The IPKat

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Topics will include access and substantial similarity, fair use, performers' rights, moral rights, expert testimony, the role of lay listeners, sound sampling as it appears in court and out-of-court litigation. For more information and to register, click here.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Topics include access and substantial similarity, fair use, performers’ rights, moral rights, expert testimony, the role of lay listeners, sound sampling, as demonstrated in dispositions of litigated and settled infringement disputes. More information about this event here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

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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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For instance, see Thomas Vallianeth’s post pondering upon Copyright Aspects in Open World Gaming and arguing that “open world gaming contains elements that need to be granted distinct protection as opposed to the generic protection as computer programs.” Then, Arundathi Venkataraman discussed the topic using the case of Garcia v.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

With further ado, here’s what I found in Novembers: Database Protection in India: Since Prof Basheer’s 2005 post about the inaccurate implication of the theft of data as copyright infringement, to 2023, not much seems to have changed. The issue has often arisen in the context of protecting confidential information through copyright law.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge.

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SpicyIP

MAY 1, 2023

Licensing of training datasets The licensing of datasets – for the concerned rights under Sec. 14 of the Copyright Act, 1957 (the Act), along with attribution seems like a possible solution that would address the concerns raised in the above cases. Some have argued in favour of fair use, at least in the US context.

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SpicyIP

JULY 11, 2021

He evaluates the various applicable laws to argue that a thesis is a ‘public document’, the right to access which is available to the public as a matter of public interest, as well as through fair use under Section 52 of Copyright Act and also the RTI Act. Other Posts. Bombay High Court in Aman Chhabra and Ors v.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. While delineating the rights of the parties, the Court held that R.D Thus clarifying that copyright in the screenplay exists independently of the copyright in the film.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 31, 2022

Jacobs on the copyright side. Humor is also central to trademark infringement claims through notions of parody, and as part of copyright claims through satire. ii) For Laughs : Real Infringement Cases Impacted, In The US and Elsewhere, By Claims To Humor To Show Fair Use Or Non-Confusion. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.,

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