SpicyIP

JANUARY 17, 2022

Right to Research (“R2R”): An Independent Right with an Imposed Dependence in Copyright Law? However, a full-fledged discussion around whether a ‘Right to Research’ exists in India, whether it be internal, or external to Copyright laws seems largely absent. a user right under copyright law. Lokesh Vyas.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

The rights of speakers, organisers, and participants under Indian copyright law will be discussed in this Article, which will explore copyright concerns connected to webinars. Ownership of copyright in the lectures presented by the speakers. The Delhi High Court, citing several sources, held in Pepsi Co.

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CoCal IP Law Institute

APRIL 11, 2024

Please join us Monday, April 15, 2024 at noon where we will discuss Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 68 (Rule 68) and the "open question" of whether post-offer attorney’s fees are part of the recoverable "costs" for a defendant, in particular, in copyright cases. I think defendants should be able to use the Rule 68 [.]

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Something has recently gone awry with the law of copyright ownership in a movie or other film — a “cinematographic work”, as s. 2 of the Copyright Act RSC 1985, c. Part I of the Act deals with the ownership of copyright in works. A copyright owner may of course transfer the right as it wishes (s.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Is there a contract template for this scenario? Below is a sample agreement that's based on our downloadable work-for-hire contract on our Crafts Law website. A work-made-for-hire agreement is used so that the hiring party acquires ownership of the work. copyright law.

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CoCal IP Law Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Please join us on Monday, November 13, 2023 at Noon, where we will discuss the issue of master ownership and the legal copyright conflicts between record labels and artists. Taylor Swift may be the first to make this copyright issue truly public, leaving fans wondering who really owns Swift's music and why. She says she [.]

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 14, 2022

One is the contract with the individual or individuals doing the work who help create content; and two is the type of content that they create and where they get photos from, in particular. First, contracts. And that is a specific, important phrase in copyright law. Make sure you have proper contracts.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

In this part II we discuss two additional aspects, with a focus on UK copyright law and the EU copyright acquis. The First Sale Doctrine in the Metaverse The first sale doctrine, also referred to as the ‘ principle of exhaustion’ , is a longstanding tenet of copyright (and more in general intellectual property) law.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

In most cases, the spouse doesn’t contribute copyrightable creativity. Argument: spouse’s contribution should not be seen through copyright law but through family law. Ownership should require a lower burden of proof: comes from the relationship between the spouses and not from the connection to the creation.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In August 2022, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a study on EU copyright and related rights and access to and reuse of scientific publications, including open access. Current EU copyright framework.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

That then plays off the rest of the title’s allusions to separating “subjects” from the “predicates” of copyright ownership, themselves words connoting the foundational elements of both “ any complete sentence ” and at times a court’s jurisdiction over infringement matters.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Typically, in the case of scholarly publications, authors are publicly funded through payment under a standing contract with a university or research institute, or through project funding, including EU funding. Pre-existing Bulgarian provision The SPR is not an entirely novel concept to Bulgarian copyright law. What’s next?

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JIPL Online

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

1] It’s not uncommon to hear artists complain about record label contracts once they see the impact their deals have on the control of their own music. [2]. To understand the source of the problem, it’s first necessary to understand the copyrighted work at issue in many record label agreements. BACKGROUND.

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Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This case, among others, showcases the ongoing legal dilemmas surrounding AI and copyright, especially as more artists and creators integrate AI into the artistic process. Such decisions highlight the evolving nature of copyright law in the face of AI advancements. Our firm specializes in AI and copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

Worse, it’s not clear the users have a “possessory interest” in those bits due to the possibility that copyright and contract law that may limit what users can do with those bits. ” Implied-in-Law Contract/Unjust Enrichment The court says that these state law claims are preempted by copyright law. .”

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IPilogue

JUNE 14, 2022

At the heart of Taylor’s decision was an often overlooked but significant legal distinction in the copyright law governing the music industry. All music can be subdivided into three categories of copyright: lyrical, compositional, and sound.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Copy Right Law in the Entertainment Industry The cornerstone of intellectual property protection in the entertainment sector is copyright law. It gives authors and artists the sole ownership rights to their original writings, music, films, and artwork.

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 20, 2022

In the past week, Green revealed that Fred Simian is home, yet the strange, twisted tale of a Bored Ape has many more turns left, involving copyright law, cryptocurrency, and blockchain code. Well, a smart contract isn’t really a contract – a smart contract is simply a bit of self-executing code.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

[Image Sources : Gettyimages] One of the important issues in online is copyrights. Due to the recurrent copyright difficulties, which have a significant impact on an individual’s business interest, it is imperative to preserve the ownership rights of digital works. iii] NFTs are limited to having a single owner.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Although the contract between a makeup artist and her publisher described the artist as the author of the book, the dispute still arose under the Copyright Act because “author” is a term defined under the Act. A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law. Kelley, August 12, 2020, Higginbotham, P.).

