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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 3 of 4: Related rights and exceptions and limitations

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Related rights. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. This English language article has been published in full already in “Auteurs & Media” 2021/1, page 33 et seq. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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Opinion of the European Copyright Society on certain selected aspects of Case C-227/23, Kwantum Nederland and Kwantum België

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Source: European Copyright Society This blog post contains an edited version of the European Copyright Society’s Opinion on Case C-227/23, Kwantum Nederland and Kwantum België. More from our authors: International Cybersecurity and Privacy Law in Practice, Second Edition by Charlotte A.

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Copyright and the meta-regulation of intermediary services and artificial intelligence

Kluwer Copyright Blog

These overall aims also include the protection of copyright and related rights. 85 AI Act only sets out a “right to lodge a complaint with a market surveillance authority”, and recital 170 AI Act suggests that this right exhausts the available remedies available to private parties. 34 and 35 DSA).

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Open Access Book on Negotiating History of the WCT and WPPT by Dr. R.V.V. Ayyar

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It had to adopt a nuanced approach of not abandoning the principles of balance it had long espoused and at the same time support efforts to strengthen protection in the digital medium in a manner that would not constrict its choices as digital technologies and markets evolve. Watal and A.

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Is the Italian Legislation on Collective Copyright Management compliant with EU Law?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The reason is that, as noted below, the Directive provides that IMEs can be in charge of the collective management of copyright and related rights and that, inter alia , “ right holders should be free to entrust the management of their rights to independent management entities.”

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Establishment and operation of CMOs in Greece

LexBlog IP

Also, article 18(3) of Law 4481/2017 states as follows: Management fees of the collective management organisation shall not exceed the justified and documented costs in managing copyright and related rights. Management fees should not exceed, on average, 20% of the gross rights revenue of the collective management organisation.

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Does food flavouring constitute a “work”?

LexBlog IP

The third defendant was licensed to produce and market the disputed foods and spices under its own name and at its own expense, paying a fixed fee to the plaintiff for each individual product sold. Compensation presupposes culpability and infringement of IP (or related rights) (i.e., 5) Supreme Court 484/2020. (6)