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Copyright Protection in Food Plating

IP and Legal Filings

Plating is in itself an art and in this article, we will discuss whether the Indian copyright law protects how a dish is presented by a chef. Originality Though the term or concept of ‘originality’ is not defined under the Act, Section 13(a) specifies that the work should be ‘original’. Modak [2] (2002).

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Copyright Hygiene for Digital Content Creators

Velocity of Content

Another option is to use “public copyright licenses,” probably the most widespread of which are those promulgated by the good folks at Creative Commons, which are notionally derived from those common in the “ open source ” (software) communities.

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The clash of artistic rights: Warhol, Goldsmith, and the boundaries of copyright in Brazil and in the U.S.

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Goldsmith et al sheds light on different perspectives of copyright law in common law and civil law countries. This brief post dives into this duality, as exampled by American and Brazilian law. Firstly, both Brazilian and American legislation stipulate that the creator of a work holds copyright over it.

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Protecting Software Innovation in India

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Types of IPR for Software Protection in India Copyright – According to Copyrights Act, 1957; Copyright grants the exclusive rights, to perform certain actions regarding a work or its substantial part. As per the definition, the computer program comes under copyright law. In the case of Ferid Allani v.

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Bill Cornish Memorial Lecture – Author as Revenue Sharer

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Ginsburg began by noting that in 2002 Professor Bill Cornish delivered the Horace S. Manges Lecture at Columbia Law School titled “The Author as Risk-Sharer”. Ginsburg returned to the challenge that Bill Cornish posed – how do we achieve “real benefits from copyright laws for the authors in whose name the copyrights are granted”?

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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

Under the 1976 Copyright Act, copyright subsists automatically in any “original work of authorship” that is “fixed in any tangible medium of expression.” [ 17 U.S.C. Complaint ¶ 64] In the alternative, Trump pleads that he owns the copyright only in his responses to Woodward’s questions. In Random House, Inc.

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