IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 8, 2023

Licensing It denotes that the film is based on a previously published novel, book, or artistic work. These agreements include the following: ● Artist agreement – When an artist does business with a company, an agreement is made between the parties because art is inherently subject to many Intellectual Property issues.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

2021 has seen the emergence of a litigation genre against “yearbook” database vendors that publish old yearbooks online. 2021 WL 5050079 (N.D. 2021 WL 5795306 (N.D. The statutory exception for depicting people in literary and artistic works doesn’t apply to the associated ads (?). Callahan v.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2022

As reported , this notice was issued around November 2021. For instance, the US Copyright Office has categorically rejected such applications on the grounds that a ‘work meets legal and formal requirements of copyright protection only if it is created by a human author’. The current status of this proceeding is unclear.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

2021 WL 2497928, No. May 19, 2021) Mandabach produces the TV series Peaky Blinders , and it alleged that it owned trademarks and other intellectual property of the show “and certain quotations/sayings/phrases from the show.” Caryn Mandabach Prods. Sadlers Brewhouse Ltd., CV 20-10220-CBM-(JEMx) (C.D.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Here's what Jørgen writes: Universal Copyright Convention – RIP by Jørgen Blomqvist On December 9, 2021, WIPO announced that the Kingdom of Cambodia has joined the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, with effect from March 9, 2022.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

1] That decision shook the art world, as it seems to dramatically narrow the scope of the fair use doctrine, and raises doubts about the lawfulness of many existing works. [2] On March 26, 2021, the Second Circuit issued an opinion reversing the district court’s decision. 1183 (2021).

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

JULY 19, 2021

As of 2021, we do not have AGI, and AI researchers and scientists are skeptical about its existence in the near decades to come considering the various complexities involved in the formation and development of AI. What is Intellectual Property? But interestingly, Deep Blue could not even beat a teenager at tic-tac-toe.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Other Posts Free Certificate Course in Application of Intellectual Property Rights for Startups and Entrepreneurship [November 22- 23] Free Certificate Course in Application of Intellectual Property Rights for Startups and Entrepreneurship on November 22 and 23. Read the post by Tejaswini and Praharsh to know more.

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The IPKat

APRIL 18, 2022

Here’s what happened (spoiler alert: Four Tet prevailed on some, but failed in others)… Background Mr Keiran Hebden, who goes by the artistic name of Four Tet, as a music artist, is suing his record label Domino Recording Company for breach of contract. The songs have since returned to streaming platforms.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

But NFTs are separate and distinct from the digital items they are meant to authenticate, making it extremely difficult to assign title to the various intellectual property rights stemming from the sale of each NFT. They are sold and/or traded in connection with “smart contracts” that govern the terms of transfer.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 12, 2024

Introduction Intellectual Property (IP) is a fascinating domain of human creativity and innovation. It means the products created by the use of the human mind as well as some resultant inventions, literary works, original designs, and the identities of various trademarks or logos that serve as brands in the market.

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IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

With the development of latest technologies like the Creative Adversarial Network (“CAN”), many areas which were yet unexplored in the realm of Intellectual Property Rights have arisen. 30, 2023) [link] Soaham Bajpai, Artificial Intelligence and Its Creation: Who Owns Intellectual Property Rights?, 1 (2021). [11]

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IPilogue

MARCH 1, 2022

” K: “What I would like to see is institutions and companies actively reaching out to people to clarify consent before reposting artists’ work[s] in their feed , especially seeing as corporate representatives may not even know if the artist wants to be associated with their brand or company. She has amassed over 99.2k

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

2021 WL 1201086 (E.D.N.Y.). The parties settled in April 2021. The Court found for the filmmakers, holding that the Lanham Act should only apply to artistic works “where the public interest in avoiding consumer confusion outweighs the public interest in free expression.” Nike, Inc. MSCHF Product Studio, Inc.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As of 27 October 2021, there is a total of 24.43cr cases and 49.61lakh deaths worldwide with the USA on top followed by India and Brazil. This incident gives rise to the first international agreement on the protection of intellectual property in 1883 as the ‘Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.’

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IIPRD

AUGUST 11, 2023

According to the well-settled laws of copyright, it is a blatant mutilation of the rights of an author over their works and the characters they have developed. Manga-ka has also started producing official translations in collaboration with fans overseas and publishing them online by the end of 2021. million JPY ($13,500 USD).

