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Fish & Richardson Elevates 17 Attorneys to Principal 

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

magna cum laude , from George Mason University School of Law in 2014 and his B.S., Dr. Caleb Bates focuses his practice on intellectual property law, with an emphasis on patent prosecution, strategic counseling, and worldwide patent portfolio management in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields. He received his J.D.,

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European Copyright Society (ECS): Comment on Copyright and the Digital Services Act Proposal

Kluwer Copyright Blog

To achieve these aims, the DSA sets out numerous due diligence obligations of intermediaries concerning any type of illegal information, including copyright infringing content. Copyright law accounts for most content removals from online platforms and search engine result lists, by an order of magnitude. by Christopher Heath. €

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A vanishing right? The Sui Generis Database Right and the proposed Data Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In addition, the scope of the sui generis database right should be significantly reduced either by making it conditional on “ due diligence and transparency standards ” for investments in databases (Derclaye & Husovec, 2021) or on registration ( Wikimedia, 2022 ) or by repealing the right all-together (COMMUNIA, 2017 and 2021 ).

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The BGH reasoned that a claim for non-material damages was weakened by the fact that there were doubts as to whether the relevant public in that case even attributed the edited images to the author at all. This does require a violation of a due diligence obligation, however. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.