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Protecting Fashion or Stifling Innovation

IIPRD

It is here that the distinction between ‘design’ in the Designs Act and ‘artistic work’ in the Copyright Act becomes relevant. This is evidenced as an artistic work enjoys protection throughout the life of the author plus sixty years; whereas a design only enjoys protection for 10 years from registration.

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Digitalization And Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

Copyright And Copyright Law Copyright is one of the crucial parts of Intellectual Property Rights which helps the owner of any creative work to have a legal right over the possession of such work or art. Such work may include any literary or artistic work such as books, articles, films, databases, computer programs etc.

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11th Circuit affirms Viacom's Rogers-based win for MTV Floribama Shore

43(B)log

Flora-Bama logo The Flora-Bama has been featured in artistic works by third parties. The title-v-title exception to original-recipe Rogers didn’t apply, because the bar’s name is not the title of an artistic work. Likewise, they submitted no evidence of confusion between any of those works and MTV’s show.

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Emerging Trends In Digital Copyright Law

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Given the fact that the copyright law was originally framed to protect literary and artistic works, it needs to be seen how much the law has evolved to grant protection to digitalized works. Copyright is basically the legal protection given to any creator of an original literary or artistic work. Indian Scenario.

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Authorship In An Impromptu Performance Under Indian Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

Under Rome Convention also, we can find that there is a specific reference made to “performance of Literary and Artistic Works.” Literary and Artistic work under the Rome Convention is referring to ‘literary and artistic work’, as it is referred to under the Berne Convention.

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Protection of Trademarks in Philippines

IP and Legal Filings

A logo or device (excluding word elements) may be considered an artistic work and subject to copyright protection. 1, Series of 2008, the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 and the Electronic Commerce Act of 2000. The registered owner is also afforded border enforcement measures by the Bureau of Customs. Conclusion.

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Copyright Infringement Case Concerning Photos of Jennifer Lopez Gets Dismissed: An Overview of the August Image LLC v AirG Inc Decision

IPilogue

C-42 , the following conditions must be met for a copyright to be conferred to an author of an artistic work:(1) the work must be original; (2) the person must be the author of the work; and (3) they must, at the date of its creation, be either a Canadian citizen or a citizen of a signatory country on the Berne Convention (para 26).