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Bombay High Court Rules that Copyright Registration of a Label is not Compulsory

Kashishipr

Under Section 2(c) of The Copyright Act of 1957 , the label is an original artistic work. When SSPL was incorporated in 2004, SK Oil Industries had assigned it the label’s copyright. As per NTC’s statement, both SSPL and SK Oil Industries couldn’t claim copyright in the artistic work.

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Copyrightability Of Designer Clothes And Costumes

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction An artist’s ideas, be it for a renowned painting, sculpture, novel, technological design, jewelryor fashion are his own. They must not be used by anyone other than the artist himself. However, many a times, we witness these designs being copied or recreated. Literary Works Other than Computer Programs.

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Fleshing out the copyright in a tattoo

IP Whiteboard

In what we understand to be an industry-first, the Copyright Agency (an Australian not-for-profit collecting society that also licences copyright protected literary and artistic works) has licenced an Indigenous artwork for a tattoo. Does copyright exist in tattoos? What about moral rights?

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NFTs and Copyright: Some Burning Issues

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Since the underlying asset in NFTs is primarily art, disputes in relation to NFTs bring up interesting questions pertaining to copyright law, the answers to which have the potential to shape the evolution and growth of NFTs as a medium to create, distribute and collect art. The communication to the public right. The reproduction right.

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Traditional Tattoos on the Red Carpet: Continuing the Conversation of Collective Ownership

IPilogue

Collective Ownership Over Cultural Artwork. Canadian courts have not yet grappled with the issue of collective ownership of Indigenous artwork. The applicant, Indigenous artist John Bulun Bulun, sought relief for copyright infringement of a bark painting, which R & T Textiles had used on t-shirts.

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Role of Intellectual Property in Entertainment Industry

IIPRD

While trademarks protect movie titles, important characters, and other film components, copyright protects content from infringement and recognizes the rights of authors. But as the sector grows, so does the problem of intellectual property rights infringement, cybercrimes, copyright infringement , and trademark infringement.

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Artists Attack AI: Why The New Lawsuit Goes Too Far

Copyright Lately

A group of artists has filed a first-of-its-kind copyright infringement lawsuit against the developers of popular AI art tools, but did they paint themselves into a corner? None of it includes copies of images. Stability AI Ltd. The current Stable Diffusion model uses about 5 gigabytes of data.