Re: Copyright and Machine Learning IP
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:41 pm
Copyright is part of the law that has been harmonised in the EU. The special protection for sporting events will have to be separate from copyright. It also has to comply with a series of requirements in order for it to be compatible with the free movement of services, as the CJEU explains in C-403/08. I doubt that neural networks play such an important role in any of the EU member states' traditions that special protection can be justified. But if anyone is aware of any special national legislation affecting NNs, please let us hear.hgm wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:14 am I am also a bit uncomfortable with this focusing on EU law, now you mentioned that member states are free to adopt laws to protect sports events not protected by EU law. That woke me up to the fact that EU law is not a complete system of laws of a civilized society, but just the part of it that could be harmonized over all its member states.
In C-403/08, the CJEU declared incompatible with EU law a national law forbidding the import, sale and use of foreign decoding devices giving access to an encrypted satellite broadcasting service from another EU member state.