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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

The IPKat

In 2016, litigation ensued before the Court of First Instance of Milan, with Garrone seeking to obtain a declaration that the artefact in his possession was in fact authored by Jeff Koons. 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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Book review: The Future of Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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AI has created movies such as Sunspring 2016, written novels like The Day a Computer Writes a Novel, and made art in the form of The Next Rembrandt. Gaon also considers no-authorship possibilities as alternative rights models, such as ‘author in law’ and AI moral rights. Can artificial intelligence (AI) create things?

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Canadian Perspectives on Artist Resale Rights

IPilogue

In an address to a parliamentary committee in 2016 , Rankin Inlet-based artist Theresie Tungilik noted that “[the] artist’s resale right will have a positive financial impact as 10% of Canada’s export is Inuit art.”. The study also found that the market continued to grow after the implementation of the resale right in 2006.

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

x] In fact, on the contrary, memes can operate as a source of marketing and a way to garner interest in creative works in a funny, generationally relevant way. xi] There are countless articles and marketing studies directing corporations on how to market via memes to reach the maximum level of engagement. 139 (2016). [ix]

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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

Travel costs which a journalist incurs in the course of their research do not fall within the scope of application of Section 32 UrhG, but merely remuneration for the use of rights. In the area of collecting societies, a very important decision was issued in 2016. Collecting Societies.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023

SpicyIP

The judgement was passed collectively in an appeal against 4 orders (two impugning the 2016 Ericsson v. Controller General of Patents and Designs (passed on September 15), the Court clarified that the 2016 CRI Guidelines’ requirement of assessing the CRI in conjunction with novel hardware has now been removed from the 2017 CRI Guidelines.

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