Kluwer Copyright Blog
JUNE 19, 2023
Under traditional copyright law, the purchase of an NFT representing a work in which copyright subsists does not automatically confer copyright ownership in the underlying work ( the traditional approach ). UK copyright law mandates that an assignment of copyright be ‘in writing signed by or on behalf of the assignor’.
IPilogue
JULY 8, 2021
On 19 April 2019, the European Parliament and Council adopted the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market. June 7, 2021 was the deadline for the member states to enact their national laws in accordance with the Directive. Article 17’s copyright exceptions are also problematic.
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azrights
AUGUST 11, 2022
Would they be infringing your copyright though? Is the output infringing copyright? If so, that image would infringe copyright in the original. So, if you’re intending to use an unusual, highly distinctive image generated by AI, you may want to do some due diligence to establish that there is no obvious infringement.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq. Claims under copyright law.
The IPKat
AUGUST 11, 2022
Last week, Kenya's government agency in charge of copyright matters, Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO) published an advisory via its Twitter handle. This post reviews KECOBO’s advisory in the light of Kenya’s copyright law and policy. This is so for several reasons but this post highlights two.
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