IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 27, 2022

PART 2: of the blog gives a detail about Copyrights, Industrial Designs, Geographical Indications, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Plant Variety Protection and Trade Secrets. Copyright gives protection to expressions only and not to ideas. Broad classification of ‘works’ which are protected by copyright are-.

Intellectual Property 52

Intellectual Property Moral Rights Designs Design 52

IP Tech Blog

MAY 19, 2023

Influencer marketing offers brands a unique opportunity to target and connect with online communities, using a personalized approach. Whilst influencer marketing can yield great returns for brands, it is essential for influencers and brands to navigate this legal landscape carefully, especially in terms of contractual relationships.

Marketing 57

Marketing Marketing Branding Brands 57

LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Influencer marketing offers brands a unique opportunity to target and connect with online communities, using a personalized approach. Whilst influencer marketing can yield great returns for brands, it is essential for influencers and brands to navigate this legal landscape carefully, especially in terms of contractual relationships.

Marketing 52

Marketing Marketing Contracts Branding 52

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Music is an artistic work which falls into the purview of copyright protection. However, if such streaming of copyrighted music is done without obtaining license from the copyright holder, then it amounts to copyright infringement. Copyright involves the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the original work.

Copyright Infringement 52

Copyright Infringement Music Moral Rights Copyright 52

IPilogue

JANUARY 20, 2022

Brankov explains that museums can ensure compliance with copyright legislation while protecting against the risk of liability resulting from third-party actions by providing an appropriate “terms of use” section on their website. Copyright subsists in Canada until 50 years after the creator’s death and in the U.S.

Marketing 111

Marketing Marketing Public Domain Moral Rights 111

The IPKat

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This Kat continues her review of the “ Handbook of Intellectual Property Research ” (ed. After introducing readers to the three main stages of content analysis, Bar-Ziv applies this methodology to a case study: content analysis of online copyright law cases. Calboli and M. Montagnani, OUP, 912 pp.), In Chapter 44, Caroline B.

Intellectual Property 73

Intellectual Property IP Moral Rights Law 73

Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Part 1 of this post outlines the technology, its applications in the cultural heritage sector and the potential copyright implications. Part 2 discusses the relevant copyright exceptions and limitations that interfere with the development of AR experiences. Copyright implications of AR in the cultural heritage sector.

Copyright 103

Copyright Public Domain Art Moral Rights 103

Intepat

DECEMBER 12, 2021

This article will discuss a topic related to the complex subject of “food plating” and how it is protected under copyright law. The dilemma is whether a chef’s aesthetic plating of a dish (who is also the original creator) may be protected under intellectual property rights.

Art 52

Art Copyright Artistic Work Moral Rights 52

JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Such uses are often methods of social commentary regarding the user’s own life, or more broadly, current events; they also often utilize copyrightable material. [i] ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. i] Memes are also a form of communication that distinguishes generations.

Copyright Infringement 98

Copyright Infringement Copyright Intellectual Property Blogging 98

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In a recent decision (original Spanish here: link ) Barcelona's Ninth Mercantile Court (the Court) ruled in favour of Mango in a lawsuit brought against it by the Spanish copyright society VEGAP over the creation of NFTs based on the works of three well-known Catalan artists, finding that Mango could rely on available defences.

Moral Rights 76

Moral Rights Artwork Fair Use Copyright 76

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.

Copyright 56

Copyright Related Rights Artistic Work Public Domain 56

Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI) or, more specifically, Machine Learning (ML) has become a hotly debated topic. The UK government has just finished another round of consultations, this time focusing on AI and copyright, and with a specific goal to initiate legislative reform soon. The missing bit: moral rights.

Moral Rights 107

Moral Rights Copyright Intellectual Property Law IP 107

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.

Derivative Work 107

Derivative Work Copyright Law Copyright Law 107

LexBlog IP

AUGUST 30, 2023

However, the Court rejected the action as: not legal, insofar as it concerned the protection of recipes as works of intellectual property; and unfounded, because recipes are assimilated to ideas and not to works enjoying copyright protection under Greek (and EU) law. dishes and seasonings) as works of IP. (1) Emphasis added.)

