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Lights Camera Action : Role Of Intellectual Property In Indian Cinema

IIPRD

A growing number of daily releases makes India’s copyright laws particularly important in. The Copyright Act of 1957 enters the picture at this point, offering security against a number of dangers that the manufacturers would otherwise have to bear. Copy right and Indian cinema. Introduction. Image Source : Shutterstock].

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Guest Post: Old Designs, New Design Patents

Patently-O

Last week, at Design Day 2022, the USPTO announced that it had completed its summary of those comments. In the request for comments, the USPTO floated the idea of issuing design patents for what they are now calling “designs for projections, holograms, and virtual and augmented reality (PHVAR).” But projected designs aren’t new.

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CAFC Affirms TTAB's Dismissal of SKY CINEMAS Opposition: Not Confusable with SKY NEWS for News Reporting Services

The TTABlog

In a nonprecedential ruling, the CAFC upheld the Board's decision dismissing an opposition to registration of SKY CINEMAS for "movie theaters" [CINEMAS disclaimed], finding the mark not likely to cause confusion with SKY NEWS for radio and television news services. Sky Cinemas LLC , Appeal No. Text Copyright John L.

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Austrian Copyright Law & Films: No protection of mere film ideas

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Photo by TheoRivierenlaan from Pixabay The Austrian Supreme Court (hereinafter: “ASC”) ruled on 19th of December 2023 ( 4 Ob 112/23h ) in a case concerning the 2019 film “Yesterday” The Plaintiff alleged that the film infringed its copyright in a short screenplay idea published in 2011. is not protected under copyright.

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Hollywood to UK Govt: Investigating Pirates “Increasingly Difficult”

TorrentFreak

“The good reputation of the UK’s treatment of copyright exceptions was threatened in 2022, when the Government proposed, as part of its national AI strategy, to introduce the new exception to copyright to include the training of AI models for ‘any purpose’,” the MPA writes. Source submissions: Warner Bros.

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Russia’s Forced Licensing Plan For ‘Enemy’ Content “Legalizes Piracy”

TorrentFreak

As a result, new US-owned movies dried up, leaving the entire Russian cinema industry in crisis. Some venues began screening pirated movies downloaded from torrent sites but the move was criticized by local cinema groups who were saddened by a return to the unlicensed entertainment “dark days” of 30 years ago.

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Police Arrest Man For Uploading ‘Parasite’ Movie Edit to YouTube

TorrentFreak

These videos are often around 10 minutes in length but rather than giving a flavor of a movie to whet the appetite, they are designed to give away entire plotlines and necessarily include spoilers. ‘Fast Cinema’ Uploader Speaks With The Media. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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