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Does food flavouring constitute a “work”?

LexBlog IP

He worked for large companies, active worldwide in the food industry, which specialised in the design and development of recipes and culinary products for industrial use. Copies of emails between the parties provided to the Court proved that opinions had been exchanged before the composition of the products was finalised.

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WIPIP Session 8 (copyright)

43(B)log

President Ford couldn’t prevent others from copying bare historical facts. c) does grant authors “rights in something he created” and that “already belong to him” at common law and is taken after a few short years from him and his heirs. Natural or moral right to own fruit of labors. She doesn’t think those are the same.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Capacity to be subject to legal action.

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The Modern Copyright Dilemma: Digital Content Ownership and Access

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 1 of 4: Definition of a work, authorship and moral rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In order to bring readers up to date on earlier developments, over the next few days we will be republishing in four parts an article (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law from 2015 to 2019 organised by topic. This first part covers the definition of a work, authorship and moral rights.

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[Guest post] Could your beliefs about copyright be protected under the Equality Act?

The IPKat

In 2015 she commenced work at Mulberry as a Market Support Assistant. For example, IP academics might hold a belief in the right to own the copyright and moral rights of their own creative works and output, which may conflict with their University’s position on the ownership of lecture recordings.