Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

A copyright lawyer will be familiar with legal issues on subject matter, originality, authorship and ownership. UK Government National Curriculum ). Rather, it focuses on the just safeguards that should exist around the exploitation of those works, both in relation to economic and moral rights. What is it?

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. This proposed expansion of the exception was recently rejected by the UK government. This will be hard to defend.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Without further ado, here’s what I found in the Januarys: Virtual World, Gaming, and IPs: Sifting through January pages, a decade-old post by Deepshikha Malhotra caught my attention, discussing Property Rights in the Virtual World. The question of ownership in the virtual world, particularly in video games, has long been debated.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 1, 2022

The Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions Act (PTKCEA), 2016 passed by the Kenyan government elaborated categorically upon the IP rights of traditional communities. Section 21(2) (c) of the Act confers the right not to have TK and cultural expressions subject to derogatory treatment.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Statute of Anne marked the beginning of copyright protection in the United Kingdom, whereas in France, the first statute granting copyright protection was enacted after the French Revolution known as the Declaration of the Rights of the Genius in 1793, which gave authors protection for ten years (Moh. Zafar Mahfooz Nomani, 2023).

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Justice Rothstein offered a Canadian perspective on how our moral rights framework would line up with Dean Zemer’s approach. Justice Rothstein explained that the concerns raised by Dean Zemer would fit neatly into the Canadian understanding of moral rights.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Due to the recurrent copyright difficulties, which have a significant impact on an individual’s business interest, it is imperative to preserve the ownership rights of digital works. NFTs are governed by smart contracts, which divide ownership and limit transferability.

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Garrigues Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

However, an architect’s intellectual property rights in his/her work can conflict with the ownership rights in the built work creating a situation that is less than desirable for both, in which each may hamper the interests of the other. Moral rights Moral rights establish the connection between the author and his/her work.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The law of the country selected in a choice of law clause (indicated as the lex contractus ) governs issues of contract interpretation, performance and (consequences of) termination (Article 12 Rome I Regulation ). Consequently, choice of law clauses in favour of common law jurisdictions may affect the level of protection accorded to artists.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

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The IPKat

MAY 25, 2022

For example, IP academics might hold a belief in the right to own the copyright and moral rights of their own creative works and output, which may conflict with their University’s position on the ownership of lecture recordings.

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