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Intersection of Copyright and Moral Rights: Protecting Creators’ Integrity

Intepat

In the realm of intellectual property, copyright and moral rights play pivotal roles in safeguarding the interests of creators. While copyright primarily focuses on the economic rights associated with creative works, moral rights emphasize the personal and reputational interests of the creators.

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Moral Rights in Copyright: Lin-Manuel Miranda sues Texas Church for unauthorized performances of “Hamilton”

IPilogue

The copyright issues that exist in this situation include: unauthorized streaming, unauthorized use of Hamilton content, unauthorized alterations to Hamilton content, and an infringement of an artist’s “moral right” to their copyrighted work. .

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Permissibility Of A Waiver Of Moral Rights Of An Author Under The Copyright Regime

IP and Legal Filings

Section 57 of the Copyright Act of 1957 covers authors’ special rights particularly, highlighting the importance of expanding such rights beyond solely economic grounds. As a result, the lifetime of these rights varies greatly between countries. Waiver of moral right of the author permissible?

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Vempati Ravi Shankar – Facebook Copyright Dispute: Issues on Moral Rights and Posthumous Enforcement of Celebrity Rights

SpicyIP

(hereinafter Priyanka) She had notified Facebook and Instagram regarding the presence of infringing sound recordings on their platform, but they failed to takedown it down and hence, the present suit. In addition to copyright infringement, the plaintiff also claimed violation of moral rights and infringement of posthumous celebrity rights.

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Striking the Right Chord: How the New MoU and Proposed Standard Agreement Aim to Give Screenwriters, Lyricists, and Composers Their Due Credit

SpicyIP

A Unified Approach for More Bargaining Power The MoU is signed between the SWA and MCAI and concerns the rights of music composers and lyricists. Additionally, SWA is also taking forward the quest to have a standardised agreement for screenwriters, which is presently being negotiated with film and television production houses.

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Book review: Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship

The IPKat

And who poses moral rights in the work? The monograph is presented in six chapters. Chapter five addresses the questions at the heart of who possesses the authority to perform the play, enforcing credit and control by exploring moral rights of attribution and integrity in the theatrical context.

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St. Art Foundation v. Acko General Insurance: Decoding Street Art, Fair use and Moral rights

SpicyIP

52(1)(t) and ‘moral rights’ of the author in such work. Lastly, I will discuss the argument of moral rights of the author in contending the ‘fair use exemption’ of their work. As a corollary, it also asserted ‘moral rights’ over the mural under Sec. 2(c), the fair use exemption thereof under Sec.