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Moral Rights in Copyright: Lin-Manuel Miranda sues Texas Church for unauthorized performances of “Hamilton”

IPilogue

The copyright issues that exist in this situation include: unauthorized streaming, unauthorized use of Hamilton content, unauthorized alterations to Hamilton content, and an infringement of an artist’s “moral right” to their copyrighted work. .

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Moral Rights Case Ends in Settlement

BYU Copyright Blog

According to Mason's Complaint, these changes violated her rights under the Visual Artist Rights Act ("VARA"), a legal provision that incorporates artists' moral rights to preserve the integrity of their creations into United States copyright law, although in a limited manner.

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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The rise in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has attracted a great deal of attention from copyright practitioners and aficionados. Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. And why is that? an exploitation that caused them no harm).

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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

It has been the coldest days of the year where this Kat is based - perfect weather for looking into what other IP Blogs have been into recently:- Copyright The Kluwer Copyright Blog addressed the issue of moral rights in relation to artificial intelligence and copyright protection.

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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

Come with this Kat for a stroll around this week’s posts from IP blogs. Copyright A Kat walking and enjoying its freedom. moral rights. This is the question Miquel Peguera raises on Kluwer Copyright Blog, alongside his analysis of the topic. Is the Spanish implementation of Art.

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AI and Copyright: A Reply to Matt Hervey

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image by Alexandra_Koch via Pixabay The recent blog post by Matt Hervey provides an interesting summary by someone who clearly has a good understanding of the subject matter. I summarized some of those arguments on this blog. I also reject the argument that because something is valuable it must have copyright protection.

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The IPKat

The IP blogs were very active during the last week of April! The Kluwer Trademark Blog reported on the proposed independent EU regime for CIPs and other findings in a related article. COPYRIGHT Likelihood of confusion posted about a recent Massachusetts copyright decision involving moral rights.