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2024 European Copyright Society (ESC) Conference on conflict and trust in the European copyright system (24 May) The 2024 ECS conference will address current conflicts over the scope and enforcement of European copyright law and look for ways to resolve them in a trustworthy manner and with a balanced outcome.

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Donald C. Brace Memorial Lecture by Professor David Vaver – “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond”

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Professor Vaver spoke on the origins of fair dealing in Canada and its differences and similarities in comparison to the American legal concept of “fair use”, its evolution throughout the history of Canadian common law jurisprudence, and its potentially far-reaching future beyond Canada and copyright law. .

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IP Scholarship, Citations, and Knowledge Governance: Some Insights from the History of IP Teaching in India

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Mr. Kadirgamar traces it back to 1970 when WIPO conducted two surveys: one, on the teaching of industrial property law and the second on the teaching of copyright law teaching. In this symposium, Professors Narmada Khodie (then Head, Department of Law, University of Bombay, India) and K.

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Does Copyright Extend to “facts”? The Federal Court Sets the Story Straight on the Extent of Copyright Protection in Nonfiction Work

Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

the defendants, for copyright infringement. In 2004, Mr. Hendley wrote and published a book called The Black Donnellys: The Outrageous Tale of Canada’s Deadliest Feud (the “ Outrageous Tale ”) , which cited The Black Donnellys as authority for many of the historical events detailed in the book.

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The Choice Of Law Debate In Copyright Infringement

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2017) <[link] accessed on 11 June 2023 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp The post The Choice Of Law Debate In Copyright Infringement first appeared on IPLF. Garimella and S. Jolly (eds.)2017)

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Claims under copyright law. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.