Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Being sued for copyright infringement for posting a photograph of yourself seems somewhat illogical, but copyright rights lie with the individual taking the photograph, rather than the individual featured in the photograph. Photographers Need a Registered Copyright to Sue. The Debate Continues.

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IPilogue

MARCH 18, 2022

Crown Copyright in Other Jurisdictions. Provisions for copyright ownership by the Crown are a consistent feature of copyright laws in commonwealth countries. Section 176 of Australia’s Copyright Act, 1968 provides for Crown copyright for works created under the “direction or control” of the Crown.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

During litigation, the unredacted version may be used as evidence to support the ownership of the redacted portions in the registered mask work. Copyright Office. Copyright Office by year for the last 10 years. Copyright Office while register the software aspect of the designs (e.g., source code) under copyright law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

The creation and development of copyright law are closely connected to technological and associated business transformations (see, e.g. here ). Yet, the very same automation poses challenges for the application of copyright law, increasing legal uncertainty, as demonstrated in this report vis-à-vis AI music outputs.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

NFT creation, investment, sale, and ownership interest exists in Indonesia and elsewhere in the world. Most significantly, “the development of blockchain technology” has been accepted as a legal business activity by the Indonesian standard industrial business categorization code, which was published in 2020. Introduction.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

Ownership and Enforcement. Even if copyright is accepted in both the US and China as the most suitable IP for NFTs protection, challenges remain. Copyright statutes and case law were not ready for the digital revolution and the very concept of copyright needs to be newly molded and adapted to the peculiar nature of NFTs.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2023

Delving into the parallel creation model, proposed for machinima, it is proposed that it should be based on collaborative creation and no exclusionary ownership. This also rules out the threat of the creation of a new game and is more convenient since developers do not have to take the pain of extracting copyright fees from a lot of users.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2022

” China’s copyright law protects the expression of ideas instead of ideas themselves, which is similar to U.S. copyright law. .; (8) ” China’s copyright law protects the expression of ideas instead of ideas themselves, which is similar to U.S. copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

Construing these allegations as true and in Service’s favor, Service subjectively believed that he possessed an ownership interest and that he never approved the Comedy Dynamics deal. I’m pretty sure the drafters of 512(f) never contemplated that it would be invoked in disputes over ownership.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

Our hard-working students and community members published more than twice as many articles than in 2020 and the most articles in a calendar year since 2011. This article summarizes the top developments reported on our blog and in patents, trademarks, and copyright law in 2021. Copyright Law. Giuseppina D’Agostino.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

Along with these evolutions in the digital space, forms of investment and ownership are also advancing to make use of these technologies. 6, 2020, which sold for nearly $400,000. Essentially, an NFT is a digital token that can serve as a certificate of ownership. Rockets game of Feb.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2021

Zee Entertainment Enterprises refused to grant an interim injunction in a case involving the telecasting of certain films by Zee Entertainment on their satellite channels and OTT platform in which the plaintiff claimed ownership of copyright. News from India. You can read our posts on the report here , here , here , here and here.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

On November 3rd, 2018, Thaler filed a copyright application for A Recent Entrance to Paradise, designating himself as the claimant and the work’s author as “Creativity Machine,” saying that the copyright should be transferred from the AI to him due to his “ownership of the machine.”

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IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

Even a tweet is protected as a literary work under copyright. All original works are protected by copyright. Copyright is applied to fresh and unique work as soon as it is created. However, in order to have legal proof of ownership, it is always advisable to register for copyright registration. Trademarks.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

From this constitutional dimension of copyright emerged the notion of ‘user rights’ ( Geiger, 2020 ). Looking forward, it is essential to ensure that legitimate uses expressly foreseen by copyright law are enabled through better access to protected works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

A key goal of the analysis is the reconciliation of the structure and legal tests applied in copyright law with the way authorial creativity develops as a process. A copyright lawyer will be familiar with legal issues on subject matter, originality, authorship and ownership. What is it? by Alexander Puutio. €

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

AUGUST 22, 2022

Practice area: Trademark and copyright. Law school and year of graduation: Emory University School of Law, 2014. Cheng: When I was looking to move firms, I had also just expanded my practice to trademark and copyright law. Law.com: What lessons, if any, did you learn in 2020/2021 (the COVID years)?

