SpicyIP

MARCH 16, 2025

In 2020, the plaintiff issued legal notice to the defendants. 1 failed to contest the case despite multiple opportunities and was found to have deliberately copied the plaintiffs branding, leading to consumer deception. The two products were also similar in terms of artwork, colour scheme and packaging.

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IP Whiteboard

AUGUST 30, 2020

In what we understand to be an industry-first, the Copyright Agency (an Australian not-for-profit collecting society that also licences copyright protected literary and artistic works) has licenced an Indigenous artwork for a tattoo. Left: Chris Black’s Jarrangini (buffalo), 2018 © Chris Black/Copyright Agency, 2020.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights 2020, here. The Court of Appeal however found that there was enough evidence before the court to prove CPL’s ownership of the copyright in the artwork (as it had commissioned and paid for the artwork).

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

NFTs may be represented in the form of memes, artworks, or videos. Most prominently, through its 2020 report, IBM stated that several patents granted to them in 2017 also comprised of blockchain patents. In the NFT space, a buyer is granted ownership over a copy of a digital artifact.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 14, 2024

Copyright Act to provide living creators of “works of visual art” [2] with certain non-transferable “moral rights” with respect to their artwork. [3] VARA VARA was enacted in 1990 as an amendment to the U.S. ” [5] The latter has become known as the “public presentation” exception.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 1, 2023

Intellectual Property Right The rights and privileges accorded to persons over their creative works, such as innovations, works of literature, and artwork, as well as use of names, logos and pictures in trade are known as intellectual property rights (IPR). In reaction, they invite for a Data Exclusivity law. iv] Sameer Wadekar & Anr.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Desny could not get through to Wilder and subsequently stripped his script to the bare facts so that Wilder’s secretary could copy it in short-hand over the phone. In an effort to market his script, Desny called Billy Wilder, a writer, producer and director at Paramount Pictures.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Within hours, his work, Comedian , sold for $120,000, went viral, and became that year’s perhaps most discussed artwork. [2] copyright law does not protect “elements of expression that nature displays for all observers,” [8] which, according to Cattelan, excludes the main components of Morford’s artwork.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

billion in sales in 2021 alone, the non-fungible token (“NFT”) has recently undergone a dramatic rise in prominence in the cryptoverse, similar to the “crypto summer” of 2017-18 or the “DeFi summer” of 2020. With an astounding $17.7 million) knew that the NFT may or may not reference any art at all.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 14, 2023

The initial pre-print version was drafted with the collaboration of academics from different universities and led to an international conference in 2020 in Geneva. archival fonds shall not be subject to the same remuneration as unique artworks, as advocated by scholars ). version with further considerations (e.g., Proposal 4.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

The EUIPO has cancelled street artist Banksy’s trademark for the well-known artwork ‘Flower Bomber” on the grounds that it was filed in bad faith. Mandarins arrive in Luxembourg… the IP ‘case of the year 2020’. My product was copied and I haven’t registered it. There will be a sequel! is there anything I can do?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

The case focuses on whether Ed Sheeran consciously copied Sami Switch’s chorus. Accordingly, this case is a useful example of how a court will: (1) assess the derivation requirement (of actual copying) of UK copyright; and, (2) as part of that, consider similarity between musical works for the purpose of copyright infringement.”

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

6, 2020, which sold for nearly $400,000. However, the underlying digital artwork itself is not the NFT. Importantly for purchasers, NBA Top Shop licenses grant owners a non-exclusive right to use , display and copy the digital art but only for personal uses and repudiates the right of commercial exploitation.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

For example, in 2020, @karmanverdi – a Russian Musical Artist – created a novel approach to take photos in Lockdown and titled the series “There are so many ghosts at my site.” Subscribe to copyright for original videos, audio recordings, pictures, writing, and artwork. Obtain legal ownership verification.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 31, 2022

Desny could not get through to Wilder and subsequently stripped his script to the bare facts so that Wilder’s secretary could copy it in short-hand over the phone. In an effort to market his script, Desny called Billy Wilder, a writer, producer and director at Paramount Pictures.

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IP Whiteboard

JUNE 7, 2021

NFTs have a variety of uses which extend far beyond digital artwork. You then upload a copy of the digital work that you want to represent in NFT-form to the NFT marketplace, pay a transaction fee and click ‘create’. million USD sale of his “Warrior” painting, which became the most expensive Western artwork sold in Asia.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2024

The plaintiff alleged that the defendant’s use of “Café Social” for its restaurant in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh infringes its trademark as it copied the “Social” word mark and the plaintiff’s distinctive artwork representing its trademark. The plaintiff’s counsel filed an affidavit regarding costs and damages, claiming Rs.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

If the other opinion becomes the standard, whoever mints the artwork first will be the copyright owner and the artist could be at risk of losing their artwork in NFT form. What was sold are “NFTiffs,” which are digital passes that NFT holders can redeem for digital artwork based on CryptoPunks. The profit from this was over $12.5

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

One of Deadly Doll’s popular designs is a cartoon image of a bikini-clad pin-up girl holding a skull: Deadly Doll’s original artwork. Deadly Doll has applied versions of its artwork to various products, including tops and sweatpants: Deadly Doll’s artwork as reproduced on useful articles. View Fullscreen.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

President Ford couldn’t prevent others from copying bare historical facts. Review board 1995-2020: same basic story. Q: Why are photos rejected less than artwork? A: because logos fall w/in the category artwork and are more often rejected—photos are generally considered protectable b/c of their characteristics.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

If the other opinion becomes the standard, whoever mints the artwork first will be the copyright owner and the artist could be at risk of losing their artwork in NFT form. What was sold are “NFTiffs,” which are digital passes that NFT holders can redeem for digital artwork based on CryptoPunks. Article 10.1

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2022

2020-2205, slip op. As Billboard further noted: In his decision, Judge Antony Zacaroli ruled there was no evidence that Sheeran had intentionally or “subconsciously” copied from “Oh Why” when he wrote “Shape of You.”

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