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A vanishing right? The Sui Generis Database Right and the proposed Data Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The proposal is the second major element of the European Data Strategy presented in 2020 and complements the Data Governance Act that is expected to be formally adopted this spring. In the impact assessment report this intervention is now described as a targeted review of the Database Right. A right that shall not be exercised.

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Digital collections from GLAM institutions: Policy Paper

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Context Copyright can be challenging for cultural institutions (or “GLAM“ for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) when pursuing digitization and dissemination activities, as copyright governs whether a given work can be used and if so, how (as shown in recent studies for museums , archives or libraries ). Proposal 4. Proposal 8.