TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2023

Harmonization With EU Copyright Law Under the EU-Moldova Association Agreement of 2014, Moldova was required to reform copyright law to meet EU standards. ” The establishment of “an efficient system” for the collective management of copyright and related rights was also mentioned.

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Copyright Law Music Law Copyright 119

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

31, 2022): When an individual’s decision to disseminate an Instagram post is the “very thing the article [is] reporting on,” the use of the Instagram post and its copyrighted material in the reporting has been deemed sufficiently transformative to support a fair use defense. UMG Recordings, Inc. Grumpy Cat Limited v.

Copyright 92

Copyright Social Media Copyright Infringement Publishing 92

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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Music Copyright Derivative Work Ownership 67

Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Welcome to the fourth and final trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. This becomes quite evident when one looks at the number of institutional policy reports that have been issued in the past three months.

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Copyright Law Copyright Law Reporting 116

Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

One of its main purposes is to set common minimum requirements regarding the governance, financial management, transparency and reporting of the CMO themselves (for an earlier analysis, see here ). In fact, until 2017, when the Decree-Law No. 180 of the Italian Copyright Act concerning the copyright intermediation activity.

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Copyright Law Marketing Marketing 67

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

Welcome to the first trimester of the 2022 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. We report here on one case, issued late in December 2021, which may be of interest to our copyright readers, despite its focus on private international law.

Copyright Law 60

Copyright Law Copyright Law Music 60

The IPKat

APRIL 29, 2022

WIPO is gearing up for the 42nd session of its Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights and the Africa Group at WIPO has submitted a proposal for a Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions (L&Es). At the wake of the pandemic, the mode of conducting the SCCR’s sessions changed drastically.

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Copyright Related Rights Law Copyright Law 108

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

This post is based on the chapter “Audiovisual Coverage of Sports Events and Copyright Law: Originality in the Details?” Bernt Hugenholtz, Kluwer Law International, 2021. But, could they be considered as works in the sense of European copyright law? Intellectual Property and Sports: Essays in Honour of P.

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Copyright Law Copyright Law Intellectual Property 126

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The 42nd session of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) took place from 9 to 13 May 2022 in Geneva. the lack of copyright exceptions fit for the digital environment). Image by Ag Ku via Pixabay.

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Copyright Intellectual Property Publishing Reporting 104

Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Welcome to the third trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. On 23 September 2021, the UKIPO published a report looking into how creators earn in the digital era and, more specifically, through streaming. Stay tuned!

Copyright Law 60

Copyright Law Copyright Law Television 60

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

There is a significant push at this week’s meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights to approve a Diplomatic Conference on a Broadcasting Organizations Treaty that is not strictly limited to combating unlawful interception of traditional broadcast signals.

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Public Domain Contracts Copyright Licensing 64

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The relevant act, seeking to bring Ireland in line with the Directive, is the Statutory Instrument 567/2021 ‘European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021’ (hereinafter ‘ the Regulations’ ). The Irish legislative transposition finally became law on 19 November 2021.

Copying 103

Copying Copyright Law Copyright Social Media 103

Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Commission units in charge of public sector information policy have successfully chipped away at the sui generis right, the successive units responsible for copyright so far seem to have favoured a status quo. because there is no public access regime that applies, or because third parties own intellectual property rights.

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Government Database Right Intellectual Property Copyright 56

The IPKat

MAY 22, 2023

The use of AI technology to generate images or music and other creative works, has legal implications for copyright and related rights of creators and rightsholders. It has the capacity to run through a large number of tasks extremely quickly, which allows it to become more capable at performing tasks it has been trained to do.

Music 82

Music Intellectual Property Copyright Technology 82

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 24, 2022

This post is the second instalment of an analysis of a recent report , a part of the reCreating Europe project, on the application of EU copyright and related rights law to outputs generated by or with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, tools or techniques (AI outputs), with a focus on outputs in the musical domain.

Music 56

Music Copyright Related Rights Ownership 56

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

Despite this new wave in the case law, the impact of illegal distribution of audiovisual contents is growing to volumes that make piracy services the first real competitors of the audiovisual industry. More from our authors: Exceptions in EU Copyright Law: In Search of a Balance Between Flexibility and Legal Certainty.

Television 52

Television Copyright Blogging Law 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 – A step towards “factfulness” by Jan Bernd Nordemann. At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. In any case, this first YouTube Report is indeed a promising start (Paul Keller, op cit.), Factfulness, p.

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Copyright Blogging Fair Use Reporting 95

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 16, 2024

One of the hurdles faced by AI developers that using synthetic data may help overcome arises under the EU Copyright Directive (the “Copyright Directive”). [1] 1] Directive (EU) 2019/790 of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market, OJ 130/92, pp.

IP 52

IP Copyright Art Related Rights 52

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Katfriends Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst from Lewis Silkin report on recent litigation in the UK against the developers of AI generation software. Last year the IPKat reported that the US Copyright Office refuses to register AI-generated works and requires human authorship as a prerequisite to copyright protection.

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Litigation Copying Copyright Designs 143

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

4996/2022 in November 2022 ( ΦΕΚ Α´ 2022/24.11.2022 ), which amended the basic Greek Copyright Law ( L. 2121/1993 on “Copyright, Related Rights and Cultural Matters” ), as well as L. 4481/2017, on “Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights” ( ΦΕΚ Α’ 100/20.7.2017 ). 43bis I.aut.,

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Publishing Art Related Rights Marketing 52

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.

Contracts 98

Contracts Copyright Law Cease and Desist 98

SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

The EU took the Intellectual Property route by introducing a related right under its copy right law. The right is an exclusive right to reproduction and making the content available online to the EU press publishers against online use of their content by information society service providers for two years.

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Publishing Marketing Marketing Advertising 105

Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

ALLEA agrees, and therefore favours copyright rules that allow for OA publication of (partially) publicly funded research with immediate access and no embargo. Negotiate future deals considering national and EU copyright law. 3 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, 2019/790: [link]. [9] 8] (a) Art.

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Copyright Publishing Journalism Art 126

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

It will then explain why this implementation approach runs counter to the fundamental freedom of information and to basic principles of copyright law. In a report of the National Assembly , the lower house of the French Parliament, a similarly restrictive view of the VSE limitation was put forward.

Publishing 52

Publishing Intellectual Property Law Intellectual Property Related Rights 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Article 17 Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (“DSM Directive”) is currently being implemented into national law in the EU Member States. There is some controversy as to how the right of communication to the public as mentioned in Art. Image of conolan on Pixabay.

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Art Law Related Rights Marketing 85

Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This included the highly controversial Articles 15 and 17 on, respectively, the new press publishers’ right (PPR) and the new copyright liability scheme for OCSSPs (“online content-sharing services providers”). The report was commissioned by C4C , but written in complete academic independence.

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Reporting Marketing Marketing Copyright 52

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.

Social Media 93

Social Media Copyright Copyright Law Due Diligence 93

Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Parts 2 to 4 will address exploitation rights, related rights, exceptions and limitations, copyright contract law and enforcement. Germany has always had an extensive judicial practice in copyright law. The case law of that copyright law senate of the BGH from 2015 to 2019 is summarised below.

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Moral Rights Law Copyright Copyright Law 52