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[Guest post] Archival Authenticity or Iconic Copies? Some IP Thoughts on Dolce & Gabbana’s SS23 Collection Curated by Kim

The IPKat

Here’s what Felicia writes: Archival Authenticity or Iconic Copies? According to The Business of Fashion , Kardashian “tweaked Dolce & Gabbana styles from the 1990s and early 2000s” creating “finished looks” with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana “that were, the designers said, about 20 percent different from the originals.”

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Types of Intellectual Property Contracts

Intepat

The IP assignment agreement, that is also known as an IP transfer contract, makes sure that a company can keep its ownership rights when an employee contributes to the development of an intangible work on the organization’s behalf. By clearly outlining these details in the contract, the risk of future conflicts is reduced.

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With Friends Like These: Copyright Implications Of Novelists Drawing Inspiration From The Real Lives They Cross

LexBlog IP

” So, while writers have a compulsion to use what they know from life to create their works of imagined lives, they will draw not only on events central and personal to themselves but on many things intersecting or tangential to the writer’s own life. They have to look and see, that’s all. Then they have to write.”

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Tattoo Artist’s Trial Win is a Loss for Bodily Autonomy, Free Speech

Copyright Lately

That $3,750 works out to a measly $71 for each month the case has been pending. In addition, in granting Alexander’s motion for partial summary judgment, the court found that Alexander held valid copyrights in the tattoo designs at issue and that defendants copied those works. Skull arm design. Bible verse design.

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The 5 Worst Copyright Lawsuits of 2023

Copyright Lately

The plaintiff in question was rapper Denise Jones, aka Necey X, who claimed that Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion and Atlantic Records “copied and pasted the lyrics” from her original song Grab Em by the P * to use in the hit songs WAP and Thot S**t. You know, like a book.

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Can I register my architectural work? A glance through copyright in Peru

Garrigues Blog

In the case of architecture, holding copyrights in works enables authors to exploit their economic rights with a view to continuing their creative activity. The RAE’s definition of architecture as “the art of designing and constructing buildings”, is not alien to Peruvian copyright law. Indeed, Legislative Decree no.

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Copyright, Free Speech Clash in Dispute Over Cameron Boyce’s Final Film

Copyright Lately

.” Coakley DM to Harvey Berger (from court files) After Coakley’s monetary demands were refused, Berger received an email from an unknown individual claiming to be a “friend” of Coakley’s, who threatened that a copy of Runt would be “leaked online” if Coakley’s pilot project wasn’t funded.