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Who Owns the Copyright in Your Tattoo Art?

Art Law Journal

You’re considering a lot of different things when thinking about inking a new tattoo, but copyright infringement probably isn’t one of them. The post Who Owns the Copyright in Your Tattoo Art? appeared first on Art Business Journal.

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Mandated Payment for Links To Cover 35% of News Expenditures?: Google Responds to Bill C-18 By Testing Blocking Links to News Content

Michael Geist

The government’s standard line to these developments is that it won’t be intimidated by the companies with the belief that this is all just a bluff designed to influence the bill. More recently, it stopped its Google News service in Czechia as a result of the local copyright law implementation.

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Utilizing the Annual Copyright License Across Your Organization

Velocity of Content

Fast-paced organizations that rely on and invest heavily in R&D should not only regard published content as the heart of innovation, but also possess a deep appreciation of the system of copyright protecting this intellectual property. Success is dependent on collaboration, networking, and sharing information.

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Are Courts Finally Getting Fed Up With Copyright Shakedowns?

Copyright Lately

Back in May, I wrote about an overzealous copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Rachel Dolezal , the woman best known for mispresenting her racial background. The complaint raised concerns that Dolezal was using copyright law to purge the historical record of her controversial past, while seeking substantial monetary damages in the process.

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Contradictions of Computer-Generated Works’ Protection

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Such apparently creative outputs are not protectable as a matter of the American copyright law – or the law of the European Union (see Blaszczyk ). This thesis is supported by the curious failure of the United Kingdom’s Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act of 1988 ( CDPA 1988 ) to protect “computer-generated works.”

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The Future of Copyright. In memory of Luigi Carlo Ubertazzi (Report 1/2)

The IPKat

Ubertazzi was one of the leading intellectual property academics in Italy (as well as a great lawyer), founder and editor of the most important Italian copyright journal (AIDA) and editor and author of the most widely used Commentary on Italian intellectual property laws. Cr: Wellcome Collection).) In fact, one of Prof.

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Germany: Liability of hosting providers under copyright law if they have breached a duty of care – The German BGH ends mere ‘Stoererhaftung’

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In relation to uploaded, the BGH concluded that the financial model adopted was based on the availability of illegal content and was designed to encourage its users to share such content via the platform. The authors published a longer version of this post in the German Journal of Copyright and Media Law (ZUM), 2022, pages 806-816).