IP and Legal Filings
JULY 13, 2022
Indian courts, for the longest time, followed the doctrine of “sweat of brow”, upholding the belief that a work requires only due diligence and effort, rather than originality and creativity in order to be granted copyright protection. What is the Indian take on originality v. creativity? Copyright Act or Design Act?
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
However, since it is not compulsory to register a copyright, there are likely more unregistered works out there, based on the Ogopogo, that are subject to copyright protection. Unfortunately, while CIPO’s database records registration, it has no copy of what was registered. And the database only goes back to 1991.
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azrights
AUGUST 11, 2022
If each output is unique and another user gets a different output even if their query is identical to yours, it means someone else could only use the same visual images as you by copying yours. Literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works are only protected by copyright if they are “original”.
IP Whiteboard
JUNE 7, 2021
You then upload a copy of the digital work that you want to represent in NFT-form to the NFT marketplace, pay a transaction fee and click ‘create’. It’s hard to identify and verify the true owner of content when an identical copy of that content can be created with a few clicks of a mouse. What are the benefits of NFTs?
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