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Research Exceptions in Comparative Copyright Law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Promoting research and access to its products has always been a core purpose of copyright law, often expressed in limitations and exceptions for research uses. Recent legal scholarship has examined the need for copyright exceptions for text and data mining (TDM) methodologies, and the doctrines recently enacted to achieve this purpose.

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Supreme People’s Court of China issues first comprehensively revised judicial interpretation of anti-unfair competition law since 2007

The IPKat

There was no JI on the AUCL until 2007. JI 2020) was a minor one with only one change to the JI 2007, i.e., replacing one of the legislation’s grounds from the General Principles of the Civil Law to the Civil Code of China (See the IPKat post on the Civil Code of China here ). The subsequent JI (i.e.

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Censorious fools

Likelihood of Confusion

Cory Doctorow writes about how abuse of the copyright laws — using them as a method of privatized censorship — does creators of protected works no favors. Originally posted 2007-10-02. The post Censorious fools appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Mickey Mouse to Enter Public Domain in 2024

IPilogue

Serena Nath is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Every year on January 1, works protected under copyright law enter into the public domain due to their copyright protection expiring. Disney will likely be able to continually show an association with Mickey Mouse.

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Can Celebrity Catchphrases be Intellectually Protected?

IIPRD

She trademarked the term in February 2007, and since then, it has become her “signature catchphrase.” Catchphrases in Copyright and Trademark Law Copyright law guarantees artists the protection of their creative work while allowing others to expand upon it through its legislations. In Reebok India v. 541 of 2019.

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Whither a Signal-Based Broadcast Treaty?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

After a failed attempt to create a negotiating draft on these terms, the 2007 GA authorized progress to a Diplomatic Conference on the treaty “only after agreement on objectives, specific scope and object of protection has been achieved.” But indisputably it does not mean unanimity.

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UK Police Arrest Man For Operating Pirate IPTV Service & Money Laundering

TorrentFreak

In the past, those operating unlicensed torrent sites or streaming services in the UK needed to be aware of breaching civil copyright law, action that could result in a damages award but not a custodial sentence. Section 44 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 relates to those intentionally encouraging or assisting an offense.