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Permissibility Of A Waiver Of Moral Rights Of An Author Under The Copyright Regime

IP and Legal Filings

Section 57 of the Copyright Act of 1957 covers authors’ special rights particularly, highlighting the importance of expanding such rights beyond solely economic grounds. As a result, the lifetime of these rights varies greatly between countries. Waiver of moral right of the author permissible?

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

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Image via Pexels Katfriend Mindia Davitadze commented on the fact that Georgia recently became the 5th validating state to the European Patents Organisation by signing the Validation Agreement and promising to bolster the protection of intellectual property rights within the industrial sector.

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

SpicyIP

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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The (forgotten) moral rights in the age of AI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The US government ran a consultation on AI and IP a few years ago. The UK government has just finished another round of consultations, this time focusing on AI and copyright, and with a specific goal to initiate legislative reform soon. The missing bit: moral rights. Some countries have a longer list of moral rights.

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The Beijing Treaty: A step forward in the protection of related rights in audiovisual performances

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Thus, although the Treaty is governed by the principle of national treatment, this is only imposed with regard to exclusive rights expressly included in the Treaty and to the right to a fair remuneration. c) The protection of the moral rights must apply equally to any past, present and future performance.

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Spanish Court finds that virtual exhibition of NFTs based on paintings is "harmless use"

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One of Mango's virtual fashion week runways ( Mango ) The Court's ruling Moral rights The Court began by examining the moral right of dissemination under Spanish law, and found that - seeing as the relevant works had already been displayed to the public at large - such rights had been exhausted, and there was no further infringement.

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AI and Copyright: A Reply to Matt Hervey

Kluwer Copyright Blog

It does seem a bit one-sided in making it sound (to me, anyway) like people, governments or courts who oppose copyright protection of AI-generated works are fighting a rear guard battle and that at some point copyright protection of such works will almost “naturally” happen.

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