IP Law

Copyright Issues of IoT Crawlers and Search Engines – is there any Analogy to Web Search Engines?

Michal Koščík

Category:

Articles

Region:

Czech Republic

Field of law:

IP Law, IP-Law, Internet-of-Things

Collection:

Conference proceedings IRIS 2019

Citation: Michal Koščík, Copyright Issues of IoT Crawlers and Search Engines – is there any Analogy to Web Search Engines?, in: Jusletter IT 21. Februar 2019

The paper discusses the current and potential legal issues that arise with the development of tools that crawl, aggregate, index and enable search within the IoT platforms. The web crawlers and search engines opened copyright questions that had never been encountered before. Most copyright issues revolved around the appropriateness of use someone’s work and its display to the «new public». The paper analyses, which lessons we learned from the development of web engines can apply to the environment of the IoT and discuss potential problems of the future. The publication of this paper is supported by the Czech Scientific Foundation – project ID no. GA17-22474S – «Adapting Exceptions and Limitations to Copyright, Neighbouring Rights and Sui Generis Database Rights to Digital Network Environment».

Table of contents

1. Introduction
2. The function of IoT crawlers and search engines
3. Copyright aspects of the IoT data
- 3.1. Method of the analysis
- 3.2. Copyright and neighbouring rights to device-generated data
- 3.3. IP rights of middleware operators and search engine operators
- 3.4. Use of exceptions under current and proposed directives
4. Conclusions
5. References

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