LexBlog IP
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
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.
The IPKat
APRIL 8, 2022
And, while the copyright laws were used to try to keep the film from public view, ultimately it failed, to the continuing benefit of cinematic creation. Enter the copyright laws. The movie had entered cinema oblivion. It is here that the story, as a copyright matter, become murky. It is the archetypal Dracula film.
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The IPKat
AUGUST 29, 2022
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), ranging from art and literature to fashion and cinema, remain among the hottest legal topics in the world of intangible rights, despite the lack of clear legal regulation. Picture in middle is entited "A ship in need in a raging storm, by Willem van de Velde II, and is in the public domain.
Copyright Lately
OCTOBER 25, 2021
The case is New Line Cinema v. Cinema Secrets (2000). In 1999, Cinema Secrets licensed the right to sell a Michael Myers Halloween mask from the film’s copyright owner. This prompted a lawsuit by Don Post Studios, which asserted that the Cinema Secrets mask was a copy of its own mask. BMG (1988). The Ghostly Trio.
SpicyIP
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
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. Cases in Indian Courts.
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