The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2024

On 1st January every year we celebrate the array of works entering the public domain, as their copyright term expires. This year, entering the public domain [generally speaking] are copyright protected works created by people who died in 1953, for countries with a copyright term of life plus 70 years (e.g.,

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IPilogue

MARCH 27, 2023

Serena Nath is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Every year on January 1, works protected under copyright law enter into the public domain due to their copyright protection expiring. As a result, the Mickey Mouse copyright was then set to expire at the end of 2003.

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IPilogue

MARCH 27, 2023

Serena Nath is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Every year on January 1, works protected under copyright law enter into the public domain due to their copyright protection expiring. As a result, the Mickey Mouse copyright was then set to expire at the end of 2003.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 10, 2023

, “Does the author of any such work loses every right in terms of Copyright after the expiration of the time period mentioned under Section(s) 22, 26 and 27 and have no recourse to the same since the works are in public domain thereafter?”. The works will enter the public domain ultimately.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Oh Mickey, you’re so fine—but you’re not alone: An avalanche of copyrighted works will enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2024. public domain on January 1, 2024—and that’s a shame. copyright terms. copyright terms. Here’s what it all means.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

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. International license.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Plaintiffs also alleged infringement of Monbo’s right of publicity, unjust enrichment, and violations of the Lanham Act and related Maryland trademark law. So too with plaintiffs’ 2003 Documentary. Plaintiffs claimed infringement, including “the character Pug, clips, the title card, concepts, feel, mood, theme, and approach.”

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