TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The amendments relating to online advertising are considerable but of particular interest is a section that outlaws placement of advertising on pirate platforms, in clearly defined circumstances. Law of Ukraine No.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Readers are reminded that they can vote for their favourite intellectual property law books of 2023 in the annual IPKat Book of the Year Awards! Votes must be made via email before 15th January 2024 as per the instructions below. You can check out the previous nominees and winners here. Rules of Voting Only ONE vote per person.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Much has been said about the press publishers’ right, introduced by Article 15 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM). An important but relatively neglected flaw is its silence on the features of the licensing mechanism that Member States may and shall adopt for the management of the press publishers’ right.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Much has been said about the press publishers’ right, introduced by Article 15 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM). An important but relatively neglected flaw is its silence on the features of the licensing mechanism that Member States may and shall adopt for the management of the press publishers’ right.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Léon has recently published a book on the subject, which is being launched on 12 January 2024. Intellectual Property Generally Chijioke Okorie concluded the “Africa IP Highlights 2023" series by highlighting some of the key reforms in IP policy, legislation and administration in Africa this year.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

With the adoption of both the Directive on Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) and the Digital Services Act (DSA), the European Union has moved away from the notice-and-takedown model for copyright enforcement and content moderation. Click here to know more. More details to come. More information to come.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

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. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. by Christopher Heath. €

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 12, 2022

Dr VRR Ayyar’s book, “Present at Creation: The Making of Internet Treaties (1996)”, published in 2021. And it’s published under a creative commons license, with the text available on his website here. There is however one stand-out entry that looks like it will be of interest to several of our readers.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 12, 2023

After spending more than 16 years implementing intellectual property laws introduced in 2005, amendments to intellectual property law in Vietnam came into effect on January 1, 2023. ” Hollywood studios and publishers of Japanese anime and manga have long complained of difficulties enforcing their rights in Vietnam.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The European Audiovisual Observatory (“EAO”) has recently published the Mapping report on national remedies against online piracy of sports content (“Report”), conducted at the request of the European Commission. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. Image by Marco Verch under Creative Commons 2.0.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2024

Vietnam’s approach to the protection of intellectual property rights has long been criticized by the United States, earning the country prominent placement in successive USTR Special 301 Reports. Images of all three men have since been published online, but the main focus is on alleged ringleader, Phan Ngoc Tuan.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Favouring the press publishers. This prompted some commentators to label this new addition a quasi-moral right – since there is no work of authorship to which the new moral right is attached. Nevertheless, a more precise characterisation is that this is a new related right.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 26, 2022

The CDSM Directive was published in May 2019 (see here and here for an overview), following a controversial legislative process at EU level. More from our authors: Practical Guide to Successful Intellectual Property Valuation and Transactions. by Alexander Puutio. € Internet Law: A Concise Guide to Regulation Around the World.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Most significantly, “the development of blockchain technology” has been accepted as a legal business activity by the Indonesian standard industrial business categorization code, which was published in 2020. Provisions of intellectual property law will be applicable to NFTs. cross-border transfer of personal data.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2023

January: In Kenya, prospective importers were required from January 1, 2023 to declare particulars of intellectual property rights for goods to be imported into the country. The Anti-Counterfeit (Recordation) Regulations 2021 , were then published in the Kenya gazette on 23rd July 2021 under Legal Notice Number 118 of 2021.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) has for many years supported the move away from proprietary models of scientific publishing towards Open Access (OA). [1] As a recent study demonstrates, commercial publishers currently derive more than two billion USD annually from APCs.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

This seems to have pushed EU Member States towards compliance – the latest examples here are the Irish European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021 (19 November), the Italian Decree (published on 27 November), and the Estonian Act implementing the Directive (8 December).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 24, 2022

MTÜ Urban Style , the Estonian Supreme Court examined the circumstances that should be taken into account in determining the amount of the equitable remuneration that phonogram producers and performers are entitled to claim if a phonogram published for commercial purposes or a reproduction thereof is used for communication to the public.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

