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Artist Royalties: An exegesis of Resale rights in India

IIPRD

The general position in intellectual property laws states that upon the assignment of the copyright by the artist over his artwork to another legal entity, the artist cannot enjoy any economic benefits attached to the artwork. This theory prescribes that artists have inalienable rights over their artwork upon its creation.

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Copyright Of Cinematograph Films: Indian Scenario

IP and Legal Filings

Nelson, Moral Rights in the United States, available at: [link] site/copyright/2017/07/21/moral-rights-in-the-united-states/ [4] With respect to cinematographic works, the countries that protect the author rather than the author’s employer include Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, and Italy. 106A [3] Marley C.

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Book review: Reforming Intellectual Property

The IPKat

The editors explain in the preface that they requested authors to bring a personal narrative rather than a standard law journal approach. Article 2 Each Member State shall review its existing intellectual property laws with a view to restricting them or expanding them so as better to benefit humanity of the present or the future.

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The Modern Copyright Dilemma: Digital Content Ownership and Access

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge.

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Anil Kapoor Vs Simply Life India & Ors: An Unwavering Assurance In Safeguarding Personality Rights Against Ai

IP and Legal Filings

Protecting personality rights has become a growing problem in India due to deepfakes, morphed pictures, etc. In between these problems came Delhi High Court’s judgement in favour of Anil Kapoor wanting to get personality rights. It is challenging to legalise rights to one’s personality or image. link] Neethling, J.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The question as to whether the required serious infringement of moral rights had occurred could, the BGH ruled, only be ascertained on the basis of an analysis of the entire circumstances of the specific case. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 1 of 4: Definition of a work, authorship and moral rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In order to bring readers up to date on earlier developments, over the next few days we will be republishing in four parts an article (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law from 2015 to 2019 organised by topic. This first part covers the definition of a work, authorship and moral rights.