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Inclusion of a lamp in a photograph: French court sheds light on incidental inclusion

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Copyright infringement cases often provide an opportunity to explore exceptions and limitations to copyright. This time this Kat encountered a recent French case involving incidental inclusion, an optional exception/limitation to copyright under EU copyright law [ IPKat on incidental inclusion here ]. 112-1 and L.112-2-10

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale. iv] Maxwell L.

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Fleshing out the copyright in a tattoo

IP Whiteboard

(Left: Chris Black’s Jarrangini (buffalo), 2018 © Chris Black/Copyright Agency, 2020. Right: Photo courtesy of Katie Hagebols retrieved from [link]. Through negotiations with Jilamara, Mr Black, Ms Hagebols and the Copyright Agency, Ms Hagebols was able to use Mr Black’s screen-print as a tattoo. What about moral rights?

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Conundrum Involving The Ownership Of The Work Created By Ai

IP and Legal Filings

AI can explore data or information that is accessible in public domain or copyright of other person and can investigate or work upon that information but only to that extent which the software program permits. [3] Also, Moral rights of the creator is given in under Section 57 of the said act, are not relevant to the Artificial Intelligence.

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Monday Miscellany

The IPKat

Topics include access and substantial similarity, fair use, performers’ rights, moral rights, expert testimony, the role of lay listeners, sound sampling, as demonstrated in dispositions of litigated and settled infringement disputes. More information about this event here.

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Taking the Mona Lisa Effect from Illusion to Reality: Enhancing the Museum Experience with Augmented and Virtual Reality

JIPEL Copyright Blog

From July 2017 to April 2018, the Art Gallery of Ontario (the “AGO”) staged an exhibition titled “ ReBlink ,” which urged visitors to “[t]ake a second look… with a modern lens:”. For the most part, liability may be avoidable: museums could defend any copyright (e.g.,

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Adding a glass canopy to a mosque infringes architect’s copyright and the canopy must be removed, says Cologne Regional Court

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3) Changes to parts of the building that affect the architect's copyright are not permitted without the architect's involvement. […] The mosque was inaugurated in 2018. The architect filed a lawsuit against the mosque’s owner, claiming the infringement of his moral rights under §§ 14 and 39 of the German Copyright Act.