IPilogue
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
This past Monday, Osgoode’s very own Professor David Vaver delivered the 2021 Brace lecture on “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond” as the series’ very first international speaker from outside the United States. The Court of Appeal unanimously held that the scope and content of the fair dealing defence should include works of criticism.
Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
NOVEMBER 27, 2021
The Doctrine of Fair Use is a concept that originates from the case of Folsom vs. Marsh. Justice Story observed in his judgement, when the courts of law decide on cases like this, they must look to the nature and objects of the selection mode, the quantity and value of material used. Percentage of Original Material Used.
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IP and Legal Filings
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
In India particularly, the Copyrights Act, 1957 was enacted to prevent copyright infringement and recently the amendment act of 2012 was introduced to combat the changing needs of copyright law. In such provisions, the concept ‘fair use’ of copyrighted work is provided which allows the fair use of some original works in certain cases.
The IPKat
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
The Court referred to a 2012 decision of the Spanish Supreme Court in the Google case ( Sentencia no. As for the nature of the work, the Court observed that although the physical works had been used to create new, digital works, the new works respected the spirit of the originals and gave their authors proper attribution and recognition.
IP and Legal Filings
JUNE 29, 2024
Ramkumar Jewellers , wherein it was held that an individual should be able to control the circumstances around the use of their identification. [8] This usually applies in cases of news, parody, commentary, non-commercial use etc. It usually entails review, commentary, satire, comedy, criticism over the original work.
Michael Geist
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
In doing so, they have relied on a steady diet of misleading claims about the state of the law, the licensing practices of Canadian educational institutions, the importance (or lack thereof) of copying of materials in course packs, and the effects of fair dealing. These claims are grounded in multiple inaccuracies.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
APRIL 22, 2024
Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. That is, in an NFT there can be an underlying copy of a work of art –typically an image, photograph, piece of music, video or certain audiovisual content– that may be subject to copyright. And why is that?
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