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What Is (and Isn’t) Protected by Copyright?

Velocity of Content

paintings, drawings, carvings, photographs, clothing designs, textiles) Architectural works (e.g., live action movies, animation, television programs, and videogames) Pantomimes and choreographic works (e.g., paintings, drawings, carvings, photographs, clothing designs, textiles) Architectural works (e.g.,

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False Patent Marking as False Advertising: Overcoming Dastar

Patently-O

This case began back in 2006 when Crocs sued Double Diamond and others for patent infringement of Crocs’s design patents. Therefore, Dastar ‘s unaccredited copying did not constitute a false designation of origin actionable under § 43(a) of the Lanham Act. Crocs largely prevailed in those actions. ” Dawgs brief.

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Whither a Signal-Based Broadcast Treaty?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Restrict the treaty’s terms to apply only to traditional broadcasting–linear radio and television broadcasting and cablecasting. No amendment offered in public session. No amendment offered in public session. If a 3 -step test is included, it could be designed to expand the flexibility, not shrink it.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 20-March 25)

SpicyIP

Controller of Patents and Designs. Case: Biomoneta Research Vs Controller General of Patents Designs on 13 March 2023 (Delhi High Court) The matter pertained to an appeal against the order of the controller rejecting a patent application for ‘Air Decontamination Assembly’. 7 of the plaintiff’s registered design of urination device.

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What Copyright’s “Unclaimable Material” Rules Mean for Hollywood’s Use of AI

Copyright Lately

Material that is in the public domain. For example, just this week, the Copyright Office concluded that a tattoo design affixed to LeBron James’ chest was entitled to registration even though it’s based on a modified version of the Venetian Resort logo. Previously registered material.

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Copyright Evidence: 21 for 2021 (a year in review)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In this post, we offer an overview of the project to date, stratified across CREATe’s core research themes : Creative Industries , the Public Domain , and Competition and Markets. This provokes the question of how we can transplant evidence gleaned from one industry to another (in Barr’s synthesis, to television). Public Domain.

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The Much-Adapted “Peter Pan” (1904 – Forever )

Velocity of Content

Beginning in 1955, adaptations of the stage play for television begin. And the 1911 content reused in these works may actually be in the public domain already. This is probably a good place to pause and explain the concept of “derivative works” in copyright.