IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Copyright protection in India is governed by the Copyright Act, 1957 (“Copyright Act”). Copyright protection is extendable to any artistic work that is original and is creative. Section 2(c) of the Copyright Act defines what “artistic work” is.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

In the lower court, the Second Circuit reversed the decision of the District Court and held that the Warhol work was not transformative because it maintained the “essential elements of its source material” and was not “fundamentally different and new.” Next, we have Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International. There, U.S.-based

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Copyright Registration in India ensures legal protection to the creators of original works. Copyright is a kind of intellectual property right which grants exclusive rights to the creator of the original work. In India, the protection of copyright is governed by the Copyright Act, 1957.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Main Body The subject matter of copyright protection is the literary, artistic, dramatic, musical, and cinematographic films and sound recordings, whichare governed by the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 which allows creators to distribute, reproduce, sell, assign, and display their work by ensuring the protection of their intellectual property.

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IPilogue

MARCH 21, 2022

In September 2021, the IPilogue reported that India’s copyright office recognized the RAGHAV Painting App (“RAGHAV”), an artificial intelligence (“AI”) tool, as an author of the copyright-protected artistic work, Suryast. requiring some human participation for AI-generated works to receive authorship); and.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

If the computer somehow transcends its role as a tool in such a way that the purported human author cannot claim he created the output, we are dealing with computer-generated or emergent works. Such apparently creative outputs are not protectable as a matter of the American copyright law – or the law of the European Union (see Blaszczyk ).

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In the conclusion I will highlight the major developments in the term of copyright post the Copyright Act of 1957. The Setting and the Context The term of copyright is perhaps one of the most important defining features of any copyright law. The term varied depending on the nature of the work.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

However, those familiar with copyright law, immediately began to point out flaws in the plan. For almost as long as the blockchain has existed, supporters and advocates of it have claimed it would revolutionize the way we consume art, handle copyright disputes and earn revenue from artistic works.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) establishes the entitlement to enjoy the protection of moral and material interests arising from scientific, literary, or artistic creations. This applies to literary, dramatic, musical, artistic works, computer programs, cinematograph films, and sound recordings.

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IIPRD

MARCH 1, 2023

[Image Sources : Shutterstock] As per the intellectual property regime in India, this right to monetary gains is not exhausted upon the selling of the artwork by the artist; rather, he/she is entitled to a certain amount or royalties upon every resale of the artwork. The Copyright Act, 1957 2. Rethinking Copyright and Personhood.”

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Ubertazzi was one of the leading intellectual property academics in Italy (as well as a great lawyer), founder and editor of the most important Italian copyright journal (AIDA) and editor and author of the most widely used Commentary on Italian intellectual property laws. 2) Tensions between the advanced and developing worlds. (3)

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Copyright law thus in this case brings into play the word “performer”; Section 2(qq) of the said Act through an inclusive definition and illustrates a list of people who can be contemplated under the tag of the performer. Section 13(1) of the Copyright Act speaks about the applicability of protection to: 1.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2023

In the lower court, the Second Circuit reversed the decision of the District Court and held that the Warhol work was not transformative because it maintained the “essential elements of its source material” and was not “fundamentally different and new.” Next, we have Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International.

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

RIGHTS PROTECTED : Under this law Copyright law protects the copyright of authors, musicians, etc. Copyright is essentially a right to copy. Copyright is a term describing rights given to creators for their literary and artistic works.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Introduction Private International Law governs the disputes between two individual parties rather than States. Unlike Public International Law that has a defined jurisdiction and law, Private International Law lacks in that area. Choice of Law is determining which country’s laws will govern the dispute.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 2, 2021

Starting off with the copyright exceptions, she writes about how the Standing Committee Report views the exception to infringement under Section 52 as widely scoped and detrimental to the publishing industry and authors. Fonts and Typefaces: Are they Copyrightable?

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

I argue that rewarding knowledge production and creative effort itself through maximising commercial advantage via exclusive rights are incentives that do not apply to government works whose primary motivation for creation is public dissemination. The Bombay High Court in Hindustan Unilever Ltd v.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Once a work is created, in most cases, the creator will automatically enjoy copyright protection in all 164 member countries of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works including all European Union countries and China. Voluntary registration for your copyright is available in China.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 11, 2023

This makes it difficult for the creator to control the dissemination of their works. According to the well-settled laws of copyright, it is a blatant mutilation of the rights of an author over their works and the characters they have developed.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Copyright (Amendment) Act of 2012 brought significant changes to copyright law in India. Under this Act, the term of copyright protection for literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works remains the lifetime of the author plus 60 years.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

With the Beijing Treaty, any performance of literary or artistic works or expression of folklore is covered by intellectual property, independently from its nature or medium, including both fixed and unfixed works (live performances), acknowledging the creative activity of these performers in the same way as with regard to musicians and authors.

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2021

Copyright and Blogs. Copyright is a legal protection afforded to an original, creative literary, musical, or artistic work. However, the content must reflect an expression of something since ideas are not governed under copyright.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

PROTECTION AS COPYRIGHT OR DESIGNS To decide whether jewellery can be protected through copyright or design laws, it is necessary to understand the difference between the two. This signifies that it does not cover artistic work but rather the features of the product that make it more attractive to the consumer.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Voices emerged questioning whether current EU copyright laws should be amended in light of the many AI-generated works that have come about. One important question has been whether copyright law should be extended in order to protect such works. Importantly, copyright law is equally about culture.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

JULY 19, 2021

India, under Section 2(d) of the Copyright Act, 1957, states that copyright for a computer-generated work is granted to the person who causes the work to be created. We do not have an answer because we do not have any rules in India governing the functionality of ANI.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The statute of limitations for copyright infringement in Singapore is six years. Copyright protects works like literary, computer programs, plays, music and paintings. It is not ideas but their expression that are protected by copyright law. It is not a question of whether the work has creative merit.

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azrights

AUGUST 11, 2022

Would they be infringing your copyright though? Is the output infringing copyright? On that basis, applying UK law, it means that if anyone owns copyright in the output it would be the platform owner rather than the user. The predominant view was that more time is needed to properly evaluate the options.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For example, if we ask the Stable Diffusion generator for a “cat wearing a suit” it generates images of dapper cats at the press of a button: As an aside, as it has been discussed previously on the IPKat , there is some uncertainty whether these image outputs are protected under copyright law and, if protected, who owns the relevant copyright.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge. Zafar Mahfooz Nomani, 2023).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Lame comparisons apart, this story is interesting as it is an opportunity to discuss the protectability of artistic works under Italian laws. Thus, copyright protection in the work subsists, with authors having the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit the economic exploitation, including the reproduction, of their works.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

To fully understand these conflicting views of the majority opinion, it is necessary to understand both the specific facts of the case and the history of the Supreme Court’s case law concerning the fair-use doctrine. When the government seeks to restrict fundamental rights, it must have a “compelling” justification for doing so.

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Barry Sookman

MAY 4, 2020

Nonetheless, the selection of the contents by the creating group met the requirement of creation under the copyright law. The test was ultimately whether such selection and arrangement was an act of intellectual activity and whether such activity had a direct connection with the specific expression of the work. SODRAC 2003 Inc.,

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