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Alfred v. Walt Disney Company: Decoding the concept of Substantial Similarity with respect to the Pirates of the Caribbean lawsuit

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Introduction In order to determine copyright infringement , the ‘substantial similarity test’ has routinely been employed by the US Courts. Such rights include the right to reproduce the work, the right to public display and public performance, the right to adaptation, etc. One such case is the case of Alfred v.

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A Brief Thematic Review of Non-Fungible Tokens and their Copyright

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Copyrights safeguard the artists’ rights in the inventive and imaginative content that abounds in digital media. In today’s digital world, a lot of data and information have been shared online and are susceptible to corruption and copying. Image Sources : Gettyimages] One of the important issues in online is copyrights.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

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As the story goes, they provided him with a copy of a few scenes from “Ghostbusters” in which the theme would appear. But Lewis thought the song was a rip-off of “I Want a New Drug” and asserted a copyright infringement claim against Columbia Pictures. Cinema Secrets (2000).

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HULM Entertainment v.  Fantasy Sports: Reanalysing Originality, Idea-Expression Dichotomy and Copyrightability of GUIs

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Hulm Entertainment alleged Fantasy Sports had substantially copied its ‘original trading and stock features’ along with the graphical user interface (GUI) of their fantasy sports mobile application “Exchange22”. Apart from this, the court held that :- (i) copyright infringement hinges on the substantial similarity between competing works.

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Copyright Protection of Modern Art

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Cooper case, a work does not have to be entirely unique in order to be protected by copyright; rather, there needs to be some effort put into it and it cannot be a carbon copy of another person’s work. The lack of organisation and ambiguity make the protection problematic even if the work is copyrighted. Corel Corp.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

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If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. 101 ] Issue 1: Are the recorded interviews a copyright-eligible “work of authorship”? Taylor , 945 F.2d

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 8-November 15)

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The court further directed the authorities to look whether these DNRs ought to be permitted to continue to offer their goods and services in India, if they are not giving effect to orders the courts and not complying with the provisions of IT Act 2000, and the 2021 Rules. Comedian Vir Das, Netflix booked for copyright infringement.

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