Intepat

APRIL 18, 2022

Copyrights are a form of IPR that offers protection to a wide range of artistic and literary works of a creator. As the name suggests, copyright means the right to copy. According to the Copyright Act, of 1957, the creator gets the copyright automatically for any original work. A form of record. Action against infringer.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

After he was released from jail, he got copyright registrations for the photos and sued (pro se) the media entities for copyright infringement, 1202 violations, and more. We know that he doesn’t have any copyright in the photos just because he appears in them (that would be an Innocence of Muslims redux ).

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Copyright Registration in India ensures legal protection to the creators of original works. Copyright is a kind of intellectual property right which grants exclusive rights to the creator of the original work. In India, the protection of copyright is governed by the Copyright Act, 1957.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Dear Rich: I want to copyright a report I researched and wrote and hope to sell to a museum. When I tried to register my report at the Copyright Office, I was told that I could not claim copyright in the photos, only the text. These photos are in the public domain and free for anyone to copy. How do I do that?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Apart from revolutionizing the creative markets, the ability to obtain new artworks with an increasing marginalization of human contribution has inevitably tested the fitness of copyright legislations all over the world to deal with the so-called “artificial intelligence” (‘AI’). 11 and 13 EUCFR , 19 UDHR , 27.1 UDHR, and 15.1

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Dear Rich IP Blog

APRIL 16, 2020

There are very clear records in the post-1978 Copyright Office database indicating copyright ownership but this person is insisting it is an invalid copyright because there is no “©” insignia anywhere on head or tail. Does the absence of the insignia mean that the film is public domain?

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Intepat

APRIL 18, 2022

Copyrights are a form of IPR that protects a wide range of artistic and literary works of a creator. As the name suggests, copyright means the right to copy, which signifies that only the creator of the work has the right to use it. Then, why should you register a copyright for your work? What is protected by copyright?

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Seun Lari-Williams , PhD researcher in the fields of copyright and dispute system design at the University of Antwerp, regarding Nigeria's Copyright Act 2022 (which came into effect in 2023) and its constitutional reference to copyright as movable property.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

In this article we understand the relationship between NFTs and copyright. How does Copyright come into the picture? Although in principle, a NFT of a trademark or any work in public domain can be created. Let us now understand how copyright can play a role for some NFTS. What is NFT?

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

The owners’ and people’s ideas and works are generated with uniqueness and creativity, and they are released into the public domain. As a result, copyright has recently evolved as a statutory right in the areas of printing, music, entertainment, and computers, among other things.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

How does Copyright come into the picture? From the above description of NFTs, it may be hard to imagine any copyright related issues as these tokens are metadata files that have been encoded using a piece of work that may or may not be subject to copyright protection.

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IP Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

What gets decided in the next six months to a year about artificial intelligence (AI) legislation, and regulatory action on copyrights and AI, will apply with equal force to AI uses in healthcare, energy and other industries as it does to a consumer using Midjourney to make a birthday card. 30, the U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2023

It is to be made sufficiently clear that the aforementioned creations ought to be original and independent, rather than a slightly altered version of the creation already in the public domain, to instill looking into the prospects of copyrightability.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

On April 13, Ben Dickson at The Next Web received an email from a lawyer with the name Nicole Palmer with the subject “DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice”. First, the subject of DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice is strange. The fake lawyer identifies herself as a trademark attorney, but is handling a copyright issue.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 26, 2022

Many digital file formats allow creators to embed additional data to provide details of ownership or any other relevant information. This metadata can be useful to copyright holders, from conveying something as simple as their name and website address to management and monitoring functions. Copyright Management Information.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

In 1982, Universal filed suit in the Southern District of New York for trademark and copyright infringement , and also threatened, and extracted license fees from, Nintendo’s various US Donkey Kong licensees. Story first appeared on Trademark and Copyright Law. Many thanks to Mast3r-Rainb0w for the Donkey Kong illustration!

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

The full story behind Netflix’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Barlow & Bear, and why it’s actually a win for the fan fiction community. When it comes to copyright cases, Netflix has seen stranger things. First, as far as copyright cases go, this one’s easy.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 25, 2023

As screenwriters and studios negotiate AI’s role in the entertainment industry, it’s important to be mindful of some core copyright protection principles. ” Dr. Stephen Thaler’s “A Recent Entrance to Paradise”: No human, no copyright. Material that is in the public domain. Not exactly.

