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Copyright Ownership with Independent Contractors

Sander Law

Copyright Ownership with Independent Contractors. Ownership of Copyright. Most business owners believe that they own the copyright in the works created by the independent contractor as they hired and paid the contractor for this purpose, however this isn't the case. Moral Rights. Learn more about Moral Rights.

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IPSC Panel 14 – Copyright Authorship & Ownership

43(B)log

Twain thought he should have ownership of his lectures—“my lecture was my property.” It’s not clear that giving Cord’s estate ownership would be social justice, but that’s a question worth asking. Prototypical 19 th case: Publishing agreement is silent on ownership; publisher complies w/formalities and author doesn’t.

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IPSC Breakout Session 3, Language and Authorship/ownership

43(B)log

A business code communicating within a community designed to be closed. Ownership should require a lower burden of proof: comes from the relationship between the spouses and not from the connection to the creation. Gerhardt: compare right of publicity, moral rights? Josh Sarnoff: say more about merger.

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Metadata Ruling Gives YouTube a Timely Boost in Content ID Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

Many digital file formats allow creators to embed additional data to provide details of ownership or any other relevant information. In Maria Schneider’s CMI article she talks about the moral rights of artists, including the right to attribution and the right of integrity.

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Analyzing relationship between Contemporary art and Intellectual Property Rights

IIPRD

In a world where information can be disseminated in the blink of an eye thanks to technological advancements, it is a difficult task to ensure that the original artists retain ownership of their creations amid the explosion of available works and the emergence of vastly varied creative forms.

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Canadian Perspectives on Artist Resale Rights

IPilogue

The embedding of “smart contracts” in NFT sales allows for the automatic distribution of royalties – roughly 10% – anytime a change of ownership is requested on the blockchain. Exercising control of downstream purchaser actions for traditional or non-digital artistic mediums is more complicated.

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Journey Through “Januarys” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

SpicyIP

Without further ado, here’s what I found in the Januarys: Virtual World, Gaming, and IPs: Sifting through January pages, a decade-old post by Deepshikha Malhotra caught my attention, discussing Property Rights in the Virtual World. The question of ownership in the virtual world, particularly in video games, has long been debated.