Intellectual Property, Related Rights and Technology

Role Of Intellectual Property Rights In The Era Of Quantum Technology

IIPRD

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

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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BREAKING: First CJEU referral on press publishers’ related right (Italian-style)

The IPKat

DECEMBER 13, 2023

After the first DSM Directive-related referral from Belgium on the provisions concerning contracts of authors and performers [IPKat here ] , it is now the turn of Article 15 (the related right for press publishers) as implemented into Italian law.

Wednesday whimsies

The IPKat

JANUARY 31, 2024

Shortly after that, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) will also hold a webinar on trade secrets, focusing on trends in trade secrets’ litigation across the EU. This year’s theme is AI’s impact on creation, innovation, content, IP rights and competition. Registration is open here.

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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Indonesia

IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The Indonesian government has examined the existence of blockchain technology cautiously, leaning more toward acceptance of the new technology than outright prohibition. The current rules and regulations acknowledge the use of blockchain technology. Provisions of intellectual property law will be applicable to NFTs.

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Spain launches its first-ever Copyright Office

Olartemoure Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

According to UNISON Rights, Spain has been experiencing problems in copyright approach and management, as a result of new technologies such as NFTs and AI , which have increased the number of works created in a short period of time.

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

SpicyIP

JANUARY 12, 2022

Some time ago, we had brought to you a list of freely accessible scholarly material on and around Intellectual Property – the post is here and the list is here – and are happy to say that we are in the process of updating that list with even more books and materials!

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The WIPO Files I: the quest to protect user rights

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. These studies have focused on different categories of L&Es (i.e.

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Sunday Surprises

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. The conference sessions will address in particular how sustainability and new technologies will shape the future of brands.

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Africa IP highlights 2023: Reforms in IP policy, legislation and administration

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. In August , Kenya’s Copyright Board tabled the Copyright and Related Rights Bill, 2023 before Parliament.

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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

MAY 22, 2023

Hayleigh Bosher and Coran Darling giving evidence at the Inquiry Artificial intelligence is a highly debated topic in the intellectual property field currently. 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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UK Government axes plans to broaden existing text and data mining exception

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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How artificial intelligence works in relation to copyright

The IPKat

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Images generated using text-to-image technology, including DALL-E 2 , Midjourney , and Stable Diffussion , have become a main topic in AI. Not only do many express wonder about how these systems work, but there is even doubt whether such users even have rights to such outputs. We can use computers and data science for this purpose.

Copyright

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

Intellectual Property and Sports: Essays in Honour of P. Having excluded copyright protection, the only question which remained was to establish whether the broadcasts could be protected by related rights of the broadcasters. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. by Christopher Heath. €

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Introducing the Trade Secret Case Management Judicial Guide

Patently-O

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This landmark legislation, modeled on the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, elevated and expanded trade secret law’s role in the federal intellectual property system. It also parallels and differs from other types of intellectual property—patent, copyright, and trademark—litigation.

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Cambodia and its RCEP Accession

IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Trade in goods and services, investments, intellectual property, dispute resolution, e-commerce, small and medium-sized businesses, and economic cooperation are the main topics of discussion during the negotiations. This is very critical for Cambodia at this stage of development.

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2H 2022 Quick Links, Part 3 (Copyrights and More)

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. Additionally, we note that this Study revealed little demand for additional copyright-related rights for press publishers. Evox Productions, LLC v. Verizon Media, Inc., 2K Games, Inc. ,

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 12, 2022

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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Portugal strengthens copyright protection on the Internet

Garrigues Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

There is a need for strong, clear and effective EU and national legal frameworks on copyright and related rights protection, but these frameworks should also avoid contributing to the digital environment becoming, as is feared, an over-regulated, censored place.

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AI and copyright in 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Generative AI also showed its power in creating clear, sustained text in a variety of formats and styles with the launch of ChatGPT in November, generating daily interest in the news, debates over bans in schools , universities , scientific conferences and websites and speculation that the technology could be baked into Microsoft Office.

