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Public Domain Day 2024 is Coming: Here’s What to Know

Copyright Lately

Oh Mickey, you’re so fine—but you’re not alone: An avalanche of copyrighted works will enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2024. public domain on January 1, 2024—and that’s a shame. copyright terms. public domain for failure to comply with the various formalities (e.g.,

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3 Count: Sealed with a Kiss

Plagiarism Today

2: SoundExchange Royalties Dispute with Music Choice to be Referred to Copyright Royalty Board. The lawsuit was filed by SoundExchange after an audit alleged that Music Choice, which relies on a statutory license for the music it uses, had underpaid the royalties it owes. They are free of copyright.

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Section 22 Vs Section 26 And Section 27: The Contrasting Sections Of Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction It is an established notion that in case of a cinematograph film (Section 26) or a sound recording (Section 27), the Copyright stays for as long as 60 years, while literary or musical works enjoy Copyright for the lifetime of author and 60 years thereafter (Section 22).

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The Fairest of Them All: Justice Abella’s Legacy in Canadian Copyright Law

IPilogue

Not only did the Supreme Court of Canada hear the much-anticipated York University v Access Copyright appeal, an important case on the nature of copyright collective licensing and educational fair dealing, but it was also the Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella’s final hearing as a Supreme Court Justice. v Law Society of Upper Canada.

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AI Music Outputs: Challenges to the Copyright Legal Framework – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The creation and development of copyright law are closely connected to technological and associated business transformations (see, e.g. here ). Yet, the very same automation poses challenges for the application of copyright law, increasing legal uncertainty, as demonstrated in this report vis-à-vis AI music outputs.

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What Is (and Isn’t) Protected by Copyright?

Velocity of Content

What is copyright? copyright is a form of protection provided by the government to the authors of “original works of authorship, including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works.” Copyright protection exists from the time the work is created in a fixed, tangible form of expression.

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Fair Use for Documentaries in US Copyright Law: Brown v Netflix

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The rest of the dance routine music consists of other songs. The plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against Netflix, Amazon, and Apple, claiming that they had directly (by unauthorized public performance under 17 U.S.C. § The evolution in the case law of the Second Circuit may constitute a game changer for documentary makers.

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