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Free Mickey? (Don’t Be Goofy)

LexBlog IP

January 1, 2024, brought numerous hangovers along with an unprecedented amount of media attention to intellectual property law. Freed from the shackles of copyright, Walt Disney’s iconic rodent was now in the public domain and, therefore, available for everyone to copy. But not so fast.

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Copyright Evidence: 21 for 2021 (a year in review)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

When we launched the Copyright Evidence Portal , our ambition was no less than to create a catalogue of all existing empirical studies about copyright. We invited experts to offer a synthesis of empirical evidence catalogued on the Evidence Portal in response to 21 topical copyright questions of importance for the 21 st century.

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Intellectual Property Rights And Darwinism In E-Commerce

IP and Legal Filings

There are different legislations and acts such as the Patents (Amendment) Act 2005, Copyright (Amendment) Act 1999, The Trademark Act 1999, The Designs Act 2005, and many more to regulate and protect India’s intellectual property rights. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY KIN OF E-COMMERCE.

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Dilution of Fictional Characters: A Remedy to Trademark Infringement

IP and Legal Filings

Schechter’s 1927 Harvard Law Review article, in which he explained dilution as the gradual elimination of the distinctive image of a trademark in the minds of the public, on account of the use of the trademark for non-competing goods. [2] 11] Kristen Knudsen, ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ (2000) 2 VAND. 813, 825. [3] 3] Michael T.

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Emoji and World of Intellectual Property

IIPRD

Recently, it has provided such uniform unique code numbers to approximately 2000 emoji which may be described as having an outline shape, with black and white colors along with a brief description regarding the same. This may be explained by taking into consideration copyright, trademark as well as other intellectual property regimes.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 8-November 15)

SpicyIP

Congress and the KGF 2 Copyright Dispute: Ex-Parte Injunctions, Fair Dealing, and Blocking Orders. Call for Papers: NALSAR’s Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL) Vol. Comedian Vir Das, Netflix booked for copyright infringement. Did we miss anything big? Let us know in the comments below!

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

SpicyIP

Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. She is keenly interested in Intellectual Property Law, Technology Law, and Corporate Law ]. Surprisingly, this was sufficient for the Single Bench (SB) to grant an ex-parte interim injunction ( pdf ), which they did on April 13, 2022.