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The research focuses on app-related intellectual property threats and is the result of an empirical and qualitative analysis conducted by the EUIPO Observatory research team and among other things highlights emerging trends and strategies for law enforcement investigations.

The Report analyzes the misuse of apps and app stores for IPR infringing activities, the challenges it raises, and best practices to address them. The goal is to provide a better understanding of their respective roles in the application system and how misuse of their services can be addressed.

The Regulation of EETT, which specifies the criteria for determining the remuneration of press editors by the information society service providers, as provided for in article 51B of law 2121/1993 (as added by a. 18 of law 4996/2022), entered into public consultation.

Creative FLIP is a pilot project, which has been in force since 2019 and is co-financed by the European Union (Creative Europe) and the project partners (Goethe-Institut as main partner, European Creative Hubs Network, IDEA Consult and the Intellectual Property Institute Luxembourg) with the aim of supporting the cultural and creative industries.

Today, July 12, 2024, the Artificial Intelligence Regulation (AI ACT) was published in the EU Official Journal.

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The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published its Youth Empowerment Strategy (IP-YES!), which provides a structured plan of targeted and effective initiatives to respond to the aspirations and needs of youth on key issues such as enrichment of their knowledge in intellectual property matters, the development of skills and the strengthening of actions for their active participation in intellectual property matters.

The ACAPT (anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy technology guide) enables the protection of trademarks and copyrighted content using cutting-edge anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy technology.

In Case C-135/23, reference for a preliminary ruling from the Potsdam Magistrates’ Court (Germany), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) heard an application brought in the context of a dispute between Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte eV (GEMA), a collective management organization for  copyrights, and GL, which operates a block of flats, concerning alleged infringements of copyright  by GL because it has, in the apartments it manages, television sets with an indoor antenna enabling signals to be picked up and broadcasts to be made, in particular of music.

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