SpicyIP

MAY 23, 2024

Image from here Sweet Sound of Victory: Looking at the Calcutta HC’s Decisive Decision on Rights of Authors By Surabhi Katare In a major development, Calcutta High Court’s passed a landmark judgement on May 17, 2024, in safeguarding the copyrights of authors of music and literary work used in sound recordings.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 31, 2022

Do you think about the fight between musicians concerning stolen or copied song lyrics? Copyright is the legal and exclusive right of the owner of some creative work, be it in an artistic, literary, musical, or educational form. The concept of copyright is twofold since it covers both economic and moral rights.

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SpicyIP

MAY 1, 2023

Essentially, they have argued that copyrighted works should be allowed to be copied for non-expressive uses, such as AI learning to recognise stop signs, self-driving cars or learning how words are sequenced in conversations, but argued that the question of fair use should become tougher when learning is being done to copy expressions.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Royalties can be defined as a sort of variable consideration for the utilisation of work, for a public performance or selling of a copy. Section 18(1), 3 rd proviso states that the right to receive royalties cannot be waived or assigned or licensed except to legal heirs or copyright society for distribution and collection.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

One of the disputed copies was exhibited in the gardens of the company Le potager des Princes, founded by Mr Bienaimé and located in Chantilly. In a ruling relating to the infringement of musical works , the limitation period ran from the letter of formal notice.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 24, 2023

Nevertheless, the list of protectable subject matter was amended too to expressly include works of artistic blacksmithing as an example of works of applied art, fonts as an example of works of fine art, light and music shows, circus shows, theatrical productions and landscape creations. No moral rights apply to CGOs.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 20, 2023

Introduction Any literally or artistic work that is original and creative i.e.; not copied from anywhere by the owner is protected under Copyright Act, 1957. Moral rights have a greater amount of human sentiments appended to the work, and thus, these privileges may not be appropriate for implementation by the AI.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

Twain gave her a signed & inscribed copy after publication, which descendants donated to UMd decades back. Peters starts out very formalist—you didn’t separately deliver the copies that you delivered to the gov’t, so no protection. million cowritten songs, 63% of musical groups treat lesser contributors equally.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 17, 2024

In this sense, a somewhat similar – though dated (by that meaning: pre- Infopaq [IPKat here and here ] ) – case litigated both in France and the UK cannot but come to mind: Hyperion Records v Sawkins [IPKat here ] , concerning copyright protection of a ‘reconstructed’ baroque music score. The decision was upheld on appeal.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 27, 2022

COPYRIGHTS: Term copyright is a bundle of exclusive rights provided to the creator/owner of original works of authorship, which includes literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, cinematographic films, and sound recordings. Original literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works. Cinematograph films. Sound recordings”.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Does the status of that work or copy limited subsequent uses of it or transactions about it? Fair use justified by project: multiple copies for classroom use, time shifting vidos, visual search thumbnails, full text search engine, intermediate copying for reverse engineering. But how does this map on interim copying?

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 30, 2023

Copies of emails between the parties provided to the Court proved that opinions had been exchanged before the composition of the products was finalised. Articles 4(1) and (3) concern the individual powers of the author on moral rights and article 12(2) concerns the transfer of intellectual rights (property and moral).

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

Such an artifact may be a pastiche if it contains already published third-party works or if parts of works are “adopted” or borrowed, i.e. copied. On the other hand, “distortions” of the source material which the rights holder does not have to accept due to moral rights reasons are inadmissible.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

President Ford couldn’t prevent others from copying bare historical facts. c) does grant authors “rights in something he created” and that “already belong to him” at common law and is taken after a few short years from him and his heirs. Natural or moral right to own fruit of labors. She doesn’t think those are the same.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Interestingly, before Bachchan’s issue, Suchita elaborated on the status of personality rights in India against the backdrop of claims of the wife of the late Steve Irwin. In 2014, the Bombay High Court restrained the singer Mika Singh and the recording label OCP Music from publishing an advertisement that impinged Sonu’s personality rights.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

This decision will potentially make a difference in the relationship between record labels and streaming bodies in the future, especially at a time when streaming is generating a humongous revenue for the Indian music industry. Indian Performing Right Society Ltd. Ltd and Indian Performing Rights Society Ltd.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 31, 2022

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 ). Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.,

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