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The Interplay of Personality Rights and Freedom of Expression- the Jackie Shroff’s Case’

IP and Legal Filings

However, this article will discuss the reasoning of the court with respect to relief claimed by the Plaintiff against a creator of a YouTube video who compiled the interviews of the plaintiff and depicted his personality as ‘thug life’ The plaintiff contended that such videos portrayed him in a derogatory manner.

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Artist Royalties: An exegesis of Resale rights in India

IIPRD

The general position in intellectual property laws states that upon the assignment of the copyright by the artist over his artwork to another legal entity, the artist cannot enjoy any economic benefits attached to the artwork. This theory prescribes that artists have inalienable rights over their artwork upon its creation.

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Copyright Protection of Photographs: a Comparative Analysis Between France, Germany and Italy

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This contribution is based on a paper published in 44 European Intellectual Property Law Review 595 (2022). . Photographs are included in Article 2(1) of the Berne Convention as copyrightable artistic works. By contrast, the author of a simple photograph is not granted any moral right.

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

xi] There are countless articles and marketing studies directing corporations on how to market via memes to reach the maximum level of engagement. xxiv] Intellectual property law recognizes a limited monopoly-esque property right for the creator. 405 (2019); Terrica Carrington, Grumpy Cat or Copy Cat?

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The Modern Copyright Dilemma: Digital Content Ownership and Access

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge.

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The concept of quotation according to the Italian Supreme Court: yet another example of the failure in the harmonization of EU copyright exceptions

Kluwer Copyright Blog

On 8 February 2022, the Italian Supreme Court (the Corte di Cassazione ) issued an order that intervened on the interpretation of the quotation exception under Article 70 of the Italian Copyright Act (l.aut.). [1] Schifano’s heirs sued again the Foundation, claiming violation of their economic and moral rights over the works.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

These provisions served as, among other things, models for Articles 18 and 20 in the new DSM Copyright Directive (2019/790). The BGH confirmed that the so-called adapter cards distributed by the defendant (for the use of illegal copies of games) were within the meaning of Section 95a (3) No. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.