LexBlog IP

JANUARY 17, 2022

On January 1, 2022, copyrighted works from 1926 will enter the US public domain. That means that anyone can copy, share, and build upon that work , but it doesn’t mean the public can do the same for things that are already derived from the original. What do I mean by that? More into music? De Sylva, Irving Caesar).

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2023

The CUSMA required all countries to adopt copyright terms equal to that of the United States by the end of 2022. Under the new terms, no new works will enter the public domain in Canada for 20 years. However, the change is not retroactive and any work that is already in the public domain in Canada will remain as such.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 13, 2022

The decision to agree to a copyright term extension in the USMCA is harmful policy, made worse by the decision to bury plans for implementation in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s Budget 2022. To withhold their works from the public domain for decades represents an enormous collective loss to our culture and heritage.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 8, 2022

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland unveiled Budget 2022 yesterday. Registration would allow rights holders that want the extension to get it, while ensuring that many other works enter the public domain at the international standard of life plus 50 years. additional editions of the title.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

3: ‘Pooh,’ ‘Sun Also Rises’ among literary and film works with copyrights expiring in 2022. Finally today, The Associated Press reports that, with the new year, several prominent works are lapsing into the public domain including the Ernest Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises and A.A.

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IPilogue

JULY 27, 2022

On June 23 rd , 2022, the Parliament of Canada passed legislation to extend the term of copyright protection in literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works from life of author plus 50 years to 70 years. additional editions on average after it enters the public domain. The concerns are loud and clear.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 3, 2022

A conference jointly organized by the Department of Law of the University of Cyprus and the H2020 project reCreating Europe – Nicosia, 31 October – 1 November 2022. The event will take place on 31 October – 1 November 2022 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cyprus, in Nicosia, and will be offered in a blended format.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 20, 2022

The inclusion of copyright term extension in Budget 2022 – a commitment to implement was buried in an annex to the budget – will cause enormous harm to access to Canadian culture and history for a generation. Yet consider the comments of Bryan Adams, one of Canada’s best known artists.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 17, 2022

While many were observing the new year, intellectual property scholars and the artistic community were celebrating Public Domain Day. The previously copyrighted works enter the public domain, free to use and copy. In 2022, A. public domain. set at 50 years following the death of the author.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Freed from the shackles of copyright, Walt Disney’s iconic rodent was now in the public domain and, therefore, available for everyone to copy. It is no surprise that the legalities of the public domain are more complicated than the headlines suggest. But not so fast. But this does not mean use without restriction.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Seun Lari-Williams , PhD researcher in the fields of copyright and dispute system design at the University of Antwerp, regarding Nigeria's Copyright Act 2022 (which came into effect in 2023) and its constitutional reference to copyright as movable property.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

On 9 September 2022, Creative Commons issued their new FAQs on NFTs. With the exception of CC0, CC licences allow authors to keep their copyright whilst at the same time communicate which rights they reserve and which rights they waive for public benefit. Photo by Markus Winkler. Creative Commons Licensing.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In April 2022 , Uffizi sent a cease-and-desist in response to Jean Paul Gaultier’s current use of the Birth of Venus , but the fashion brand never replied and continued its unauthorized use. . The public domain refers to works not protected by copyright, which means the works can be used without acquiring permission or paying a fee.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 11, 2022

The inclusion of copyright term extension in Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s Budget 2022 may have been buried toward the very end of the last annex of the budget on page 274, but the issue has been front and centre for Freeland for many years.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 9, 2023

During 2022, copyright holders were paid around $1.5 A TV company claimed the public domain footage as their own. —- A copy of YouTube’s latest transparency report, covering the second half of 2022, is available here (pdf) From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 23, 2023

In late November of 2022, an Order in Council was signed to fix December 30, 2022 as the date on which Division 16 of Part 5 of the Copyright Act came into force. The amendments come by way of Bill C-19, the Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. Huge changes have come to the Canadian Copyright Act.

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The TTABlog

MARCH 2, 2022

2022 USPQ2d XXX (Fed. 2022) [not precedential]. Barrie's Peter Pan , first staged in 1904, and so the parties were in agreement that under copyright law, both the name and the character are in the public domain. Welch 2022. United Trademark Holdings, Inc. Disney Enterprises, Inc. Text Copyright John L.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 13, 2022

That’s why the 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby” didn’t enter the public domain until 2021. But Hawley’s bill has nothing to do with forcing that 1928 short film into the public domain. It wasn’t a Disney work. Neither is 1948’s The Babe Ruth Story.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

In 2022, one person was arrested for distributing or supplying illegal streaming services. Based on how many members of the public could be affected by the purported fraud prosecutions publicized in the media, we now turn to the most important disclosures by GMP with government figures for context. How many of the 3.9

