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The Role Of Copyright In The Protection Of The Environment And The Fight Against Climate Change: Is The Current Copyright System Adequate?, Estelle Derclaye
The Role Of Copyright In The Protection Of The Environment And The Fight Against Climate Change: Is The Current Copyright System Adequate?, Estelle Derclaye
Estelle Derclaye
At first sight, it may not seem like copyright plays a role in the fight against climate change and more generally the protection of the environment. But in many ways, it does, and it does so with, maybe surprisingly, quite some importance. Indeed, copyright works can be extremely varied. In the environmental field, they can range from eco-friendly architectural plans and buildings, literature (e.g. scientific articles, newspaper or magazine articles, instruction manuals detailing processes that accomplish environmental benefits), charts, diagrams, maps, photographs, even films, about the weather, climate, the size of glaciers, etc., to software and databases used for forecast …
Recent French Decisions On Database Protection: Towards A More Consistent And Compliant Approach With The Court Of Justice’S Case Law?, Estelle Derclaye
Recent French Decisions On Database Protection: Towards A More Consistent And Compliant Approach With The Court Of Justice’S Case Law?, Estelle Derclaye
Estelle Derclaye
Since the official date of implementation of the Database Directive , namely the 1 January 1998, 14 years have now already passed. During this decade and a half, French courts have handed down around 30 decisions on database protection. Between 1998 and 2004, the year when the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down its first four parallel rulings on the sui generis right , the French case law on the sui generis right was quite erratic. Admittedly, such state of affairs was not dissimilar in other Member States owing to the sheer novelty of the sui …