Kluwer Copyright Blog
MARCH 4, 2022
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.
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). A discount for IPkat readers has kindly been provided by the publisher, please see below for the code.
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The IPKat
JANUARY 30, 2022
The IPKat has published several posts over the past two weeks! COPYRIGHT Katfriend Moritz Sutterer posted on a new competition tool that the German Competition Authority recently tried out against Google in relation to press publishers' neighbouring right.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
AUGUST 18, 2021
Fast forward and see: The Database directive stands unchanged and there is still no clear evidence that the then-new intellectual property right is an effective instrument. because there is no public access regime that applies, or because third parties own intellectual property rights.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JUNE 28, 2022
On 23 February 2022, the European Commission (EC) published a Proposal for a ‘Regulation on harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data (Data Act)’. The Institute acknowledges that the Data Act Proposal seeks to strike a balance between promoting access to and sharing of IoT data and protecting other conflicting rights.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JULY 7, 2022
In the beginning of April, the European Parliament published a report on AI in the Digital Age. In May 2022, the European Parliament published a study on IPRs and the impact on data access, portability and re-use. The international body representing authors and composers published its 2022 Annual Report. Read more here.
The IPKat
MARCH 6, 2022
In addition, potential and tangible intersections between intellectual property and these trending topics were recently discussed by The Trademark Lawyer Magazine. In February, the Commission published its proposal for a " Data Act ", which in principle aims to revise the legal framework of Directive 96/9/EC.
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