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On repatriation: Questions of copyright ownership and management of repatriated cultural heritage materials

The IPKat

In July 2022, the Governments of Nigeria and Germany executed a Joint Declaration regarding the repatriation to Nigeria of ancient Benin bronzes looted during the colonial era. His work alludes to important questions about the propriety of embodying ownership and control of cultural heritage materials in a federal government agency (i.e.,

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Africa IP highlights 2022 #1: Copyright matters

The IPKat

This Africa IP Highlights 2022 is the result of collaboration between myself and Doreen Adoma Agyei and Clarisse Mideva. We begin with developments in the copyright field. In February , Kenya’s parliament passed the Copyright Amendment Bill 2021. [For Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights 2021, here.

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Copyright & Technology 2022 Preview

Velocity of Content

“The Mechanical Licensing Collective, or the MLC, was a result of the 2018 Music Modernization Act that updates copyright law to deal with streaming music,” Rosenblatt explains. Copyright & Technology 2022 Preview. The post Copyright & Technology 2022 Preview appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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Guest Book Review: Owning Performance | Performing Ownership: Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British Stage

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Jane Wessel's book , Owning Performance | Performing Ownership: Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British Stage , is a distinguished contribution to this scholarly pantheon. If the latter, publication, whatever protection that the copyright law offered, might be unwise commercially. Read, learn, and enjoy.

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[Guest Post] Copyright as movable property: Constitutional issues with Nigeria’s Copyright Act 2022

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The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Seun Lari-Williams , PhD researcher in the fields of copyright and dispute system design at the University of Antwerp, regarding Nigeria's Copyright Act 2022 (which came into effect in 2023) and its constitutional reference to copyright as movable property.

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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-01-29

Barry Sookman

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-01-22 [link] 2022-01-23. Copyright Ownership, Transfers, and NFTs [link] 2022-01-25. Is crypto code law? Medjedovic | CanLII [link] 2022-01-26. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NOT AN “INVENTOR” UNDER EUROPEAN PATENT LAW: Is Canada heading down the same path?

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

IP Tech Blog

Article 3 of the China Copyright Law defines copyrightable works as intellectual creations with originality in the realm of literature, art or science that can be represented in a certain form (the “tangibility” requirement in the US) and expands its scope by including other intellectual creations that meet the characteristics of works.

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