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Permissibility Of A Waiver Of Moral Rights Of An Author Under The Copyright Regime

IP and Legal Filings

Section 57 of the Copyright Act of 1957 covers authors’ special rights particularly, highlighting the importance of expanding such rights beyond solely economic grounds. As a result, the lifetime of these rights varies greatly between countries. Waiver of moral right of the author permissible?

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Limitation period for copyright infringement actions in France

The IPKat

One of the disputed copies was exhibited in the gardens of the company Le potager des Princes, founded by Mr Bienaimé and located in Chantilly. The work depicts three horses in a circular half-shell, one of which is arched. The artist noticed that several reproductions of his work or parts of it had been made without his permission.

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Metadata Ruling Gives YouTube a Timely Boost in Content ID Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

Between 2013 and 2017, Elias took photographs of hotels and licensed their owning companies to use them in promotional activities. Copies of his images also appeared on other websites, again without the metadata. One is of particular interest. Photographer’s CMI Erased. Victor Elias specializes in hotel and resort photography.

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

The entitlement granted to the rights holder is too strong; the remedies for infringing uses are too expensive and complex, leaving no efficiency justification for the continued pursuit of meme artists. [i] 29, 2013), [link]. [ii] 405 (2019); Terrica Carrington, Grumpy Cat or Copy Cat? 1, 2013), [link]. 511, 523 (2012).

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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Over the course of a decade, Google copied large volumes of books and made them available online, both through excerpts, known as “snippets”, and as entire publications. Rather than focusing on the reproduction and dissemination of existing materials, the goal of AI is to rework them to create something new.

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Journey Through “Novembers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

SpicyIP

Speaking of late movie stars, one may wonder about the posthumous enforcement of celebrity rights. If you are the one wondering this, then see Karishma Karthik’s two-part post examining the moral right of integrity and its potential as a tool in protecting the authors posthumously.

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Just Humor Them: Jests, Jokes, Satire, and Parody In Infringement and Defamation Cases

LexBlog IP

” That city’s status has changed, at least a bit, because of the [UK] Defamation Act 2013 , which requires, under Section 1(1) that the allegedly defamatory words go beyond being capable of injuring the subject—they must, have caused or be likely to cause “serious harm” to the reputation of the claimant.