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Please share nicely — From Database directive to Data (governance) acts

Kluwer Copyright Blog

For public sector bodies — producers and holders of vast quantities of data — as well as for the companies that act as suppliers, the sui generis database right has been slowly eroded since 2003. because there is no public access regime that applies, or because third parties own intellectual property rights.

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EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In the beginning of April, the European Parliament published a report on AI in the Digital Age. Together with the Digital Markets Act, the DSA is now expected to be put to final vote in a plenary session in the beginning of July 2022. The international body representing authors and composers published its 2022 Annual Report.

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A Closer Insight into Copyright related Issues in the Position Statement of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition on the Commission’s Proposal for a Data Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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)’. This post focuses on selected copyright and related rights matters that the Institute details in its Position Statement. Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay. Introduction.

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EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2023

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Council of the EU, Competitiveness Council – Conclusions adopted in meeting 22-23 May 2023 At its meeting on 22-23 May 2023, the Council of the EU agreed on important points related to scholarly publishing.

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Top 10 Posts on the Kluwer Copyright Blog in 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. A vanishing right? The Sui Generis Database Right and the proposed Data Act by Paul Keller. [T]he T]he European Commission published its proposal for a Data Act. 17 DSM Directive 2019/790 (“DSMD”). .

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

On 28 June 2022, the government published both the responses by the 61 participants (among which trade associations in the publishing, technology, and music industries, academics, libraries, and cross-sector bodies) together with its own position as far as legislative changes and next steps are concerned. All-purpose TDM.

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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.