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IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners announced!

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Regulation, Innovation and Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets, by Margherita Colangelo. And the winner is: The Proportionality Test in European Patent Law (Bloomsbury) by Léon Dijkman Best Copyright Law Book The nominations were: • Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union (2nd edition), by Elenora Rosati. •

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[Guest post] Navigating the high notes: Taylor Swift's copyright dispute

The IPKat

This article delves into the saga’s central copyright issues and the concept of moral rights, and compares the situation in the US to how it might have unfolded under EU law. After Swift had found herself dissatisfied with the way in which BMR had made use of its rights, she decided to re-record the albums.

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Derivative works: the Adventures of Koons and Tintin in French copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Like most copyright systems, French copyright law does not leave much room for the freedom of authors of transformative graphic works (also called “derivative works”). Three interesting cases on derivative works, two involving Jeff Koons and one Tintin, have recently put French copyright law in the international spotlight (e.g.

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Using that classic piece of art on a book cover: Grr…

The IPKat

The cover provides the requisite information—title, author, and publisher. The copyright lawyer might well respond with a glazed look. Copyright law developed to protect the commercial potential of (literary) works in an age of multiple reproduction. But it also includes the reproduction of a portrait of a young woman.

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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Velocity of Content

This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents).

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. ix] Just a brief glimpse at a meme can demonstrate just how little copyright protected material is used. [x] xii] These so called “rules for meme marketing” instruct corporate entities to be “authentic” and “relatable.”

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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In 2013, after a decade of litigation, accompanied by a counterpoint of shifts in the book publishing industry driven by rapid technological change, Judge Chin ultimately found that Google’s scanning of the books amounted to fair use of those works. As such, it was permissible under United States copyright law. copyright law.

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