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SpicyIP Tidbit: Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry clarifies Current IPR Regime Sufficient for AI Works Protection

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Whether the government plans to amend the Copyright Act of 1957 to update copyright laws to cover AI-generated content. Whether the government plans to amend the Copyright Act of 1957 to update copyright laws to cover AI-generated content.

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

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

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Unauthorized changes to a text reside in the murkier confines of the copyright system, where, at most, moral rights may hold court. The Bowdler siblings were earnest in their convictions, and they were not part of any government-sanctioned campaign of censorship. International license. International license.

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Copyright Legislation vis-a-vis the Music Industry : A Comparative Study of India and Indonesia

IP and Legal Filings

Rights to distribute and reproduce the work exclusively, as well as the right to grant a license that will allow the copyright holder to collect royalties, are included in this property. Right to communicate the work to the public. The Indonesian copyright regime is governed by its Copyright Act of 2014 (‘Act’).

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IPSC Panel 14 – Copyright Authorship & Ownership

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Cord told Twain the story in NY, which is governed by Hemingway’s Estate v. The court understood that what the author meant to do was to give the publisher an implied license to use/distribute work; given the risk of forfeiture, they had to frame these facts as an issue of assignment. [Federal preemption.] Zvi Rosen: Wheaton v.

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The Legal Conundrum of AI as a Patent Holder: Affecting the Policy Decisions

IP and Legal Filings

Section 2(1)(s) includes the government as well apart from other ‘natural persons’ although it did not define the term ‘person’ with clarity. 5] Such a ‘personality’ entails a right to sue or be sued by another entity which an AI lacks. A person can have the moral right may not have the legal right in the invention.

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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

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V Ross Intelligence, Inc. – (Some) answers coming soon This case, which involves the alleged surreptitious copying of the entire Westlaw database (after having been denied a license) in order to create an allegedly competing product, is already significant in that the Complaint survived a motion to dismiss. This will be hard to defend.