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2022

If the author is a foreign natural person or legal entity, the product design or 3D packaging may be protected as a foreign work of applied art under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (“Berne Convention”) for 25 years in China. Beijing Zhongrong Hengsheng Wood Industry Co.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

There the Second Circuit held that “section 43(a) of the Lanham Act does not bar a minimally relevant use of a celebrity’s name in the title of an artistic work where the title does not explicitly denote authorship, sponsorship, or endorsement by the celebrity or explicitly mislead as to content.” ” Id.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

His passion lies in understanding the intersection of economics and public health with intellectual property rights. They filed a suit alleging copyright and trademark infringement against the defendant after discovering that they were selling household products under the name, ‘SUFIYAMA’, using a similar trade dress and artistic work.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Applying this standard, the Court held “parody has an obvious claim to transformative value,” because “it can provide social benefit, by shedding light on an earlier work, and, in the process, creating a new one.” 1183 (2021). 2021) (emphasis in original); it retreated from that position after AWF’s petition for rehearing.]

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

4th 26, 32 (2021). If Warhol’s degree of creative transformation cannot even satisfy the first fair-use factor, little remains of the fair-use defense for artistic works.” ’ 11 F. ” Concurrence at 6. ” Reply Brief For Petitioner at 1 (dated September 7, 2022). “And I mean that literally.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

Against that background, this blog post provides some tentative musings on the impact of text-to-image generators on human artistic creativity by analysing recent US and Canadian copyright registrations for artistic works. In contrast, the CIPO has arguably adopted a more liberal attitude to computer-generated works.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Nikita Munjal is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, a Student Editor with the Intellectual Property Journal, and a third-year JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . Creative works, such as artworks, qualify for copyright protection if they are original. It is not surprising that human artists are granted such protections.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

On appeal, on 18 May 2021 the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (‘Second Circuit’) upheld the District Court’s decision. Goldsmith , an early 2021 case on (denied) fair use of photographs depicting the popstar Prince by Andy Warhol. Background. The song “Fish Sticks n’ Tater Tots” was composed by the plaintiffs in 2011.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

He then searched the Copyright Database maintained by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). There were 18 registered copyrighted works related to the Ogopogo, including books, posters, artwork, videos (in some cases, supposedly of the creature itself) and dramatic works. We may never know.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 29, 2023

1] However, this growth also brought an onslaught of new Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The law doesn’t specify 3D or 2D characters as copyrightable, but they can be covered under artistic works as per Section 13 of the Copyright Act. 3] Section 17 of the Copyright Act, 1957. [4] 4] Andrew L. 6] Stuart D.

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IPilogue

MARCH 21, 2022

Nikita Munjal is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, a Student Editor with the Intellectual Property Journal, and a third-year JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Labelling the work as a “creation”, as opposed to an “output” or “generation”, has been the topic of global debate.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. 5(1) of the Copyright Act , copyrights subsist in artistic works such as photographs or paintings. Samantha Melhado is a 3L J.D. Spoiler alert, it depends.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. The etymology of the word may make sense, but can the same image be copied over and over without intellectual property repercussions? Artistic Work.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 12, 2023

The USCO rejected Kashtanova’s application to the extent it covered the images of the comic book (as opposed to the text) on the basis that AI-generated portions of the work lack the “human authorship” required to gain copyright protection in the USA.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In September 2021, Indigenous model and activist Quannah Chasinghorse turned heads at the Met Gala wearing a gold cut-out gown by Peter Dundas and traditional Navajo turquoise jewelry. In 1995, the Cowichan Band Council with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office to register the word “Cowichan”. To cast away the shame.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 20, 2022

Yet, in many cases, museums continue to profit off of and control these works. On the one hand, licensing deals made possible by control over artistic works offer an important source of revenue for museums struggling during, or in the wake of, mandated closures.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was certainly a wild ride, but this ride isn’t over just yet. In light of WIPO’s recent announcement that Cambodia will be joining the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in March 2022, Katfriend Jørgen Blomqvist commented on the obsolescence of the Universal Copyright Convention (UCC).

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IPilogue

MARCH 31, 2023

assisted works could be given protection and whether I could get an image I had made with an A.I. as an artistic work in Canada on December 1 st , 2021, for “ Suryast ” with CIPO (Registration no. Recently, while hearing the debates about AI and authorship, I was intrigued about whether A.I. RAGHAV: The A.I.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

’ The Agreed Statement concerning Article 8 of the WCT which is worded as follows: ‘It is understood that the mere provision of physical facilities for enabling or making a communication does not in itself amount to communication within the meaning of this Treaty or the Berne Con. .”

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IPilogue

JANUARY 17, 2022

Nikita Munjal is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, a Student Editor with the Intellectual Property Journal, and a third-year JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . While many were observing the new year, intellectual property scholars and the artistic community were celebrating Public Domain Day.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 12, 2023

The USCO rejected Kashtanova’s application to the extent it covered the images of the comic book (as opposed to the text) on the basis that AI-generated portions of the work lack the “human authorship” required to gain copyright protection in the USA.

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