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‘Copying into Copyright Law’: Ireland’s minimalist transposition of Directive 2019/790

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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Digitalization And Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

The availability of a large variety of information has also increased the risk of Copyright Infringement due to its easy accessibility and dissemination. This has led to varying degrees of copyright infringements in this digital era.

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Why do artists infringe copyright – the tension between artistic creativity and copyright law

IPilogue

As an avant-guard artist of his time, Warhol used the mechanical process of copying to challenge the conventional notion of art. In this sense, the act of copying is the very medium of Warhol’s art. There seems to have always been tension between artistic creativity and copyright law.

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Think Kiwi Farms Is Legally Unassailable? Copyright Law Might Disagree–Greer v. Moon

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

But if you really want Kiwi Farms gone, have you considered using copyright law for its censorial power? “Kiwi Farms users provided a Google Drive link to a full copy of Mr. Greer’s book.” Somebody,” he explained, “created a copy of [his] book and put it in a Google Drive that is accessible on Kiwi Farms.”

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Parody under the Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

Since copying was for the purpose of criticism, it amounted to fair dealing and did not constitute infringement of the copyright. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp The post Parody under the Copyright Law first appeared on IPLF. References Civic Chandran v/s C. Ammini Amma (1996) 16 PTC 329 (Ker.)

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Under a New EU-Focused Copyright Law, Musical Artists Currently Earn *Nothing*

TorrentFreak

Harmonization With EU Copyright Law Under the EU-Moldova Association Agreement of 2014, Moldova was required to reform copyright law to meet EU standards. Amadassor to Moldova, and the European Union, a closed government discussion on July 27 led to Moldova’s new copyright law being passed by parliament a day later.

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Remixing and Remastering Music in US Copyright Law: Some Reflections after Arty v Marshmello

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In 2019, Artem Stoliarov, a Russian DJ whose stage name is Arty, filed a lawsuit before the US District Court for the Central District of California, alleging that Marshmello’s song ‘ Happier ’ copied the synthesizer melody from his 2014 remix of OneRepublic’s ‘I Lived’ (OneRepublic is an American pop rock band). CBS ( Case No.

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