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[Guest Post] Nigerian's new Copyright Act 2022: how libraries can benefit

The IPKat

The reform process is now complete with the recent assent to the Bill, as the Copyright Act 2022, by the Nigerian President. Next steps to implement the new Act for libraries Nonetheless, enactment of a progressive law is one thing. Resources exist that can serve as precedents for this purpose.

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Behind the Polka Dot Door – The In-House Perspective at My TVO Internship

IPilogue

As a student of Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive for the Fall 2022 semester, I had the opportunity to complete an internship placement at Ontario’s public educational broadcaster, TVO. Cynthia Zhang is a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. This article was written as a requirement for Prof.

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Is HitPiece the Fyre Festival of NFT Startups?

Copyright Lately

From an archived copy of HitPiece’s FAQ. On Friday, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sent a letter to an attorney representing HitPiece , demanding that the site permanently stop infringing musicians’ intellectual property rights and that it account for all of the transactions already made.

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Yearbook Defendants Lose Two More Section 230 Rulings

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Instead, it was likely either archives or individual yearbook owners who submitted it, but the court says they are not the creators/developers of the yearbook. .” Notice how this legal standard skips a step in the publication process, because it was likely not the initial authors/publishers who submitted the yearbooks to PeopleConnect.

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Hacking Fashion Week: IP Guide to Survival

LexBlog IP

Given the (potential) duration of copyright protection and the tendency in the fashion industry to be inspired by the past in its “innovating” capacity, remind your designers and product developers to take extreme care when sourcing competitors’ old archives. Fashion show: a work of art?

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Empowered to negotiate or obliged to contract? Lessons from the Italian implementation of the press publishers’ right

Kluwer Copyright Blog

As a more or less direct result, posting and sharing of Italian press articles via social media comes now without picture previews. Additionally, the lack of explanation could create uncertainties for educational or cultural institutions hosting e.g. press archives. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023

SpicyIP

[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

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