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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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Music Piracy

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Section 52 states that educational purposes, research, or criticism are all fair use and do not constitute copyright infringement. If a school organizes a performance on its grounds where pupils will put on a musical performance for their professors and classmates, it will be covered under the provision of fair use of copyright.

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Copyright Infringement and Music

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

According, to section 52 educational purposes, research or criticism are all fair use and do not attract copyright infringement. Even using a legal music streaming service to listen to music on your own phone and in your own house or in a private setting does not attract copyright infringement. Mannu Bhandari V.

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Copyright Infringement and Music

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

According, to section 52 educational purposes, research or criticism are all fair use and do not attract copyright infringement. Even using a legal music streaming service to listen to music on your own phone and in your own house or in a private setting does not attract copyright infringement. Mannu Bhandari V.

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Bracing for Impact Keynote Address Tells a Copyright Story Never Told: Art and Copyright in Ghettos and Concentration Camps

IPilogue

Dean Zemer explored the copyright principles of Fair Use, Orphan Works, and Perpetual Rights. Similarly insufficient is the form of non-perpetual protection favoured by the Common Law – moral rights in Holocaust works should be granted perpetual protection, which requires special legislation.

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Taking the Mona Lisa Effect from Illusion to Reality: Enhancing the Museum Experience with Augmented and Virtual Reality

JIPEL Copyright Blog

infringement of the creator’s exclusive right to reproduce and/or prepare a derivative work) or VARA/moral rights (i.e., For the most part, liability may be avoidable: museums could defend any copyright (e.g.,

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

With this brief background in mind, this blog post explores the implications of copyright protection of memes. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale. Zywicki & Thomas J.