IPilogue
JANUARY 17, 2022
While many were observing the new year, intellectual property scholars and the artistic community were celebrating Public Domain Day. The previously copyrighted works enter the public domain, free to use and copy. Works enter the public domain on a country-by-country basis, depending on the jurisdiction’s laws.
IP Whiteboard
AUGUST 30, 2020
In what we understand to be an industry-first, the Copyright Agency (an Australian not-for-profit collecting society that also licences copyright protected literary and artistic works) has licenced an Indigenous artwork for a tattoo. Is it copyright infringement to copy a work and use it as a tattoo? .
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IP and Legal Filings
AUGUST 28, 2023
In India, it can be protected as a series mark as has been mentioned under Section 15 of the Trade marks Act 1999 as well as an ‘artistic work’ under the Copyrights Act 1957. Joy Creators, 2011 (45) PTC 541. [2] 2] Rintisch v. Eder (C-553/11). [3] 3] Louis Vuitton Malletier v. Dooney & Bourke, Inc., 3d 108 (2d Cir.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Photographs are included in Article 2(1) of the Berne Convention as copyrightable artistic works. All Berne Union Member States must thus provide copyright protection to photographic works. Non-original photographs enjoy protection that is substantially identical to that provided to original photographic works.
LexBlog IP
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Also in its amended opinion, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Google , the court placed newfound emphasis on the consideration of the “public benefits” the copying will likely produce as part of its analysis of the fourth fair use factor—the effect of the use on the market for the original. Goldsmith , 11 F.4th 4th 26, 50 (2d Cir.
LexBlog IP
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
The ECJ noted that it had already ruled that the operators of a public house, a hotel, or a spa establishment perform an act of communication when they deliberately transmit protected works to their customers, by intentionally distributing a signal by means of television or radio sets which they have installed in their establishment.
IP and Legal Filings
JANUARY 22, 2024
The domain of copyright deals with the literary, musical, dramatic, and artistic works, and cinematograph films. Before the digital era, copyright protected tangible art or works, allowing authors to easily regulate usage, copies, and earnings.
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