This post is the second instalment of an analysis of the ‘very short extracts’ (VSE) carve-out to the press publishers’ right set forth in Article 15 of the CDSM Directive. depending on their length and informative content – may be covered by the press publishers’ right. Image by Pexels via Pixabay.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 30, 2023

However, the Court rejected the action as: not legal, insofar as it concerned the protection of recipes as works of intellectual property; and unfounded, because recipes are assimilated to ideas and not to works enjoying copyright protection under Greek (and EU) law. dishes and seasonings) as works of IP. (1)

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The IPKat

MAY 22, 2022

The Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law (IFIM) at Stockholm University is proud and delighted to announce its new, in-person event to be held in English at Stockholm University on Thursday, June 2, 2022, on the topic: 'The DSM Directive 3 years on: The Polish challenge to Article 17 and the national transposition maze'.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2022

The event is designed to encourage interactive discussions among participants through panel debates, with each of them covering 4 or 5 key topics related to each specific sector. , and Copyright in Graffiti and Street Art). The website of the event contains information about the programme and registration.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Not every frowning cartoon cat infringes; or at least plaintiff has failed to persuade that its intellectual property reaches that far. Tattoos are “published” when completed. Additionally, we note that this Study revealed little demand for additional copyright-related rights for press publishers.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This contribution is based on a paper published in 44 European Intellectual Property Law Review 595 (2022). . This does not require any creativity but simply a de minimis “personal intellectual effort” ( ein Mindestmaß an persönlicher geistiger Leistung ) or a “mere technical effort” ( rein technische Leistung ).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

On 23 February 2022, the European Commission (EC) published a Proposal for a ‘Regulation on harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data (Data Act)’. The Institute acknowledges that the Data Act Proposal seeks to strike a balance between promoting access to and sharing of IoT data and protecting other conflicting rights.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

UK Intellectual Property Office, UK’s future exhaustion of IPR regime. In February, the Commission published a study on copyright and new technologies caried out by Technopolis Group, Philippe Rixhon Associates, the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Crowell & Moring LLP and IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems.

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IPilogue

JULY 8, 2021

On 19 April 2019, the European Parliament and Council adopted the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market. Consequently, the European Commission has tried to eliminate certain ambiguities by publishing the Guidance on Article 17. Tugce Kucukali is an IPilogue Writer and incoming LL.M.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It is thus clear that TDM does matter - but what should its relationship with copyright and related rights be? Recital 8 acknowledges, on the one hand, the value and potential of TDM but, on the other hand, notes the restrictions that copyright and related rights pose to the doing of TDM activities without a licence.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 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 “online content-sharing services providers” (OCSSPs). The post is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Article 15 CDSMD: the new press publishers’ right (PPR).

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Garrigues Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

However, the government has introduced amendments and additions to the “old” Portuguese Code of Copyright and and Related Rights (CDADC), incorporating special features in the Portuguese law with respect to the wording and legal regime of the Copyright Directive. 47/2023, of June 19, 2023. In fact, Decree-Law no.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and related rights and access to and reuse of scientific publications, including open access. The post is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Image by Mediamodifier from Pixabay.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

By now, Article 15 of Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSM Directive) needs no wordy introductions. Put briefly, the provision requires Member States to introduce a related (or neighbouring) right for press publishers, applicable to online uses of their publications.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The 42nd session of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) took place from 9 to 13 May 2022 in Geneva. More from our authors: Practical Guide to Successful Intellectual Property Valuation and Transactions. Image by Ag Ku via Pixabay.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In this blog post, based on a recently published article , I assess this lesser-explored exception and call for its wider implementation and expansive interpretation by EU member states. . It is often prepared and published by either the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) or third-party publishers. Image by Annie Spratt.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Part 2 explores further exemptions for users of works, new aspects of the right of communication to the public and the press publishers’ right. The new related right for press publishers (Sections 87 et seqq. Further exemptions for users of works (continued). b) Teaching.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

21, Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 ), New Zealand ( section 5(2)(a), Copyright Act 1994 ), South Africa (section 2(h), Copyright Act 1978 ) and the UK ( Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 9(3) ). The UKIPO has since been speaking with specific stakeholders.

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