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Donald C. Brace Memorial Lecture by Professor David Vaver – “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond”

IPilogue

Professor Vaver spoke on the origins of fair dealing in Canada and its differences and similarities in comparison to the American legal concept of “fair use”, its evolution throughout the history of Canadian common law jurisprudence, and its potentially far-reaching future beyond Canada and copyright law. .

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The next chapter in the “Metall auf Metall” saga – Pastiche to be clarified by the CJEU

Kluwer Copyright Blog

With regard to the “free use” of then-§ 24(1) UrhG, the CJEU stated that the national copyright laws may not provide for exceptions or limitations other than those listed in Art. 24(1) UrhG is incompatible with the exhaustive list of copyright exceptions and limitations in Art. 5 InfoSoc Directive. 5 InfoSoc Directive.

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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. CC licenses are not per se “online only” but they are impractical offline.)

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Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on IPR – a Regressive View

SpicyIP

In the context of the current pandemic and the constrained means to access educational material, this should have ideally translated into more proactive and robust measures to reform copyright law such that it does not attenuate the enjoyment of the right to education. “In Therefore, the rights of publishers are only a means to an end.

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Watch Tower vs. McFree: Nonprofit Defends Critic’s Fair Use & Anonymity Rights

TorrentFreak

Since 2017, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, has filed more than 70 DMCA subpoena applications in the United States. When taken at face value, they all tell a straightforward story. The latter comes with a fairly delicious twist.

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Dua Lipa Faces Another Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over “Levitating”

Copyright Lately

On Tuesday, Dua Lipa was hit with a copyright complaint by Florida reggae band Artikal Sound System over her 2020 hit “Levitating.” Larball Publishing Co. ” Now, the British pop star faces a second infringement lawsuit, putting Lipa in the same rarified air as Taylor Swift , Drake and Ed Sheeran. Dua Lipa et al.

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IP as a political instrument in Russia

The IPKat

In the spring and summer of 2022, following the international sanctions imposed upon Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, Russia introduced several landmark changes to its IP law, most notably to patent, trademark and copyright laws. These provisions were further transferred into the Civil Code in 2006.

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