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3 Count: Subpeona Valve

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Kristin Robinson at Billboard reports that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is accusing two individuals, as well as a variety of co-conspirators, stole an estimated $23 million in royalties owed to a variety of other artists. The scam was eventually exposed after over four years.

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Africa IP highlights 2023: Copyright

The IPKat

January: The year kicked off in Tanzania with the news that the Parliamentary Standing Committee in Tanzania received a report from the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Sports addressing its efforts to review and improve the loopholes found in the Copyright Licensing and Rights to Benefit from Re-Sale Regulations, 2022.

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Professional Photographer Files Copyright Infringement Suit Against Used Car Dealers

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

Portland, Indiana – Plaintiff Alexander Bayonne Stross (‘Stross”) has filed suit against Defendants, Lynn Boolman Auto Sales Limited Liability Company and CARSFORSALE.COM, INC. Per the StrossStock website, Stross was nominated and accepted as a professional member of the American Society of Photographers in 2016.

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Greek collecting societies are not entitled to collect equitable remuneration for artists and producers not represented by them by contract or mandate

LexBlog IP

GEA is the Common Collecting Society of GRAMMO (Collecting Society of Music Producers), ERATO (collecting Society of Performers), and APOLLON (Collecting Society of Musicians). From 1 May 2014 onwards, PM has cooperated with the company Navarr Enterprises Inc, based in Florida, United States. Introduction.

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Loui Vuitton: In Charge Of 18,000 Intellectual Property Rights

IIPRD

Louis Vuitton began the company in 1854 as a luggage manufacturer, but it was his son who developed the brand’s renowned monogram, the interlocking L and V in a floral pattern, in 1896. Fashion shows, as well as the textiles used in high-end gowns, can be protected as works of ‘artistic workmanship.’

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Free Mickey? (Don’t Be Goofy)

LexBlog IP

Copyright protection is afforded to every original literary, dramatic, musical, or other artistic work, whether published or unpublished. In both the US and Canada, copyright expires 70 years from the death of the artist/author (or the death of the last author if there are multiple authors). [3] Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.

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Using AI Artwork to Avoid Copyright Infringement

Copyright Lately

In that case, artist Lebeus Woods claimed that a torture device used in the Terry Gilliam film had been unlawfully copied from his drawing of a wall-mounted chair. So long as AI-generated art is simply used as a starting point for subsequent creative refinement by a human artist, the resulting work should be protected by copyright.

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