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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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. So effectively, the 2013 directive already curtailed public sector bodies’ copyright and sui generis rights in data.

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The Jungle Bird, El Diablo, and the Zombie or Machine Learning Models, Computer Programs and Copyright put to the test

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This is pertinent from a copyright perspective because the regime of protection granted by copyright will be different depending on whether the ML model qualifies as a computer program, as a mathematical method, or as another type of work. Additionally, all proprietary and open source software licensing rely on copyright protection.