The IPKat

MARCH 18, 2023

It provides an outline of the basic legal principles and how the IP system works. The preface reiterates that the purpose of the book is to describe the essential nature of living IP law: "What we want is the reader to come away with a good idea of how IP works in practice."

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Intellectual Property Moral Rights Database Right Editing 78

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. The 2018 review of the Database directive and accompanying public consultation perpetuated this stasis. Stage I: to the Open data directive.

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Government Database Right Intellectual Property Copyright 56

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

This post focuses on selected copyright and related rights matters that the Institute details in its Position Statement. The Data Act Proposal explicitly addresses the relationship between the new right to access and share IoT data and the sui generis database right provided for in Article 7 of Directive 96/9/EC.

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Copyright Intellectual Property Database Right Related Rights 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

European and international policymakers have raised how artificial intelligence (AI) interacts with intellectual property (IP) law on several occasions. Nonetheless, before any policy and law-making endeavour can be undertaken, a fitness test of the existing IP framework is indispensable.

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Copyright Public Domain Intellectual Property Database Right 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the second trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, every three months we update you on what has happened in EU copyright law. According to the AG, it follows from Article 297 TFEU that EU law is, in principle, not capable of benefiting from copyright protection.

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Copyright Law Law Copyright Publishing 60

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

A vanishing right? The Sui Generis Database Right and the proposed Data Act by Paul Keller. [T]he The Contested Meaning of Web3 & Why it Matters for (IP) Lawyers by Mark Fenwick and Paulius Jurcys. This begs the question of how EU law can and should meet this challenge. Part II is available here.

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Copyright Blogging Fair Use Reporting 95