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Police Photo: Public Domain or Fair Use?

Dear Rich IP Blog

Is it public domain or fair use? Public domain? Other states like Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts (called "open copyright" states) have a policy that makes state documents presumptively public domain. BTW, photos by federal law enforcement are public domain. May I use it?

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1927 Enters the Public Domain

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

However, January 1 st of each year marks the expiration of another year of historical copyrights, and 2023 ushered works from the year 1927 into the public domain , making them eligible for extensive use without pe rmission or royalties.

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Court Rules Lego Creation Based on Religious Texts is Eligible for Copyright Protection

The IP Law Blog

Thus, here, given that the plaintiff has Copyright Registrations, the burden shifts to Defendants to come forward with “evidence that the work[s] [were] copied from the public domain.” Defendants argued that because information concerning the Second Holy Temple is in the public domain, Plaintiff’s copyrighted works are not original.

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Additional Records Allowed Before Framing of the Issues Says the Delhi High Court

SpicyIP

vs ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd , a case concerning trademark infringement the Delhi High Court allowed the application for placing additional documents on records. But what makes this case worth tidbit- ing is the court’s open remarks and clarifications on adding new documents on record.

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Court Rules Lego Creation Based on Religious Texts is Eligible for Copyright Protection

LexBlog IP

Thus, here, given that the plaintiff has Copyright Registrations, the burden shifts to Defendants to come forward with “evidence that the work[s] [were] copied from the public domain.” Defendants argued that because information concerning the Second Holy Temple is in the public domain, Plaintiff’s copyrighted works are not original.

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Is your original work automatically protected by copyright?

Intepat

It includes commonly available information such as calendars, telephone directories, a list of tables in a public document, etc. Hence, creators should be well aware to document their work before going into the public domain. Certain works cannot be protected by copyright though they are original.

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Ringgold and the FAIR Principles: How Ringgold Data and Metadata are Reusable

Velocity of Content

Meta)data are richly described with a plurality of accurate and relevant attributes Ringgold Data is fully tagged and labelled, including descriptive elements, and documentation. Variability in data is clearly marked both within the data itself and all documentation with clear vocabularies.