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Traditional Tattoos on the Red Carpet: Continuing the Conversation of Collective Ownership

IPilogue

These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws.

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Right to Research (“R2R”): An Independent Right with an Imposed Dependence in Copyright Law?

SpicyIP

The query around r2r in general is not a new one – see for example Appadurai’s widely cited 2006 paper by the same name, or SPARC’s Coalition formed back in 2009. Lokesh attempts to find grounding for it in Indian law through the current post. a user right under copyright law. Lokesh Vyas.

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Copyright, Upcycling, and the Human Right to Environmental Protection

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In the EU, Article 4(2) of the InfoSoc Directive specifically addresses exhaustion, stating that the distribution right of the copyright holder is exhausted within the EU after the first sale or other transfer of ownership of a copy of a work with the rightholder’s consent. What could this mean for copyright-relevant upcycling?

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Smells Like Copyright Infringement

IPilogue

copyright law, a particularly confusing subject for foreign works published before 1978. copyright law. Drawing on Twin Books , they argued, “a publication of a work in the United States without the statutory notice of copyright fell into the public domain,” as per the U.S. Copyright Act of 1909.

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Securing Copyright Protection for AI-generate Generated Creations – A Business Perspective

IPilogue

By comparison, the US Copyright Office Review Board has decided that obtaining copyright protection requires human authorship , citing that copyright law only protects those works that “are founded in the creative powers of the mind.”. Countless more AI creations may be underway. . The Legal Conundrum.

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Dynamism and dilemmas: Navigating the evolution of dynamic injunctions

IP and Legal Filings

To protect the right of creators, Copyright law was introduced, fostering creative innovation. Copyright Law and Insufficient Injunctions The British Statute of Anne, 1710, was the first copyright statute. Retrieved February 27, 2023, from [link] [ii] Copyright Act, 1957, S 55. DIGITAL AROUND THE WORLD.

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Copyright Exceptions and Digital Exhaustion addressed by the European Court of Human Rights (yes, the one in Strasburg!)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Photo by Udo Pohlmann via Pixabay Over the last decades, European lawyers got used to the – at times remarkable and even forceful – interventions of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in copyright law. The Safarov case In 2009, Safarov authors a book. An NGO makes his entire work available for download.