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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In this post, we offer an overview of the project to date, stratified across CREATe’s core research themes : Creative Industries , the Public Domain , and Competition and Markets. Public Domain. In a wider sense, what is public and what is private has important innovation and societal effects. Creative Industries.

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

IP and Legal Filings

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. When someone mints an NFT on a public domain, they could falsely claim to be the owner of the original artwork’s copyrights.

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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.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

Cinema Secrets (2000). It found that because Harvey had not renewed the copyrights on the comics featuring the character that later developed into Fatso, the depictions of the character relied on by Harvey had fallen into the public domain. . “Halloween” (1978). The Ghostly Trio.

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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. Taylor , 945 F.2d

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