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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part I

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However, de facto they merely owned proof of ownership without any proprietary value, as all copyright and any related rights were retained and not granted upon purchase. Copyright that is transferred upon selling an NFT may explicitly be outlined in the self-executing smart contract governing the sale. Valid Transfer of Rights?

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

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The Database Directive and Open data directive have a shared history, going back to the late 1980s when the European Commission first got serious about copyright in the internal market ( Van Eechoud 2021). because there is no public access regime that applies, or because third parties own intellectual property rights.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

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Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq. In the view of the BGH, an infringement of the film producer’s related right does not require that a copyright protected part had been used. The BGH assumed that an infringement of the related right of the film producer had occurred.

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EU copyright law round up – fourth trimester of 2021

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This becomes quite evident when one looks at the number of institutional policy reports that have been issued in the past three months. European Parliament, Report on the situation of artists and cultural recovery in the EU. See Communia’s report of the initial meeting here. We reported on this here. CJEU judgments.

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Top 10 Posts on the Kluwer Copyright Blog in 2022

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YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 – A step towards “factfulness” by Jan Bernd Nordemann. At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. In any case, this first YouTube Report is indeed a promising start (Paul Keller, op cit.), Factfulness, p.

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Implementing Article 15 of the CDSMD into the Greek legal order: “creative” or further confirmation of the EU press market’s fragmentation?

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2121/1993 on “Copyright, Related Rights and Cultural Matters” ), as well as L. 4481/2017, on “Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights” ( ΦΕΚ Α’ 100/20.7.2017 ). As it introduces a new related/neighbouring right for press publishers (PPR), the provision has been placed in Section VII of L.

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‘Copying into Copyright Law’: Ireland’s minimalist transposition of Directive 2019/790

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The relevant act, seeking to bring Ireland in line with the Directive, is the Statutory Instrument 567/2021 ‘European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021’ (hereinafter ‘ the Regulations’ ). The Irish legislative transposition finally became law on 19 November 2021. Section 53A).

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