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Why Moral Rights are Dead Serious: Preserving the Posthumous Moral Right of Integrity – Part I

SpicyIP

This is especially true where the owner of the copyright (typically production houses or record studios) is not the author of the work, or otherwise where copyright protection has expired. Such treatment usually amounts to violations of the moral rights of the author.

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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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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? Such uses, they argue, constitute copyright infringement. As in the present context, the initial concern of copyright holders was that their consent had not been acquired by Google prior to scanning their works.

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Copyright Infringement and Music

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Music is an artistic work which falls into the purview of copyright protection. However, if such streaming of copyrighted music is done without obtaining license from the copyright holder, then it amounts to copyright infringement. Copyright involves the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the original work.

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Copyright Infringement and Music

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Music is an artistic work which falls into the purview of copyright protection. However, if such streaming of copyrighted music is done without obtaining license from the copyright holder, then it amounts to copyright infringement. Copyright involves the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the original work.

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Copyright Ownership with Independent Contractors

Sander Law

Copyright Ownership with Independent Contractors. When hiring an independent contractor to design your logos, artwork and take photographs, it is important to think about who actually owns the copyright in the resulting work. Ownership of Copyright. Generally, the first owner of copyright is the creator of the work.

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Can authors waive their right of attribution?

The IPKat

Economic rights have been harmonised throughout the EU to a significant extent. Moral rights, however, have not (yet). This means navigating a patchwork of national legislation and court decisions when dealing with international copyright projects. They may not be contrary to accepted principles of morality ( Sec.