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Oops, I sampled again… The meaning of ‘pastiche’ as an autonomous concept under EU copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The facts of the case are all too familiar by now: in 2004, German band Kraftwerk took hip hop producer Moses Pelham to court for copyright infringement after he sampled two seconds of their song “Metall auf Metall” and looped it in Sabrina Setlur’s track “Nur Mir”. Although AG Crúz Villalon argued in his Opinion (para.

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3 Count: Copyright Claims Onboarding

Plagiarism Today

1: Copyright Office Launches New Copyright Claims Board Website. Copyright Office announces that the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) has launched its new website, ccb.gov. government passed the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020 (CASE Act). Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Supreme Court of Canada on Copyright: “Copyright Law Does Not Exist Solely for the Benefit of Authors”

Michael Geist

For much of the past two decades, copyright groups have steadfastly sought to deny what the Supreme Court of Canada has repeatedly endorsed, namely that the purpose of Canadian copyright law is to serve the public interest by balancing users’ and authors’ rights. ” The decision – SOCAN v.

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The Fairest of Them All: Justice Abella’s Legacy in Canadian Copyright Law

IPilogue

Sabrina Macklai is an IPilogue Senior Editor and a 2L JD Candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. . May 21 was a historic day for copyright fanatics around the country. She wrote reasons for several landmark copyright decisions, even delivering judgements in four out of the five 2012 “ Copyright Pentalogy ” cases.

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[Guest Post] Nigerian's new Copyright Act 2022: how libraries can benefit

The IPKat

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host a guest contribution by Desmond Oriakhogba on the new Copyright Act 2022 signed into law by Nigeria's President. The reform process is now complete with the recent assent to the Bill, as the Copyright Act 2022, by the Nigerian President.

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Revisiting Alberta v Access Copyright: Resources for K-12 Educators in Canada

IPilogue

Photocopying classroom materials in a K-12 public school system may have seemed harmless and benign before the 2012 Supreme Court of Canada case, Alberta v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). The decision reframes traditional teaching pedagogies by considering the artist and owner rights under copyright law.

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Evolution of Tests of Creativity in Copyrights

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction Originality in copyright works is the sine qua non of all the copyright regimes of the world. The Copyright , Designs and Patents Act of 1988 in the United Kingdom specifies in Section (1)(1)(a) that copyright exists in “original literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic works.”