Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 4, 2022

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 IPKat

JULY 30, 2023

Now in its second edition, the book offers a primer on copyright-related challenges that artificial intelligence (AI) presents. For instance, he reviews the UK system of protection for computer-generated works and the EU sui generis database right. Each chapter addresses a specific question raised by AI.

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The IPKat

MARCH 18, 2023

The book is presented in five parts, described in the book as “broadly along the lines drawn by the main Acts of Parliament dealing with these branches of law.” The fourth part explains copyright and related rights including performers rights and moral rights as well as confidential information.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

Thus, the government cautiously decided to keep monitoring developments in the field and reserved its right to “amend, replace or remove protection in future if the evidence supports it”. The more interesting development relates to the TDM exception in section 29A CDPA. This is now set to change. All-purpose TDM.

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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 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. Part II is available here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

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?

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The CJEU’s recognition of the added value for customers that content aggregators can create, and the refined and subtle (while perhaps not totally clear) balancing act suggested by the decision, makes CV-Online Latvia an important addition to the CJEU’s database right jurisprudence.

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