The European Commission has recently published a report on Translation and intellectual property rights.
The law firm Bird & Bird LLP was commissioned for the study, which aims to provide an overview of some of the main intellectual property right issues relevant to the domain of translation, including in the field of machine-aided translations.
The focus is on aspects related to copyright and database rights. Issues such as neighbouring rights, software protection, cloud computing, big data, or conflicts of laws were excluded from the scope of the study.