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[Guest post] Navigating the high notes: Taylor Swift's copyright dispute

The IPKat

This article delves into the saga’s central copyright issues and the concept of moral rights, and compares the situation in the US to how it might have unfolded under EU law. After Swift had found herself dissatisfied with the way in which BMR had made use of its rights, she decided to re-record the albums.

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Adding a glass canopy to a mosque infringes architect’s copyright and the canopy must be removed, says Cologne Regional Court

The IPKat

In 2008, the parties concluded a contract, which included the following clauses [translation by this Kat]: § 4 Protection of the work and of the author […] 4.3 Statutory copyright protection remains unaffected. […] § 13. The client owns the copyright to the image of the building, which is the object of this contract. (2)