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Design Protection: Don’t Sleep on Copyrights

LexBlog IP

In a recent decision, the Review Board of the United States Copyright Office (“Board”) reversed an examiner’s prior refusal to register a copyright in the artistic elements present in the bed shown above, paving the way for the applicant to obtain a copyright registration in this work. Varsity Brands, Inc.,

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Hacking Fashion Week: IP Guide to Survival

LexBlog IP

Copycats: unregistered designs, unfair competition and copyright Better register first than be sorry later. In general it is a good idea to register fashion products which have a reasonable expectation of commercial success as designs or, where possible, as shape-trademarks before they appear on the catwalk.

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Fashion Copyright and Infringement

IP and Legal Filings

However, it is also important to assess the position of copyright protection offered to fashion designers specifically and the scope of the same. However, even then, the degree of novelty required in work was not so low as to allow everyone to get copyright protection for their artistic work. Copyright Act or Design Act?

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Rights Retention Strategy or How to End a Mexican Stand Off – Part One

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In the first part, I’ll explain the forces at play in the publishing industry, why copyright ownership in academia is so important and how the publishing process works. The old argument of copyright ownership in academia According to the UK’s Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, the author of a work is the owner of any copyright in it.

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Critical Analysis on Intellectual Property Rights and its components.

IIPRD

This right can be related to music, a book, a logo, any art work, work related to science, designs of the industries. Work related to art or any rights which is related to literary, artistic, or scientific related matters. This is basically for literary and artistic work.

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Fleshing out the copyright in a tattoo

IP Whiteboard

In what we understand to be an industry-first, the Copyright Agency (an Australian not-for-profit collecting society that also licences copyright protected literary and artistic works) has licenced an Indigenous artwork for a tattoo. Is it copyright infringement to copy a work and use it as a tattoo? .

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Traditional Tattoos on the Red Carpet: Continuing the Conversation of Collective Ownership

IPilogue

These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws. Of note, in DRG Inc.

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