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Foreign Works, US Rights: The 7th Circle of Copyright Hell?

Copyright Lately

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. and abroad for years.

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Copyright Office Technical Measures Consultations

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Designed to be freely available licensed or public domain; we occasionally use fair use images where no free image is available, such as when a famous work has been destroyed. That’s not really true of costs of overblocking—it’s a limited definition of costs.] Wikimedia Foundation, Jacob Rogers: DMCA compliance lead for 7 years.

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IP Reveries: Class 1 – IPR: A Tantalising Term or Troubling Terminology?

SpicyIP

Akira: Well, to be honest, ( taking a pause to think ) IPR mostly reminds me of how hard it is to upload TikTok videos to YouTube , because of either over-eager lawyers or how their magic code detects it and sends copyright notices! They didn’t need permission to borrow from the public corpus or public domain.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2021

SpicyIP

The Court noted that redacting one’s name from a judgment acquitting them is counterproductive when there are other tarnishing publications in the public domain and that access to court judgments are integral to “open justice”, subject only to some exceptions. Top 10 Judgments/Orders [Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity].

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. For example, in Public Affairs Associates, Inc. ” [ 17 U.S.C. Rickover , 284 F.2d

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