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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. Make intangible assets.

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copying/explicit references let Roblox proceed with dubious (c) claim; Lego should be watching

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WowWee’s Vice President of Brand Development & Creative Strategy, Sydney Wiseman, used her WowWee email address to create a Roblox user account and used her Roblox account to promote My Avastars dolls on social media, including videos on her TikTok account. This was enough survive the motion to dismiss.

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Ten things to know about NFTs

The IPKat

Despite the uncertainty around the long-term success of NFTs, we have certainly seen a “land grab” from brands filing trade marks, including ITV (for LOVE ISLAND), Heineken and even The Empire State Building [Katpost with details from Becky Knott here ]. The terms of ownership and remuneration vary between platforms.

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Federal Court of Canada Issues Default Judgment to Stop Online Infringement

LexBlog IP

Kaira’s brand AMUL is internationally renowned and India’s largest food brand. First, Kaira provided evidence of the goodwill that the AMUL brand and designs have acquired globally and in Canada. Kaira produces milk products. Kaira is based in India, has been in operation since 1946 and has over 3.2

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IPSC Breakout Session #1

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So too w/false advertising. Assumptions skipped over in TM/false advertising analysis.] Protecting brand investment and consumers? Benefits: nationwide right of priority, evidence of validity/exclusive ownership, right to police imports, incontestability after 5 years, symbolic benefits like ®.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023

SpicyIP

[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

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USC IP year in review, TM/ROP

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For about a decade, courts had realized that IIC had gone way too far, and had expanded liability in ways that didn’t protect consumers and facilitated anticompetitive claims about false advertising. This a Tom Sachs painting from his recent series of brand paintings. Is this explicitly misleading?

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