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Alfred v. Walt Disney Company: Decoding the concept of Substantial Similarity with respect to the Pirates of the Caribbean lawsuit

IP and Legal Filings

Such rights include the right to reproduce the work, the right to public display and public performance, the right to adaptation, etc. If any other person makes an unauthorized copy of that work, the owner shall have a right of action against him. The defendants were provided with a copy of the screenplay.

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Copyright in Registered Designs

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Copyright in its general sense, confers exclusive rights to the author and thus protects the works from being copied or reproduced. Thus, the registered proprietor has copyright in the design as soon as the design is registered under the Designs Act, 2000. Restoration of lapsed designs. Effect of disclosure on copyright.

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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. The Ghostly Trio.

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A Brief Thematic Review of Non-Fungible Tokens and their Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

In today’s digital world, a lot of data and information have been shared online and are susceptible to corruption and copying. In a limited sense, the IT Act, 2000’s discussion of intellectual property and protection problems omitted the issue of technological misuse from its legislative framework.

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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 picture was released in Public Domain without permission, which is the issue with this.

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Cardinals Of Intellectual Property Rights (Part- II)

IP and Legal Filings

To reproduce, store, issue copies to public, perform, communicate, and make translation or adaptation of the work. These are protected under the Designs Act, 2000, corresponding to Design (Amendment) Rules, 2014. Moral Rights- Two fundamental moral rights of an author are the right of paternity and right of integrity.

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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.