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The Fairest of Them All: Justice Abella’s Legacy in Canadian Copyright Law

IPilogue

Not only did the Supreme Court of Canada hear the much-anticipated York University v Access Copyright appeal, an important case on the nature of copyright collective licensing and educational fair dealing, but it was also the Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella’s final hearing as a Supreme Court Justice. v Teranet Inc.

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If You Ask Your Friend to Take Your Photo Using Your Camera, Who Owns the Copyright?–Shah v. NYP

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In 2012, the FBI arrested Shah for extortion, which sparked news coverage. This raises an obvious corollary: at most, Shah has a non-exclusive license to those photos, so what are the terms of those licenses and could Shah potentially infringe the owners’ copyrights by posting them?

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Old Is No Longer Gold: Do Copyright in Films/Songs Expire with the 60 Year Limit?

SpicyIP

Aditya Pandey (2012) , has held that sound recording is an integrated whole in which are interwoven varied individual underlying works like the lyrics and music. The communication to the public of the sound recording does not infringe the copyright in underlying works after the expiry of the term of the sound recording.

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Conundrum Involving The Ownership Of The Work Created By Ai

IP and Legal Filings

AI can explore data or information that is accessible in public domain or copyright of other person and can investigate or work upon that information but only to that extent which the software program permits. [3] Therefore, AI may not equipped for generating an original work. Hence, ownership is not granted to the AI.

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European Copyright Society letter to Commissioner Breton on a future agenda in the field of copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Our society was founded in January 2012 with the aim of creating a platform for independent and critical scholarly thinking on European copyright law [1]. In this regard, a clear reflection on the preservation and legal protection of the public domain against undue appropriations seems necessary.

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Are Yoga Poses Copyrightable?

IP and Legal Filings

They sued the Defendants for violating the licensing agreements signed between them, by conducting courses, issuing certificates, and selling materials about Pranic Healing without the authorisation of the Plaintiffs. Evolation Yoga, LLC (2012). of India, L.P.

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Copyright Evidence: 21 for 2021 (a year in review)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In this post, we offer an overview of the project to date, stratified across CREATe’s core research themes : Creative Industries , the Public Domain , and Competition and Markets. Public Domain. In a wider sense, what is public and what is private has important innovation and societal effects. Creative Industries.