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Book review: Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship

The IPKat

It focuses on authorship of the copyright in stage plays as dramatic works, texts that can be performed from a script (rather than musical theatre, dance, or performers rights). The book addresses questions of whom is the author and first owner of a dramatic work? Who receives the credit and the licensing rights?

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Vempati Ravi Shankar – Facebook Copyright Dispute: Issues on Moral Rights and Posthumous Enforcement of Celebrity Rights

SpicyIP

Recently, a copyright infringement suit had been filed before the District Court, Trivandrum, against Facebook India. A copyright holder has the exclusive right to communicate his work to the public and as the plaintiff’s sound recordings were used without authorisation, copyright infringement could be easily proved.

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Book review: Copyright in the street. An Oral History of Creative Processes in Street Art and Graffiti Subcultures

The IPKat

As its title suggests, this book focuses on the relationship between US copyright law and street art and graffiti. This book should not be perceived as a classic manual on the application of copyright to these art forms. This Kat therefore strongly recommends reading this book, taking into account its pros and cons.

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Never too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

The IPKat

Copyright This Kat reflected on a judgment issued by the Tribunal Judiciaire of Paris on 31 March 2023 which concerned a claim of copyright infringement in a typeface. The Court held that a musical box infringed of an author’s moral rights.

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat the past 2 weeks!

The IPKat

PermaKat Neil Wilkof commented on the reproduction of the work of art " Detail from the Portrait of Eugénie-Pamela Larivière" (which is in the public domain) by Louis Larivière in the Louvre, Paris" on a book cover. Reminder: last call to vote for your best IP book of 2021 by participating in the poll here !

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When is a derivative work original and thus protectable by copyright? Classicist’s critical edition makes its way to Luxembourg in fresh Romanian CJEU referral

The IPKat

The book that is going to change copyright law? After the referrals in Mio [IPKat here and here ] and USM Haller [IPKat here ] , another referral asking about the meaning of originality in EU copyright law has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU): it is the referral from Romania in Institutul G.

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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Velocity of Content

One core concept in AI-relevant cases that both find for, and against, fair use ( Google Books and Fox v. Transformative use” is not mentioned in Section 107 of the Copyright Act but has been read into the first of four fair use factors. I speculated that this was an attempt to avoid a messy fair use dispute.