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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. But not so fast.

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

The Art Newspaper has followed up on the ruling and the commentary, speculating on the potential implications thereof concerning the copyright status of digitized images of public domain artworks. The whole editorial is available here. In autumn, the draft Strategic Plan 2030 will be put forward for adoption.

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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.

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Understanding Freedom to Operate (FTO) Concerning IP & Patents

Kashishipr

FTO is a pretty simple and straightforward concept, which implies that at a given point in time, no Intellectual Property (IP) from any third party is infringed upon a given product or service in a given market or geography. Without any doubt, stepping into patent litigation can be uncertain, full of risks, and expensive.

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Dilution of Fictional Characters: A Remedy to Trademark Infringement

IP and Legal Filings

It was also contended by scholars that dilution would go on to replace copyright law as well as conventional trademark protection, since it could create trademark rights in gross by permanently removing fictional characters in the public domain. [3] In Danjaq LLC v. Sony Corporation [7] , the assignee of all U.S. 813, 825. [3]

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Patent Search and its Types in India

Kashishipr

By performing a patent search, you can get an indication of what all information is available and accessible in the public domain concerning the proposed invention. This type of patent search is performed during infringement litigation or to mitigate the risk of infringement. For more visit: [link].

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