Likelihood of Confusion

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Newly discovered evidence [according to a court filing] “proves conclusively that Happy Birthday has been in the public domain since no later than 1922.” The post Where Were You When “Happy Birthday to You” Was Found to Be in the Public Domain? ” At stake is the more than.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JANUARY 5, 2021

Dear Rich: Which (if any) US postage stamp images are in the public domain? I have read that stamps issued prior to 1978 are in the public domain. According to the Copyright Office , U.S. postage stamps issued before 1971 are definitely in the public domain. Is this true? In 1971, the U.S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

We have recently published a white paper , authored by Julia Reda ( Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte ) and Paul Keller ( Open Future ) that proposes to build a public repository of Public Domain and openly licensed works. by Tito Rendas. € by Martin Senftleben. €

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IPilogue

MARCH 27, 2023

Serena Nath is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Every year on January 1, works protected under copyright law enter into the public domain due to their copyright protection expiring. The post Mickey Mouse to Enter Public Domain in 2024 appeared first on IPOsgoode.

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Chicago-Kent Intellectual Property Journal Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Disney’s Limiting of the Public Domain Sydney Fenton | April 6th, 2022 Creation of Copyright and the Public Domain On May 31, 1790, the first copyright law was enacted under the new United States Constitution, modeled after Britain’s Statute of Anne.[1]

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2023

2: Canada Extends Copyright Protection for 20 More Years Under New Trade Obligation. Next up today, Mia Robson at The Canadian Press reports that, in Canada, a new copyright law has taken effect that will extend the copyright on works in Canada another 20 years, bring the country up to the same term used by the United States.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 10, 2023

, “Does the author of any such work loses every right in terms of Copyright after the expiration of the time period mentioned under Section(s) 22, 26 and 27 and have no recourse to the same since the works are in public domain thereafter?”. The works will enter the public domain ultimately.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 22, 2022

He has the right of communicating the work in the public domain. If the work has been broadcasted and communicated in the public domain without the consent and permission of the performer. The post Performer’s Rights under Copyright Law appeared first on Biswajit Sarkar Blog.

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IPilogue

JULY 12, 2021

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.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

Finally today, The Associated Press reports that, with the new year, several prominent works are lapsing into the public domain including the Ernest Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises and A.A. Copyright Law, works lapse into the public domain on January First of the year their copyright expires.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Despite the publication date, I can't tell if this book is in the US public domain. It appears to have been only published in the UK, and I've seen evidence the copyright was renewed in the 30's. I have a recent UK copy of the book, and it has no copyright notice.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

Materials from my talk: The paper The video The image repository (all in the public domain per prevailing copyright law !) Even with their imperfections, they hint at how Generative AI-produced images could enhance future talks and pedagogy.

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Larson & Larson

JUNE 21, 2021

Copyright law provides a safeguard against copyright infringement. That being said, here is a brief elucidation of all you need to know about copyright and copyright infringement. How Long Does Copyright Protection Last? The duration of copyright protection is often date and fact-sensitive.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The Code of the Cultural and Landscape Heritage’s legal force is separate from copyright laws and remains in effect when copyright protection does not. The Italian Code , which came into effect in 2004 and was updated in 2016, operates independently from copyright law. In Canada, under the s.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Thus, here, given that the plaintiff has Copyright Registrations, the burden shifts to Defendants to come forward with “evidence that the work[s] [were] copied from the public domain.” Thus, the Court found Defendants did not provide any evidence that the work had been copied from the public domain.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Freed from the shackles of copyright, Walt Disney’s iconic rodent was now in the public domain and, therefore, available for everyone to copy. It is no surprise that the legalities of the public domain are more complicated than the headlines suggest. Trademark law has something to say about use.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

As pointed out by Keith Aoki, James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins in Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain , “documentaries are records of our culture. More from our authors: Exceptions in EU Copyright Law: In Search of a Balance Between Flexibility and Legal Certainty. by Tito Rendas. € by Martin Senftleben. €

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

Josh Hawley’s Move to Strip Disney’s Copyrights Called ‘Blatantly Unconstitutional’. He claims that it aims to revoke Disney’s “special” copyright protections though the law would rewrite copyright law for all creators. According to Sen.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JULY 27, 2023

Mexican copyright law placed Kahlo's works in the public domain 25 years after her death, so you don't need authorization to include a photo of her painting in your film. The painting. The Kahlo name.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2024

