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Do I Need Clearance in the U.S. if I Acquire Rights from a Public Domain Source Abroad?

Dear Rich IP Blog

I'm in the process of publishing a book that will contain lots of images, mostly of artworks by one artist in particular. The artist is French, I am British, and my publisher is based in the U.S. The artist died over 70 years ago, and in Britain and Europe, his works are out of copyright. But in the U.S.,

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Are Yoga Poses Copyrightable?

IP and Legal Filings

Deluxe Films (1978), to qualify for copyright protection in India, the work must fulfil two essential requirements: Originality and copyrightable subject matter: Copyright subsists in only original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works and cinematographic films and sound recordings. Seldon (1879). of India, L.P.

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The Much-Adapted “Peter Pan” (1904 – Forever )

Velocity of Content

It also does not permit the foundation to impose, even in the UK, any restriction (other than the payment of royalties) on performances of, or creation of derivative works from, the play. As it turns out, although there have been many adaptations of the old play and novel, there has not been a book sequel to Peter Pan until quite recently.

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[Guest post] Universal Copyright Convention – RIP

The IPKat

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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How A Century-Old Insight of Photography Can Inform Legal Questions of AI-Generated Artwork (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

A new breed of artists is using generative artificial intelligence tools like DALL·E, Midjourney, Firefly, and ChatGPT to create artistic works. Do these creations belong to the artists or the public domain? But artists’ ability to own these works is hardly clear. By guest blogger Prof.

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Fair Use for Documentaries in US Copyright Law: Brown v Netflix

Kluwer Copyright Blog

where it held that the Google Books Library Project, which consists of scanning and making searchable the book collections of major research libraries, did not produce a competing substitute for the books. Tales from the Public Domain , “documentaries are records of our culture. Google, Inc.

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In the Crucible of Debate: Analysing the Evolution of Copyright and Translation Terms- Part I

SpicyIP

The term varied depending on the nature of the work. For literary, dramatic, and musical works, copyright lasted for the lifetime of the author plus 50 years after their death. In the case of photographs and artistic works, the term was 50 years from the date of publication.