On 9 July, the US Copyright Office (USCO) published a final rule aimed at clarifying issues relating to derivative works under the US Copyright Act and explaining how termination rights apply to the so-called mechanical blanket licences established by the Music Modernisation Act of 2018. Thus, among...
read +Several Chinese universities are regulating the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the writing of academic theses, despite controversy over the integrity of the...
read +On 17 July, the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) published Resolution CD/ANPD No. 018 approving the Regulation on the role of the person in charge of processing personal data. The document comes into force on the date of its publication and aims to...
read +In a decision handed down on June 13, Judge Celso Araújo dos Santos, of the 13th Federal Court in Rio de Janeiro, denied the request to...
read +On June 25, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published its report entitled "World Intangible Investment Highlights". Made annually in partnership with...
read +On 24 June, the Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) released the second volume of its "Technology Radar" series. The research was conducted by the ANPD's General Coordination of Technology and Research (CGTP) and, this time, addresses...
read +In a case involving the song "We are the world of carnival", composed by Guanaes, the 4th panel of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), in a ruling on June 3, upheld the decision of the TJ/RJ that recognized the validity of the total copyright assignment contract signed between...
read +Last Thursday, the Dannemann Siemsen Institute (IDS) held yet another IDS Agenda, this time with the theme "Technical evidence: proving high brand renown and market research in IP lawsuits". The event discussed relevant issues on the subject, such as...
read +In a decision handed down on June 19, Judge Alexandre de Carvalho Mesquita, of the 1st Business Court of the Rio de Janeiro State Court of Justice (TJ/RJ), ruled that the artist Caetano Veloso does not have an exclusive right to use the name Tropicália and the elements of the Tropicalist movement. The singer filed a lawsuit against...
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