Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

When people find out that I am an Intellectual Property attorney, I am often battered with questions about the topic. Unfortunately, Intellectual Property law has gotten so complicated that many people aren’t even sure which type of Intellectual Property (copyright, trademarks, or patents) protects their creative work.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 29, 2022

Intellectual Property” refers to mental creations such as inventions, literary and creative works, as well as symbols, names, and pictures utilised in business. The World Intellectual Property Organization administers both accords (WIPO).”. DESIDERATE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. INTRODUCTION.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

QUANTUM COMPUTING AND THE FUNCTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS. Quantum computing technology and its components can be regulated and governed by different kinds of intellectual protects like patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights. Copyright Protection and Enforcement.

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2021

Due to creative and original use of expressions, blogs are deemed to be counted as private property for which Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) can be sought. Copyright and Blogs. Copyright is a legal protection afforded to an original, creative literary, musical, or artistic work.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 23, 2023

Huge changes have come to the Canadian Copyright Act. In late November of 2022, an Order in Council was signed to fix December 30, 2022 as the date on which Division 16 of Part 5 of the Copyright Act came into force. Works with copyright set to expire on or before December 30, 2022 will not be privy to the extended protection term.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

IPKat copyright event on 14 March: you can attend in person. Ruling on whether copyright would subsist in certain graphic user interfaces (GUIs), Lord Justice Arnold pointed out that section 1(1)(a) of the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act must be interpreted in accordance with Article 2(a) of the EU InfoSoc Directive.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. copyright law, a particularly confusing subject for foreign works published before 1978. copyright law. Copyright Act of 1909. law, the U.K.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 3, 2022

The University of Cyprus, together with the Horizon 2020 project reCreating Europe , funded by the European Commission, is conveying the conference “Rethinking copyright flexibilities”. We welcome contributions that address the following topics in an EU and comparative perspective: copyright exceptions and limitations.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

January 1, 2024, brought numerous hangovers along with an unprecedented amount of media attention to intellectual property law. Freed from the shackles of copyright, Walt Disney’s iconic rodent was now in the public domain and, therefore, available for everyone to copy. But not so fast.

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IIPRD

JULY 4, 2021

Now, we may use an emoji in a casual sense and it may not look as complex it is, but the truth is, that it is capable of opening a realm of questions in terms of intellectual property. But the question is who could have, in the wildest of their imagination, thought of a co-relation between Intellectual Property and Emoji?

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

When people find out that I am an Intellectual Property (IP) attorney, I am often battered with questions about the topic. Unfortunately, IP law has gotten so complicated that many people aren’t even sure which types of IP (copyright, trademarks, or patents) protects their creative work. That’s understandable.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 31, 2023

This week’s big IP news is the New York Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, trademark dilution and other violations of existing laws. As with most current cases related to AI’s copyright infringement, this one will most likely result in the issuance of a landmark ruling. Microsoft Corp.,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

When we launched the Copyright Evidence Portal , our ambition was no less than to create a catalogue of all existing empirical studies about copyright. We invited experts to offer a synthesis of empirical evidence catalogued on the Evidence Portal in response to 21 topical copyright questions of importance for the 21 st century.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This contribution is based on a paper published in 44 European Intellectual Property Law Review 595 (2022). . Photographs are included in Article 2(1) of the Berne Convention as copyrightable artistic works. All Berne Union Member States must thus provide copyright protection to photographic works.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

For renowned figures, the importance of their name extends to public perception, brand identity, and professional success. Therefore, the need to safeguard one’s name becomes apparent, and Intellectual Property Rights offer a means to address this concern.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

European and international policymakers have raised how artificial intelligence (AI) interacts with intellectual property (IP) law on several occasions. Nonetheless, before any policy and law-making endeavour can be undertaken, a fitness test of the existing IP framework is indispensable.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. — Of course, no state law claim is exactly the same as a copyright claim.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In an interesting turn of events, the Delhi High Court in Sujatha Chaudhri Vs Swarupa Ghosh ruled in favour of Sujata Chaudhri of Sujata Chaudhri IP Attorneys in a trademark infringement, copyright infringement, and passing off suit restricting another intellectual property lawyer Swarupa Ghosh from using a deceptively similar logo.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2022

and Copyright in Graffiti and Street Art). Its massive use brings legal consequences for classic IP rights and offers real challenges in particular to trade marks, copyright and related rights and patents. While priority will be given to IP law, the conference will also consider abstracts from all disciplines of law and gaming.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Earlier this year, Creative Commons announced that four working groups of the Creative Commons Copyright Platform would examine policy issues affecting the open ecosystem from a global perspective: (1) artificial intelligence and open content; (2) platform liability; (3) copyright exceptions and limitations; and (4) the ethics of open sharing.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

