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The Great Flip: Can Opt-Outs be a Permitted Exception? Part II
This post was originally published on Spicy IP. In the previous part, we examined whether the opt-out mechanism, as claimed in Gen-AI litigations, constitutes a prohibited formality for the “enjoyment ...
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US Proposes Limiting IGC Meetings and Mandate
The United States delegation to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore expressed ...
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The NOODL license: Licensing African datasets to support research and AI in the Global South
In this presentation, Dr Melissa Omino, the Head of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law ...
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The Great Flip: Is Opt Out a Prohibited Formality under the Berne Convention? Part I
The opt-out model, the argument goes, reintroduces formality through the back door, a de facto formality of sorts. This shifts the burden onto authors and rights holders to actively monitor or manage ...
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EIFL publishes new provision on Secondary Publication Rights
On May 27, 2025, EIFL launched an updated version of its Draft Law on Copyright, featuring a new provision on Secondary Publication Rights (SPRs) (more information about the process can be found here ...
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Fair Use and Generative AI: Reading Between the Lines of the USCO Report
The first thing that stands out about the report appears right on its first page: “pre-publication version”: a label reported as unusual and potentially unprecedented. 1 The 113-page document ...