Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

A person authorises the use of the space for the transmission, sale, distribution, or display of an unauthorised work unless they know or have good reason to suspect that doing so will result in a copyright violation. The Purpose of copyright. How to prevent copyright infringement. Public domain resources as a starting point.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 22, 2022

For our patent law course today, the students read the Justice O’Connor unanimous opinion in Bonito Boats, Inc. Bonito Boats centers on a Florida statute prohibiting copying of unpatented boat hulls via direct molding. The Florida courts had refused to enforce the law because it conflicted with Federal Patent Law.

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Patently-O

APRIL 6, 2023

In that case, the Court found that Google’s use of Java API naming conventions in its Android operating system was fair use under copyright law. Because its fair use decision decided the case, the court did not rule separately on whether the API was even copyrightable in the first place. Oracle America, Inc. ,

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The primary goal of copyright law is to safeguard the interests of creators of original, publishable works. The purpose of copyright protection is to make sure that the artist reaps the rewards of creating their original work and that no one else benefits unfairly from it. right to copyright will exist.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Authors Kennington Groff and Jaime Chandra Kozlowski delve deep into the potential implications of a landmark Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) case that sent ripples through the art world, impacting copyright law including fair use and commercial licensing.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Recently, the office of Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks granted a patent to a ragi walnut soup mix prepared by the 52-year old woman, Shubhangi Patil. The claim of the applicant should not be the one existing in the public domain at the date of filing of an application. Introduction. Conclusion.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

3: Copyright and the Takings Clause. One of the more confusing areas of copyright law in the United States is how it impacts states. Under the current law, all copyright matters are federal. According to Unicolors, the retailers infringed on one of their designs and sold various goods with it.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Copyright Law Why are we so sure facts are excluded from the statute when the statute doesn’t use that word and uses a lot of other words. Harper & Row is cited by Feist to reiterate that selection coordination and arrangements of facts can be copyrightable. Looked at leg history and cases cited by Feist.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

book publishers, rejecting the Internet Archive’s argument that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books qualifies as fair use under the Copyright Act. When the electronic version is “checked out,” the physical copy is taken out of circulation. ” What is Controlled Digital Lending?

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge.

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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 Copyright , Designs and Patents Act of 1988 in the United Kingdom specifies in Section (1)(1)(a) that copyright exists in “original literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic works.”

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Hulm Entertainment alleged Fantasy Sports had substantially copied its ‘original trading and stock features’ along with the graphical user interface (GUI) of their fantasy sports mobile application “Exchange22”. However, the current case discusses the protection of GUIs under the Copyright Act.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As the story goes, they provided him with a copy of a few scenes from “Ghostbusters” in which the theme would appear. You can judge for yourself by downloading a copy of “Jap Herron” here. In 1999, Cinema Secrets licensed the right to sell a Michael Myers Halloween mask from the film’s copyright owner.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

The EU took the Intellectual Property route by introducing a related right under its copy right law. Critics of press publisher right argue that copyright is awarded to incentivize creativity by rewarding exclusivity. After a tussle with Facebook in 2021, Australia adopted News Media Bargaining Code.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 23, 2023

Whether one focuses on the word’s connotation of silliness or excitement, or maybe even anger , or analogizes to the raucous and rhymingly-named team from Savannah that makes up its own baseball rules , US copyright law is currently going a little “bananas.” ” Said, Reforming Copyright Interpretation, 28 Harv.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The 2001 Documentary “sold 50,000 copies in two weeks and revolutionized the Baltimore dirt-bike culture,” inspiring a sequel and plans to make a third film. In addition, the design of the title of the 2013 Documentary was allegedly similar to plaintiffs’ registered 12 O’Clock Boyz logo. The similarities in setting, theme, etc.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

In this week’s judgment the Court rejected the argument brought forward by Poland and concluded that the design of Article 17 includes sufficient safeguards protecting the right to freedom of expression and information of the users.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. 101 ] Issue 1: Are the recorded interviews a copyright-eligible “work of authorship”?

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