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A musical box infringes author’s moral rights, says the French Cassation Court

The IPKat

During his lifetime, Trenet assigned his economic rights to these songs to his music publisher, Editions Raoul Breton. After Trenet’s death, all his patrimony (including the moral rights to the songs) were inherited by his friend, Georges El Assidi. PML is a company that manufactures hand crank musical boxes.

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

The IPKat

Whilst this reflects the fact that copyright is transferable through assignment and licenses, it could also make copyright subject to fundamental human rights and potential compulsory acquisition. The book also discusses the real-life issues experienced by authors facing moral rights dilemmas.

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Music Piracy

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

However, copyright infringement occurs when such copyrighted music is streamed without acquiring proper license from the copyright owners. Copyright involves the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the original work. Hence, licensed broadcasting of copyrighted music does not give rise to copyright infringement.

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Book review: Performers' Rights

The IPKat

Recognising the challenges for performers in the position and enforcement of their rights, the book also includes discussion on other forms of protections and remedies for performers, such as moral rights, contracts, passing off and copyright infringement.

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Thomas and Henrietta Maria Bowdler, and the works of William Shakespeare: Is "bowdlerizing" a four-letter word?

The IPKat

Unauthorized changes to a text reside in the murkier confines of the copyright system, where, at most, moral rights may hold court. But call it "editing", and furrows on one's brow are less likely. Further editions followed. Thomas did so only for the later editions, starting with the 1818 edition.

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A Work in Progress: CCC and Artificial Intelligence

Velocity of Content

We explored the webinar topics in more depth, and the following is our edited and abridged conversation. What role might CCC play in licensing for AI applications? Since our founding, we’ve been putting users and rightsholders together, so people can find good ways to license the works that they need. Rowland: Yes.

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Crypto Group Buys Dune Book, Confuses it for Buying the Rights

Plagiarism Today

The fact that so few copies exist means that burning it may run afoul of the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) if the editions are signed and numbered. In other nations, moral rights may prohibit that. In short, the group wrongly assumed that purchasing the book granted them the rights in the book itself.

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