SpicyIP

MAY 2, 2022

We’re pleased to bring you a guest post from Akshat Agrawal on a recent order that raised questions on the extent / limitations of the exemptions and limitations to Indian copyright law. New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression? You can see his previous posts for us here.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 7, 2021

The studio argues that a complaint seeking an accounting of profits from its planned Rin Rin Tin film doesn’t arise under the Copyright Act. He’s the canine film and television star made famous in the 1920’s, which makes him nearly 700 if you’re counting in dog years. In 2019, Warner Bros.

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Ownership Copyright Copyright Law Television 85

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Sinclair owns a bunch of television stations. Under the Copyright Act, display. means to show a copy of it, either directly or by means of a film, slide, television image, or any other device or process or, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to show individual images nonsequentially.”.

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Social Media Copyright Fair Use Licensing 140

Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Photo by Christian Wiediger from Unsplash The implementation transposition of the Copyright Directive 2019/790 (DSMD) in the summer of 2021 represented probably the greatest reform in German copyright law since the German Copyright Act (UrhG) came into force. Germany’s implementation of Art.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

Just don’t forget about real world copyright law. ? For that, you’d need an assignment or license from the owner of the underlying copyright. NFT enthusiasts envision a fictional world of fan-owned creative properties and character crossovers. What you can’t do is make your own “Dune” movie.

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The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

According to the Copyright compendium, the authors of a joint work jointly owns the copyright in each other’s contribution. There is precedent that an interviewee does not hold any copyright in an interview. However, there is a chance that Trump may not own an interest in the recordings.

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Copyright Copyright Infringement Publishing Derivative Work 98

LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Meme Culture Meets Copyright Law: A Guide for Businesses & Creators Memes, often humorous media fragments that spread rapidly through online sharing, are a global phenomenon that have made their way into mainstream culture. All meme-like images in this article are properly licensed. Are Memes Dangerous? Yes and no.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

To fully understand these conflicting views of the majority opinion, it is necessary to understand both the specific facts of the case and the history of the Supreme Court’s case law concerning the fair-use doctrine. Condé Nast paid $400 for the license, which specified “No other usage right granted.” Figure 1, Slip op.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

According to the Copyright compendium, the authors of a joint work jointly owns the copyright in each other’s contribution. There is precedent that an interviewee does not hold any copyright in an interview. However, there is a chance that Trump may not own an interest in the recordings.

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Copyright Copyright Infringement Publishing Derivative Work 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Barr makes explicit a factor we had long suspected with the skew of evidence on the Portal: the music industry is disproportionately overrepresented in empirical copyright literature. This provokes the question of how we can transplant evidence gleaned from one industry to another (in Barr’s synthesis, to television).

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 30, 2021

We highlighted the nature of these obligations and the Committee’s discussion on the Delhi High Court’s landmark judgment in the DU photocopy case, wherein the Court [ the Single Judge and the Division Bench ] adopted a robust understanding of the educational exception enumerated in the list of fair dealing provisions in Indian copyright law.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. The Court interpreted the clause on ownership of work made during a contract of service (Section 17(c)) to not apply in situations where there is a contract between equals.

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