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Shades of Gray

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Yesterday a federal judge ruled that Warner-Chappell does not own copyright in the lyrics to the song “Happy Birthday.” ” The lawsuit addressed only the lyrics, as the parties agreed that the music passed into the public domain long ago. In the meantime, happy birthday to everyone!

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Another troubling ruling for an Internet access provider trying to shake a contributory copyright claim based on user-caused copyright infringement. 11, 2023): Time and again we have declared that “prevailing defendants in copyright cases are presumptively entitled (and strongly so) to recover attorney fees.” 22-1641 (7th Cir.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A complaint has to be filed by the copyright owner or member of the public. If a complaint is raised by a person who does not hold the copyright or is not authorised by the copyright holder, the Nodal Officer can hold hearings on a case to case basis to decide the genuineness of the complaint before issuing the directions ( here ).

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

The domain of copyright deals with the literary, musical, dramatic, and artistic works, and cinematograph films. Before the digital era, copyright protected tangible art or works, allowing authors to easily regulate usage, copies, and earnings.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A refresher: in 1998, Congress created a notice-and-takedown scheme for user-submitted items that allegedly infringe copyright. Copyright owners send takedown notices, and service providers either remove the items or lose the safe harbor. The DMCA’s main counterbalance to copyright owner overreach was supposed to be 512(f).

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Restellini alleged copyright infringement and related claims in connection with WPI’s digitization of certain material about the artist Amodeo Modigliani. WPI counterclaimed against Restellini and third-party Institut Restellini SAS – Documentation Centre alleging copyright infringement and false advertising.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 13, 2022

On December 22, 2020, Senator Thom Tillis released the first discussion draft of the Digital Copyright Act of 2021 (“DCA” or the “Act”): an amendment to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). First, “lowering the specificity with which copyright owners must identify infringing material in certain circumstances.”

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Need for Protection of Personal Names through IPR Celebrities commonly demand a licensing fee for the utilization of their name, image, or other distinctive attributes in advertising or merchandising endeavours. An effective solution to address this concern is the formal registration of a celebrity’s name as a trademark.

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Dragons' Den

APRIL 6, 2023

The duo were clearly aware how important it is to look at what registered IP you can get early into your product development phase before it’s in the public domain. Businesses and products like these might be suitable for UK unregistered designs, trade mark and copyrights protection.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Akshat Agrawal, Copyright's distortive effects Copyright directs investment to excludable assets. Carys Craig, Copyright & Gender: Philosophy, Proof & Praxis Book chapter: research agenda for feminist copyright. I could think that copyright is relatively neutral in an incredibly sexist society.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

By defining purpose only as licensing image of Prince—use in a well-structured conventionalized market—the majority gets to be dismissive of the dissent; it doesn’t matter how much Warhol contributed b/c he created a substantially similar image which is now competing with her photograph. The input was copyrightable; the output is not.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 17, 2023

The H2020 project reCreating Europe performed an unprecedented mapping of EU and Member States’ sources on copyright flexibilities. along the same lines, the presence of a wave of amendments of national copyright flexibilities after 2001 , which, however, regarded only certain categories (e.g., Teaching and research uses.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so we have a fair sprinkling of cases dealing with copyright, patents, trademarks, competition law etc. This judgment concerned the classification of payments under end-user license agreements (EULA). The Indian Performing Right Society Limited (IPRS) v.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

NFTs revolutionised the concept of ownership and digital art. NFTs have sparked several discussions raising questions on how this would affect IP Rights and what ownership of artwork, especially digital copies of artwork entails. However, the buyer of the NFT now had ownership over one unique copy of the same GIF.

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SpicyIP

MAY 22, 2022

Haven’t we already learnt that copyrights, patents, etc. Although the history of property both in general and in the IP context is too hazy to explicate here, it is interesting to note that all sorts of words have been used earlier to describe this ‘property’ – these include ‘privilege’, ‘charter’, ‘license’, etc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lawsuit seeks a declaratory judgment that Trump owns the copyright in the sound recordings (or in the alternative, in his interview responses on the recordings), and that Trump is entitled to all or the lion’s share of the profits made from the sale of those recordings and transcripts, which the lawsuit (absurdly) values at almost $50 million.

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