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Unclear student guide not enough to constitute authorisation to use short film still

The IPKat

To celebrate the start of this event, this Kat has found a recent judgment issued by the Tribunal judiciaire (TJ) of Lyon [ the birthplace of cinema ] concerning a case of copyright infringement relating to the still of a short film. Every year in May, the Cannes Film Festival takes place. But, for once, there was no question of originality.

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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. That is, in an NFT there can be an underlying copy of a work of art –typically an image, photograph, piece of music, video or certain audiovisual content– that may be subject to copyright. And why is that?

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

Velocity of Content

As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents). This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. v Stability A.I.

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[Guest post] Universal Copyright Convention – RIP

The IPKat

Internationally, it may not be a major event, since a very high number of countries have already ratified or adhered to the Convention. This is, of course, very important for the creative communities of Cambodia. With the joining of Cambodia, the number of Member States of the Berne Union has reached 180.

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Copyright Protection of Photographs: a Comparative Analysis Between France, Germany and Italy

Kluwer Copyright Blog

For instance, copyright protection has been denied to photographs taken by paparazzi and photographs of sport events. The threshold to meet these requirements is similar to the traditional common law «skill, labour and judgement» test, and is often met whenever the photograph was not copied and shows a modicum of technical skill.

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WIPIP Session 8 (copyright)

43(B)log

President Ford couldn’t prevent others from copying bare historical facts. c) does grant authors “rights in something he created” and that “already belong to him” at common law and is taken after a few short years from him and his heirs. Natural or moral right to own fruit of labors. She doesn’t think those are the same.

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Book Review: Handbook of Intellectual Property Research [Part 2]

The IPKat

Survival analysis is a branch of statistics, which models the duration of time until a given event occurs. Farley provides readers with a substantive review of different venues of research on IP and morality, including the role morality plays in exclusions to IP, or morality aspects in moral rights law.