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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Favouring the press publishers. Furthermore, it introduces an accompanying new moral right of attribution for the first source of the ‘news of the day’. Works of authorship are protected through economic and moral rights afforded to the copyright holder.

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[Guest post] Navigating the high notes: Taylor Swift's copyright dispute

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This article delves into the saga’s central copyright issues and the concept of moral rights, and compares the situation in the US to how it might have unfolded under EU law. Taylor however retained the copyrights over the compositions she created, enabling her to (re-)publish the music independently.

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When is an artist entitled to refuse attribution of an artwork? Italian Supreme Court provides (final) guidance in long-running dispute over Jeff Koons’s The Serpents

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Of all the grounds of appeal to the Supreme Court, the most intriguing one is that concerning the application of relevant provisions in the Italian Copyright Act concerning moral rights. Moral rights under Italian law and the issue before the Supreme Court Moral rights are not harmonized at the EU level.

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IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners announced!

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Regulation, Innovation and Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets, by Margherita Colangelo. Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Moral Rights, by Ysolde Gendreau. Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights, by Neil Wilkof, Shamnad Basheer, and Irene Calboli. Copyright and Cartography, by Isabella Alexander.

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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In 2013, after a decade of litigation, accompanied by a counterpoint of shifts in the book publishing industry driven by rapid technological change, Judge Chin ultimately found that Google’s scanning of the books amounted to fair use of those works. Copyright Office in its 2017 report on moral rights. However, U.S.

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IPSC Panel 14 – Copyright Authorship & Ownership

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Atlantic Monthly first published Twain’s work, credited to him alone, in 1874. No evidence of express consent; is telling it in front of him implied consent for him to publish it in his name w/no payment? Unsettled; hard to say Cord & family intentionally or even negligently sat on their rights. Would that still exist today?

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moral rights. This week, the European Commission published a recommendation for a common European data space for cultural heritage, considering the digitisation of works for future generations, as noted by the Kluwer Copyright Blog. Is the Spanish implementation of Art. 17 CDSM compatible with EU law?

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