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Sunday Surprises

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The Art Newspaper has followed up on the ruling and the commentary, speculating on the potential implications thereof concerning the copyright status of digitized images of public domain artworks. Votes must be made via email before 15 January 2024 as per the instructions in this post.

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Registering a trade mark even if you think that copyright is for losers? Not bad faith, says (finally) EUIPO BoA

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Banksy's Laugh Now But One Day We’ll Be In Charge A while ago The IPKat reported [ here and here ] on a string of cancellations of elusive artist Banksy ’s EU trade mark (EUTM) registrations relating to some of their best-known artworks. The reason?

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IPKat event announcement: (Re-)discovering the copyright basics – Originality after THJ v Sheridan

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An editorial published on The Art Newspaper , for example, has questioned the possibility for UK cultural heritage institutions to claim that simple reproductions of public domain artworks warrant their own copyright protection. relevant issues.