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

IP and Legal Filings

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. Waiver of moral right of the author permissible? The best strategy would be to write an agreement that includes a reasonable severability clause.

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Thinking about your audiovisual project being produced in Latin America?

Olartemoure Blog

Local contract and case law is full of mandatory norms that render very important clauses null and void, and the fact that handshake agreements and informality is still quite in fashion seems alarming for studies used to long agreements drafted by sophisticated attorneys.

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[Guest post] 'Grand rights' of great importance: copyright on the big stage (part II): Danish Supreme Court rules that “all” actually does mean “all”

The IPKat

The IPKat is pleased to host the following guest post by Katfriends Hanne Kirk and Jakob Plesner Mathiasen (both Gorrissen Federspiel) on the topic of 'grand rights' in a recent Danish decision. The reasoning is that there is a greater need for protection of 'droit moral' associated with dramatic stage performance.

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Copyright Protection of Modern Art

IP and Legal Filings

A copyright’s primary topic is what it protects and the standards by which it is protected. The clause requiring the work’s originality is the primary condition for copyright protection of any work. The issue of two persons producing similar work is not a barrier to it becoming the topic of literary writing.

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Book review: Copyright in the street. An Oral History of Creative Processes in Street Art and Graffiti Subcultures

The IPKat

It might also have been interesting to examine the various topics covered from a European perspective. Protection can be achieved through solid contractual clauses for works produced on commission. This chapter reminds one that there is case law in which street artists and writers have asserted their moral rights.

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Does the sign “eat clan people” carry an association with cannibalism and thus produce an “adverse effect”?

The IPKat

8) of the Trade Mark Law of China (TML, 2013 Amendment),* an absolute ground for refusal and invalidity that applies when a sign is ‘detrimental to socialist morality or mores or having any other adverse effect’. the TMO On 20 February 2019, the TMO rejected the trade mark application (Decision [2019] No. While the ‘???’

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[Guest post] What if AI wrote this post? – An inquiry into the impact of AI on the creative industries

The IPKat

Hayleigh Bosher and Coran Darling giving evidence at the Inquiry Artificial intelligence is a highly debated topic in the intellectual property field currently. Even the computer-generated clauses in the CDPA 1988, appears only to address the concept of AI as a tool that assists in creativity, not one that generates.

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