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Traditional Tattoos on the Red Carpet: Continuing the Conversation of Collective Ownership

IPilogue

These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws. v Datafile Ltd. ,

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[Guest Post] Book review: Intellectual Property Law in Nigeria: Emerging Trends, Theories And Practice

The IPKat

Part Two: This part is the core of this work as it lays out in chapters 3-9 many of the emerging issues in IP law such as the protection of plant varieties, traditional knowledge, TCEs, GR and GIs, personality rights, among others. Chapters 19–21 discussed industrial designs protection in a very elaborate manner.

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Safeguarding Personal Names

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

These affected rights encompass personality rights, representing a distinctive form of intellectual property that transcends mere financial considerations. Personality rights, being non-inheritable and non-assignable, highlight the personal and non-transferable essence of this form of intellectual property.

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Fonts & Typefaces: Are they Copyrightable? 

SpicyIP

Typeface’ refers to the particular design of letters, numbers, marks and symbols. Shivam is a recent graduate of the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. But as I will discuss in this post, they fulfill the eligibility criteria as provided under the Copyright Act, 1957. Before we begin, let me lay down the glossary for this post.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

Chapter 2, authored by David Musker, considers the overlaps between patents and designs. The case serves as the springboard for a discussion on whether owning both rights may put the rightsholder at risk. Ochoa authors Chapter 9, which is devoted to the overlaps between copyright and the rights of publicity or personality rights.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 12 – 18)

SpicyIP

She highlights that the emphasis is on investing only in royalty revenue and not buying the artist’s rights or retaining control over their work. NFTs (Non-fungible tokens), which act as a certificate of ownership for whatever the creator puts up for sale, allow artists to set their preferred terms of contract while making sales.

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The puzzled tie of copyright, cultural heritage and public domain in Italian law: is the Vitruvian Man taking on unbalanced proportions?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

One of the most recent examples is the dispute (not yet decided) around the use of the images of the Birth of Venus by Michelangelo in fashion design; the others are the controversy over the use in the advertising of the image of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo [2] and the multiple claims against the use in the marketing of David by Donatello. [3]