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Copyright Fair Use for Education

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Copyright protection applies to many creative works, including literature, music, art, film and software. Once the period expires, the program enters the public domain and is free for all users. These rights generally include the rights to reproduce, distribute, perform, publish and create derivative works.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

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The second edition offers revised, or wholly rewritten chapters to the overlaps discussed in the first edition so as to reflect recent developments, as well as to include new chapters (the overlap between privacy and copyright law; privacy and secrecy; trademarks certification marks and collective marks; and IP and traditional knowledge).

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Copyright Office Technical Measures Consultations

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Unique expertise on code too; code is different from photos, music, videos; some of the most valuable code on GitHub is licensed openly. Designed to be freely available licensed or public domain; we occasionally use fair use images where no free image is available, such as when a famous work has been destroyed.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 10 – July 16)

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The court, however, dismissed the application holding that the impugned film was based on information in the public domain and clarified that the publicity and privacy rights are not heritable and died with the late actor.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2021

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The suit concerned agreements dating back to 2001 between IPRS and ENIL regarding broadcasting music in certain cities. When ENIL broadcast music in cities other than the ones in the agreement, IPRS filed an infringement suit. The petitioner sought to exercise the right to privacy on behalf of her late aunt, J.

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IPSC Breakout Session 5: IP Theory & History/Creation and Morality

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Music groups with gold records: of those that wrote own songs, coded which split equally or favored the larger contributor. Could look at Al-Muhammad dicta, where control might not be important for words and music in song. A: paper discusses ROP and our conclusion is that, like defamation/privacy, it’s hard to win.

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Taking IP “Rights” Too Seriously – A Look Through History

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The Narendera Publishing House case provided a more interesting view by regarding copyright as a “privilege” and user interests as the “ competing interest of enriching the public domain” The Rameshwari Photocopy judgment is interesting as it used differing descriptions for Section 52. create works and make them available).

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