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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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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat the past 2 weeks!

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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.

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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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Book review: Guidebook to Intellectual Property + discount code

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A discount for IPkat readers has kindly been provided by the publisher, please see below for the code. The fourth part explains copyright and related rights including performers rights and moral rights as well as confidential information. It provides an outline of the basic legal principles and how the IP system works.

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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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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. 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. CISAC, 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)’. 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.