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Traditional Tattoos on the Red Carpet: Continuing the Conversation of Collective Ownership

IPilogue

These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws.

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Lights Camera Action : Role Of Intellectual Property In Indian Cinema

IIPRD

A growing number of daily releases makes India’s copyright laws particularly important in. However, to a lesser extent, other IP laws like the Trademark Act and the Designs Act will also be important. The aforementioned elements are those that are most frequently disputed when discussing copyright ownership.

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Shielding Innovation: Understanding Copyright Protection for App Developers and Their Software

Intepat

Hence, the purpose of this blog is to delve into the significance of copyright protection, the limits of protection and the remedies against infringement. What is copyright protection? In the context of the Copyright Act, computer software is categorized as a ‘literary work’. Who owns the copyright?

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A Tale of Two Gorillas: An Underdog (Under-Ape?) Story

Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

T he creator of Donkey Kong, now-legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto , says he picked the name “Donkey Kong” because he wanted a name that conveyed the idea of a “stupid ape.” Story first appeared on Trademark and Copyright Law. I’ll see if I can wrangle up some interesting Mario IP issues for a future post!

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Protection of Copyrights in China

IP and Legal Filings

Copyright protects the producers of any original work, and is relevant to almost all businesses, not just those in the creative industry. Adequate copyright protection can form an important part of an IPR protection strategy. Businesses regularly create articles, photographs, drawings, designs, models, websites, computer software, etc.,

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[Guest post] Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works

The IPKat

Here’s what they write: Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works by Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst Artificial Kat Over the past two years the IPKat has hosted debate on the question of whether the outputs of generative AI tools are protected under copyright law.

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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

The analysis also referred to a pending case before the CJEU dealing with Community design law ( EUIPO v The KaiKai Company Jaeger Wichmann | C-382/21-P) and other EU trade mark cases from 2021. The search for EUTM case law before EU Courts from the previous year was based on decisions included in the eSearch Case Law database.

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