Nathalie FAYETTE

The CNIL has just issued a new recommendation to control the security of passwords, taking into account the evolution of knowledge and attacks in this area. This update was necessary, given the increased threats to data security and the clear finding of a study conducted by Verizon in 2021, which revealed that more than 80% of global data breach notifications are related to password issues. But what are the risks associated with poor password management? There are four factors to consider: The simplicity of the password, The listening on the network in order to collect the transmitted passwords, Keeping the […]

Is the end of the untimely use of the Haka in sight? Everyone knows the Haka, the Maori war dance popularised by the New Zealand rugby team, the All-Blacks, who perform it at the start of every match. This war dance was invented in the early 1800s by Te Rauparaha, chief of the Ngati Toa tribe, and his heritage is now perpetuated and defended by the Ngati Toadit. In New Zealand, the Haka is truly part of the nation’s cultural heritage, which notably led to the adoption in 2014 of specific legislation to protect the Haka Ka Mate, the “Haka […]

Alan Jay PERLIS, a computer specialist, stated in 1982 that “in man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.“. This statement is particularly true today. Indeed, with the development of artificial intelligence, the latter is now capable of generating creations in an almost autonomous way in many fields. We can therefore legitimately ask ourselves whether these creations are eligible to protection by copyright. However, in the current state of copyright law and doctrine, the creator is necessarily a physical person, and this despite the fact that this rule is not expressly stated in the legal texts. Indeed, […]

As part of its program of “Intellectual Property” mornings, the INPI delegation in Lyon, in partnership with the Compagnie des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (CNCPI) and the Lyon Bar, organized a training session dedicated to the operation of the so-called “IP Box” regime, a tax system favorable to the exploitation of industrial property assets resulting from a company’s R&D work. A more precise focus was planned on its application to original software, a new feature of the 2019 finance law that has been somewhat overlooked until now. Entirely dematerialized from Lyon, this conference on the IP Box and its consequences […]