LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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. But this does not mean use without restriction.

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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.

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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2022

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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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 31, 2023

Walt Disney Company: The ‘Pirates’ Lawsuit The case is centred around ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, a household name in the world of cinema. Unprotectable elements such as ideas, concepts and elements in the public domain are filtered out of this test. The defendants were provided with a copy of the screenplay.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

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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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.

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