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The Importance of Trademark Protection When Copyrighted Works Enter the Public Domain

Corsearch

Copyright © Walt Disney Animation Studios A background on copyright protections in the US All works that were published in the US prior to 1923 are now in the public domain, as is any work created by individuals in an official capacity for the federal government. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. References [1] [link] [2] [link] [3] [link]

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Patent Prior Art Search

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Prior art, the term mostly used during patent applications, is used to describe all information available in the public domain before the priority or filling date of the patent application. This is well known and has been reported in many studies, and such biofertilizers are also available in the market. and Klebsiella sp.,

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Kenya Copyright Board on "responsible use of memes": quasi-judicial powers and balanced perspectives

The IPKat

This advisory is coming in the wake of the proliferation of memes on Kenya's ongoing election campaigns and elections, trending on various social media platforms. the source work) would be an infringement of the rights of reproduction, adaptation and publication.

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ReCreating Europe’s report, datasets and data analysis on EU and comparative copyright flexibilities now available online – Part II

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The mapping of national legal sources of copyright flexibilities and their comparative analysis provided a detailed overview of the state of the art of copyright flexibilities in all the 27 Member States, organized in 27 national reports which illustrated national provisions using the same taxonomy applied to EU sources. Public domain.

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First preliminary injunction issued by a court in Turkey regarding NFTs

The IPKat

Intellectual property proceedings in Turkey rely heavily on the report of an expert(s) appointed by the court to provide an assessment on relevant aspects of the dispute. Here, the Court appointed an expert to provide a report regarding the use of the portrait and its communication to the public.

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. And that, in turn, further restricts what should be in the public domain and gives companies power to create property rights where none are otherwise granted in the law. In November 2023, X corp. on all counts. Bright Data Ltd. ,

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What Copyright’s “Unclaimable Material” Rules Mean for Hollywood’s Use of AI

Copyright Lately

An article in the Hollywood Reporter earlier this week suggested that there’s finally been some movement between the parties with respect to generative AI, as studios recognize that copyright protection in AI-generated scripts is only possible for those works if they’re revised by human writers. Previously registered material.