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Let’s put the cards on the table: Are games copyrightable?

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Firstly, it seems clear that any element that is included in a board game and meets the originality criterion, constitutes a literary or artistic work, depending on its nature. Drawings, designs, figures or characters can be classified as artistic works. Tecnos, 2017 (Comentario al art.

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[Guest Post] Things go belly-up for Aldi in Australia as baby food packaging found to constitute copyright infringement

The IPKat

Background Packaging of various BELLIES products In 2017 and 2018, EBC engaged a British firm to design packaging for its baby food products, which developed a monster visual identity where each product depicted different ages (i.e. baby, young, and fully-grown) to allude to natural progression.

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Long walk to copyright reform #7: South Africa's revised Copyright Amendment Bill is back to Parliament for reaffirmation

The IPKat

Earlier this February, South Africa’s Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition began the process of consideration and report on the Copyright Amendment Bill [B13F-2017]. In addition to the foregoing, clauses relating to circumstances where the author of literary or musical works, visual artistic work, etc.

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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Thailand

IP and Legal Filings

Literary, dramatic, and artistic works are recognized as protected works under Thailand’s Copyright Act B.E. Apart from the copyright of an NFT’s underlying work, NFTs are also subject to property rights as stipulated under Section 37 of the Constitution of Thailand B.E. 2537 (1994). Conclusion.

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Parody under the Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

This issue was cleared in Civic Chandran case wherein the Court held that ‘the purpose of reproduction of artistic work i.e., counter drama was not misappropriation, to produce a play similar to the original. The Supreme Court’s decisions in the case of Shree Ventakesh Films (SVF) v.

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When is a derivative work original and thus protectable by copyright? Classicist’s critical edition makes its way to Luxembourg in fresh Romanian CJEU referral

The IPKat

In 2017, the Regional Court of Bucharest held that the defendants had infringed the professor’s moral right of attribution. Călinescu , it will be required to tackle the question of what makes a derivative work protectable and what ‘freedom’ and ‘creativity, both cumulative requirements under the EU originality test, mean in this context.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 3 – March 9)

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Case Summaries Abbott Healthcare Private Limited vs Vinsac Pharma on 17 February, 2025 (Delhi High Court) Abbott Healthcare sued two defendants for trademark and copyright infringement, claiming they deceptively copied its well-known LIMCEE Vitamin C tablets by selling LIMEECEE with similar packaging. Citing Jaisuryas Retail Ventures v.