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IP Licensing for Business Companies & Organizations – How to Do it Right?

Kashishipr

Any form of Intellectual Property (IP) , be it a trademark, patent, or copyright, can be licensed to third parties. Through IP licensing, IP rights holders grant third parties the exclusive right to use their IP while retaining their ownership. Understanding the IP License. Creating the IP Licensing Agreement.

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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Nevertheless , tokens may be used in a digital rights management scheme, as the aforementioned default position is subject to contract modification, as explained below. Copyright that is transferred upon selling an NFT may explicitly be outlined in the self-executing smart contract governing the sale.

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Whither a Signal-Based Broadcast Treaty?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. that allows a contracting party to limit the rights of a broadcasting organization from another contracting party when that contracting party provides fewer rights. Copyright: WIPO. Delete Article 8.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. It’s not that half of federal judges have adopted one clear stance on copyright preemption of contracts and the other half have adopted another clear stance. But fair use isn’t a defense to a breach of contract claim.

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Digital collections from GLAM institutions: Policy Paper

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Context Copyright can be challenging for cultural institutions (or “GLAM“ for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) when pursuing digitization and dissemination activities, as copyright governs whether a given work can be used and if so, how (as shown in recent studies for museums , archives or libraries ). Proposal 3. Proposal 5.

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[Guest Post] Copyright as movable property: Constitutional issues with Nigeria’s Copyright Act 2022

The IPKat

emphasis added to highlight the differences] On the face of it, indeed both the former and current “assignment and licenses” provisions appear to merely speak to the fact that copyright can be transferred as you would a movable property. If the right to something depends on a contract, or a statute explicitly creating it (e.g.,

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AI and IP – to legislate or not? UKIPO’s public consultation seeks evidence

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This is not the first time the UKIPO has engaged with a public call for views on the topic of AI and IP. In a 2020 consultation , the government sought to broadly understand the implications of AI for IP. Responses from the earlier call for views have raised the need to improve licensing mechanisms for TDM purposes. Background.

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