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Artist Royalties: An exegesis of Resale rights in India

IIPRD

The general position in intellectual property laws states that upon the assignment of the copyright by the artist over his artwork to another legal entity, the artist cannot enjoy any economic benefits attached to the artwork. This theory prescribes that artists have inalienable rights over their artwork upon its creation.

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3 Count: Wriggling Worms

Plagiarism Today

Sarley had previously threatened legal action back in 2019. Next up today, Hollie Geraghty at NME reports that the street artist Banksy is calling upon his nearly 12 million Instagram followers to shoplift from a London store following the unauthorized use of some of his artwork.

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Who’s Laughing Now? EUIPO Board of Appeal Rules that Banksy Can Keep his Trademark and Anonymity Too

IPilogue

Background Banksy’s graffiti artwork Laugh Now first appeared in Brighton, England, in 2002. Typically, artists protect their artwork using only copyright law. On November 28, 2019, Full Black Colour applied to cancel Banksy’s trademark under the European Union Trademark Regulation ( EUTMR ). street artist Banksy.

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Registering a trade mark even if you think that copyright is for losers? Not bad faith, says (finally) EUIPO BoA

The IPKat

Banksy's Laugh Now But One Day We’ll Be In Charge A while ago The IPKat reported [ here and here ] on a string of cancellations of elusive artist Banksy ’s EU trade mark (EUTM) registrations relating to some of their best-known artworks. The reason? Let’s see how the Board reasoned. (Ir)relevance

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Nintendo vs. Garry’s Mod: Dissecting the ‘Fake’ Domain Behind All the Chaos

TorrentFreak

Nintendo has a reputation for taking action against content featuring its characters and artwork so removing it now is the right thing to do. A 2019 takedown notice sent to itch.io , also featuring the email address notice@mm-nintendo.com, displays the same features as another sent to Sankakucomplex in 2019.

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AI Generated Art and its conflict with IPR

IIPRD

This article delves into the ongoing debate around the issue of right of ownership of copyright by AI generators for their novel artwork. 16] In my opinion, our law is not yet at a stage where we are equipped to provide such protection to AI generated artwork as, the element of human authorship is still a very important element of this law.

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3 Count: Dirty Cheaters

Plagiarism Today

The move is in line with other countries, most notably the EU, which passed a similar bill as part of a copyright overhaul in 2019. 3: Ammon Children’s Discovery Center Sues Rexburg Over Copyright Infringement.