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Professional Photographer Files Copyright Infringement Suit Against Used Car Dealers

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

Per the StrossStock website, Stross was nominated and accepted as a professional member of the American Society of Photographers in 2016. Cases of copyright infringement are not uncommon in Federal Courts, and can involve various types of copyrighted material, including photographs, music, and literary works. He received his B.S.

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Emerging Trends In Digital Copyright Law

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

People have become less dependent on print media and more likely to use a digital medium such as computerized documents of soft copies. Given the fact that the copyright law was originally framed to protect literary and artistic works, it needs to be seen how much the law has evolved to grant protection to digitalized works.

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The Choice Of Law Debate In Copyright Infringement

IP and Legal Filings

Person A makes a copy of the movie on his phone and shares it with his friends. Going back to the same example again, the first point of infringement would be where A illegally copied the film. In this scenario, when infringement has become borderless, should the rule of lex loci protectionis be blanketly applied to all the cases?

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The Modern Copyright Dilemma: Digital Content Ownership and Access

IP and Legal Filings

The domain of copyright deals with the literary, musical, dramatic, and artistic works, and cinematograph films. Before the digital era, copyright protected tangible art or works, allowing authors to easily regulate usage, copies, and earnings. Rameshwari Photocopy Services & Anr, 2016).

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Prince, Prince, Prints: Will the Supreme Court Revisit Fair Use?

LexBlog IP

But unbeknownst to Goldsmith, he also created fifteen additional works (including silkscreen prints and pencil drawings) using the Prince Photograph for his own artistic purposes. That factor asks “whether, if the challenged use becomes widespread, it will adversely affect the potential market for the copyrighted work.” [20]

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COPYRIGHT AND TATTOOS

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

The word ‘copyright’ in its simplest sense is an amalgamation of the two words ‘copy’ and ‘right’ which leads to the meaning— ‘right to copy’. The section 2(c) of the 1957 Copyright Act of India defines ‘artistic work’ as any work that includes engraving, sculpture, painting, or a photograph.

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Tricky Tattoo

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

The word ‘ copyright ’ in its simplest sense is an amalgamation of the two words ‘copy’ and ‘right’ which leads to the meaning— ‘right to copy’. The section 2(c) of the 1957 Copyright Act of India defines ‘artistic work’ as any work that includes engraving, sculpture, painting, or a photograph.