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Intellectual Property Protection for Content Creators & Social Media Influencers

Kashishipr

When it comes to promoting, marketing, and advertising, social media is one of the most effective and powerful ways. Content creators and social media influencers work sincerely to build their reputation for expertise in specific industries, products, and topics.

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Emerging Trends In Digital Copyright Law

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Given the fact that the copyright law was originally framed to protect literary and artistic works, it needs to be seen how much the law has evolved to grant protection to digitalized works. Firstly, take the example of social media. With the advent of social media, anyone can post anything on it.

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Centering Artists’ Voices Within IP Discourse

IPilogue

On the one hand, social media has enabled global sharing of news and creative media. This observation, coupled with seeing multiple artists be exploited by Instagram users and large companies, motivated me to reach out to several creatives online and bring their voices to the IPilogue.

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What Do You “Meme” That’s Copyrightable?

IPilogue

As part of the course requirements, students were asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. In Canada, copyright protection is afforded to every original literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic work that is fixed. Artistic Work. It’s no secret that memes have taken the internet by storm.

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Resolving Conflicts Between Trademark and Free Speech Rights After Jack Daniel’s v. VIP Products (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

VIP Products LLC, a dispute involving a “Bad Spaniels” dog toy parody of Jack Daniel’s brand of whisky. My post summarizes the Court’s ruling and discusses its implications for brand owners, companies that sell parody products, and anyone interested in trademark law.

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Copyright Infringement Case Concerning Photos of Jennifer Lopez Gets Dismissed: An Overview of the August Image LLC v AirG Inc Decision

IPilogue

August asserts that the Defendant, AirG Inc, a Canadian social media brand, committed copyright infringement by reproducing six of Pugliese’s Jennifer Lopez photos on their website without permission. They sought $22,412.45 in damages, which is the total license fee for the photos. According to the Copyright Act RSC 1985, c.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 05- February 11)

SpicyIP

Last week we published 9 posts on topics such as our comments on the proposed Trademarks (1st Amendment) Rules, the Madras High Court’s decision with respect to patentability of business methods, and Union Minister of State for Commerce’s response on ability of the current IPR regime to cater concerns arising out of AI generated work.

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