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The InfoSoc Directive and the Right to Repair: exploring the boundaries of a lesser-known copyright exception

Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Repair also offers important social benefits by bolstering technological literacy, empowering users of various technologies to become aware of their inner workings, and to enable people to exercise self-reliance and autonomy. More from our authors: Practical Guide to Successful Intellectual Property Valuation and Transactions.

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UKIPO’s public consultation on AI and IP – computer-generated works (Part 1)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

Running from 29 October 2021 to 7 January 2022, the “ Artificial Intelligence and IP: copyright and patents ” consultation formed the latest round in an ongoing national conversation between the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) and interested stakeholders (see here ). A third alternative: the related rights approach.

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The Jungle Bird, El Diablo, and the Zombie or Machine Learning Models, Computer Programs and Copyright put to the test

Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

European and international policymakers have raised how artificial intelligence (AI) interacts with intellectual property (IP) law on several occasions. Those versed in the intersection between IP rights and technology know that computer programs protection has always caused inevitable frictions IP law.

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[Guest Post] The African Group’s Proposal on a Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions Moves Forward in WIPO’s Committee on Copyright

The IPKat

MAY 19, 2022

Last month, Katfriends Desmond Oriakhogba and Dick Kawooya provided a highlight of the key portions of the Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions (L&Es) proposed by the Africa Group to WIPO's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (WIPO-SCCR). The 42nd session of the WIPO SCCR was held from 9 to 13 May 2022.

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The European Audiovisual Observatory publishes the Mapping report on national remedies against online piracy of sports content

Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Regarding the entitlement to the rights, the recording and broadcast of a sports event are protected by related rights, which are respectively granted to producers of audiovisual works for the first fixation of the film and to broadcasting organisations for the transmission of broadcast signals for public reception.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

The creation and development of copyright law are closely connected to technological and associated business transformations (see, e.g. here ). What is perhaps different with AI technologies is the magnitude of the potential impact, brought about by the unprecedented scale of automation that increases productivity and access to creativity.

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An Outline on South Africa and India’s WTO IP waiver

IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Thus, the COVID 19 pandemic has underlined the importance of waiving patents and other IP-related rights linked to healthcare products, vaccines, and scientific processes to ensure the accessibility of the same on a global level. Image Source:gettyimages]. Highlights of the WTO TRIPS waiver proposed by South Africa and India.

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AI and IP – A real conversation starter

IP Whiteboard

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Countries and organisations around the world are paying greater attention to the intersection of artificial intelligence ( AI ) and intellectual property ( IP ). The UK Intellectual Property Office ( UK IPO ) recently put out a call for views on the implications of AI for IP policy and conversely, the impact of IP on AI.

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The EUIPO has published the second phase of its research on Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technologies

The IPKat

OCTOBER 4, 2022

On September 22, 2022 , the European Union Intellectual Office (EUIPO), through its European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights, published a discussion paper entitled " Automated Content Recognition: IP Enforcement and management use cases ".

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Whither a Signal-Based Broadcast Treaty?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

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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Artificial Intelligence and copyright: the Italian AI Law Proposal

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 28, 2024

There is a huge debate regarding copyright protectability of AI generated works. 22-1564 ; for a comment on these see here and here ). This provision is consistent with the principle already expressed in the EU AI Act Article 53 co 1 lett.

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Germany: Liability of hosting providers under copyright law if they have breached a duty of care – The German BGH ends mere ‘Stoererhaftung’

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Under German law, there are no special rules governing liability in cases of intellectual property rights infringements. The plaintiff in “ uploaded II ” was a scientific publisher that held exclusive rights of making available to the public in medical books. This question has not yet been answered by the CJEU.

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Protecting Product and Packaging Designs in China Part II – Copyright

LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2022

8) computer software; and (9) other intellectual achievements conforming to the characteristics of the works.” In addition to copyright registration, Chinese courts accept electronic evidence obtained via blockchain technology to prove copyright ownership and facts of infringement. copyright law.

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The Resolution of the European Parliament on protection of live sport events

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

According to the Resolution, the development of the digital environment and of new technologies has made it easier, especially during the Covid pandemic, for all fans to access sports events broadcasts on all kinds of devices, increasing potential exposure to illegal content and enlarging the number of people who can access such broadcasts.

