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Proper Copyright Notice

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video Proper Copyright Notice. While this podcast is predominantly about trademark issues, I do from time to time like to talk about other intellectual property issues, especially copyright issues. That’s what a proper copyright notice looks like. Now, why do we want to use that?

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In Praise of the Title Verso

Velocity of Content

Critically for Richard Charkin, however, the title verso is where to find who is the copyright holder. On every title verso , β€œall rights reserved” will appear. All rights reserved means all rights reserved. It’s incredibly powerful,” he says. It means everything.

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My Concerns with the β€˜Can’t Be Evil’ NFT Licenses

Plagiarism Today

Last month, a study published by The Galaxy examined the top 25 most valuable NFT projects and found that, despite many understanding that NFTs transferred either the copyright or the license in the original work, only 1 in 25 of those projects even attempted to do as such. The first problem is that there is no β€œAll Rights Reserved” option.

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Getting paid to play? Copyright, contract, and the rewards for UGC

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The existence of this dialectical relationship between rightsholder and user sits at odds with the principles of the copyright system which often assume a dichotomous, all-rights-reserved model of creativity. Likewise, limited copyright exceptions don’t accommodate for this broadly construed β€˜use’ of a work.

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Top Trademark Trends of 2022

Erik K Pelton

The Court has also agreed to hear a patent case this term, and it will rule on a copyright fair-use case brought by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts that was heard this fall. All Mariah Carey wanted for Christmas was a trademark registration. All Rights Reserved. Hetronic International, Inc.

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How to protect your photos from unauthorized use online

CopyrightsWorld

Copyright infringement of digital photos differs in important ways from infringement in the markets of music and movies. Opportunities for photo infringement are numerous as an infringer need not actively log into a peer-to-peer file-sharing network to infringe; one need only right-click an image found via an online search.

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From Open Access to Open Science; as open as possible as closed as necessary?

The IPKat

Under the current copyright regime, works are closed by default. Under international treaties and legislation, it is not possible to create an autonomous scientific author whose works would merit different IP conditions from the β€˜all rights reserved’ default rule. . Consent of the author must be proactive.