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If copyright law won’t protect small fashion brands against copying, social media will – just ask influencer Danielle Bernstein

JIPEL Copyright Blog

How does an influencer and fashion designer become so despised? In this case, via alleged copyright infringement. Perhaps the most infamous of the above scandals was the allegation of copyright infringement by The Great Eros (“TGE”). If successful, this would mean TGE could not file an infringement suit).

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United States Supreme Court Holds that Good-faith Mistakes in Copyright Registration Applications are Protected by Law

IPilogue

They held that an inadvertent mistake of law in a copyright registration application does not automatically nullify the application. . a fabric and design company in Los Angeles, owns copyrights in various fabric designs. copyright registration processes. Unicolors, Inc.,

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Tattoo Trouble for Video Game Creators

IPilogue

In the verdict form the jury stated that Defendants had not proven fair use, the Plaintiff (Alexander) should receive $3,750 USD for actual losses from the Defendant’s use of the tattoo designs, and did not answer as to profits can be attributed to the Plaintiff for use of the tattoos. Citing Muhammad-Ali v. Final Call, Inc.,

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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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2H 2022 Quick Links, Part 3 (Copyrights and More)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

” However, Wallshoppe does not allege Defendant knew of the specific acts of infringement at issue here—Sienna Lewis selling products featuring the Palm Design on Defendant’s website. Jury awards nearly $50M in damages against Internet access provider for user-caused copyright infringement. Buzzfeed, Inc.

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Athens court rules on moral damages in software infringement case

LexBlog IP

3) According to the Court, the term “sale” used in article 41 of the Copyright Law must be interpreted in a broad sense. The compensation for damages cannot be less than twice the fee that is usually or by law paid for the type of exploitation that the infringer did without license.

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France: Le Monde’s font is original (but has not been copied by Google)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

It is not the first time that the French courts have ruled that fonts may be protected by copyright (e.g. In 2016, a French company specialising in typography created a font called ‘Spectral’ for Google, who used it as part of its free service Google Fonts , used by website creators and users of word processing software.

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