43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

Twain thought he should have ownership of his lectures—“my lecture was my property.” It’s not clear that giving Cord’s estate ownership would be social justice, but that’s a question worth asking. Prototypical 19 th case: Publishing agreement is silent on ownership; publisher complies w/formalities and author doesn’t.

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Ownership Moral Rights Copyright Publishing 45

43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

Compare: TM registration, FACK JU G Ö HTE—courts finally said that freedom of expression operates in registration as well. Ownership should require a lower burden of proof: comes from the relationship between the spouses and not from the connection to the creation. Gerhardt: compare right of publicity, moral rights?

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Ownership Moral Rights Copyright Branding 80

Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

The fact that so few copies exist means that burning it may run afoul of the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) if the editions are signed and numbered. In other nations, moral rights may prohibit that. In short, the group wrongly assumed that purchasing the book granted them the rights in the book itself.

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Copying Moral Rights Copyright Registration 334

SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The ownership over the copyright of the essay published on the CIPS Blog will be transferred to the CIPS Blog and the author shall still retain the moral rights over their work. Payment Guidelines: Last date of payment of registration fee: 11 th March 2022. Registration link for the payment of the fee: [link].

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IP Intellectual Property Moral Rights Blogging 129

LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2022

The protection of moral rights, including the rights of publication, authorship, alteration, and integrity, is perpetual. Specimen of work in the copyright registration of Crosplus Home Furnishing (Shanghai) Co., in China a copyright is automatically attached to a work upon its completion without registration.

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Designs Design Copyright Artistic Work 52

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. If Case 2 were brought in a jurisdiction that recognized more traditional moral rights , that would provide another basis for a claim.

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Litigation Fair Use Copying Derivative Work 98

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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Non-Fungible Tokens Copyright Business Moral Rights 59