Addressing the EU and National Legal Framework and its Interactions with Intellectual Property and Investment Disputes

2020 ◽  
pp. 460-460
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The Eu

scholarly journals Is the EU human rights legal framework able to cope with discriminatory AI?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Pablo Martínez Ramil
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Indirect Discrimination ◽  
Proportionality Test ◽  
The Eu

The challenges introduced by AI for the EU anti-discrimination legal framework have been a widely discussed topic among the doctrine. In the light of the 20th anniversary of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the Commission released a regulatory proposal to tackle AI. This paper seeks to determine whether the proposal successfully addresses the existent pitfalls of the EU framework. First, this paper explores the functioning of AI systems that employ machine learning techniques and determines how discrimination takes place. Second, the article examines intellectual property rights as one of the main barriers for accountability and redressal of violations committed by an AI system. Third, the state of the discussion concerning the pitfalls of the existent EU approach towards non-discrimination is addressed. The available academic literature suggests that discriminatory outputs produced by an AI will amount to indirect discrimination in most scenarios. In this sense, cases of indirect proxy discrimination will likely pass the proportionality test, therefore justifying the discriminatory output. The last section of this article studies the Commission’s regulatory proposal. Although the document seems to effectively tackle discrimination caused by biased training data sets, this paper concludes that intellectual property rights and proxy discrimination still constitute significant barriers for the enforcement of anti-discrimination law.

Registered Community designs in the video game industry: a neglected yet potent tool

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Emmanuelle Sarlangue
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Property Right ◽  
Intellectual Property Right ◽  
Video Game Industry ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
Intellectual Property Strategy ◽  
Legal Uncertainty ◽  
The Eu

This article aims at demonstrating how and why registered Community designs should be integrated into the video game industry's intellectual property strategy. Although the validity of virtual designs has not yet been tested before courts, registered designs adequately address the issue of clone gaming faced by the industry. Some minor changes to the EU legal framework could contribute to balancing out the perceived legal uncertainty surrounding this intellectual property right.

Protection of Intellectual Property Rights: Towards Harmonisation of Ukrainian and EU Law

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 221-240
Author(s):  
Volodymyr M. Kossak ◽  
Ihor Ye. Yakubivskyi ◽  
Mykola V. Oprysko
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Association Agreement ◽  
The One ◽  
Protecting Intellectual Property ◽  
Ownership Rights ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The article analyses the civil law means of protecting the ownership rights to intellectual property from the standpoint of Ukrainian law and practice. The focus is on those means of protecting intellectual property rights envisaged by the Association Agreement between the EU and the eaec and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part, and outlines the prospects for their practical implementation within the legal framework of Ukraine. Among the means of protecting intellectual property rights, prohibition of the misuse of intellectual property in a specific way is considered. The paper also analyses the ways of protecting intellectual property rights, which are aimed at restoring the situation that existed prior to their violation, in particular, the removal from the civil circulation of goods manufactured or put into civil circulation, thus causing a violation of intellectual property rights, and subsequent destruction of such goods.

scholarly journals Technical Assistance as a Hedge to Intellectual Property Exclusivity

2021 ◽  
pp. 197-218
Author(s):  
Daniel Acquah
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Bilateral Trade ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Trojan Horse ◽  
The Us ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Eu

This chapter assesses the connection between neo-colonialism and intellectual property. An essential part of the process of neo-colonialism by economic means is the establishment of a legal framework of IP that confers legally enforceable rights that support and safeguard economic penetration and control. This process includes, in a similar way as in colonial times, the guarantee of protection of foreign property rights in developing countries. The TRIPS Agreement and other hard norms, such as TRIPS-plus bilateral trade treaties concluded between the EU and developing countries, further contribute to such neo-colonial control. They promote a particular vision of economic ordering that seeks to increase the level of IP protection beyond that required by TRIPS. However, an often overlooked but essential aspect of such control is that, once these treaties have been concluded, the US, the EU, and other leading industrialised trading blocs actively offer technical assistance with implementation. The chapter argues that such technical assistance further hedges IP's exclusivity through a form of Trojan Horse IP approach and by establishing an elite IP community in developing countries that sees things from the perspective of the dominant industrialized country.

Thematic Priorities For Sustainable Development of Ukraine-Romania Cross-Border Cooperation (The Case Study of Chernivtsi Region)

2020 ◽  
pp. 205-219
Author(s):  
Valentyna Bohatyrets ◽  
Liubov Melnychuk ◽  
Yaroslav Zoriy
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Strategic Orientations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation ◽  
The Eu

This paper seeks to investigate sustainable cross-border cooperation (CBC) as a distinctive model of interstate collaboration, embedded in the neighboring borderland regions of two or more countries. The focus of the research revolves around the establishment and further development of geostrategic, economic, cultural and scientific capacity of the Ukrainian-Romanian partnership as a fundamental construct in ensuring and strengthening the stability, security and cooperation in Europe. This research highlights Ukraine’s aspirations to establish, develop and diversify bilateral good-neighborly relations with Romania both regionally and internationally. The main objective is to elucidate Ukraine-Romania cross-border cooperation initiatives, inasmuch Ukraine-Romania CBC has been stirring up considerable interest in terms of its inexhaustible historical, cultural and spiritual ties. Furthermore, the similarity of the neighboring states’ strategic orientations grounds the basis for development and enhancement of Ukraine-Romania cooperation. The authors used desk research and quantitative research to conclude that Ukraine-Romania CBC has the impact not only on the EU and on Ukraine multi-vector foreign policy, but it also has the longer-term global consequences. In the light of the current reality, the idea of introducing and reinforcing the importance of Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) sounds quite topical and relevant. This research considers a number of explanations for Ukraine-Romania Cross-Border Cooperation as a key element of the EU policy towards its neighbors. Besides, the subject of the research is considered from different perspectives in order to show the diversity and complexity of the Ukraine-Romania relations in view of the fact that sharing common borders we are presumed to find common solutions. As the research has demonstrated, the Ukraine-Romania cross border cooperation is a pivotal factor of boosting geostrategic, economic, political and cultural development for each participant country, largely depending on the neighboring countries’ cohesion and convergence. Significantly, there is an even stronger emphasis on the fact that while sharing the same borders, the countries share common interests and aspirations for economic thriving, cultural exchange, diplomatic ties and security, guaranteed by a legal framework. The findings of this study have a number of important implications for further development and enhancement of Ukraine-Romania cooperation. Accordingly, the research shows how imperative are the benefits of Romania as a strategic partner for outlining top priorities of Ukraine’s foreign policy.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document