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Book Review: Research Handbook on IP and Moral Rights

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This is a book review of the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Moral Rights , curated by Ysolde Gendreau (Université de Montréal, Canada), provided by Francesca Mazzi , Lecturer in AI, Innovation and Law at Brunel University London. Such gestures couldn't be overlooked in a book on moral rights.

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Cardinals Of Intellectual Property Rights (Part- II)

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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. In order to protect the same the laws should in tandem with the pace of technology. INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS.

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[Guest Post] Copyright as movable property: Constitutional issues with Nigeria’s Copyright Act 2022

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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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WIPIP Session 8 (copyright)

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Copyright Law Why are we so sure facts are excluded from the statute when the statute doesn’t use that word and uses a lot of other words. 102(b) doesn’t change the law but merely clarifies it, restating the basic idea/expression dichotomy, but that’s not about facts. Natural or moral right to own fruit of labors.

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IPSC Breakout Session 3, Language and Authorship/ownership

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What does this have to do with law? A business code communicating within a community designed to be closed. If public function, no, but if private, yes. A: author of Esperanto consigned it to the public domain. Once it becomes a language, you’ve lost ability to control it. It didn’t develop organically.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

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The second edition offers revised, or wholly rewritten chapters to the overlaps discussed in the first edition so as to reflect recent developments, as well as to include new chapters (the overlap between privacy and copyright law; privacy and secrecy; trademarks certification marks and collective marks; and IP and traditional knowledge).

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The Modern Copyright Dilemma: Digital Content Ownership and Access

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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.