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Book review and discount code: Commercialising Celebrity Persona

The IPKat

This is a review of Commercialising Celebrity Persona, Intellectual Property Law and Practice by Emma Perot, Lecturer in Law at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Chapter five covers the advertising industry and chapter six the merchandising industry. The code can be found below.

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G & G Closed Circuit Events, LLC Sues Indiana Restaurant/Bar, La Jalisco, LLP In Cable Piracy Suit

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

Section 605(a) specifically “prohibits the unauthorized interception, receipt, publication and use of communications, including satellite television signals.”

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Commercializing the Personalities of the Dead: The Dangers of the Posthumous Market

IPilogue

Junghi Woo is a former IPilogue Content Manager, an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow and a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In fact, there exist several legal implications within Intellectual Property law (“IP”), such as the common law principle of personality rights.

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Paying for the News

Velocity of Content

In 2020, digital advertising spending worldwide amounted to US$378 billion — with online platforms Google and Facebook together owning half the market or about $190 billion. Last year, newspaper advertising spending worldwide was just $US31.4 For scale, the New York State budget in 2020 was $177 billion. Speaking with CCC were –.

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Licensing Comes to Podcasting

Velocity of Content

Alexia Bedat is a Legal Associate at Klaris Law, a boutique media, entertainment, technology, and intellectual property law firm, based in New York City. For top-shelf creators, producers, distributors and platforms, podcasting may be an end in itself – or it can serve as a bridge to film, television, and publishing.

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‘Pirate’ Site Admins Arrested in 2015, Now Acquitted For a Second Time

TorrentFreak

At the same time, the men were also the operators of Series.ly, a then-four-year-old “social television” download site that aimed to blend the benefits of free access to premium TV series and movies with a walled-garden social network of entertainment media fans. With a reported four million users, Series.ly was a success.

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Statutory Licensing in India in the Age of Online Music Streaming: A Comment on Tips vs. Wynk

Kashishipr

With the onset of the trend wherein users are gradually switching to online streaming to meet their music needs and discarding traditional methods such as radio, television, and music CDs, compulsory licensing for the internet was recognized as a key policy issue by the music industry last year.

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