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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Last week the European Commission published its proposal for a Data Act. 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.

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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). The consultation closed in the beginning of January 2022.

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A “pro-innovation” agenda: the UK Government’s Approach to AI and Digital Technology

LexBlog IP

The first report of this project was published on 15 March 2023 (the “ Vallance Report ”), and the UK Government released its response (the “ Government’s Response ”) shortly after.