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IPilogue

JANUARY 20, 2022

For North American museums with works still under copyright, the 2017 publication Guidelines for the Use of Copyrighted Materials and Works of Art by Art Museums by the Association of Art Museum Directors will come in handy. However, many of the masterpieces housed by museums are in the public domain.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. publications of the translated work, which lacked both registration and copyright notice in Scott-Giles’ name. Sarah Raja is a 3L J.D. Background. In 1949, C.W. It was published in the U.K.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Secondly, because Article 14 of the DSM Directive / Article 32-quarter of the Italian Copyright Act is about the protectability of the reproduction of a public domain artwork, not a situation like that one at issue here, that is the actionability of the unauthorized reproduction of a public domain artwork.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 1, 2022

And they have good margins—remember, this mostly public domain content except for the forewords.”. The Digital Public Library of America has also announced plans for a free e-book edition. It’s 2022: the Government Publishing Office needs to publish everything it touches in a readable e-book edition.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

TM bullying w/ a public domain quilt, claiming rights over “Dear Jane” as quilt/software. Born generic: sewcial, for sewing bee in social media age; but SEWCIAL is registered for services and now sending C&D letters to all the other users of the term. What to do next? As expert in the field, people come to her for advice.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 27, 2022

While the government is not making the change retroactive (meaning works currently in the public domain stay there), no one seriously expected that to happen. I have written multiple posts in recent weeks on the copyright term extension issue once the measure was buried unannounced in Budget 2022.

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IPilogue

MAY 6, 2022

Dua Lipa’s 2020 pop hit “Levitating” is facing copyright infringement lawsuits as of March 2022. For “Levitating,” the first complainant filed at the end of February 2022 in a Los Angeles federal court. The second complaint, filed on March 4, 2022 in New York federal court is by songwriters L.

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Olartemoure Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

In October 2022, the artist Kris Kashtanova obtained protection for her comic Zarya of the Dawn, which has a part written by her, and graphics made by artificial intelligence. La entrada AI images shouldn’t be protected se publicó primero en OlarteMoure | Intellectual Property.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The creation of AR experiences may involve acts of reproduction and communication to the public that have potential copyright implications. AR can concern two categories of cultural goods – those that are in the public domain and those embedding a copyrighted work of art. . (i) i) Public domain works. 2022, 618ff.

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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

December 8, 2022). Most of the issued patents cited in this brief have expired, meaning that the disclosed features are in the public domain. To conclude that TBL can strip the public's right to copy and benefit from these features today would be antithetical to the pro-competitive objectives of both trademark and patent law.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It’s the tale of a film that was originally a flop that lapsed into the public domain only to get a reprieve thanks to the Supreme Court and its newfound popularity. 5: 5 Public Domain Christmas Songs (And 5 That Aren’t). 6: 5 Public Domain Christmas Movies. Copyright is the reason. Bottom Line.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 21, 2022

In 2022, the theme for UNESCO’s World Book and Copyright Day (April 23 rd ) is “ Read… so that you never feel alone ,” which is certainly a sentiment most of us can readily appreciate. Another aspect of such public domain classics might be phrased, “books that everybody values, and nobody pays for.”. Lewis, Letters.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Likewise, when the Uffizi Museum sent a letter to the French maison Jean Paul Gauthier back in April 2022 asking to cease all uses of “ the Birth of Venus ” in their Le Musée collection, it possibly thought it would eventually receive – at the very least – some kind of reply. Yet, she kept ignoring him. Second, Art.

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The IPKat

MAY 13, 2022

7 June 2022 marks one year from the day when all EU Member States were due to have implemented the DSM Directive 2019/790. The WIPO Academy will organise the International Conference of WIPO Intellectual Property Training Institutions (IPTIs) on 23 and 24 May 2022. Sign up here before the tickets sell out again!

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 7, 2023

With no announcements from Sky or the Premier League, and the associated court orders not yet in the public domain, the scope of the Sky order remains unclear. While that timed out on July 27, 2021, blocking continued during the 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 seasons under the authority of the High Court.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2022

Marques - CELEBRATING MARKS: How sustainability and technology will shape the future of brands - 20 to 23 September 2022 - Madrid, Spain The 2022 MARQUES Annual Conference will be held in Madrid from 20 to 23 September 2022. Registration is open and more details can be found here. Further information is available here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In this post, we offer an overview of the project to date, stratified across CREATe’s core research themes : Creative Industries , the Public Domain , and Competition and Markets. Public Domain. In a wider sense, what is public and what is private has important innovation and societal effects. Creative Industries.

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IPilogue

JULY 20, 2022

On June 8, 2022, Apple took a hit to its trademark portfolio when it lost another trademark battle with Swatch, the famous Swiss watchmaker, before the General Court of the European Union. On June 08, 2022 the General Court of the European Union dismissed Apple’s applications for review of the Fourth Board of Appeal’s decision.

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