Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

However, the ensuing craze and notoriety generated by many high-value NFT transactions has revealed a slew of unanswered legal copyright questions and issues. However, de facto they merely owned proof of ownership without any proprietary value, as all copyright and any related rights were retained and not granted upon purchase.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Database Directive and Open data directive have a shared history, going back to the late 1980s when the European Commission first got serious about copyright in the internal market ( Van Eechoud 2021). So effectively, the 2013 directive already curtailed public sector bodies’ copyright and sui generis rights in data.

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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.

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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. CJEU judgments.

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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.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Recent media reports suggest that the Parliament and Member States remain at loggerheads over how and (if) the law should regulate so-called foundation models. ” While the first obligation is an evolved version of the language contained in the European Parliament’s report on the AI Act, the second obligation is new. .”

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IP Whiteboard

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The consultation covers five key areas of IP – patents, copyright, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. Copyright and related rights. copyright protection for AI software. The call for views points out that AI is already used to create copyright works, such as music and art.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

In previous posts on this Blog we have analyzed some developments in Italy with regards to private and administrative enforcement against illicit distribution of copyright content over the Internet and the use of the dynamic injunction, with special focus on the protection of live sport events.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

The introduction of Law 4481/2017 into the Greek legislation aimed to regulate the collective management of IP and relative rights, thus amending the EU Collective Rights Management Directive. (1) What is the reporting obligation? What is the reporting obligation? When does the reporting obligation apply?

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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.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

As we enter a new year, we would like to take this opportunity to pass on our best wishes for 2023 to all of our readers, as well as reflect on developments in copyright over the past year. YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 – A step towards “factfulness” by Jan Bernd Nordemann. Since then, courts in the U.S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq. German copyright law stipulates that the author is entitled to appropriate remuneration for every use of their work (Section 32 UrhG). Claims under copyright law. Protection of technical measures (Section 95a UrhG).

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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. The AG suggests that the private copyright exception applies in the cloud, but a separate levy may not be payable. EU Parliament, Draft report on IP Action Plan.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 16, 2024

This third part of our four-part series on using synthetic data to train AI models explores the interplay between synthetic data training sets, the EU Copyright Directive and the forthcoming EU AI Act. Stated another way, how can a person wishing to use such content reasonably discover and avoid materials subject to an opt-out?

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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. It is unclear whether the claim relates solely to the training of the Stability AI system, or whether it includes the outputs of that system.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The new copyright rules relevant to “Big Deals”. Under the law of copyright, the authors of works of science are the copyright owners of their published articles. Under the law of copyright, the authors of works of science are the copyright owners of their published articles.

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The IPKat

MAY 31, 2022

TRADE MARKS The impact of Brexit on trade mark cases involving UK-based rights has been a hot topic over the past two years. But for how long will UK-based rights continue to play a role in deciding EU trade mark disputes? Can a slogan be protected by copyright?

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SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

Press publishers are dependent on platforms like Google and Facebook for referential traffic on their website making it difficult for them to negotiate with giant platforms especially the ones with the dominant market position. The EU took the Intellectual Property route by introducing a related right under its copy right law.

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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 ). 15 of the CDSMD.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

The Directive does this through a mandatory exception for copyright infringement that allows cultural heritage institutions and educational institutions to reproduce and make available orphan works from their collections to the public. As a result, the impossibility to disseminate valuable cultural heritage remained.

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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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The IPKat

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This use case analyses the impact of these technologies on the monitoring, management and moderation of the large amount of copyright-protected content shared through these services. YouTube's Content ID as well as Meta's Rights Manager ) as well as purchased or outsourced third-party ACRs (e.g.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In 2019, the EU’s Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) was adopted. 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”).

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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. At the same time, this inconsistency is distressing, especially since the grand purpose of the Directive is to foster a digital single market. The short answer is “inconsistently”.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In 2019, the EU’s Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) was adopted. This included the highly controversial Articles 15 and 17 on, respectively, the new press publishers’ right (PPR) and the new copyright liability scheme for “online content-sharing services providers” (OCSSPs). Mere facts”.

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