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A Message from Deputy Secretary Don Graves

U.S. Department of Commerce

We firmly believe that diversity and inclusion are not just morally right but also strategically smart. For example, a McKinsey study found that in 2019 companies that were in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity among corporate executives outperformed those in the fourth quartile by 36% in profitability. [2]

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Does food flavouring constitute a “work”?

LexBlog IP

According to article 1(1): intellectual creators, by creating the work, acquire intellectual property over it, which includes, as exclusive and absolute rights, the right to exploit the work (property right) and the right to protect the personal link to it (moral right). Emphasis added.)

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Simple homage to pre-existing work doesn't qualify as parody under French law

The IPKat

Mrs R, Hergé's universal legatee, and the company Moulinsart, now called Tintinimaginatio, holder of the derivative and secondary rights to Hergé's work, became aware of those productions. On 18 March 2019, a counterfeit seizure was carried out. Indeed, relying explicitly on Article L.

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Metadata Ruling Gives YouTube a Timely Boost in Content ID Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

In 2019, Elias sued Ice Portal (owned by Shiji Group) in a Florida district court for violations of the DMCA under 17 U.S. In Maria Schneider’s CMI article she talks about the moral rights of artists, including the right to attribution and the right of integrity. Copyright Lawsuit, Violations of DMCA.

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Derivative works: the Adventures of Koons and Tintin in French copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

113-4 IPC states that ‘A composite work shall be the property of the author who has produced it, subject to the rights of the author of the pre-existing work.’ In addition, Article L.122-4 In a judgment of 17 December 2019, the Court of Appeal of Paris condemned Koons’ U.S. In France, Article L.122-5, Koons , 960 F.2d

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Artist Royalties: An exegesis of Resale rights in India

IIPRD

[Image Sources : Shutterstock] As per the intellectual property regime in India, this right to monetary gains is not exhausted upon the selling of the artwork by the artist; rather, he/she is entitled to a certain amount or royalties upon every resale of the artwork. University of Illinois Law Review, January 1, 2019. Yoo, Christopher.

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Cultural appropriation: are there legal mechanisms to stop this from an intellectual property standpoint?

Garrigues Blog

This document is a first step towards reforming the legislation on intellectual property and industrial property and trying to provide effective, balanced and adequate protection and recognizing the intellectual property rights that local communities and indigenous peoples have with regard to those expression.