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 13, 2024

Unsophisticated consumers may conflate the purchase of an NFT associated with a digital good with ownership of IP rights in that good. The Offices found: To the extent that an NFT is associated with a copyrightable work, the creation, storage, marketing, or transfer of that NFT may implicate copyright owners’ exclusive rights.

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

There was a recent story that is an instructive lesson in copyright law that has application to the NFT market. The article titled “Cryptobros spent $3 million on Dune book, believing it gave them copyright. The NFT is a smart contract coded with the NFT. the Bored Ape or CryptoPunk). The digital asset.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Through Twitter, she expressed that she had outlived all her recording contracts and that her master recordings should legally belong to her. Ownership of masters within the music industry has become a contentious and popular matter, particularly after Taylor Swift’s legal battle resulted in her re-recording her greatest hits.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This case, among others, showcases the ongoing legal dilemmas surrounding AI and copyright, especially as more artists and creators integrate AI into the artistic process. Such decisions highlight the evolving nature of copyright law in the face of AI advancements. Our firm specializes in AI and copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The general consensus is that copyright law favors the publishers, but in a recent motion to dismiss, Elbakyan had other things on her mind too. “ Section 25 of the Contract Act is relied upon to contend an agreement without consideration is void.” ” Mandatory Economic Component Absent Mr. .

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IIPRD

JANUARY 5, 2023

A growing number of daily releases makes India’s copyright laws particularly important in. A precise elucidation about the ownership of cinematographic films has been provided by Section 17 of The Copyright Act, 1957 Act. Introduction. Who Owns What and Why.

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Intepat

JUNE 15, 2023

Copyright protection is an attractive option for app developers since the protection is automatic once the app is fixed in a tangible form e.g., when the code is encapsulated in a digital representation. Copyright registration also enables developers to access their legal remedies and seek damages or injunctions in cases of infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

Construing these allegations as true and in Service’s favor, Service subjectively believed that he possessed an ownership interest and that he never approved the Comedy Dynamics deal. I’m pretty sure the drafters of 512(f) never contemplated that it would be invoked in disputes over ownership.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

NFTs revolutionised the concept of ownership and digital art. NFTs have sparked several discussions raising questions on how this would affect IP Rights and what ownership of artwork, especially digital copies of artwork entails. However, the buyer of the NFT now had ownership over one unique copy of the same GIF.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Can a work entirely created by a machine be protected by copyright? AI-generated Kats The Review also rejected Thaler’s argument that AI can be an author under copyright law because the work made for hire doctrine allows for “non-human, artificial persons such as companies” to be authors.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 27, 2023

The court summarizes the case: “plaintiffs allege that YouTube has violated the copyright laws by withholding broad access to Content ID… Plaintiffs also allege that YouTube automatically strips metadata out of uploaded videos, including copyright management information (CMI), which makes it harder to catch infringing conduct.”

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CopyrightsWorld

MARCH 30, 2021

The second one is to get ownership of their copyright, know their rights under the copyright laws and how to protect them. According to the copyright laws, a work that has required significant mental activity to create, and is, therefore, considered original, automatically becomes its creator’s intellectual property.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Your trademark identifies your company as the source of goods and services related to your NFTs and digital assets (the pictures linked to your NFT smart contracts). The image of the Crypto Punk linked to the NFT placed on to the blockchain is copyright protected. The art inside the gallery is protected by COpyright law.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In May 2021, a phenomenal IPilogue submission by Keir Strickland-Murphy (Osgoode Law ‘22) touched on the recent boom of Non- fungible Tokens. In this piece, I will recapitulate Strickland- Murphy’s exploration of IP ownership of Non-fungible Tokens and expand on recent developments since May. Old Laws Protect New Trends.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

However, those familiar with copyright law, immediately began to point out flaws in the plan. Back in November 2021, copyright non-repudiation service Safe Creative announced a new system that would affix copyright information to NFTs. It’s a simple idea, but one that hasn’t taken off yet.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

This examined the problem of authors’ remuneration: authors’ contracts tend to result in disproportionately low revenues relative to the returns of investors and intermediaries. Importantly, the parties may not contract out of this right to readjustment. Reversion of rights That said, some balance is offered in the U.S.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

Risks for all stakeholders include FTC Part 255 regulations for endorsements and influencer contract drafting and, in this game, one of the things we’re going to be talking about is, you know, intellectual property. These are the contract terms that are the most obvious to all the stakeholders in the influencer-marketing game.

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