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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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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.

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The Choice Of Law Debate In Copyright Infringement

IP and Legal Filings

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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Web Scraping and Intellectual Property Rights

IIPRD

These goods and services present online that form the bread and butter for business are a protected product/content that is categorized as intellectual property and is protected under the Intellectual Property laws through copyright, trademark , design , etc. 2] The Copyright Act, 1957.—Section

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GitHub Domain Listed on Police Piracy Blacklist For The Last Four Months

TorrentFreak

The police make this clear when they write to the owners of listed domains, warning of offenses under the Fraud Act 2006, Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, and even the Serious Crimes Act 2007. And, in most cases, the listed domains appear to have no real purpose than to infringe copyright. .

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The problem arises because copyright law is written as an “opt-in” system (no copying without authorization), while the Internet is designed as an “opt-out” system (it allows copying unless it is prohibited). I think this ruling reinforces why the CJPA is preempted by federal copyright law. Amazon.com, Inc. , 882 (2006).

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Customs Intervention for IP in the Indian Sub-Continent

Kashishipr

The Intellectual Property Rights (Imported Goods) Enforcement Rules, 2007 and The Customs Act, 1962 form the legal basis for Customs Recordal of IPRs in India. In Nepal, all trading activities are regulated by the Ministry of Finance under The Customs Act 2007.

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