright Blog
AUGUST 18, 2021
The consultation document restates the fundamental right to intellectual property as the fundamental principle of ‘protection of the intellectual creations of individuals in the online space’ but is otherwise silent on IP. So effectively, the 2013 directive already curtailed public sector bodies’ copyright and sui generis rights in data.
IP and Legal Filings
AUGUST 19, 2022
A lot of electronic databases’ creators are willing to accept the risk and obligation of gathering a lot of raw data and then having to use it, despite the fact that the need for databases like phone directories is expanding in the business world as a whole. The copyright of a database is safeguarded by the Copyright Act of 1957.
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Kluwer Copyright Blog
JULY 14, 2023
use of indigenous content, model contracts and/or national laws on limitations and exceptions). Minimize database rights to favour access to and use of digital works. The Policy paper does not aspire to be carved out in stone but rather represents a work-in-progress that can be updated into a 2.0 Proposal 4.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JANUARY 17, 2024
As the Court put it “ classification as a database is dependent, first of all, on the existence of a collection of ‘independent’ materials, that is to say, materials which are separable from one another without their informative, literary, artistic, musical or other value being affected.”(§29)
LexBlog IP
DECEMBER 12, 2023
This is because training of GenAI models requires processing of large amounts of data that potentially contain copyrighted works, as well as materials displaying trademarks and data compilations which may be protected by sui generis database rights in the EU, or other information the use of which may be restricted by contract or terms of use.
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.
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.
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