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property law serves the public interest.
[Carys Craig] Abstract: Many of copyright’s core concepts—from authorship and ownership to infringement and fair use—are being challenged by the rapid rise of generative AI. Whether in service of creativity or capital, however, copyright law is perfectly capable of absorbing this latest innovation. More interesting than the doctrinal debates that AI provokes, then, is the opportunity it presents to revisit
[Sean Flynn] We write on behalf of the Project on the Right to Research in International Copyright, which is an activity of the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights. We write to advise that Parliament not eliminate “research” from among the specifically enumerated purposes for which the fair use exception in Section 12A may be applied, and to add
[Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan and Federica Paddeu] This paper considers legal implications that are likely to emerge from the implementation of a TRIPS Waiver decision. Assuming that a Waiver is adopted in the form presented in the May 2021 proposal by South Africa and India et al, we review the interaction between the Waiver and other commitments to protect IP rights
[Mohammad Towhidul Islam and Moniruz Zaman] Abstract: This research article explains the intricate relationship between the copyright law and education and finds out that ‘the rudimentary hurdle’ posed by copyright as depicted in writings of intellectual property scholars like James Boyle is the cost of learning materials compared to the affordability in developing countries and LDCs. It also tries to
[Yousuf A. Vawda and Bonginkosi Shozi] Abstract: The paper explores the unique approaches to IP protection in the countries belonging to the Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle/African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions; the limited extent to which legal and policy frameworks with regard to TRIPS flexibilities have been adopted and implemented
[Alexander Peukert, Martin Husovec, Martin Kretschmer, Péter Mezei and João Quintais] Copyright law accounts for most content removals from online platforms and search engine result lists, by an order of magnitude. This practice will become subject to numerous due diligence obligations under the proposed Regulation on a Single Market For Digital Services (Digital Services Act, DSA), which also covers copyright
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