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When is an artist entitled to refuse attribution of an artwork? Italian Supreme Court provides (final) guidance in long-running dispute over Jeff Koons’s The Serpents

The IPKat

There, it was presented as an original Koons artwork of which three copies exist. Garrone subsequently contacted Koons several times (in 1997, 2007 and 2009) in order to obtain a declaration of authenticity from him and thus sell the artwork. Subsequently, the sculpture was shipped to Italy and held at customs in Milan.

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Who’s Laughing Now? EUIPO Board of Appeal Rules that Banksy Can Keep his Trademark and Anonymity Too

IPilogue

Background Banksy’s graffiti artwork Laugh Now first appeared in Brighton, England, in 2002. Typically, artists protect their artwork using only copyright law. Furthermore, the Board accepted Banksy’s 2007 book Wall and Piece as damning evidence that this trademark was registered in bad faith. street artist Banksy.

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Police Shut ‘Club Penguin Rewritten’, 3 Arrested For Copyright Infringement

TorrentFreak

This success attracted the attention of Disney and in 2007, New Horizon was scooped up for $350 million. In April 2020, Disney filed a copyright complaint with Google, stating that Club Penguin Rewritten’s domain (cprewritten.net) not only infringed its rights in artwork but also its trademarks.

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Bombay High Court Rules that Copyright Registration of a Label is not Compulsory

Kashishipr

In May 2007, the label mark ‘SOYA DROP’ was registered. NTC didn’t own the copyright in the ‘SOYA DROP’ artwork or label. NTC failed to prove that it had used the artwork or label first or that SSPL’s artwork wasn’t original.

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Matricide, Movies and Salinger

Dear Rich IP Blog

Included in the collection is an undated typewritten poem by the daughter-murderer (who died in 2007), probably written 1944-1949. However, people who find abandoned artwork, manuscripts, and musical recordings can claim ownership of the physical objects. Is that correct? I wish to use the poem and parts of the letters in the script.

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Fleshing out the copyright in a tattoo

IP Whiteboard

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. 5] Burge v Swarbrick [2007] HCA 17. [6] 6] Burge v Swarbrick [2007] HCA 17, [48]. [7]

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Copyright Goes Bananas: District Court Rejects Maurizio Cattelan’s Motion to Dismiss Copyright Claim Against His Taped Banana

LexBlog IP

Within hours, his work, Comedian , sold for $120,000, went viral, and became that year’s perhaps most discussed artwork. [2] copyright law does not protect “elements of expression that nature displays for all observers,” [8] which, according to Cattelan, excludes the main components of Morford’s artwork.