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Ownership of Copyrights Patents and Trademarks are Created by Employees and Independent Contractors

IP and Legal Filings

In early 2012, there has been substantial amendments to the Act, copyright protection involves dramatic, musical, any original piece of literary work including cinematography films, etc. This may be for a limited period and is only limited to publishing, rendering left of the ownership to the author.

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Pandemic Push: Royalty-Based Business Model for Better Downstream Revenue for Musicians

SpicyIP

As a practice, artists enter into contracts with publishers which grant them ownership of the work to commercially exploit it and collect the royalties it earns. Then these earnings are split between the publishers and artists based on the terms of the contract between them.

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Ownership of Musical works in Cinematographic films

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

However, this argument came to an end in 2012 with an amendment to the act which stated that the rights of authors of original literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works which are incorporated in a cinematographic film will not be affected even if it is made at the instance of a producer who has invested valuable consideration into it or has employed (..)

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A present assignment of future continuation applications

Patently-O

The decision is lacking though because the court does not ground its decision in any particular contract or property tradition. Although it did not state directly, the court appears to have based its contract interpretation on federal patent law as it has done in prior cases. MLB Advanced Media, L.P., 3d 1284 (Fed.

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Federal Circuit Ruling Underscores the “Future Affiliate” Trap in Licensing Agreements

LexBlog IP

collectively, “Finjan”) in November 2012. Under the agreement, Intel received a perpetual and irrevocable license to “Finjan’s Patents,” which meant, “all Patent Rights that are owned or controlled at any time on or after November 6, 2012[,] by Finjan.” and Finjan Software, Inc.

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Courts Still Have No Clue How to Determine Who Owns Social Media Accounts–JLM v. Gutman

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Gutman created a Pinterest account in 2011 and an Instagram account in 2012, shortly after she began working for JLM. However, the appellate court seems to invalidate that six-factor test: “Determining he ownership of social-media accounts is indeed a relatively novel exercise, but that novelty does not warrant a new six-factor test.”

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The Music Industry (Taylor’s Version)

IPilogue

Over the next year, Swift released re-recorded versions of both her Fearless (2008) and Red (2012) albums, receiving widespread commercial and critical success. Look What You Made Me Do. At the heart of Taylor’s decision was an often overlooked but significant legal distinction in the copyright law governing the music industry.

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