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Wednesday whimsies

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Two hybrid events on IP and international dispute resolution The Singapore’s Intellectual Property Office will conduct two hybrid events on the latest developments in technology and IP dispute resolution. The New York edition will take place on February 21, and the Washington edition is planned for February 23.

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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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In India, for example, Internet for general users arrived only in August 1995; […] email was a novelty confined to technology buffs and even such buffs knew little about the fledgling digital technologies. It illustrates the grave challenges that developing countries had to face for meaningfully participating in the DipCon.

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The WIPO Files I: the quest to protect user rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

For most of its existence, international copyright policy at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has focused on the creation and harmonization of exclusive rights. This led the Committee to embark on a decade-long process of commissioning expert studies relating to L&Es. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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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. Determining the scope of application of the copyright-related obligations in the DSA and the AI Act also poses difficulties. More from our authors: International Cybersecurity and Privacy Law in Practice, Second Edition by Charlotte A.

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Copyright law and football matches: impossible to match? (Part II)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Having excluded copyright protection, the only question which remained was to establish whether the broadcasts could be protected by related rights of the broadcasters. Moreover, digital technologies and artificial intelligence may dramatically transform how the concept of creative choice will be assessed.

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Broadcasters’ Cable Retransmission Rights: in line (or not) with the EU right of communication to the public?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

However, Member States can provide for such a right in their legislations. This is based on a historical interpretation of the concept of cable retransmission which should be inextricably linked to the specific technology that the Sat/Cab Directive aimed to regulate (par. Rights of authors and related rights: united or separated?

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[Guest post] What if AI wrote this post? – An inquiry into the impact of AI on the creative industries

The IPKat

Meanwhile, the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee is currently conducting an inquiry into the impact of AI on several sectors including the creative industries. 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.

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