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Whither a Signal-Based Broadcast Treaty?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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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Copyright Protection of Photographs: a Comparative Analysis Between France, Germany and Italy

Kluwer Copyright Blog

However, under German copyright law, photographs that do not meet the originality requirement under Section 2(1) of the UrhG can still be protected as Lichtbilder (photographs) by means of a specific related right under Section 72 of the UrhG. Simple photographs. .

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Role Of Intellectual Property Rights In The Era Of Quantum Technology

IIPRD

Recent advances in the technical field of quantum technologies have not only experienced high amount of attention in information science and software engineering disciplines but also gained a wide interest of government due to its complexity and global significance. What kinds of IP related rights would apply to quantum computing technology?

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AI Music Outputs: Challenges to the Copyright Legal Framework – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Part II will present our conclusions regarding EU rules on related rights and outline policy recommendations for EU legislators in this field. As noted below, however, it might still benefit from protection under related rights. This two-part blog post contains a summary of our report’s conclusions and recommendations.

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

Further information is available here. The website of the event contains information about the programme and registration. Its massive use brings legal consequences for classic IP rights and offers real challenges in particular to trade marks, copyright and related rights and patents.

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[Guest post] SIAE vs Meta: no more Italian music available on Facebook and Instagram?

The IPKat

The IPKat has received and is happy to host this guest contribution by Deborah De Angelis (Studio Legale DDA) on the highly publicized halted licensing negotiations between Italian collecting society SIAE and Meta regarding the availability of the music repertoire administered by the former on the latter’s services. 17 (4), a). 17 (4), b).

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Training AI models on Synthetic Data: No silver bullet for IP infringement risk in the context of training AI systems (Part 3 of 4)

LexBlog IP

1] Directive (EU) 2019/790 of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market, OJ 130/92, pp. 1] Directive (EU) 2019/790 of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market, OJ 130/92, pp. 4(1) and 4(3).

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