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‘Copying into Copyright Law’: Ireland’s minimalist transposition of Directive 2019/790

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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.

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Kenya Copyright Board on "responsible use of memes": quasi-judicial powers and balanced perspectives

The IPKat

Last week, Kenya's government agency in charge of copyright matters, Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO) published an advisory via its Twitter handle. This advisory is coming in the wake of the proliferation of memes on Kenya's ongoing election campaigns and elections, trending on various social media platforms.

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2H 2022 Quick Links, Part 3 (Copyrights and More)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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.

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AI and copyright in 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

These include (and may be limited to) Hong Kong ( section 11(3), Copyright Ordinance ), India (section 2(d)(vi), Copyright Act, 1957 ), Ireland ( Art. We will keep the law under review and could amend, replace or remove protection in future if the evidence supports it.”

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