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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SpicyIP

MAY 23, 2024

Image from here Sweet Sound of Victory: Looking at the Calcutta HC’s Decisive Decision on Rights of Authors By Surabhi Katare In a major development, Calcutta High Court’s passed a landmark judgement on May 17, 2024, in safeguarding the copyrights of authors of music and literary work used in sound recordings.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The court held that it cannot decide at an interim stage on the question of whether an injunction can be obtained in the light of Sections 41 and 14 of the Specific Relief Act, read with Section 27 of the Contract Act. Asks to stop rapping to his music. Notorious B.I.G.’s Eminem sends cease and desist notice to Vivek Ramaswamy.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Music sampling: the tapestry/raw materials of early hip-hop practice make those kinds of works works assets that can’t attract investment. Indian classical music: Raga system is the basic framework for composition and improvisation. Mailyn Fidler, Cross-Racial Copyright Litigation in Music: Only a Paper Moon?

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Miramax claims, among other things, that the preparation and sale of these derivative works constitutes copyright infringement because the contractual rights Tarantino reserved in his 1993 agreement with Miramax don’t cover NFTs. The breathless media reports soon followed. Tarantino : The Bottom Line.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

Although none has reached a resolution, these private civil actions highlight various legal theories of liability that could arise when participating in the NFT market, including claims for copyright infringement, trademark infringement, breach of contract and violations of securities laws. Copyright Claims: Roc-A-Fella Records Inc.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. The Indian Copyright Act of 1957 through Section 13(1), stipulates that “original literary, dramatic, musical, and aesthetic works” are protected by copyright.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

You can always get drunk and order random stuff on Amazon curl up with a scary book or Halloween-themed movie, game or music video that’s found its way into copyright history. So, without further ado, here are 13 Halloween-themed works that someone (hopefully other than you) got sued for.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Part I of this post discussed the changes to copyright contract law and the new text and data mining exemption provisions that formed part of the 2021 copyright law reform. Part 2 explores further exemptions for users of works, new aspects of the right of communication to the public and the press publishers’ right.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Contract instead of ©? RT: My priors: Substantial similarity is junk and these techniques develop to clean up some of its junkiness instead of using derivative works properly. Brauneis: Should repugnant to public policy be built into any result? A: it already is, but has some problems detailed in the paper. Micropayments?

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

Also: what about derivative works? So how do you build in that to recognize contribution to singular work v. creation of derivative work. In UK/Canada, joint ownership rules allow us to say “no derivative works without all of us agreeing.” Walkon/background music v. dancing to it.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Both of those are examples of “phonorecords.”) “Sound recordings” are defined as “works that result from the fixation of a series of musical, spoken , or other sounds, … regardless of the nature of the material objects, such as disks, tapes, or other phonorecords, in which they are embodied.” [17 U.S.C. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. ,

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

For example, the Copyright Office recently said that a human being’s questions, or prompts, from which another intelligence (i.e. As Professors Post and Rothman described it (at 106 and fn. ” As Mary Catherine Amerine observed in her article Wrestling Over Republication Rights: Who Owns The Copyright Of Interviews?

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