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Book review: Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship

The IPKat

And who poses moral rights in the work? This chapter also describes the methodology for the qualitative empirical research that involved 20 interviews conducted during 2011-13 with participants from the theatre community including actors, playwrights, directors, and producers. The monograph is presented in six chapters.

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Unclear student guide not enough to constitute authorisation to use short film still

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Facts Mr T trained as an editor at a film and audiovisual school run by ECAR CAMPUS from 2009 to 2011. In its 2010/2011 student guide, the school's internal regulations stated that “ students grant their school permission to use their work exclusively for educational and non-commercial purposes, to promote the school to the general public ”.

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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

style fair use: South Korea adopted it in 2011 , and it has been considered for adoption by Australia. Copyright Act is an extremely limited right, and fair uses of artworks are explicitly made exempt from attribution requirements. Copyright Office in its 2017 report on moral rights. However, U.S.

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DMCA, Twitch, and “Death Note”

IPilogue

Twitch has been featured on the IPilogue in the past (relating to video game copyrights , moral rights in video games , and the European Copyright Directive ) but this case is unique as it involves a different form of copyrighted media: TV shows. Twitch Popularity.

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Born to be authors: the copyright of the child

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The notion of stewardship (H R Howe, ‘Copyright limitations and the stewardship model of property’ (2011) 2 IPQ 183-214) is instrumental to expanding the scope of the analysis on vulnerable authors (e.g. The aim of the research is not to support the enforcement of further boundaries or forms of control on copyright works.

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Personality Rights In India : A Statutory And Judicial Analysis

IP and Legal Filings

Protection Of Personality Rights Under Ipr Although the provisions of the country’s current IPR laws can be used as an indirect reference, the law dealing to such a violation of image rights has not received exclusive recognition under Indian law. In Titan industries v. M/S Ramkumar jewellers, CS (OS) No.2662/2011,

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The Interplay of Personality Rights and Freedom of Expression- the Jackie Shroff’s Case’

IP and Legal Filings

Using someone else’s identity without their consent violates both their personality rights as well as their right to privacy. Network Solutions Private Limited and Ors Case (2011) , the Hon’ble Delhi High Court noted that an individual’s online reputation or popularity is a reflection of their real life.