SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Copyright Dilemma Perhaps to counter the obvious and non-obvious ills of live-streaming judicial hearings, Rule 9.2 prescribes that unauthorized use of the live streaming will be punishable “ as an offence under the Indian Copyright Act, 1957, Information Technology Act, 2000, and other provisions of law, including the law of Contemp t.”

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

He points out that the Act enables increased control of the government over intermediaries by allowing it to act against intermediaries who are found to host pirated content. Or can the government take suo moto action against suspected content? However, the Act leaves certain questions unanswered. 239 of this ).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 14, 2023

Context Copyright can be challenging for cultural institutions (or “GLAM“ for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) when pursuing digitization and dissemination activities, as copyright governs whether a given work can be used and if so, how (as shown in recent studies for museums , archives or libraries ).

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SpicyIP

JULY 17, 2023

The court, however, dismissed the application holding that the impugned film was based on information in the public domain and clarified that the publicity and privacy rights are not heritable and died with the late actor. The plaintiff further argued that he was the lawful successor to the personality rights of the late actor.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

When something is created, the individual who created it automatically owns the copyright to it, which gives him/her the exclusive right to copy, share, publicly perform, exhibit, and develop additional pieces based on it. In terms of intellectual property rights, notably copyright, AI will keep on to maintain a concerning position.

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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

To navigate this complex issue, it is essential to explore the current legal frameworks governing AI-generated art. Copyright laws and intellectual property regulations vary from one jurisdiction to another, leading to inconsistencies in how AI-generated content is treated.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

Scenario (1): Public Domain. The public domain is arguably the “cheapest” source of data. The main problem with this category is that to enter the public domain underlying works are on average at least 70 years old, and often much older. Wikipedia), GNU General Public License (e.g.,

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Detecting infringements of property rights is a fairly complex task both in the online as well as offline world. Internet technology is developing faster than the laws that govern it. Laws that apply to the internet have been established either by legislation or the courts; copyright laws are among them.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Second Circuit now takes “a restrictive view” of the extra elements that would make a contract claim qualitatively different from copyright, and therefore not subject to preemption. “[W]e Thomson Reuters sued for both copyright infringement and tortious interference with a contract (in inducing a third party to breach Westlaw’s terms).

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2023

It is to be made sufficiently clear that the aforementioned creations ought to be original and independent, rather than a slightly altered version of the creation already in the public domain, to instill looking into the prospects of copyrightability. GSPR (2021) 131 Zhaoxia Deng, Illegal To Play?

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Velocity of Content

JULY 8, 2021

As I dug down further on the topic, I ended up tumbling down a bit of a rabbit hole concerning certain nooks & crannies of copyright that I hadn’t known much about; at that point, I thought it might be useful (to some) and interesting (to others) to share them here. Public Domain work. Image Attribution: John Tenniel (1865).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Image by Andreas Grönberg from Pixabay In Canada, the Federal Government has just announced a $2.4 This sum is in addition to the $2 billion of public funds already invested since 2017, when Canada became the first country in the world to launch a national AI strategy. Act III The political ground continued to tilt. data —reside).

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Due to the recurrent copyright difficulties, which have a significant impact on an individual’s business interest, it is imperative to preserve the ownership rights of digital works. One such area where copyright violations are common is the internet. iii] NFTs are limited to having a single owner.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Statute of Anne marked the beginning of copyright protection in the United Kingdom, whereas in France, the first statute granting copyright protection was enacted after the French Revolution known as the Declaration of the Rights of the Genius in 1793, which gave authors protection for ten years (Moh. Zafar Mahfooz Nomani, 2023).

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Vidya Drolia case laid down certain conditions for non-arbitrability of disputes and stated that grant and issue of patents and registration of trademarks were exclusive sovereign or government functions, thus making them non-arbitrable. Olympic medalists and the right to publicity. Hero Electric Vehicles Private Ltd v.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Interestingly enough, copyrights play a pivotal role in the NFT market. The copyrights that subsist on an NFT are also governed with the help of a smart contract. A smart contract may be used to transfer the copyrights that subsist on a digital artifact to the buyer.

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SpicyIP

MAY 22, 2022

This was also the basis for his theory of private property (as laid out in his famous work, Two Treatises of Government – PDF ), which would go on to hold large significance for the world. Slato: A much-needed clarification here: the public domain here shouldn’t be taken merely as an opposite of IP protection or out of IP protection.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 17, 2023

Furthermore, the court also observed that the plaintiff has alleged that the defendant has infringed the copyright in its drawing however, prima facie the defendants were able to establish that these drawings are a part of the public domain and thus no exclusivity lies over them. Case: M/s Mahavir PVC Cables Factory v.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 23, 2023

But the entire Morford analysis revolved around the 11 th Circuit’s “abstraction-filtration-comparison” test, described as “initially developed to review claims of copyright infringement relating to novels and plays but also applied in contexts such as software programming.” ” Id. Morford , at 11.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Thus, if an artist creates a derivative work based on a photograph unlawfully , and copies of that derivative work are reproduced and distributed to the public, the owner of copyright in the photograph is entitled to sue for copyright infringement and to recover remedies for the unlawful use of their photograph.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 11, 2022

Last week, Kenya's government agency in charge of copyright matters, Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO) published an advisory via its Twitter handle. KECOBO did mention that a work may be in the public domain because copyright has expired and companies should conduct due diligence before engaging in meme creation].

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Niklas Jansson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons On 30 December 2022, the Italian Supreme Court ( Corte di Cassazione ) issued an order that intervened again on the interpretation of the quotation exception under Article 70 of the Italian Copyright Act ( l. 633/1941 , l.aut.).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Based solely on the complaint that was filed, there are six major issues raised by the case: First, were the recorded interviews a copyright-eligible “work of authorship”? Second, if so, who is the initial owner of the copyright(s)? 105 , as a “work of the United States Government”? 1960), vacated and remanded , 369 U.S.

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