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Free Mickey? (Don’t Be Goofy)

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January 1, 2024, brought numerous hangovers along with an unprecedented amount of media attention to intellectual property law. Freed from the shackles of copyright, Walt Disney’s iconic rodent was now in the public domain and, therefore, available for everyone to copy. But not so fast.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 8-November 15)

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Call for Papers: NALSAR’s Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL) Vol. The Court, however, disagreed with the Defendant’s argument holding that there was no information available in the public domain for the Plaintiff to reach at the above conclusion regarding relations between the Defendants.

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