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1927 Enters the Public Domain

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

United States – The year 1927 brought with it musical compositions by the likes of Duke Ellington , cinematic masterpieces by film greats like Alfred Hitchcock , who produced his first thriller in 1927, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog , and pieces of classic literature, such as To the Lighthouse , by Virginia Woolf.

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Understanding Royalty-Free Music

Kashishipr

As a video creator, you may hop onto your laptop, start searching for free music, and finally come across platforms or websites offering royalty-free music or music without copyright (copyright-free music). What is Royalty-Free Music? Can Royalty-Free Music be Used for Commercial Purposes?

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17 Copyright and/or Plagiarism Stories for Halloween

Plagiarism Today

Along the way, we discussed why a knockoff Beetlejuice costume is titled “Juice Demon”, the ways that intellectual property laws govern Halloween costumes and the ways one could find themselves in trouble. Those include, music, movie characters, costumes, and stories.

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AI Music Outputs: Challenges to the Copyright Legal Framework – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Yet, the very same automation poses challenges for the application of copyright law, increasing legal uncertainty, as demonstrated in this report vis-à-vis AI music outputs. This begs the question of how EU law can and should meet this challenge. Copyright protection and authorship of AI music outputs.

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Free Mickey? (Don’t Be Goofy)

LexBlog IP

January 1, 2024, brought numerous hangovers along with an unprecedented amount of media attention to intellectual property law. Freed from the shackles of copyright, Walt Disney’s iconic rodent was now in the public domain and, therefore, available for everyone to copy.

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Smells Like Copyright Infringement

IPilogue

Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. publications of the translated work, which lacked both registration and copyright notice in Scott-Giles’ name. Sarah Raja is a 3L J.D. Background. In 1949, C.W.

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Copyright Evidence: 21 for 2021 (a year in review)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In this post, we offer an overview of the project to date, stratified across CREATe’s core research themes : Creative Industries , the Public Domain , and Competition and Markets. The digital revolution has moved legal questions about copyright, information, and competition law to the regulatory centre of the creative industries.