Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

We invited experts to offer a synthesis of empirical evidence catalogued on the Evidence Portal in response to 21 topical copyright questions of importance for the 21 st century. The digital revolution has moved legal questions about copyright, information, and competition law to the regulatory centre of the creative industries.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This contribution is based on a paper published in 44 European Intellectual Property Law Review 595 (2022). . Photographs are included in Article 2(1) of the Berne Convention as copyrightable artistic works. All Berne Union Member States must thus provide copyright protection to photographic works. by Edward J.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

The creation and development of copyright law are closely connected to technological and associated business transformations (see, e.g. here ). Yet, the very same automation poses challenges for the application of copyright law, increasing legal uncertainty, as demonstrated in this report vis-à-vis AI music outputs.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Additionally, all proprietary and open source software licensing rely on copyright protection. The license is not triggered in most open licenses if applied to subject matter not protected by copyright (or related rights). Thus, questioning whether EU copyright law provides adequate protection for ML models is not a naïve endeavour.

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IIPRD

JULY 4, 2021

However, the word emoji itself is not subject to protection awarded to intellectual property in general, but unlike the Indian Law, the US Law awards protection to emoji in certain cases. This may be explained by taking into consideration copyright, trademark as well as other intellectual property regimes.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 30, 2023

Schechter’s 1927 Harvard Law Review article, in which he explained dilution as the gradual elimination of the distinctive image of a trademark in the minds of the public, on account of the use of the trademark for non-competing goods. [2] Schechter, ‘The Rational Basis of Trademark Protection’ (1927) 40 HARV. 813, 825. [3] 4] 15 U.S.C.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the district court level, the law of copyright preemption is a morass of ad hoc explanations of whether certain contracts are “equivalent” to the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright law. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Goldsmith SCOTUS Decision Welcome to the ever-evolving world of intellectual property law, where creativity intersects with legal rights, and the boundaries of art and originality are constantly being defined and redefined. We’re talking about Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

There are also numerous benefits to AI-generated works remaining in the public domain, including including enabling low-cost access to those works by others and their use for the generation of new (scientific) knowledge’. Attaching to that output long term proprietary claims risks paralysing the public domain.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2022

The application should indicate whether the contribution has already been published or is a work in progress and whether the author(s) is(are) available to join the conference in person or online. Preference will be given to applicants willing to make in-person presentations. Successful applicants will be notified by the end of July.

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2021

Such a license would enable using the resources held by owners of the CC Licenses to the extent of editing, remixing, copying, and distributing the work without circumventing the copyright law. Configure the RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) Feed on the WordPress site to keep yourself updated about the website.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 20, 2022

Accordingly, the proposed right is intended to incorporate the entire catalogue of copyright exceptions, the Swedish freie Benutzung provision in section 4, uses of unprotected content (for example which are in the public domain) and licensed uses (Ds 2021:30, pp. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

Mili is a graduate of Institute of Law, Nirma University, currently completing her LLM at LSE. Her areas of interest are Information Technology law, Intellectual Property law, Media & Communication Law, and human rights law. . Image from here. Introduction.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

student at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. She is keenly interested in Intellectual Property Law, Technology Law, and Corporate Law ]. Image from here [ This post is co-authored with Tejaswini Kaushal with inputs from Swaraj and an anonymous reader. Tejaswini is a 3rd-year B.A.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

This two-part post focuses on the ‘very shorts extracts’ (VSE) exclusion and its ongoing implementation into Member State laws. A pertinent example of a limitation in EU copyright law is the concept of ‘public’ within the right of communication to the public. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

Additionally, automated blocking may only take place in cases where the blocking of works or other subject matter in the public domain or for which platform users may have obtained a licence is ruled out [para. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

Government by its officers and employees should not be subject to copyright” and fall “in the public domain.” And it doesn’t have to be a paid performance to qualify,” as Dr Hayleigh Bosher, Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at Brunel University London, notes.

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