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The Good Get: Interviews, The Predicates Of Copyright Ownership, & Divorcing Subjects From Owning Copyright Content

LexBlog IP

That then plays off the rest of the title’s allusions to separating “subjects” from the “predicates” of copyright ownership, themselves words connoting the foundational elements of both “ any complete sentence ” and at times a court’s jurisdiction over infringement matters. ” US Const.,

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Best practices to avoid copyright infringement

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

What is copyright infringement? Unauthorized use of a work protected by copyright is referred to as copyright infringement. Thus, it is the unauthorised use of someone else’s copyrighted work that violates the owner’s rights, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, exhibit, or perform the protected work.

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Mickey Mouse to Enter Public Domain in 2024

IPilogue

Every year on January 1, works protected under copyright law enter into the public domain due to their copyright protection expiring. Thus, as a new year approaches, those in the field of copyright look to see which works will expire at the end of the year. As a general rule in the U.S.,

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Fleshing out the copyright in a tattoo

IP Whiteboard

In what we understand to be an industry-first, the Copyright Agency (an Australian not-for-profit collecting society that also licences copyright protected literary and artistic works) has licenced an Indigenous artwork for a tattoo. Left: Chris Black’s Jarrangini (buffalo), 2018 © Chris Black/Copyright Agency, 2020.

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Implementing Article 15 of the CDSMD into the Greek legal order: “creative” or further confirmation of the EU press market’s fragmentation?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

4996/2022 in November 2022 ( ΦΕΚ Α´ 2022/24.11.2022 ), which amended the basic Greek Copyright Law ( L. 2121/1993 on “Copyright, Related Rights and Cultural Matters” ), as well as L. 4481/2017, on “Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights” ( ΦΕΚ Α’ 100/20.7.2017 ). 51B, which transposes the much-debated Art.

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Mickey Mouse to Enter Public Domain in 2024

IPilogue

Every year on January 1, works protected under copyright law enter into the public domain due to their copyright protection expiring. Thus, as a new year approaches, those in the field of copyright look to see which works will expire at the end of the year. As a general rule in the U.S.,

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Intellectual Property Tools for Protecting Fashion Goods

LexBlog IP

Below are three possible situations in which you can use intellectual property tools with respect to a product’s nature, originality, consumer driven features, and potential for growth. Scenario 1: Protecting the Work by Copyright. Take, for example, a T shirt which features a painting, sculpture, or even graffiti. ” [8].