Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Summary In the case of Wright & Ors v BTC Core & Ors [2023] EWHC 222 the High Court was faced with a technical copyright question about whether literary copyright can subsist in the file format used for the Bitcoin System (the “ Bitcoin File Format ”). 3(2) Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (the “ Act ”).

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The IPKat

JULY 30, 2023

This Kat is happy to review “ 25 things you should know about artificial intelligence, art and copyright ” by Pablo Fernández Carballo-Calero (Aranzadi, 2023, 160 p.). Now in its second edition, the book offers a primer on copyright-related challenges that artificial intelligence (AI) presents.

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The IPKat

MARCH 18, 2023

This is a review of Guidebook to Intellectual Property (seventh edition) authored by Sir Robin Jacob (8 New Square and UCL, Matthew Fisher (UCL) and Lynne Chave (UCL). The fourth part explains copyright and related rights including performers rights and moral rights as well as confidential information.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Those versed in the intersection between IP rights and technology know that computer programs protection has always caused inevitable frictions IP law. Additionally, all proprietary and open source software licensing rely on copyright protection. Nevertheless, when one considers ML models, the first issue is conceptualising them.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 4, 2022

But for anyone who had expected the Data Act to include a revision of the Database Directive — an ambition that the Commission had signalled in both the 2020 Data Strategy and the 2020 Intellectual Property Action Plan — the final proposal will be a major disappointment. A right that shall not be exercised.

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The IPKat

MAY 29, 2023

This Kat is pleased to review the “ Overlapping Intellectual Property rights ”, edited by Neil Wilkof [full disclosure: a member of the IPKat team], Shamnad Basheer, and Irene Calboli (OUP, 2023, 864 pp.). The volume is a beautiful testimony to the work of late Shamnad Basheer, who co-edited the first edition.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 16, 2022

The European Copyright Society posted an opinion on selected aspects of the proposed Data Act. 35) to reduce the availability of IP rights over some datasets is welcome. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. The aim of the Data Act’s sui generis clause (art. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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