This rule covers lending digital copies of copyrighted works, while works in the public domain can be freely digitized. The concept of CDL revolves around the idea of two major doctrines under Copyright law i.e. Doctrine of fair use and doctrine of exhaustion.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 10, 2021

copyright law, a particularly confusing subject for foreign works published before 1978. copyright law. Drawing on Twin Books , they argued, “a publication of a work in the United States without the statutory notice of copyright fell into the public domain,” as per the U.S. An Age-Old Debate.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

The new lawsuit raises a host of complicated legal issues that, while exciting for copyright nerds like me, are often a nightmare to litigate. Key among them is the extent to which pre-1978 works first published abroad without proper copyright notice are still protected under U.S. copyright law. version did.

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Olartemoure Blog

MAY 26, 2023

The Italian magazine GQ Italia finds itself embroiled in a legal dispute stemming from the publication of an edited image of the renowned David sculpture. This incident has ignited a broader debate concerning the utilization of public domain artworks for commercial purposes.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Caveat Emptor The common notion that acquiring ownership of an NFT representing a work in which copyright subsists equates to owning the copyright to the underlying work is clearly false. For instance, CrypToadz is a prominent CC0 NFT project wherein the artwork related to the NFT is in the public domain.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2023

Several artists, frustrated with Artificially Intelligent (AI) image generators skirting copyright laws, are using AI-image generators to produce images of Mickey Mouse and other copyrighted characters to challenge the current legal status of AI art.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Copyright protection exists from the time the work is created in a fixed, tangible form of expression. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Make it easy for employees to get up-to-speed by checking out our Copyright Education programs.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

APRIL 16, 2020

Does the absence of the insignia mean that the film is public domain? Nowadays, the publication of a film without copyright notice won't effect ownership, but in 1964, the penalty was draconian. If the copyright owner failed to include a copyright notice on "The Naked Kiss," then it would likely be in the public domain.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

No amendment offered in public session. Delete Article 11(3) (three-step test) or apply only to additional exceptions: (3) Contracting Parties shall confine any additional limitations of or exceptions to …” Add: “, taking account of the legitimate interests of third parties ” No amendment offered in public session.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2023

For the last few months, I have been wondering if our belief in “fair dealing” (or broadly, “limitations and exceptions”) has silently slipped into our “faith” in it – a faith that demands complete surrender to it while blinding us to the harm it covertly causes to the public domain. Otherwise, such a claim does not arise.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Copyright Act of 1976 became Public Law number 94-553 on October 19, 1976 and went into effect (as scheduled) as Title 17 of the United States Code on January 1, 1978. The new Copyright Act was the fourth general revision of copyright law since the original Act of 1790.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Not a copyright dispute … and the non-role of Article 14 of the DSM Directive In sum: the CHC provides a way to control for-profit reproductions of Italian cultural heritage, irrespective of their copyright status (it is in any case worth recalling that under Italian copyright law moral rights protection is … perpetual).

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The TTABlog

MARCH 2, 2022

Barrie's Peter Pan , first staged in 1904, and so the parties were in agreement that under copyright law, both the name and the character are in the public domain. TTABlogger comment: I am of the view that "Tinker Bell" and other public domain character names are generic for dolls depicting the characters.

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The IPKat

JULY 22, 2021

Katfriend Dr Sabine Jacques , Associate Professor in IP, IT & Media law at the University of East Anglia and author of The Parody Exception in Copyright Law (OUP 2019), provides the follow review of The Copyright/Trademark Interface: How the Expansion of Trademark Protection is Stifling Cultural Creativity – by Martin Senftleben.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Opposing the claimants’ arguments, Ravensburger challenged the cross-border application of Italian law, alleging that the claims conflict with article 14 of Copyright Directive in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive since they attempt to unlawfully impose property assertions on public domain works. 633/1941, l.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The potential copyright changes involved one key, costly change: the extension in the term of copyright protection from the current international standard of life of the author plus 50 years to life of the author plus 70 years.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Copyright Office denied the registration application on the grounds that copyright law requires human authorship. Thaler challenged the rejection in court, but Judge Howell upheld the Copyright Office’s decision.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

MARCH 5, 2022

The reverse principle -- it is a violation of copyright law to create a sculpture of a photograph -- has also been followed by the courts. Few photographers of publicly-viewable statues need to worry about copyright lawsuits. In the real world.

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