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St. Art Foundation v. Acko General Insurance: Decoding Street Art, Fair use and Moral rights

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In St Art India Foundation v. Acko General Insurance , the Delhi High Court is faced with the opportunity to elaborate whether and how street art in general is subject to the Copyright Act, the scope of ‘artistic work’ under Sec. 2(c), the fair use exemption thereof under Sec. Image from the order. 57 of the Act.

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Ping® By AdlerLaw – Public Art & Social Media

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Or, Can I post a photo of graffiti art to Instagram? Feeling inspired and intrepid you snap a photo, instantly uploading it to your story with a witty one-liner about undiscovered urban art. What if the social media account is used to promote the account owner’s own goods or services, or a third party’s brand?

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Book review: Copyright in the street. An Oral History of Creative Processes in Street Art and Graffiti Subcultures

The IPKat

An Oral History of Creative Processes in Street Art and Graffiti Subcultures ”, authored by Enrico Bonadio (City University of London). As its title suggests, this book focuses on the relationship between US copyright law and street art and graffiti. Chapter 3 is entitled "Copyright within the street art and graffiti circles".

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Taking the Mona Lisa Effect from Illusion to Reality: Enhancing the Museum Experience with Augmented and Virtual Reality

JIPEL Copyright Blog

From July 2017 to April 2018, the Art Gallery of Ontario (the “AGO”) staged an exhibition titled “ ReBlink ,” which urged visitors to “[t]ake a second look… with a modern lens:”. infringement of the creator’s exclusive right to reproduce and/or prepare a derivative work) or VARA/moral rights (i.e.,

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

On one hand, those who view intellectual property rights as a limited monopoly would suggest that even derivative use of the content in a meme is infringement on the rights holder’s interest. Keller, Recognizing the Derivative Works Right as a Moral Right: A Case Comparison and Proposal , 63 Case W.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023

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The Court also held that the rejection order’s finding on lack of novelty and inventive step was not accurate and rather the controller had adopted a hindsight view of the prior art and failed to establish how the prior art documents made the invention non-novel. Acko General Insurance.

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27th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Symposium: From the DMCA to the DSA: Panel 2: Will the DSA Achieve a “Brussels Effect”?

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EU has been first mover on some things and not others (Art. A service provider decides what it must do under 512 and the DSA/Art. Then figures out what it must do: in US, don’t engage in primary or secondary infringement. Guess: many service providers will therefore stick with 512; US wins, but maybe for the wrong reasons.

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