Publication date: January 28, 2025

The European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP) is a strategic initiative of the European Union aimed at strengthening the European defence technological and industrial base (European Defence Technological and Industrial Base (EDTIB). EDIP is a continuation of previous programmes such as the European Defence Fund (EDF) and the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP). This programme was developed in response to the growing security challenges in Europe and the need to increase the strategic autonomy of the European Union. EDIP supports the development of advanced defence technologies, increases the competitiveness of the defence sector in the EU and promotes cross-border cooperation between Member States in the field of military research, development and production. Its overarching objective is to create conditions for increasing the defence capabilities of EU countries while ensuring more efficient use of financial and technological resources.

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Publication date: January 23, 2025

Introduction

The biotech industry thrives on innovation, with intellectual property (IP) serving as a cornerstone for protecting breakthroughs and attracting investment. Intellectual property rights (IPRs) provide legal mechanisms for safeguarding inventions, processes, and proprietary information, offering companies the tools to protect their most valuable assets.

 For biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, IP is a critical driver of value, enabling financial rewards, market positioning, and investor confidence. While IPRs have a significant impact on all aspects of innovation, their relevance is particularly pronounced in downstream activities such as commercialization, manufacturing, and market access. Startups and established biotech firms alike must understand and leverage IPRs to ensure competitive advantages and long-term sustainability.

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Publication date: January 09, 2025

Dictionary:

• Fortified foods – these are food products that have had additional nutrients added (such as vitamins, minerals, fiber) to improve their nutritional value and prevent deficiencies of these nutrients in the diet, e.g. enriching spring water with minerals changes the qualification of this water to mineral water.
• NANDO – (New Approach Notified and Designated Organisations) notification is the act by which a Member State informs the Commission and the other Member States that a body that meets the relevant requirements has been designated to carry out conformity assessments in accordance with the directives. Notification of notified bodies and their withdrawal are the responsibility of the notifying Member State.

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Publication date: January 06, 2025

Modern internet platforms, such as YT, have revolutionized the way we create and consume video content. Example: the American platform YouTube, with over 2 billion monthly active users, a significant portion of whom, in Poland for example, are increasingly professional journalists.

Such a service is therefore another source of distribution of video content created by professionals, including materials that earn money from advertising. Creators who share their videos on the platform therefore count on income from the so-called content traffic and popularity of the content as well as from displayed ads. Platforms that were originally formed to create the freedom to share, edit, broadcast live and comment on videos for free have now become a place of conflict of interest between preventive content security measures and freedom of press activity.

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Publication date: January 03, 2025

Today, thanks to access to artificial intelligence, people can significantly speed up and streamline their work. Moreover, AI’s existence greatly facilitates work in fields where a person may lack knowledge or has only a very narrow understanding. Nowadays, anyone who inputs the right command into an AI program can generate texts, sounds, videos, or graphics. Whereas in the past, this required the professions of copywriters, film editors, or graphic designers, today their role is not as crucial. However, a question arises—who owns a work generated by AI? Is a text written by an advanced language model the intellectual property of the person who provided the prompt?

The Monkey Selfie

To explore this issue further, one should refer to the case of the famous “monkey selfie”, where similarities can be observed regarding authorship and intellectual property in situations where the traditional creator is not clearly defined. The “monkey selfie” case involved a photo taken by the macaque monkey Naruto, who accidentally pressed the shutter button of photographer David Slater’s camera. The photo quickly became popular online, and the issue of its copyright sparked a heated legal debate. Ultimately, the court ruled that copyright did not belong to the monkey, as animals cannot be subjects of copyright law, nor directly to the photographer, who was not the creator of the actual photo despite providing the equipment.

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