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Free Mickey? (Don’t Be Goofy)

LexBlog IP

Freed from the shackles of copyright, Walt Disney’s iconic rodent was now in the public domain and, therefore, available for everyone to copy. It is no surprise that the legalities of the public domain are more complicated than the headlines suggest. But not so fast.

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When a vampire not called Dracula bested the copyright system, and what it tells us about derivative works

The IPKat

It was one thing to get excited about the possibility of making a vampire movie; it was another when the focus was taking the best of the German expressionistic cinema tradition, then in vogue, to do a movie version of Dracula. The movie had entered cinema oblivion. It is here that the story, as a copyright matter, become murky.

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Alfred v. Walt Disney Company: Decoding the concept of Substantial Similarity with respect to the Pirates of the Caribbean lawsuit

IP and Legal Filings

Such rights include the right to reproduce the work, the right to public display and public performance, the right to adaptation, etc. If any other person makes an unauthorized copy of that work, the owner shall have a right of action against him. The defendants were provided with a copy of the screenplay.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 8-November 15)

SpicyIP

The High Court referred to the terms of the assignment deed and ruled that “ what was agreed between the parties is traditional mode of exhibiting the cinema as could be contemplated by both parties by then, but after technical advent of exhibiting film through satellite has become available. In the present case the Assignor (Defendant no.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

As the story goes, they provided him with a copy of a few scenes from “Ghostbusters” in which the theme would appear. You can judge for yourself by downloading a copy of “Jap Herron” here. The case is New Line Cinema v. Cinema Secrets (2000). to write the’s film’s signature song.

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