IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Thus, the COVID 19 pandemic has underlined the importance of waiving patents and other IP-related rights linked to healthcare products, vaccines, and scientific processes to ensure the accessibility of the same on a global level. Image Source:gettyimages]. Highlights of the WTO TRIPS waiver proposed by South Africa and India.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

There is a significant push at this week’s meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights to approve a Diplomatic Conference on a Broadcasting Organizations Treaty that is not strictly limited to combating unlawful interception of traditional broadcast signals.

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Public Domain Contracts Copyright Licensing 62

IP Whiteboard

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The consultation covers five key areas of IP – patents, copyright, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. Copyright and related rights. According to the UK IPO, AI cannot currently be recognised as the author or owner of a design because AI does not have legal personality. copyright protection for AI software.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Commission units in charge of public sector information policy have successfully chipped away at the sui generis right, the successive units responsible for copyright so far seem to have favoured a status quo. because there is no public access regime that applies, or because third parties own intellectual property rights.

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Government Database Right Intellectual Property Copyright 55

The IPKat

MAY 22, 2023

The use of AI technology to generate images or music and other creative works, has legal implications for copyright and related rights of creators and rightsholders. As the creative industry is responsible for 6% of the UK’s GDP, the dialogue is particularly important with regards to the protection of the rights of the creatives.

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Music Intellectual Property Copyright Technology 82

Patently-O

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Patent cases also involve aspects of secrecy—such as unpublished patent applications that might bear on validity and business strategy related to damages—but trade secret litigation goes to the very heart of the cause of action: that the information that was allegedly misappropriated was not known or readily ascertainable.

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Litigation Intellectual Property Business Government 105

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

“ YouTube II ” concerned the infringement of the right of communication to the public as per Article 3 of the Copyright Directive (2001/29) in relation to copyright and related rights in various music tracks.

Copyright Law 52

Copyright Law Copyright Law Copyright Infringement 52

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Katfriends Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst from Lewis Silkin report on recent litigation in the UK against the developers of AI generation software. Last year the IPKat reported that the US Copyright Office refuses to register AI-generated works and requires human authorship as a prerequisite to copyright protection.

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Litigation Copying Copyright Designs 143

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 – A step towards “factfulness” by Jan Bernd Nordemann. At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. In any case, this first YouTube Report is indeed a promising start (Paul Keller, op cit.), Factfulness, p.

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Copyright Blogging Fair Use Reporting 95

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The relevant act, seeking to bring Ireland in line with the Directive, is the Statutory Instrument 567/2021 ‘European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021’ (hereinafter ‘ the Regulations’ ). The Irish legislative transposition finally became law on 19 November 2021. Section 53A).

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Copying Copyright Law Copyright Social Media 102

The IPKat

OCTOBER 4, 2022

its pattern, trade mark or design) to determine whether it is genuine or counterfeit. This issue has also raised the question of how to strike the right balance between the respective interests and rights of intellectual property owners on the one hand and amateur creators, users and content sharing services on the other.

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Technology Publishing Social Media Intellectual Property 117

SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

The EU took the Intellectual Property route by introducing a related right under its copy right law. The right is an exclusive right to reproduction and making the content available online to the EU press publishers against online use of their content by information society service providers for two years.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

Both Article 7b(2)(c) of the Dutch Neighbouring Rights Act and Section 87g(2)(4) of the German Copyright and Related Rights Act very much stick to the wording of Article 15(1) of the CDSM Directive. Like exceptions, or perhaps even more than them, limitations are of fundamental importance in copyright’s overall design.

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Publishing Intellectual Property Law Intellectual Property Related Rights 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

According to the BGH, the specific design of the cards and consoles manufactured by the plaintiff constituted effective technical measures within the meaning of Section 95a (2) and (3) No. In the view of the BGH, an infringement of the film producer’s related right does not require that a copyright protected part had been used.

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Contracts Copyright Law Cease and Desist 98

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

On the basis of the independent study, the European Commission acknowledged in a Report on the application of the Orphan Works Directive that ‘the [orphan works] Directive’s mechanism has been rarely used in practice and its relevance as a potential tool for the mass digitisation of cultural heritage has therefore proven to be limited’.

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Copyright Marketing Marketing Licensing 102

Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This included the highly controversial Articles 15 and 17 on, respectively, the new press publishers’ right (PPR) and the new copyright liability scheme for OCSSPs (“online content-sharing services providers”). The report was commissioned by C4C , but written in complete academic independence. Interaction with other types of liability.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This first part covers the definition of a work, authorship and moral rights. Parts 2 to 4 will address exploitation rights, related rights, exceptions and limitations, copyright contract law and enforcement. Germany has always had an extensive judicial practice in copyright law. 2] BGH, 16 April 2015, GRUR 2015, 1189. [3]

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