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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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Clarifying Copyright Fair Use in Commercialized and Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from Warhol v. Goldsmith SCOTUS Decision Welcome to the ever-evolving world of intellectual property law, where creativity intersects with legal rights, and the boundaries of art and originality are constantly being defined and redefined.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On 29 October 2021, the UK Intellectual Property Office launched a public consultation looking at how the copyright and patent regimes should deal with artificial intelligence. This is not the first time the UKIPO has engaged with a public call for views on the topic of AI and IP. Computer-generated works (CGW).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

Running from 29 October 2021 to 7 January 2022, the “ Artificial Intelligence and IP: copyright and patents ” consultation formed the latest round in an ongoing national conversation between the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) and interested stakeholders (see here ). Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash.

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Kashishipr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Any form of Intellectual Property (IP) , be it a trademark, patent, or copyright, can be licensed to third parties. appeared first on Blog | Kashish IPR | Intellectual Property Rights Law Firm. Bottom Line. Entering a respectable IP licensing agreement sets the initial boundaries for the parties involved.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 8, 2022

As a video creator, you may hop onto your laptop, start searching for free music, and finally come across platforms or websites offering royalty-free music or music without copyright (copyright-free music). A common misconception is that instrumental music lies in the public domain and doesn’t need to be licensed.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 30, 2023

Schechter’s 1927 Harvard Law Review article, in which he explained dilution as the gradual elimination of the distinctive image of a trademark in the minds of the public, on account of the use of the trademark for non-competing goods. [2] Schechter, ‘The Rational Basis of Trademark Protection’ (1927) 40 HARV. 813, 825. [3] 4] 15 U.S.C.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 15, 2022

But what happens if one of the most recognizable faces of one of the world’s most recognizable brands falls out of copyright protection and can be used by the masses? copyright protection in 2024. Copyrighted materials are protected until 70 years after the author’s death.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Congress and the KGF 2 Copyright Dispute: Ex-Parte Injunctions, Fair Dealing, and Blocking Orders. Call for Papers: NALSAR’s Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL) Vol. Comedian Vir Das, Netflix booked for copyright infringement. Paramount’s motion to dismiss Top Gun: Maverick copyright lawsuit denied.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. She is keenly interested in Intellectual Property Law, Technology Law, and Corporate Law ]. Surprisingly, this was sufficient for the Single Bench (SB) to grant an ex-parte interim injunction ( pdf ), which they did on April 13, 2022.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

Mili is a graduate of Institute of Law, Nirma University, currently completing her LLM at LSE. Her areas of interest are Information Technology law, Intellectual Property law, Media & Communication Law, and human rights law. . Image from here. Introduction.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 20, 2022

Whilst certain user safeguards are already embedded in the liability regime ( Part 1 ), the Swedish Ministry of Justice goes the extra mile and proposes to comprehensively address user interests in the text of the Copyright Act. A mandatory right to make non-infringing content available to the public. 1997/98:15, p.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

By now, Article 15 of Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSM Directive) needs no wordy introductions. Put briefly, the provision requires Member States to introduce a related (or neighbouring) right for press publishers, applicable to online uses of their publications.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

Judge-rapporteur Marko Ilešic delivering the judgment in Case C-401/19 (Copyright European Union via Europe by Satellite – [link] ). At the same time, the Court holds the introduction of filtering obligations that lead to the blocking of lawful content to be incompatible with the right to freedom of expression [para.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

But, in this space, headlines are usually a source of inspiration (so we can write about intellectual property issues that may interest more than just IP attorneys), and titles a bit of fun (so we can draw in those looking for a bit of lightness amid more serious legal analysis). §§101, 105. ” H.R. 1498, 1509-10 (2020).

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