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Fonts & Typefaces: Are they Copyrightable? 

SpicyIP

But as I will discuss in this post, they fulfill the eligibility criteria as provided under the Copyright Act, 1957. Typeface’ refers to the particular design of letters, numbers, marks and symbols. Debunking the ‘no copyright for fonts’ Argument. This is perhaps why fonts cannot be copyrighted in the US.

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

IPilogue

These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws.

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