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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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The UK government moves forward with a text and data mining exception for all purposes

Kluwer Copyright Blog

As previously reported , between October 2021 and January 2022 the UK Intellectual Property Office held a public consultation on the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property laws (more specifically, copyright and patents). This is now set to change. All-purpose TDM.

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Are AI models’ weights protected databases?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

However, it’s unclear whether the models themselves are currently protected by intellectual property laws. However, in the EU there is another strong candidate for protecting model weights: the sui generis protection for databases established in Directive 96/9. If model weights qualify as a database, what then?