SpicyIP

JULY 14, 2023

A longtime friend of the blog, Achille is currently serving as an Advisor to the Board of the Indian Performing Right Society. With over 35 years of experience in the creative industries, Achille pioneered music publishing in India with Deep Emotions Publishing in 1996 and has also served as a public servant in France.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The embedding of “smart contracts” in NFT sales allows for the automatic distribution of royalties – roughly 10% – anytime a change of ownership is requested on the blockchain. Exercising control of downstream purchaser actions for traditional or non-digital artistic mediums is more complicated.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

A copyright lawyer will be familiar with legal issues on subject matter, originality, authorship and ownership. 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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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2022

The protection of moral rights, including the rights of publication, authorship, alteration, and integrity, is perpetual. However, a copyright registration certificate serves as evidence of ownership, which is required for enforcement actions by administrative authorities. copyright law. Like in the U.S.,

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Unfortunately, in cases like Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria Limited (MCSN) v. Would it automatically place works compulsorily acquired in the public domain or only transfer ownership to the government? There would also be the need to address how moral rights would operate in the context of a compulsory acquisition.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2024

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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The IPKat

AUGUST 15, 2023

Dua Lipa and Warner Music are being sued by talk box inventor and singer, Bosko Kante, for breach of contract and copyright infringement in hit song 'Levitating'. Separately, if someone records samples to be used on your song, absent an agreement to the contrary, it may be that they own the rights to those recordings.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 21, 2022

Recognising the challenges for performers in the position and enforcement of their rights, the book also includes discussion on other forms of protections and remedies for performers, such as moral rights, contracts, passing off and copyright infringement.

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The IPKat

MAY 29, 2023

Being taken from an actual instance of Canadian litigation, the hypothetical allows Sundara Rajan to address differences in treatment of moral rights between civil law and common law countries. Partridge, offers a view on the overlaps between trade marks and domain names.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The lex contractus as determined under the Rome I Regulation has no bearing on the issue of initial ownership or the question whether and how the initial rights owner(s) is/are allowed by law to transfer their rights or grant licences to exploit. However, this finding does not ring true for all protective provisions.

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