Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

The rise in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has attracted a great deal of attention from copyright practitioners and aficionados. Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. And why is that? an exploitation that caused them no harm).

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The IPKat

JULY 21, 2023

Metaverse Kat The EC’s strategy is centred around four pillars: Empowering people and reinforcing skills – the EC is seeking to develop guidance for the general public by Q1 2024; Business: supporting a European Web 4.0 If doing so constitutes copyright infringement, the full destruction of the infringing NFTs may be difficult.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 29, 2024

Entertainment, a company incorporated by the famous music composer, singer and lyrist Daler Mehndi, sought a permanent injunction prohibiting infringement of his publicity rights and deceptive endorsements that could result in passing off. Copyright laws also provide plausible remedies for enforcing one’s right to personality.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

She also alerted readers to the upcoming public webinar on 5 March 2024 and that the USPTO is seeking public comments on the Guidance by 13 May 2024. Rose Hughes highlighted some key changes introduced by the new EPO Guidelines for Examination 2024 , which will enter into force on 1 March 2024.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 6, 2024

In the US, a voice isn’t explicitly protected under copyright law, but there are potential protections under the right of publicity, which is enforced through state laws related to the appropriation of likeness, name, and voice. For instance, ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted books by J.K.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. While delineating the rights of the parties, the Court held that R.D Thus clarifying that copyright in the screenplay exists independently of the copyright in the film.

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