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Copyright in Registered Designs

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Copyright in registered designs means that the author has the exclusive rights to apply a design to any article in any class. The proprietor of a registered design has the exclusive right to apply such design to all such classes. The exclusive right to import for sale any article in which the design is registered.

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Free Mickey? (Don’t Be Goofy)

LexBlog IP

Freed from the shackles of copyright, Walt Disney’s iconic rodent was now in the public domain and, therefore, available for everyone to copy. It is no surprise that the legalities of the public domain are more complicated than the headlines suggest. But not so fast.

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Cardinals Of Intellectual Property Rights (Part- II)

IP and Legal Filings

PART 2: of the blog gives a detail about Copyrights, Industrial Designs, Geographical Indications, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Plant Variety Protection and Trade Secrets. To reproduce, store, issue copies to public, perform, communicate, and make translation or adaptation of the work. INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS.

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Copyright Protection of Modern Art

IP and Legal Filings

Cooper case, a work does not have to be entirely unique in order to be protected by copyright; rather, there needs to be some effort put into it and it cannot be a carbon copy of another person’s work. The issue of copyrightable material for modern art that is object-based or based on a design still exists, though.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 8-November 15)

SpicyIP

The court further directed the authorities to look whether these DNRs ought to be permitted to continue to offer their goods and services in India, if they are not giving effect to orders the courts and not complying with the provisions of IT Act 2000, and the 2021 Rules. Licensing Ip International S.AR.L Hindustan Unilever Limited v.

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HULM Entertainment v.  Fantasy Sports: Reanalysing Originality, Idea-Expression Dichotomy and Copyrightability of GUIs

SpicyIP

Hulm Entertainment alleged Fantasy Sports had substantially copied its ‘original trading and stock features’ along with the graphical user interface (GUI) of their fantasy sports mobile application “Exchange22”. However, the current case discusses the protection of GUIs under the Copyright Act.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

As the story goes, they provided him with a copy of a few scenes from “Ghostbusters” in which the theme would appear. You can judge for yourself by downloading a copy of “Jap Herron” here. Cinema Secrets (2000). The “Ghostbusters” folks eventually settled on Ray Parker Jr. Skully Curly.

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