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Deadly Dolls and a Forgotten Copyright Exception

Copyright Lately

While these sorts of objects typically aren’t themselves eligible for copyright protection, they often contain pictures or designs which are protectable. One of Deadly Doll’s popular designs is a cartoon image of a bikini-clad pin-up girl holding a skull: Deadly Doll’s original artwork. Vila’s Motion.

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Bombay High Court Rules that Copyright Registration of a Label is not Compulsory

Kashishipr

The label in question was designed by an employee of SK Oil Industries. It was in October 2020 when SSPL came to know about NTC’s use of a similar label and trade dress for its set of soya bean edible oil products. NTC didn’t own the copyright in the ‘SOYA DROP’ artwork or label. For more visit: [link].

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Fleshing out the copyright in a tattoo

IP Whiteboard

In what we understand to be an industry-first, the Copyright Agency (an Australian not-for-profit collecting society that also licences copyright protected literary and artistic works) has licenced an Indigenous artwork for a tattoo. Left: Chris Black’s Jarrangini (buffalo), 2018 © Chris Black/Copyright Agency, 2020.

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Africa IP highlights 2021 #1: The copyright field

The IPKat

Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights 2020, here. CPL had a registered trademark in the word “Conphamol” and the design of the product packaging. It therefore held that Morison was also liable for copyright infringement of the artwork in the registered trademark.

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IP Protection of NFTs: A Comparative Look at the US and China

IP Tech Blog

In turn, this attracts interest from businesses ranging from fashion and sports brands, sport teams, designers, game developers, and other content owners. It covers architectural design, software, graphic arts, motions pictures, sound recordings, and more, and it is adaptive to new technological advances that would likely apply to NFTs.

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The Growing Popularity of NFTs: How to Protect Your NFT Personal Property Rights

LexBlog IP

billion in sales in 2021 alone, the non-fungible token (“NFT”) has recently undergone a dramatic rise in prominence in the cryptoverse, similar to the “crypto summer” of 2017-18 or the “DeFi summer” of 2020. With an astounding $17.7 million) knew that the NFT may or may not reference any art at all.

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Influencers, bullfighting, deepfakes, AI, biopics… the Garrigues IP Blog celebrates its first birthday, covering all the hot topics.

Garrigues Blog

The EUIPO has cancelled street artist Banksy’s trademark for the well-known artwork ‘Flower Bomber” on the grounds that it was filed in bad faith. Mandarins arrive in Luxembourg… the IP ‘case of the year 2020’. My product was copied and I haven’t registered it. There will be a sequel! is there anything I can do?