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

The IPKat

Here’s the latest weekly summary of the different topics analysed by the Kats in last week’s posts. The review analysed the core topics of each Chapter, including the question linked to how intellectual property rights need to be treated in disputes that involve investor-state settlements.

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Employees with a side hustle: Can I protect my intellectual property?

Nelligan Law

The Copyright Act and The Industrial Design Act both touch on the topic of employment and IP. Sub section 13(3) the Copyright Act sets out the requirements of a written agreement that allow the creator to maintain ownership if said creation is in the course of employment, except in specific instances. However, in Parekh et al v.

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Why Spotify Removed So Many Comedy Albums

Plagiarism Today

Note: This will be an extremely brief overview of music licensing, for more details, check out this 2017 article on the topic. The composition covers everything that is written down including the sheet music, the lyrics and so forth. Music licensing, to put it mildly, is extremely complicated.

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Copyright Concerns When Using Others to Create Content

Erik K Pelton

When you hire someone to write or post or do social media for you, or create most types of content, it is generally a work for hire type of agreement. The best, of course, is to be all original, but it is many times useful to get content of pictures or videos or animations about a particular topic.

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See you Soon: Aug 19 Symposium and Publication Opportunities

Patently-O

I have an essay coming out in the next issue on the topic of inventorship attribution and reattribution. They prefer shorter articles (~20 pages) written and footnoted in law review style. Lots of work is going on in this area involving non-compete, confidentiality, and IP transfer agreements within and between firms.

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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

Walmart (again) and Kanye West are reaching an agreement. WTR has written an article about it! As part of the 21 for 2021 project , CREATe posted about the empirical evidence on copyright exceptions, from the oldest study on the topic to future research directions. The review is published in 4 different parts!

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Book Review: Intellectual Property as a Complex Adaptive System

The IPKat

Harper continues with the topic of IP as complex phenomena in Chapter 2. The book closes with Chapter 9, written by Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss. After discussing most prominent ISDS cases on IP [some of them have also been covered by The IPKat here ], the author suggests improvements for the newer ISDS agreements.