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Book review: Guidebook to Intellectual Property + discount code

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The fourth part explains copyright and related rights including performers rights and moral rights as well as confidential information. The third part addresses the way that things are sold, focusing on trade marks, passing off and unfair competition.

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Cardinals Of Intellectual Property Rights (Part- II)

IP and Legal Filings

In India, protection under copyrights is provided into two forms, which includes, economic rights and the moral rights of the author. Economic rights are enumerated under section 14 of the Act and section 57 deals with the moral rights of the copyright holder.

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Cultural appropriation: are there legal mechanisms to stop this from an intellectual property standpoint?

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The case ended well, however, and the parties sealed an agreement which has been kept confidential, although they announced the commencement of a joint project. There are a host of examples of this type of technique, including U.S. The questions that need to be asked are: when can action for cultural appropriation be taken?,

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Journey Through “Novembers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

SpicyIP

The issue has often arisen in the context of protecting confidential information through copyright law. Speaking of late movie stars, one may wonder about the posthumous enforcement of celebrity rights. E.g., see Prateek Surisetti’s post here and Niyati Prabhu’s post here.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 5-11)

SpicyIP

Vempati Ravi Shankar – Facebook Copyright Dispute: Issues on Moral Rights and Posthumous Enforcement of Celebrity Rights. The plaintiff also claimed violation of moral rights and infringement of posthumous celebrity rights.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023

SpicyIP

However, the organization, disregarding the moral rights element here , refused to acknowledge the request stating that there exists no individual authorship and that they had given all the rights to NCERT when the committee was terminated. Nirtech Private Limited & Ors. ,

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[Guest post] Could your beliefs about copyright be protected under the Equality Act?

The IPKat

In her role she had access to some Mulberry designs before their launch, and consequently the company required her to sign confidentiality and copyright agreements which required the assignment of copyright in any works or designs made arising from her employment and which related to Mulberry’s business.