In Defence of a Fair Use Defence
Institute for Information Law (IViR) Discussions around a fair use defence are not new in The Netherlands. Already in the years immediately following the adoption of the EU Copyright Directive, the...
View ArticleAnd the private copy war continues: news from the Dutch front!
Institute for Information Law (IViR) On April 11, 2011, the Dutch secretary of state, Fred Teeven, sent his long awaited ‘Priorities Letter Copyright 20@20 ” to the House of Representatives. Among the...
View ArticleDutch press exception revisited!
Institute for Information Law (IViR) The summer is no longer quiet for the communications departments of most public sector organizations across the Netherlands! The age long practice of circulating...
View ArticleWashington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
Institute for Information Law (IViR) The global intellectual property landscape has witnessed important changes in recent years. Most notably, the public interest dimension of intellectual property has...
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The hangover after Public Domain Day…
Institute for Information Law (IViR) The New Year’s festivities are just behind us and with these the celebrations around Public Domain Day 2012 that took place in different cities in and outside...
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Cultural heritage institutions concerned over proposed European orphan works...
Institute for Information Law (IViR) The Proposal for a Directive on certain permitted uses of orphan works, introduced in the European Parliament on 24 May 2011, has been following its merry way...
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France solves its XXe century book problem!
Institute for Information Law (IViR) Without much noise, France recently adopted Act Nr. 2012-287 of 1st March 2012 relating to the digital exploitation of unavailable books of the 20th century....
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Are European orphans about to be freed?
Institute for Information Law (IViR) Last week, the European Parliament approved the draft Directive on certain permitted uses of orphan works. The approval of the Council of Ministers is expected to...
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To register or not to register?
Institute for Information Law (IViR) On 27 September, the Dutch government introduced what at first glance would seem an inconsequential proposal, e.g. to amend the Register Act of 1970 whereby the...
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Playing Catch 22 with the Public Domain
Institute for Information Law (IViR) Playing Catch 22 with cultural heritage is quite simple: since cultural heritage institutions hardly ever are in a position to digitize their collection because of...
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Private copying levy: The aftershocks of Padawan
Institute for Information Law (IViR) “”The difficulty also lies in the fact that (to our knowledge) no levy system within the EU provided before Padawan for such a distinction and that the structure of...
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First Blog Poll: Orphan works and cultural heritage institutions
Institute for Information Law (IViR) A relatively new feature on the different Kluwer Legal Blogs (e.g. the KluwerPatentBlog and the KluwerArbitrationBlog) is the so-called legal Blog Poll. Not only...
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Poll Results on the Orphan Works Directive and Extended Collective Licensing
Institute for Information Law (IViR) “The results are just about as astonishing as the number of people who participated.” In our first Kluwer Blog Poll, we asked for your reaction to the two following...
View ArticleIn Defence of a Fair Use Defence
Institute for Information Law (IViR) Discussions around a fair use defence are not new in The Netherlands. Already in the years immediately following the adoption of the EU Copyright Directive, the...
View ArticleAnd the private copy war continues: news from the Dutch front!
Institute for Information Law (IViR) On April 11, 2011, the Dutch secretary of state, Fred Teeven, sent his long awaited ‘Priorities Letter Copyright 20@20 ” to the House of Representatives. Among the...
View ArticleDutch press exception revisited!
Institute for Information Law (IViR) The summer is no longer quiet for the communications departments of most public sector organizations across the Netherlands! The age long practice of circulating...
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Almost there! In Support of the Green Road to Dutch Science!
Institute for Information Law (IViR) The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the main public funding agency in the country, has been enforcing already for a few years an Open Access...
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Flexibility. Is it all a matter of methodology and assumptions?
Institute for Information Law (IViR) Benjamin Gibert’s report for the Lisbon Council entitled ‘The 2015 Intellectual Property and Economic Growth Index: Measuring the Impact of Exceptions and...
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Back on the Green Road: How Imperative are Imperative Rules?
Institute for Information Law (IViR) Echos from the Dutch legal and scientific communities indicate that opinions widely diverge on the topic of the imperative character of proposed article 25 fa) of...
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