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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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When is an artist entitled to refuse attribution of an artwork? Italian Supreme Court provides (final) guidance in long-running dispute over Jeff Koons’s The Serpents

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As IPKat readers are surely aware, his fame extends well beyond the art world, given that Koons has contributed as litigant to some of the most interesting copyright case law around the world [see, eg, IPKat coverage here ]. Moral rights under Italian law and the issue before the Supreme Court Moral rights are not harmonized at the EU level.

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The Copyright Society Debate: Should Actors Get Royalty?

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Introduction Copyright, much like other IPs, have aimed at not only protecting someone’s right, but also enabling them to garner maximum commercial exploitation from such an exclusive right over their unique creations. Royalties are shared equally with the author(s) and assignee of copyright, eg.

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Copyright Legislation vis-a-vis the Music Industry : A Comparative Study of India and Indonesia

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Good artists borrow, Great artists steal ’ , however no matter how beautifully portrayed, might aptly land you a hefty copyright infringement suit in contemporary times. As society is modernizing, so are the trends of music leading to the evolution of the stance of legal rights revolving around music. INTRODUCTION.

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Derivative works: the Adventures of Koons and Tintin in French copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Like most copyright systems, French copyright law does not leave much room for the freedom of authors of transformative graphic works (also called “derivative works”). Three interesting cases on derivative works, two involving Jeff Koons and one Tintin, have recently put French copyright law in the international spotlight (e.g.

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Cardinals Of Intellectual Property Rights (Part- II)

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PART 2: of the blog gives a detail about Copyrights, Industrial Designs, Geographical Indications, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Plant Variety Protection and Trade Secrets. Copyright gives protection to expressions only and not to ideas. Broad classification of ‘works’ which are protected by copyright are-.

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Does food flavouring constitute a “work”?

LexBlog IP

However, the Court rejected the action as: not legal, insofar as it concerned the protection of recipes as works of intellectual property; and unfounded, because recipes are assimilated to ideas and not to works enjoying copyright protection under Greek (and EU) law. Emphasis added.) It defines the extent of protection.