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Never too late: in case you missed the IPKat last week

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Copyright Former Guest Kat Jan Jacobi reported on a Dutch referral to the CJEU about Article 2(7) of the Berne Convention in connection with designer chairs, the issue being whether the scope of Art. Never too late: in case you missed the IPKat last week Here’s what you missed from the IPKat last week.

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

SpicyIP

The confusion around which terminology to use and what it means exactly, has, at minimum, existed for around 150 years since the Berne Convention came in 1886. India” joined the Convention as a British colony (Read: Article XIX, of the Berne Convention, 1886 ). Sean Flynn for his comments on the topic.

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Adele, Spotify and the right of integrity

The IPKat

While one could debate this topic from a non-legal standpoint (and perhaps we will return to it), one (unsolicited) question might be: What would have happened if Spotify had not agreed to remove the " shuffle " feature at Adele's request and she had decided to take her reasons to the legal level?

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Digging Into the Government’s Online News Act Claims, Part One: Compensation For “Use” of News Content

Michael Geist

Can Canada even do that and still remain compliant with international copyright laws under the Berne Convention which require countries to feature an exception for quotation? But is it reasonable to legislate that posting a news headline constitutes making that news content available?

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The football game as a copyright work (Part I)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The topic of the 2014 paper was provided by Bernt Hugenholtz. Perhaps the most obvious way to exclude football from copyright protection would be to hold that it falls outside the domain of copyright – football is not within what Article 2(1) of the Berne Convention refers to as “the literary, scientific and artistic domain.”

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The Future of Copyright. In memory of Luigi Carlo Ubertazzi (Report 2/2)

The IPKat

Marco Spolidoro gave a lecture on the very topical subject of NFTs (which this blog recently covered here ). The title of his talk was rather self-explanatory of the speaker's position on the dignity of the institution as it is 'NFT: from the metaverse to catching dummies'.

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

IP and Legal Filings

These laws are based on Berne Convention Article 6bis, to which India is a signatory. Article 6bis of the Convention fails to establish a period or tenure for an author’s moral rights, leaving it to the discretion of the Convention’s contracting parties.