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It’s Not Going to Be (Y)easy: What Happens when Business Collaborations Dissolve?

IPilogue

The termination of this seven-year partnership, most famously known for its development of the Yeezy sneakers, raises important questions about IP ownership when business collaborations collapse. This includes at least eight US design patents filed by Adidas in 2016 that claim the ornamental design of the Yeezy sneakers.

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[Guest Post] Complexities of audiovisual copyright claims in Nigeria: Ini Edo and Chinenye Nworah’s dispute over Shanty Town (Neflix)

The IPKat

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Nkem Itanyi (University of Nigeria) on a recent dispute over copyright ownership of the movie, Shanty Town which premiered on Netflix in January 2023 and discussions over a sequel to the movie. They both signed off as the executive producers of the movie.

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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part II

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Secondly, the concept of exhaustion has been increasingly marginalised and has decreased in its legal and market impact in relation to digital assets in the EU after the CJEU’s 2019 landmark judgment in Tom Kabinet. Resale Rights Another notable difficulty when it comes to tokenising artworks is brought on by the resale right regime.

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The Good Get: Interviews, The Predicates Of Copyright Ownership, & Divorcing Subjects From Owning Copyright Content

LexBlog IP

That then plays off the rest of the title’s allusions to separating “subjects” from the “predicates” of copyright ownership, themselves words connoting the foundational elements of both “ any complete sentence ” and at times a court’s jurisdiction over infringement matters. ’” Id.

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US Copyright Office refuses to register AI-generated work, finding that "human authorship is a prerequisite to copyright protection"

The IPKat

In 2019, the Copyright Office rejected the application, holding that human authorship is necessary to support a copyright claim. First, held the Board, a machine cannot enter into any binding legal contract. Secondly, the doctrine is about ownership, not existence of a valid copyright.

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Africa IP highlights 2021 #1: The copyright field

The IPKat

CPL had a registered trademark in the word “Conphamol” and the design of the product packaging. The Court of Appeal however found that there was enough evidence before the court to prove CPL’s ownership of the copyright in the artwork (as it had commissioned and paid for the artwork).

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Data Portability Rights versus IP – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In relation to objects subject to ownership, like tangible items, such an entitlement to revindicate ( rei vindicatio ) is commonly guaranteed as one of the prerogatives of the owner. By contrast, digital data are, as such, not undisputedly considered to be subjectable to ownership rights. Portability as a Consumer Contract Remedy.

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