Pleased my new and ‘contrarian’ article on hosting provider responsibility for copyright infringement is now published by @JIPITEC https://t.co/aGe64M0FGh
@ThePhDPlace Finishing your PhD/ getting published is your priority. Marking, teaching etc are secondary. Perhaps most important, choose your supervisor carefully.
AG Opinion in C-401/19 sees #Article17 compatible with freedom of expression and implementation must contain (technical) safeguards for the same. What could possibly go wrong? 😵💫👇Full text now available https://t.co/W9xEaPx9b0
HERE WE GO: CJEU has just ruled that a user-uploaded content platform does not communicate to the public unless it contributes, beyond merely making that platform available, to giving access to such
content to the public in breach of copyright
The Government has launched a call for views on the repeal of Section 52 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act in 2016.
We are looking for your views to find out if this regulation has achieved its objectives. Have your say 👉 https://t.co/ICH93S2sDe
Out-of-commerce works are still protected by copyright but are no longer or have never been commercially available.
The EUIPO new Out-of-Commerce Works Portal makes these works available to the general public and helps rights holders to identify them: https://t.co/yf9G7K8mBO
CV-Online Latvia is out; @maciejszpunar followed 101 % by the court as CJEU redefines the infringement test for sui generis database right by requiring "risk that that investment may not be redeemed" https://t.co/oUzI9AqI0q
Today the 🇩🇪@Bundestag adopted the law implementing the new #copyright directive into German law. The German implementation of #Article17 will not avoid #uploadfilters but it sets a new standard for protecting users' rights. Read our first analysis here: https://t.co/G7Cf2U0G4Q
The report proposes to formalise the ‘trusted flagger’ in copyright enforcement: infringing streams to be ‘disabled immediately and no later than thirty minutes following a notification by rights holders or a certified “trusted flagger”.’
Tackling online piracy of live sporting events
MEPs want illegal streaming of live sporting events to be blocked in real time and organisers’ rights to be strengthened. 🤳⚽️
Read the press release⤵️ https://t.co/FsvyEaOwal
@djambazki@EP_Legal
New on the block: The EUIPO has integrated blockchain technology with its TMView and DesignView services. It will also launch a 'a decentralised, blockchain authentication platform that can help solve the global phenomenon of fakes' #Blockchain
The IP Register in Blockchain is the first ever European blockchain ⛓️ platform to better serve intellectual property offices and users.
It will allow the delivery of trade mark and design data in real time and in a fast, secure and reliable way: https://t.co/CI9fToM0P6
Market Court [FI]: Reproducing a photo from an Instagram Stories post in a web article of a "tabloid" newspaper was (c) infringement and resulted in 5000 EUR compensation; this was not reporting of current events and the citation exception did not apply: https://t.co/gjXXh4guoO
So the expected EC Article 17 Guidelines were not released today ... A date has not been set yet, but the publication should (could) be sometime "in the coming weeks"
Who’s the woman behind Wi-Fi🌐?
In the 40s, Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr invented frequency-hopping signal technology – back then intended to direct torpedoes to their targets
This technology paved the way for wireless communication that we use today: Wi-Fi, GPS and BluetootWho’s the woman behind Wi-Fi🌐?
In the 40s, Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr invented frequency-hopping signal technology – back then intended to direct torpedoes to their targets
This technology paved the way for wireless communication that we use today: Wi-Fi, GPS and BluetootWho’s the woman behind Wi-Fi🌐?
In the 40s, Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr invented frequency-hopping signal technology – back then intended to direct torpedoes to their targets
This technology paved the way for wireless communication that we use today: Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth