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When is a derivative work original and thus protectable by copyright? Classicist’s critical edition makes its way to Luxembourg in fresh Romanian CJEU referral

The IPKat

Translated into copyright language: a critical edition is an example of derivative work. In 2017, the Regional Court of Bucharest held that the defendants had infringed the professor’s moral right of attribution. Despite (or rather because of ?) In my view, this is so even for reasons beyond the question of originality.

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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. That is, in an NFT there can be an underlying copy of a work of art –typically an image, photograph, piece of music, video or certain audiovisual content– that may be subject to copyright. And why is that?

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WIPIP: In Memoriam and Fair Use

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A Few Words for a Lost Friend: Tribute to Dmitry Karshtedt (Bob Brauneis, Mark Lemley, Jake Sherkow) Closing Plenary Session: Fair use Robert Brauneis, Copyright Transactions in the Shadow of Fair Use Suppose a work does not infringe another work because and only because it’s been ruled a fair use. Prince is work plus embodiment.

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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Velocity of Content

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. This, of course, could be an accident based on true intellectual curiosity, but I do not believe it. is being used as code. v Stability A.I.

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Using that classic piece of art on a book cover: Grr…

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For Benjamin, the aura of a work of art in its primal sense was integrated within the practice of ritual, such as a fresco on the wall of a medieval church. As such, mechanical reproduction can never be authentic, nor can a copy ever be perfect, because it is detached from its aura. But of course.

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Copyright implications of Augmented Reality for cultural goods – Part 1

Kluwer Copyright Blog

When the said sensor recognizes it is in front of the Ara Pacis, it gives the order to copy the colored reproductions of some parts of the Ara Pacis, stored in a cloud-based database, and display them on the screen of the goggles. When copyright is involved, both economic and moral rights issues are at stake.

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

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351 by the Andean Community Commission, protects different forms of expression of architectural works: illustrations, maps, drawings, plans, sketches, scale models, drafts and plastic works related to architecture, and also derivative works. Right of paternity: the right to claim authorship of the work.