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Something has recently gone awry with the law of copyright ownership in a movie or other film — a “cinematographic work”, as s. 2 of the Copyright Act RSC 1985, c. Part I of the Act deals with the ownership of copyright in works. A copyright owner may of course transfer the right as it wishes (s.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The primary goal of copyright law is to safeguard the interests of creators of original, publishable works. The purpose of copyright protection is to make sure that the artist reaps the rewards of creating their original work and that no one else benefits unfairly from it. Ownership of Copyright. Photography.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 23, 2021

The digital universe is so large that it is said that big data is doubling in size every two years, and by the end of 2020, it is expected to reach 44 zettabytes. ” Therefore, the domain of big data cannot escape the interplay of IP laws in its administration and protection against third parties.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The question of ownership in the virtual world, particularly in video games, has long been debated. On the trademark side, relevant is this post by Bhavya Solanki and Medha Bhatt discussing the applicability of the fair use provisions of trademark law to the unauthorized use of trademarks in the virtual world.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In a 2022 Copyright Review Board decision [10] the US Copyright Office rejected a second request for reconsideration of a refusal to register a two-dimensional work of art described by the applicant as “autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine.” (The 4 th 1034 (9 th Cir. 2] Taylor v. 4 th 1034 (9 th Cir.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

According to the Court,the ownership of the work could be attributed to the claimant on the basis of the prints of the websites she produced and via an online search, as well as a book published by Mondadori which contained the image with the attribution to the architect.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Violations of copyrights are addressed under Chapter XI of the Copyrights Act of 1957. Infringement of copyrights is addressed under Sections 51 through 53A of the Copyrights Act, 1957. Producers may claim exclusive ownership of an album or song in court owing to copyright protections. 2022, April 22).

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

On November 3rd, 2018, Thaler filed a copyright application for A Recent Entrance to Paradise, designating himself as the claimant and the work’s author as “Creativity Machine,” saying that the copyright should be transferred from the AI to him due to his “ownership of the machine.”

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 10, 2021

Last year, I wrote about an epic copyright battle between the Philadelphia Phillies and the original creators of the Phillie Phanatic over ownership rights in the beloved baseball mascot. H/E), a creative design firm, which in 1984 assigned the copyright in the mascot for a term of “forever.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

2020), the Second Circuit purported to reaffirm that “the discovery rule applies for statute of limitations purposes in determining when a copyright infringement claim accrues under the Copyright Act.” at 1-2] At its heart, therefore, this case is a dispute about copyright ownership. at 37 (Scalia, J., Thomas, J.).

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2023

During litigation, the unredacted version may be used as evidence to support the ownership of the redacted portions in the registered mask work. Copyright Office. Copyright Office by year for the last 10 years. Year 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 # of MW 33 0 20 156 27 25 28 84 279 203.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

This is the second installment of a reflection on the topic of content moderation and bias mitigation measures in copyright law. The first part of this post briefly discussed the concept of bias and examined the role of property rights in data and factual information, with a focus on copyright.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Morford cannot claim ownership over a natural element (a fruit) and a functional component (duct tape). copyright law does not protect “elements of expression that nature displays for all observers,” [8] which, according to Cattelan, excludes the main components of Morford’s artwork. 2020) (quoting Bateman v.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

There the Court quoted Justice Traynor’s dissenting opinion in Stanley : The policy that precludes protection of an abstract idea by copyright does not prevent its protection by contract. Even though an idea is not property subject to exclusive ownership, its disclosure may be of substantial benefit to the person to whom it is disclosed.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

In a 2020 post on this Blog ( here ), we have further updated that the Court of Milan issued similar orders against some hosting providers and the CDN operator Cloudfare Inc., More from our authors: Exceptions in EU Copyright Law: In Search of a Balance Between Flexibility and Legal Certainty. million to 30.9 by Tito Rendas. €

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A report by Citibank published in March, 2020 observes that the Metaverse economy could be a thirteen trillion dollar total addressable market by the year 2030. But needless to say, the Metaverse brings into picture several aspects of the law such as Copyright law , Contract law, Tort law and Criminal law.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 21, 2023

Understanding Tricky Tattoo copyright is also essential for safeguarding the artistic integrity and ownership of these unique body art creations. The genesis of copyright as an established legal right can be traced back to England, 1710 where the first copyright law— the Statute of Anne was established.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Firstly, in footnote 1 the author, Phoebe Li, lets us know that all online resources were last accessed on 30 May 2020. The individual rights-based regime neglects the collective identity and duties arising from ownership. This Kat would like to join the petition for footnotes to no longer require last access date information.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 21, 2023

In other words, it gives the copyright owner the exclusive right to make copies of the work, and to exercise the ancillary rights that come with that monopolistic power, such as licensing rights, et cetera. So what kind of works, provided they meet the requirement, qualify for copyright protection?

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 12, 2024

To protect the right of creators, Copyright law was introduced, fostering creative innovation. Copyright Law and Insufficient Injunctions The British Statute of Anne, 1710, was the first copyright statute. Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law, 11, 179-204. 2020, December 18). link] Dixit, P.

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