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Lidl v Tesco – Court of Appeal overturns copyright infringement finding

Kluwer Copyright Blog

These were used as part of a marketing campaign by Tesco to indicate to customers which products were subject to discounted prices for Clubcard holders. Accordingly, the Mark with Text was a protectable copyright work as an artistic work. Background The parties are the well-known supermarkets in the UK: Lidl and Tesco.

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Amicus of copyright law professors in Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith

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Summary of argument: If the meaning of artistic works were objective, an art appreciation class would be like a standard math class: It would have only right and wrong answers. Instead, the Court should recognize the common existence of varying interpretations of artistic works. Available here.

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Hacking Fashion Week: IP Guide to Survival

LexBlog IP

But if you have not taken that route for one reason or another and you encounter highly similar products on the market, there are other ways to protect your products through IP. Unfair competition may protect your fashion items against copying in two scenarios. One way is to take advantage of the European unregistered design.

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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. Since then, it has been continuously used and has even acquired reputation and goodwill in the market. As per NTC’s statement, both SSPL and SK Oil Industries couldn’t claim copyright in the artistic work.

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Can We Reexamine the Role of Blockchain in Copyright Now?

Plagiarism Today

Back in January, the crypto group Spice DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) made headlines for spending approximately $3 million to acquire a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune , a bible for a planned Dune move that would have been made in the 1970s. . The payment beyond excessive.

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[Guest post] Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works

The IPKat

Does UK copyright law protection extend to computer-generated works which are not original? Ordinarily, for a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work to be protected under the CDPA it must be original. Traditionally, the English Courts applied a test of ‘sufficient skill, labour or effort’ to determine originality.

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11th Circuit affirms Viacom's Rogers-based win for MTV Floribama Shore

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Flora-Bama logo The Flora-Bama has been featured in artistic works by third parties. Viacom also engaged a market research company to learn more about “southern beach culture,” which suggested that the term Flora-bama was “either unknown or though [sic] to refer strictly to the bar.” Deliberate copying was irrelevant.