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Long walk to copyright reform #7: South Africa's revised Copyright Amendment Bill is back to Parliament for reaffirmation

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Earlier this February, South Africa’s Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition began the process of consideration and report on the Copyright Amendment Bill [B13F-2017]. In addition to the foregoing, clauses relating to circumstances where the author of literary or musical works, visual artistic work, etc.

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11th Circuit affirms Viacom's Rogers-based win for MTV Floribama Shore

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Flora-Bama logo The Flora-Bama has been featured in artistic works by third parties. Deliberate copying was irrelevant. In a Rogers case, intentional copying alone cannot justify an inference of copying with intent to confuse, even if that can occur in cases that don’t “implicate” the First Amendment. “[I]n

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Many ways to skin a cat (Pt 2): South Africa’s Constitutional Court upholds the declaration on the unconstitutionality of parts of the Copyright Act

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While the High Court’s decision essentially incorporated the new proposed section 19D contemplated by clause 20 of the Copyright Amendment Bill [B 13B-2017] into the Copyright Act, the ConCourt only addressed access to “published literary works, and artistic works as may be included in such literary works, in accessible format copies”. [Is

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Design Protection: Don’t Sleep on Copyrights

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Ct 1002, 1007 (2017). Although the copyright protection afforded to this design is a thin one that will protect its owner from only “virtually identical” copying, such a right is still highly valuable to many companies in the furniture, housewares, and other industrial design spaces. ” Star Athletica, LLC v.

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Parody under the Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

This issue was cleared in Civic Chandran case wherein the Court held that ‘the purpose of reproduction of artistic work i.e., counter drama was not misappropriation, to produce a play similar to the original. The Supreme Court’s decisions in the case of Shree Ventakesh Films (SVF) v.

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When is a derivative work original and thus protectable by copyright? Classicist’s critical edition makes its way to Luxembourg in fresh Romanian CJEU referral

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In 2017, the Regional Court of Bucharest held that the defendants had infringed the professor’s moral right of attribution. Călinescu , it will be required to tackle the question of what makes a derivative work protectable and what ‘freedom’ and ‘creativity, both cumulative requirements under the EU originality test, mean in this context.

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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Thailand

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Literary, dramatic, and artistic works are recognized as protected works under Thailand’s Copyright Act B.E. Apart from the copyright of an NFT’s underlying work, NFTs are also subject to property rights as stipulated under Section 37 of the Constitution of Thailand B.E. 2537 (1994). Conclusion.

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