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Using that classic piece of art on a book cover: Grr…

The IPKat

Works of art, in the form of the reproduction of a painting, frequently adorns the cover of a reissued edition of a renowned novel. What preoccupied Benjamin was how to understand the reproduction of works of art, especially in his seminal 1935 essay entitled, in English translation, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”.

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Crypto Group Buys Dune Book, Confuses it for Buying the Rights

Plagiarism Today

The fact that so few copies exist means that burning it may run afoul of the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) if the editions are signed and numbered. In other nations, moral rights may prohibit that. In short, the group wrongly assumed that purchasing the book granted them the rights in the book itself.

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When is an artist entitled to refuse attribution of an artwork? Italian Supreme Court provides (final) guidance in long-running dispute over Jeff Koons’s The Serpents

The IPKat

As IPKat readers are surely aware, his fame extends well beyond the art world, given that Koons has contributed as litigant to some of the most interesting copyright case law around the world [see, eg, IPKat coverage here ]. Moral rights under Italian law and the issue before the Supreme Court Moral rights are not harmonized at the EU level.

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IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners announced!

The IPKat

Regulation, Innovation and Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets, by Margherita Colangelo. 25 Things You Should Know About Artificial Intelligence, Art and Copyright, by Pablo Fernández Carballo-Calero. 25 Things You Should Know About Artificial Intelligence, Art and Copyright, by Pablo Fernández Carballo-Calero.

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Saving the printed press – the Croatian implementation of Article 15 of the DSM Directive

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Furthermore, it introduces an accompanying new moral right of attribution for the first source of the ‘news of the day’. Works of authorship are protected through economic and moral rights afforded to the copyright holder. Nevertheless, a more precise characterisation is that this is a new related right.

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Canadian Perspectives on Artist Resale Rights

IPilogue

In an address to a parliamentary committee in 2016 , Rankin Inlet-based artist Theresie Tungilik noted that “[the] artist’s resale right will have a positive financial impact as 10% of Canada’s export is Inuit art.”. The study also found that the market continued to grow after the implementation of the resale right in 2006.

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First duel between NFTs and copyright before the Spanish courts: NFTs 1 – Authors 0

Kluwer Copyright Blog

That is, in an NFT there can be an underlying copy of a work of art –typically an image, photograph, piece of music, video or certain audiovisual content– that may be subject to copyright. Therefore, the moral right of “disclosure” had already been exhausted. an exploitation that caused them no harm).

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