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Sunday Surprises

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 24, 2022

This post is the second instalment of an analysis of a recent report , a part of the reCreating Europe project, on the application of EU copyright and related rights law to outputs generated by or with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, tools or techniques (AI outputs), with a focus on outputs in the musical domain.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

UK Intellectual Property Office, UK’s future exhaustion of IPR regime. European Commission, Study on copyright and new technologies – copyright data management and artificial intelligence. The second part concentrates on the copyright-related challenges raised by the use of artificial intelligence.

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Friday Fantasies

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

6-7 April 2023: “From the DMCA to the DSA: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Online Platform Liability and Copyright Law” The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology will hold its 27th annual symposium, on 6 and 7 April 2023, at the International House, UC Berkeley. Click here to know more. More details to come. More information to come.

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Saving the printed press – the Croatian implementation of Article 15 of the DSM Directive

Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

To the readers of this blog who have been following (for example here or here ) the debates around the enactment and implementation of the DSM Directive – a directive that aims to be in sync with the ‘rapid technological developments’ – the above sentence might seem counterintuitive. Saving the printed press. by Alexander Puutio. €

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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). Stay tuned!

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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

JANUARY 16, 2024

1] Directive (EU) 2019/790 of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market, OJ 130/92, pp. For more information, see Cleary IP and Technology Insights blog-post, Agreement reached on the EU AI Act: the key points to know about the political deal (14 December 2023). [7]

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Guest Post: Press Publishers’ Rights In Indian News Media Digital Space

SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

We are pleased to bring you a guest post by Mili Baxi, on the development of a publisher’s right in digital media. Her areas of interest are Information Technology law, Intellectual Property law, Media & Communication Law, and human rights law. . Image from here. Introduction.

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Understanding Compulsory Licensing and Access to Essentials

Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The domain of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) , especially after the adoption of the Uruguay Round’s resultant, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) , has led to the adoption of an expanded understanding of IPRs in contemporary fields to strengthen the legal position of the rights holders.

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Generative AI and copyright: Convergence of opt-outs?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Without a generally accepted standard (or set of standards), the system of balances contained in the TDM exceptions will not be able to survive contact with the reality created by the sudden emergence of generative AI as a major new technology paradigm. Jaszi Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property in September of this year.

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Role Of Intellectual Property Rights In The Era Of Quantum Technology

BREAKING: First CJEU referral on press publishers’ related right (Italian-style)

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Wednesday whimsies

Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Indonesia

Spain launches its first-ever Copyright Office

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

The WIPO Files I: the quest to protect user rights

Sunday Surprises

Africa IP highlights 2023: Reforms in IP policy, legislation and administration

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

UK Government axes plans to broaden existing text and data mining exception

How artificial intelligence works in relation to copyright

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

Introducing the Trade Secret Case Management Judicial Guide

Cambodia and its RCEP Accession

2H 2022 Quick Links, Part 3 (Copyrights and More)

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

Portugal strengthens copyright protection on the Internet

AI and copyright in 2022

The InfoSoc Directive and the Right to Repair: exploring the boundaries of a lesser-known copyright exception

UKIPO’s public consultation on AI and IP – computer-generated works (Part 1)

The Jungle Bird, El Diablo, and the Zombie or Machine Learning Models, Computer Programs and Copyright put to the test

[Guest Post] The African Group’s Proposal on a Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions Moves Forward in WIPO’s Committee on Copyright

The European Audiovisual Observatory publishes the Mapping report on national remedies against online piracy of sports content

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

An Outline on South Africa and India’s WTO IP waiver

AI and IP – A real conversation starter

The EUIPO has published the second phase of its research on Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technologies

Whither a Signal-Based Broadcast Treaty?

Artificial Intelligence and copyright: the Italian AI Law Proposal

Germany: Liability of hosting providers under copyright law if they have breached a duty of care – The German BGH ends mere ‘Stoererhaftung’

Protecting Product and Packaging Designs in China Part II – Copyright

The Resolution of the European Parliament on protection of live sport events

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

EU copyright law round up – first trimester of 2022

Friday Fantasies

Saving the printed press – the Croatian implementation of Article 15 of the DSM Directive

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