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The Risks of Dual Licensing in The Pioneering Landscape of Contemporary Open Source

Traverse Legal Blog

As more and more projects in these fields adopt open-source licensing, the legal complexities tied to these licenses are becoming increasingly relevant, with dual licensing being a case in point. Second, altering the license could alienate a project’s community, leading to forks or abandonment.

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Book review: Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship

The IPKat

Who receives the credit and the licensing rights? And who poses moral rights in the work? McDonagh discusses the emergence of the author figure as the owner of a dramatic work by analysis of authorship and ownership of plays from the Elizabethan period up to the early twentieth century.

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The Risks of Dual Licensing in The Pioneering Landscape of Contemporary Open Source

LexBlog IP

As more and more projects in these fields adopt open-source licensing, the legal complexities tied to these licenses are becoming increasingly relevant, with dual licensing being a case in point. Second, altering the license could alienate a project’s community, leading to forks or abandonment.

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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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Metadata Ruling Gives YouTube a Timely Boost in Content ID Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

Many digital file formats allow creators to embed additional data to provide details of ownership or any other relevant information. Between 2013 and 2017, Elias took photographs of hotels and licensed their owning companies to use them in promotional activities. Victor Elias specializes in hotel and resort photography.

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Copyright Legislation vis-a-vis the Music Industry : A Comparative Study of India and Indonesia

IP and Legal Filings

Producers may claim exclusive ownership of an album or song in court owing to copyright protections. Rights to distribute and reproduce the work exclusively, as well as the right to grant a license that will allow the copyright holder to collect royalties, are included in this property. The court ruled in Gramophone Co.

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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Velocity of Content

This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. 3:22-cv-06823 – Whither transformative? This will be hard to defend.