Further to the announcement by Marie-Andree last week,
here's the first contribution by new 1709 Blog Lolita S.!
Here's what Lolita has
selected for our readers:
The
taste of a Dutch cheese protected by copyright?
While it is still not possible to protect
what you are making in your kitchen fully and completely, you may know that you
can use some different ways to protect your meals. Some are using patents, some
authors’ rights for their recipes written in an original way … But it is still
not enough: it does not protect entirely the meal, and cooks are often calling
thief each person who makes meals that look like theirs.
However, it seems that things may change.
Indeed, a case about cheese slipped through
the net. In 2015, a first judgment rejected a new argument: the taste of the
cheese “Heks’nkaas”, a Dutch cheese, could be a protected creation under author
rights.
However, this is not over: the case will
be brought in front of the Court of Justice, with two prejudicial question:
1. Whether EU Law allows copyright
protection of taste?
2. If so, what requirements must be met in
order to determine subsistence of copyright protection?
This promises to be really interesting: we
can’t wait for the answer of the Court of Justice (for more see here)!
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| Could we consider a cook as an author, and a meal as a creation? |
WannaCry due to the loss of your creations?
On 12 May last, a ransomware attack called
WannaCry was launched and affected more than 230,000 computers in over 150
countries. Billions of data were lost in this attack, and a lot of video makers
and artists complained on Twitter due to the loss of their creations during the
encryption of data.
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| Authors, don’t forget to save your creations on a physical backup hidden at your parents’ home or under your cat’s bowl! |
The new regulation on data protection will
enter into force on 25 May of 2018: be ready for it!
Announcement:
events are coming!
On 15 June, Eleonora Rosati (from the University of
Southampton, and a fellow IPKat you may certainly know if you are coming here!)
and Maria Sungio (from Locke Lord LLP) will be the speakers in a seminar (also
to be live streamed as a webinar) concerning viewpoints from the UK and US
concerning copyright in the digital age. There will be presentations, followed
by an extended question and answer session!
Please note that this webinar will be hold
from 6 to 8 PM.
If you are interested, you may find
further information here.
On 7 June, Professor Bankolo
Sodipo, a preeminent IP Scholar in Nigeria, will hold the lecture “FDI and
Nigeria’s IP Landscape” at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Lincoln’s Inn
Fields campus in London. This lecture will demonstrate “how ingenuity on the
part of right holders and their advisers can plug the gaps in law”.
Please note that the lecture will be held
from 6 to 8 PM.
It is a rare chance for the IP community
to catch up on the IP developments from a very interesting jurisdiction:
Nigeria!
If you are interested, you may find
further information here.
On 20 June, a launch event for a new resource aimed
at cultural heritage practitioners and researchers working in the digital
humanities will be held. It is called The Copyright Cortex. It is a
collaboration between Queen’s University Belfast and CREATe at the University
of Glasgow. Many speakers will be there, including Lionel Benty (Professor of
IP at the University of Cambridge), Jill Cousins (Executive Director at
Europeana), Ronan Deazley (Professor of Copyright Queen’s University Belfast),
and Ben White (Head of IP at the British Library).
Please note that the event will be hold from 5 to 7 PM.
Please note that the event will be hold from 5 to 7 PM.
Don’t miss it! You can register yourself
and find more information here.
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