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Copyright Ownership: Exploring Employer-Employee Relationship

IP and Legal Filings

This is quite the picture of how the Indian copyright laws are treating the employees who try to become such exceptional creators. This means that if an employee makes any copyright then the owner would have the title of that intellectual property unless there is an agreement stating otherwise. Unlike the U.S.A.,

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Copyright as an Access Right: Concretizing Positive Obligations for Rightholders to Ensure the Exercise of User Rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The purpose of copyright, at its very basic level, finds its normative implementation in the interplay between access to protected works and the protection of the moral and material interest of creators (see Geiger, 2017 ). From this constitutional dimension of copyright emerged the notion of ‘user rights’ ( Geiger, 2020 ).

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Failure to comply with the terms of a copyright assignment agreement held to amount to copyright infringement in France

The IPKat

This time, the dispute notably concerns both the originality of photographs and their use for a period exceeding that stipulated in the copyright assignment contract. For each product range, a copyright assignment agreement was drawn up, including a fixed fee for taking the photographs and a permission to use them for 12 to 18 months.

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The Beat (And Cher’s Lawsuit) Go On With New Ruling in Bono Copyright Dispute

Copyright Lately

The court’s March 14 ruling (read here) rejected the defendants’ assertion that copyright terminations served by Bono’s heirs effectively preempted Cher’s state law contract rights. At this rate, the Cher-Bono litigation may end up lasting longer than the couple’s marriage.

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A Novel Dataset Measuring Change in Copyright Exceptions

Kluwer Copyright Blog

We soon realized that information about the changes to copyright law over time – which would be especially useful for empirical studies – was lacking. There have been many studies describing differences in copyright exceptions between countries, such as those by Seng , Crews , Hilty & Nérisson , and the WIPO Secretariat.

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Lights Camera Action : Role Of Intellectual Property In Indian Cinema

IIPRD

A growing number of daily releases makes India’s copyright laws particularly important in. The contract makes a significant difference when it comes to the right in respect to works utilised in films, even though the music composers in the example above may still assert a royalty claim for non-film works. Introduction.

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Joining forces to help end the global book famine: China ratifies the Marrakesh Treaty

The IPKat

The Marrakesh Treaty is one of the WIPO’s administered international copyright treaties. Adopted on 27 June 2013 and entered into force on 30 September 2016, it features ‘a clear humanitarian and social development dimension’ dedicated to protecting the right to read for the blind, visually impaired and otherwise print disabled people (VIPs).