Intellectual Property 52

Intellectual Property Moral Rights Related Rights Art 52

The IPKat

DECEMBER 26, 2022

One of the alleged parodic busts The comic strip "The adventures of Tintin" and its characters, created by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, have been the source of numerous copyright infringement disputes in recent years [ here ]. Then the Court examined the existence of acts infringing the plaintiffs' copyright.

Law 95

Law Copyright Infringement Moral Rights Copyright 95

Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents). This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. Ltd, et al.-

Litigation 98

Litigation Fair Use Copying Derivative Work 98

LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 19, 2022

If it is undisputed that the owner of the material support of the work gains no economic rights on the work itself – unless provided otherwise –, it is not as crystal-clear whether the digitalization of physical works is a safe adaptation of it.

Copyright 52

Copyright Due Diligence Moral Rights Social Media 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Yet the Croatian legislator caters to the printed press thrice in its ‘new and better version’ of the Croatian Copyright Act (CCA). Furthermore, it introduces an accompanying new moral right of attribution for the first source of the ‘news of the day’. The Croatian legislator’s response to this criticism was quite underwhelming.

Moral Rights 102

Moral Rights Publishing Licensing Copyright 102

IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Introduction Intellectual property entails the protection of legal rights for inventions and creations made by individuals or businesses using their minds. Such works of art benefit the creator, and they are protected by the law of intellectual property. These advantages can be made profitable for the owner.

Non-Fungible Tokens 75

Non-Fungible Tokens Copyright Intellectual Property Ownership 75

Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq. German copyright law stipulates that the author is entitled to appropriate remuneration for every use of their work (Section 32 UrhG). Claims under copyright law. Protection of technical measures (Section 95a UrhG).

Contracts 98

Contracts Copyright Law Cease and Desist 98

Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

The so-called “conditional irresponsibility” of online content-sharing service providers (OCSSPs) with regards to copyright infringements is a never-ending, vexing, and daunting topic not only for scholars (see here , here , here and here ), but also for the European Court of Justice itself (CJEU). Overview of the Egyptian Copyright Law.

Copyright 103

Copyright Moral Rights Copyright Infringement Marketing 103

SpicyIP

JULY 11, 2021

Varsha reported the significant development that the Delhi High Court issued a press release stating its plan to create an Intellectual Property Division (IPD) in the Delhi High Court. Vempati Ravi Shankar – Facebook Copyright Dispute: Issues on Moral Rights and Posthumous Enforcement of Celebrity Rights.

Moral Rights 105

Moral Rights Journalism Licensing IP 105

Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It discusses the concept of overriding mandatory provisions and its potential application to relevant rules of (copyright) contract law, as well as t he specific private international law regimes foreseen by the Rome I Regulation for employment and consumer contracts. Overriding mandatory provisions.

Contracts 52

Contracts Law Copyright Intellectual Property 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

On 8 February 2022, the Italian Supreme Court (the Corte di Cassazione ) issued an order that intervened on the interpretation of the quotation exception under Article 70 of the Italian Copyright Act (l.aut.). [1] Schifano’s heirs sued again the Foundation, claiming violation of their economic and moral rights over the works.

Copyright 52

Copyright Art Moral Rights Law 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The online exploitation of content protected by copyright inherently entails cross-border aspects. Thus, the digital context of copyright exploitation contracts leads to questions of applicable law. 167(1) Belgian Code on Economic Law ) or validity (see e.g. Article 2(3) Dutch Copyright Act ). Introduction.

Contracts 52

Contracts Law Copyright Moral Rights 52

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.

IP 124

IP Copyright Trademark Intellectual Property 124

IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Protecting personality rights has become a growing problem in India due to deepfakes, morphed pictures, etc. In between these problems came Delhi High Court’s judgement in favour of Anil Kapoor wanting to get personality rights. For every one of the twenty-one defendants, the plaintiff provided examples.

Personality Rights 61

Personality Rights Privacy Social Media Intellectual Property 61

The IPKat

MAY 25, 2022

As IP aficionados, many readers of this blog will have strong views about the proper scope of copyright law. Can and should those beliefs be protected under the Equality Act 2010, protecting copyright believers against discrimination in employment law and in the exercise by public authorities in their functions?

Copyright 94

Copyright Moral Rights Intellectual Property Intellectual Property Law 94

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. Humor has also come up as a relevant factor outside the defamation context, and specifically within the trademark and copyright context. constitutional system.

Fair Use 52

Fair Use Trademark Moral Rights Law 52