2020 Contracts Copyright Law Ownership 
IPilogue
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Something has recently gone awry with the law of copyright ownership in a movie or other film — a “cinematographic work”, as s. 2 of the Copyright Act RSC 1985, c. Part I of the Act deals with the ownership of copyright in works. A copyright owner may of course transfer the right as it wishes (s.
IPilogue
JUNE 14, 2022
Swift, in being denied an opportunity to bid for her masters, announced in late 2020 that she would re-record her entire pre-2019 catalogue in order to regain control of her music and limit the profitability of Ithaca’s asset. All music can be subdivided into three categories of copyright: lyrical, compositional, and sound.
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JIPL Online
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
1] It’s not uncommon to hear artists complain about record label contracts once they see the impact their deals have on the control of their own music. [2]. To understand the source of the problem, it’s first necessary to understand the copyrighted work at issue in many record label agreements. BACKGROUND.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Although the contract between a makeup artist and her publisher described the artist as the author of the book, the dispute still arose under the Copyright Act because “author” is a term defined under the Act. Kelley, August 12, 2020, Higginbotham, P.). A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law.
LexBlog IP
JANUARY 10, 2024
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. ” H.R.
TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
From a cold, legal perspective, a 2020 blocking application filed by publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society should’ve been straightforward. The general consensus is that copyright law favors the publishers, but in a recent motion to dismiss, Elbakyan had other things on her mind too.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
APRIL 1, 2023
Construing these allegations as true and in Service’s favor, Service subjectively believed that he possessed an ownership interest and that he never approved the Comedy Dynamics deal. I’m pretty sure the drafters of 512(f) never contemplated that it would be invoked in disputes over ownership.
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