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

IP and Legal Filings

Due to the recurrent copyright difficulties, which have a significant impact on an individual’s business interest, it is imperative to preserve the ownership rights of digital works. One such area where copyright violations are common is the internet.

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

SpicyIP

While the court’s finding on the second ground alone would have sufficed, the first ground is especially interesting because the originality of the concept note was eventually determined on the basis of the originality of its derivative work i.e. Hulm Entertainment’s app. This criterion was primarily established in the EBC v.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

But Lewis thought the song was a rip-off of “I Want a New Drug” and asserted a copyright infringement claim against Columbia Pictures. Cinema Secrets (2000). Harvey wasn’t saved by the fact that later issues of “Casper” remained subject to copyright. “Halloween” (1978).

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. If the parties wanted to claim authorship of an interviews as a joint work, they may do so.

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