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IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners announced!

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Regulation, Innovation and Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets, by Margherita Colangelo. And the winner is: The Proportionality Test in European Patent Law (Bloomsbury) by Léon Dijkman Best Copyright Law Book The nominations were: • Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union (2nd edition), by Elenora Rosati. •

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[Guest post] Navigating the high notes: Taylor Swift's copyright dispute

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This article delves into the saga’s central copyright issues and the concept of moral rights, and compares the situation in the US to how it might have unfolded under EU law. After Swift had found herself dissatisfied with the way in which BMR had made use of its rights, she decided to re-record the albums.

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Derivative works: the Adventures of Koons and Tintin in French copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Like most copyright systems, French copyright law does not leave much room for the freedom of authors of transformative graphic works (also called “derivative works”). Three interesting cases on derivative works, two involving Jeff Koons and one Tintin, have recently put French copyright law in the international spotlight (e.g.

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Music Piracy

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Only when the economic rights arising out of copyright protected musical works are exploited by someone other than the owner of the work or someone not sanctioned by him, it leads to copyright infringement. Vs. Prime Cable Network , the plaintiff has business of producing and marketing music cassettes, CDs etc.

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Copyright Infringement and Music

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Only when the economic rights arising out of copyright protected musical works are exploited by someone other than the owner of the work or someone not sanctioned by him, it leads to copyright infringement. Vs. Prime Cable Network , the plaintiff has business of producing and marketing music cassettes, CDs etc.

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Copyright Infringement and Music

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Only when the economic rights arising out of copyright protected musical works are exploited by someone other than the owner of the work or someone not sanctioned by him, it leads to copyright infringement. Vs. Prime Cable Network, the plaintiff has business of producing and marketing music cassettes, CDs etc.

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Spanish Court finds that virtual exhibition of NFTs based on paintings is "harmless use"

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One of Mango's virtual fashion week runways ( Mango ) The Court's ruling Moral rights The Court began by examining the moral right of dissemination under Spanish law, and found that - seeing as the relevant works had already been displayed to the public at large - such rights had been exhausted, and there was no further infringement.