IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Before the digital era, copyright protected tangible art or works, allowing authors to easily regulate usage, copies, and earnings. It creates ‘Secure Distribution’ of content which generally use encryption and digital watermarks (Pandey).

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Ownership Copyright Fair Use Intellectual Property 52

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 6, 2023

2(c), the fair use exemption thereof under Sec. 52(1)(t); and (ii) if yes, whether the proviso of the same or ‘fixation requirement’ excludes it from the scope of fair use. Lastly, I will discuss the argument of moral rights of the author in contending the ‘fair use exemption’ of their work.

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Moral Rights Fair Use Art Artistic Work 49

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. The wranglings caused the registrant’s sticker to be removed from Amazon for a total of 44 days in 2018 across several different incidents.

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Registration Fair Use Copyright Designs 112

TorrentFreak

MAY 8, 2023

Adjusted for inflation, imported Japanese N64s changed hands for the equivalent of $1,400 in today’s money; a copy of Super Mario 64? Imported into the gray market in Europe, US cartridges were cheaper than their Japanese counterparts. A snip at $165. An emulator reference, presumably.

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Copying Copyright Licensing Fair Use 120

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Remember the Fifth Circuit case from 2018 holding that a real restaurant’s name could infringe trademark rights in the name of a fictional restaurant from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, the Krusty Krab? It confirms both ownership of valid copyrights and copying by the defendants of original constituent elements of the works.

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Blogging Social Media Television Fair Use 92

Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

An example would be an artist copying a previous painting and merely altering the colors to pass it off as a new creation. In this case, the author of the original work retains ownership of the original, while the author of the derivative work holds rights to the creative additions they have made. 2018 (BARBOSA, Pedro M.

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Copyright Derivative Work Fair Use Copyright Law 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

It took eight months, but the ownership question of the photographs has been settled. However, it is not what I expected for the first case to be finally determined: Section 512(f) and an ownership dispute between former business partners. On June 4, 2018, Oppenheimer found his image on Prutton’s website. It seems like it did.

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Blogging Fair Use Copyright Copyright Notice 96