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Permissibility Of A Waiver Of Moral Rights Of An Author Under The Copyright Regime

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Section 57 of the Copyright Act of 1957 covers authors’ special rights particularly, highlighting the importance of expanding such rights beyond solely economic grounds. As a result, the lifetime of these rights varies greatly between countries. Waiver of moral right of the author permissible?

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat the past 2 weeks!

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DESIGNS The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court (OLG Düsseldorf) sent a referral to the CJEU (Case C-684/21) on the role of alternative designs in the examination of Article 8(1) of Regulation 6/2002. Background, analysis and comments are provided by GuestKat Anastasiia Kyrylenko.

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The Beijing Treaty: A step forward in the protection of related rights in audiovisual performances

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Up to now, only sound fixations enjoyed this protection (see the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty – WPPT – approved in 1996 and in force since 2002). 2) Term of protection: The Treaty envisages a minimum term of 50 years for both the economic rights it regulates and the moral rights.

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YouTube/Cyando – Lessons for the Egyptian Copyright Legislator

Kluwer Copyright Blog

82 of 2002 for the Protection of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) (see also here ). It’s worth noting that the ECL remained faithful to its original “author’s rights identity”, similarly to its French counterpart. Hence, the ECL allocates right holders a wide bundle of exclusive rights (art.

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

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CCI , the Delhi High Court held that Chapter XVI of the Patents Act is a complete code in itself and overrides the Competition Act, 2002. Setting aside the Single Judge orders in Ericsson v. CCI and Monsanto v.

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