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Mickey Mouse to Enter Public Domain in 2024

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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. As a general rule in the U.S.,

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Mickey Mouse to Enter Public Domain in 2024

IPilogue

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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Implementing Article 15 of the CDSMD into the Greek legal order: “creative” or further confirmation of the EU press market’s fragmentation?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

4996/2022 in November 2022 ( ΦΕΚ Α´ 2022/24.11.2022 ), which amended the basic Greek Copyright Law ( L. 2121/1993 on “Copyright, Related Rights and Cultural Matters” ), as well as L. 4481/2017, on “Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights” ( ΦΕΚ Α’ 100/20.7.2017 ). 15 of the CDSMD. 51B (para.

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The Good Get: Interviews, The Predicates Of Copyright Ownership, & Divorcing Subjects From Owning Copyright Content

LexBlog IP

It is strange because that would mean that the unpublished portions would also be government works available for public use. ” Thus, there are some copyright arguments or policies in play beyond those most immediately considered in the motion papers.

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Best practices to avoid copyright infringement

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The primary objective of copyright is to encourage and compensate creators for disseminating their original works. Copyrighted materials can provide income for creators, who also get due credit. Additionally, they have the final say in how their work is published, broadcast, streamed, adapted, and exhibited.

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LexBlog IP

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