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Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law!

SpicyIP

Shamnad Basheer 1976-2019; taken at NUJS, Kolkata circa 2009. We are very happy to announce the results of the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law! The annual essay competition was earlier announced on 14 May 2024, on the occasion of Prof. Basheers 48th birth anniversary.

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Extension of the Deadline for the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law – 28th July, 2024 

SpicyIP

Shamnad Basheer 1976-2019; taken at NUJS, Kolkata circa 2009. With several requests for extensions coming in, we’ve decided to extend the deadline for the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law. The new deadline is 28th July, 2024 (11:59 pm IST).

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The WIPO Files I: the quest to protect user rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

For most of its existence, international copyright policy at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has focused on the creation and harmonization of exclusive rights. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. by Christopher Heath. €

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Sony’s Ancient Lawsuit vs. Cheat Device Heads in Right Direction – Sony’s Defeat

TorrentFreak

If Sony has its way and the protection software enjoys under the 2009 Computer Programs Directive is extended to transient variables in RAM, those who modify those variables – the users of tweaking software – would become direct infringers under copyright law.

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Easy, Breezy, Bioprintable: 3D Printing in the Cosmetics Industry

IPilogue

Emily Xiang is an IPilogue Writer, President of the Intellectual Property Society of Osgoode, and a 2L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . 3D Bioprinting & Canadian Patent Law. From an intellectual property law perspective, could 3D bioprinted material be patented? What is Bioprinting?

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Should the EU unify copyright laws?

The IPKat

A Dietz, ‘The protection of intellectual property in the information age - the draft E.U. Fast forward to today, and we see that – over a handful of months – two further calls for unification or consolidation appear to have been authoritatively made. Why, how, and when unification?

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Traditional Tattoos on the Red Carpet: Continuing the Conversation of Collective Ownership

IPilogue

These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws.

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