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IP Forecast: Taylor Swift Seeks To Shake Off Copyright Case

IP Law 360

Taylor Swift's lawyers will argue next week in a California federal court that lyrics from her 2014 hit "Shake It Off" about "players" and "haters" are well within the public domain and don't rip off an R&B song from 2001.

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[Guest post] Can the owner of an artistic work convert it into an NFT for its use in the Metaverse?

The IPKat

Thus, the owner of a canvas, in general, cannot make reproductions of the work it contains and distribute these copies or make them available on the Internet, unless such work is in the public domain or is subject to any limitation or exception to the rights of its author [see IPKat here ].

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Conundrum behind registrability of GUIs as industrial designs in India

LexBlog IP

The subject design is original and has never been in the public domain. The 2008 amendment of the Design Rules, 2001 provides for an elaborate classification of goods and articles on which designs can be applied and registered. GUI can positively influence customers to buy such products.

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IP as a political instrument in Russia

The IPKat

The statue in the picture in the lower middle is the work of József Somogy and the picture is by Burrows, who has put it into the public domain. The picture in the upper middle is by Amin and is licensed under the Cretive Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

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Cardinals Of Intellectual Property Rights (Part- II)

IP and Legal Filings

The Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act of 2000 along with the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Rules of 2001, protects the original and unique layout designs. Devices like- Computers, TVs, Watches etc. This is a unique kind of protection provided to the breeder in the form of Plant “Breeder’s Rights (PRBs).

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How plausible may be a conference on IP (and regulatory) exclusivity? Sufficiently

The IPKat

a wise cat that care about environment kindly provided in CC0 Public Domain license by Pixhere.com) Having to make a selection among the many topics covered, this GuestKat finds it interesting to note that during the conference the EPO case G2/21 on 'plausibility', was repeatedly discussed from different angles.

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Analysing Amazon’s Strategic Approach to Tackle Patent Infringement

IIPRD

Patent are valid for the duration of 20 years before coming into public domain) Patent infringement can occur in two ways. LEXIS 18660 & 2001 U.S. 2] Amazon Accused of Patent Infringement – Legal Help, Amazon Sellers Lawyer, [link] (last visited Dec 8, 2022). [3] 3] Mandour & Associates, supra note 1. [4]