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Copyright Ownership with Independent Contractors

Sander Law

Copyright Ownership with Independent Contractors. When hiring an independent contractor to design your logos, artwork and take photographs, it is important to think about who actually owns the copyright in the resulting work. Ownership of Copyright. Moral Rights. Learn more about Moral Rights.

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Protecting Product and Packaging Designs in China Part II – Copyright

LexBlog IP

The protection of moral rights, including the rights of publication, authorship, alteration, and integrity, is perpetual. 2D designs and texts on a product or packaging may be protected as written, pictorial, photographic, and graphic works, or even works of fine art, depending on the nature of the design elements.

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The Modern Copyright Dilemma: Digital Content Ownership and Access

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge.

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IPSC Breakout Session 3, Language and Authorship/ownership

43(B)log

A business code communicating within a community designed to be closed. Ownership should require a lower burden of proof: comes from the relationship between the spouses and not from the connection to the creation. Gerhardt: compare right of publicity, moral rights? It didn’t develop organically.

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Book review: Performers' Rights

The IPKat

The book covers the rights of performers, particularly the rights conferred under Part II of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended). Those working in the field of media and entertainment law will no doubt be familiar with Arnold's authorial text on Performer's Rights.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

Chapter 2, authored by David Musker, considers the overlaps between patents and designs. The case serves as the springboard for a discussion on whether owning both rights may put the rightsholder at risk. With a focus on EU and US approaches to the issue, Musker suggests arguments that may be useful to litigants in similar situations.

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Generative AI and Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

Image Sources: Shutterstock] Basic understanding of Copyright Copyright is a legal theory that provides artists complete ownership over their creative works, preventing unauthorised use and copying. A linguistic model lacks the kind of human imagination required to develop logos or designs.