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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 1 of 4: Definition of a work, authorship and moral rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This first part covers the definition of a work, authorship and moral rights. Parts 2 to 4 will address exploitation rights, related rights, exceptions and limitations, copyright contract law and enforcement. Moral rights (Sections 12-14 UrhG). 2] BGH, 16 April 2015, GRUR 2015, 1189. [3]

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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The lawsuits brought by the owners of such works, including artworks in the case of image-generators and journalism in the NYT case, claim that this should not be allowed. Over the course of a decade, Google copied large volumes of books and made them available online, both through excerpts, known as “snippets”, and as entire publications.

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Artist Royalties: An exegesis of Resale rights in India

IIPRD

[Image Sources : Shutterstock] As per the intellectual property regime in India, this right to monetary gains is not exhausted upon the selling of the artwork by the artist; rather, he/she is entitled to a certain amount or royalties upon every resale of the artwork. 10,000 for availing the right under this section. Filer, Randall K.

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The Modern Copyright Dilemma: Digital Content Ownership and Access

IP and Legal Filings

Before the digital era, copyright protected tangible art or works, allowing authors to easily regulate usage, copies, and earnings. Secure Distribution is a means of distributing digital content using encrypted codes which prohibit copying and limits the number of devices a product can be accessed from.

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Copyright Legislation vis-a-vis the Music Industry : A Comparative Study of India and Indonesia

IP and Legal Filings

The transformed state of music now also includes remixes which on a substantial purview might engage in conflict with the foundational legal rights of the music produced by the musician. Right to communicate the work to the public. Journal of Social Studies (JSS). Image Source: Shutterstock]. 1] 1995 (1) ARBLR 555 Delhi. [2]

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The defendant in that case had offered adapters for sale which enabled Nintendo games, that had been produced by third parties in circumvention of copy protection measures and downloaded from the internet, to be used on the Nintendo games console. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. by Jan Bernd Nordemann, Christian Czychowski. €

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Just Humor Them: Jests, Jokes, Satire, and Parody In Infringement and Defamation Cases

LexBlog IP

petition (at 5 ), “Respondent VIP Products LLC copied Jack Daniel’s marks and trade dress to make a dog toy, ‘Bad Spaniels,’ that imitates a Jack Daniel’s whiskey bottle while adding poop humor.” Petition at page 5 (quoting Memorandum Opinion, copy at Appendix, page 18a ). According to the cert.