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Intellectual Property Rights for Social Media Influencers

IIPRD

A Social Media Influencer is someone who creates unique material that keeps people interested on multiple social media platforms, causing them to return for more high-quality information. One of the most significant methods to safeguard material on social media is through copyright.

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Gulls Hockey Team Gets Wings Clipped In IP Dispute With Hockey League

The IP Law Blog

The assignment agreement specifically referenced three federal trademarks and all common law marks owned by the league incorporating the word “Gulls”; any formative of that word; and any depiction of a seagull in the context of hockey or hockey team. What’s missing here? There is no reference to assets or material protected by copyright.

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Gulls Hockey Team Gets Wings Clipped In IP Dispute With Hockey League

LexBlog IP

The assignment agreement specifically referenced three federal trademarks and all common law marks owned by the league incorporating the word “Gulls”; any formative of that word; and any depiction of a seagull in the context of hockey or hockey team. There is no reference to assets or material protected by copyright.

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Africa IP highlights 2023: Copyright

The IPKat

The Regulations also protect the rights of authors of an original applied or fine artwork to a share in the proceeds of sale of that work as long as copyright subsists. In Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria Limited neglected to renew their contract with actor and filmmaker Adewole Ojo to use his photographs for advertisements.

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Ten things to know about NFTs

The IPKat

Digital assets can be protected by IP and have always been capable of being licensed or assigned via a contract, or protected as a trade mark. NFTs are legal property… A recent case in the High Court recognised NFTs as property under the law of England and Wales.

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Centering Artists’ Voices Within IP Discourse

IPilogue

Emily Chow is an IPilogue Writer and a 1L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . On the one hand, social media has enabled global sharing of news and creative media. T: “I was very fortunate in having a father-in-law who knows a lot of lawyers. It definitely got my accounts where they are today.

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Growth of Virtual Youtubers and IP Complications

IIPRD

It varies from creating an alternate persona on a social media account to voicing an animated character in a movie. A person who employed the artist will be considered the proprietor of the artwork and can register for exclusivity for the same character. [3]

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