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Digitalization And Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

The availability of a large variety of information has also increased the risk of Copyright Infringement due to its easy accessibility and dissemination. This has led to varying degrees of copyright infringements in this digital era.

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TDM: Poland challenges the rule of EU copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

By excluding the creation of generative artificial intelligence from the scope of both TDM exceptions, the Polish copyright law would remove any statutory basis for the use of copyrighted works in the context of building generative AI models.

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EU copyright law round up – fourth trimester of 2023

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Welcome to the fourth (and last) round up of EU copyright law for 2023! In this edition, we update you on what has happened in the last three months of 2024 in EU copyright law. Finally, the CJEU has received its first preliminary references on the CDSM Directive. You can read the previous round-ups here.

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Research Exceptions in Comparative Copyright Law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Promoting research and access to its products has always been a core purpose of copyright law, often expressed in limitations and exceptions for research uses. Recent legal scholarship has examined the need for copyright exceptions for text and data mining (TDM) methodologies, and the doctrines recently enacted to achieve this purpose.

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Parody under the Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction The word ‘parody’ refers to work that uses humor as a means to critique, ridicule, or expose the flaws in existing work. Anand case, they are appropriately referred to as the ‘locus classicus’, and their importance in finding copyright violations for cinematographic films is enormous. 2003 (27) PTC 457 (Bom) (DB).

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Spotify to cease operations in Uruguay over copyright laws

The IPKat

As has been reported in the music press, the well-known digital music service Spotify has announced that it will be imminently ceasing its operations in Uruguay due to certain amendments included in the country's copyright laws regarding the remuneration of performers.

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[Guest post] Reciprocity in copyright law

The IPKat

In fact, and much to the contrary, it has been established national law and practice – prior and after ‘Cofemel’ – that the scope of protection correlates with the level of originality which, in return, corresponds with the degree of departure from the existing design corpus (i.e., the “degree of creative freedom exercised by the author”).