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RAP MUSIC ON TRIAL: Artistic Expression or Confession of Guilt? When IP Meets Criminal Law

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Pina D’Agostino’s IP Intensive Program. If you’re a fan of Hip-Hop music, you might just find your favourite artist fighting to protect themselves from their own lyrics. Mona Karimi is a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. This article was written as a requirement for Prof.

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Protecting Fashion or Stifling Innovation

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This is evidenced by the numerous Geographical Indication tags endowed on various textiles and hand-looms throughout the country by the government. [2] It is here that the distinction between ‘design’ in the Designs Act and ‘artistic work’ in the Copyright Act becomes relevant. Infringement Of IPR – Design or Artistic Work?

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Putting An End To The Delhi Curfew, 18th G20 Meeting Releases its Aspirational Declaration!

SpicyIP

While perusing through the Declaration, I found a couple of interesting IP related commitments. While there seem to be general commitments made in its preamble, specific aims have been enlisted under each category branching into sub-categories.

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Protection of Jewelry in India: Copyright or Design?

IP and Legal Filings

Various jewelry designers have obtained IP protection for their jewelry pieces that range from trademark protection of the brand value to protection of the design itself either through copyright and/ or patents. As such, IP protection of jewelry is crucial for jewelry companies for a variety of reasons.

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Is it a Picasso? A Rembrandt? No, it’s Artificial Intelligence

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Nikita Munjal is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, a Student Editor with the Intellectual Property Journal, and a third-year JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . Creative works, such as artworks, qualify for copyright protection if they are original.

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On repatriation: Questions of copyright ownership and management of repatriated cultural heritage materials

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In July 2022, the Governments of Nigeria and Germany executed a Joint Declaration regarding the repatriation to Nigeria of ancient Benin bronzes looted during the colonial era. His work alludes to important questions about the propriety of embodying ownership and control of cultural heritage materials in a federal government agency (i.e.,

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Canada Extends Copyright Term to Life of Author Plus 70 Years, Leaving Many Concerned

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Sally Yoon is an IPilogue Writer, IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, and a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On June 23 rd , 2022, the Parliament of Canada passed legislation to extend the term of copyright protection in literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works from life of author plus 50 years to 70 years.