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Understanding Copyright, Trademark and Halloween Costumes

Plagiarism Today

To answer that and other questions about Halloween costumes, we have to step back and look at how copyright and trademark law apply to costumes. This means, theoretically, that elements such as the Superman ā€œSā€ can be protected by copyright because they are separate elements that are merely copied onto the clothing. Bottom Line.

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Bombay High Court Rules that Copyright Registration of a Label is not Compulsory

Kashishipr

According to SSPL, this practice was dishonest as it could make NTC benefit from the reputation and goodwill of SSPL’s brand name. NTC didn’t own the copyright in the ‘SOYA DROP’ artwork or label. NTC failed to prove that it had used the artwork or label first or that SSPL’s artwork wasn’t original.

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Intellectual Property Protection for Content Creators & Social Media Influencers

Kashishipr

Therefore, content creators and social media influencers must understand that their unique and creative content is easily accessible to millions of social media users and can be easily copied. Trademarks – A trademark helps identify, indicate, classify, and differentiate the source of products or services of one from those of others.

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Role of Intellectual Property in Entertainment Industry

IIPRD

Copy Right Law in the Entertainment Industry The cornerstone of intellectual property protection in the entertainment sector is copyright law. It gives authors and artists the sole ownership rights to their original writings, music, films, and artwork.

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Nintendo vs. Garryā€™s Mod: Dissecting the ā€˜Fakeā€™ Domain Behind All the Chaos

TorrentFreak

Nintendo has a reputation for taking action against content featuring its characters and artwork so removing it now is the right thing to do. In other parts of the notice, takedowns were requested under trademark law. No games piracy in sight, only alleged infringement in characters, artwork, and audiovisual works.

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TM Scholars' Roundable: Session 1: The Relevance of Ornamentality in Trademark Law: Acquisition of Rights

43(B)log

RT: I would say lots of courts in Ā© also try to reduce merger to meaning that you can do anything but copy verbatim, which is a narrowing that many courts in TM donā€™t bother with, though some variants of Rogers v. artworks as TMs. Grimaldi are trending in that direction.] Banksy failed to register a bunch of his?

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Fair Use Clauses & Non Fungible Tokens

Traverse Legal Blog

Owners of NFTs linked to copyright protected works, whether buying or selling, need to be aware of both copyright and trademark law. But can you use the words ā€œBored Apeā€ when that brand is registered as a trademark by the project owner Yuga Labs? Can I copy and use a digital asset linked to an NFT?