Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

When people find out that I am an Intellectual Property (IP) attorney, I am often battered with questions about the topic. This term of copyright duration didn’t start until 1989, when the United States signed the Berne Convention, the international copyright treaty. That’s understandable. Do you see why they are wrong?

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 28, 2022

The confusion around which terminology to use and what it means exactly, has, at minimum, existed for around 150 years since the Berne Convention came in 1886. India” joined the Convention as a British colony (Read: Article XIX, of the Berne Convention, 1886 ). Sean Flynn for his comments on the topic.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 31, 2022

The topic of the 2014 paper was provided by Bernt Hugenholtz. Perhaps the most obvious way to exclude football from copyright protection would be to hold that it falls outside the domain of copyright – football is not within what Article 2(1) of the Berne Convention refers to as “the literary, scientific and artistic domain.”

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Marco Spolidoro gave a lecture on the very topical subject of NFTs (which this blog recently covered here ). The title of his talk was rather self-explanatory of the speaker's position on the dignity of the institution as it is 'NFT: from the metaverse to catching dummies'.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

This was historically the sense in Canada, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, for example, and has been argued even to be required internationally under the Berne Convention, as Jane Ginsburg (2003) has noted. So a lot is implied in, or possible from, the title ( as is often my intent on this blog ).

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 5, 2021

While one could debate this topic from a non-legal standpoint (and perhaps we will return to it), one (unsolicited) question might be: What would have happened if Spotify had not agreed to remove the " shuffle " feature at Adele's request and she had decided to take her reasons to the legal level?

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Copyright Lately

MAY 13, 2022

So, if anyone out there is looking to do a follow-up article that doesn’t consist solely of a regurgitated Josh Hawley press release , here are five topics for your consideration: 1. With certain limited exceptions, compliance with Berne requires that the U.S. “Today I’m introducing legislation to strip ?

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