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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. Clients often request direct reproductions of imagery they have downloaded.

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Tips for Avoiding Copyright Infringement

The IP Law Blog

Specifically, copyright protection attaches to the original, creative work when it is fixed in a tangible medium, such as when it is written, drawn, recorded digitally, or typed electronically. It also protects images, photos, videos, and other written work, such as blog posts. Making a copy of a video or audio recording.

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INTERNET AND COPYRIGHT

IIPRD

Copyright is essentially a right to copy. Copyright is a term describing rights given to creators for their literary and artistic works. It’s an intellectual property, if an individual owns the copyright to something, then he’s the only owner of it and also the decider that who can copy it.

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Emerging Trends In Digital Copyright Law

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

People have become less dependent on print media and more likely to use a digital medium such as computerized documents of soft copies. Given the fact that the copyright law was originally framed to protect literary and artistic works, it needs to be seen how much the law has evolved to grant protection to digitalized works.

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NFTs and Copyright: Some Burning Issues

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The NFT may be encoded in one of two ways: either by the creation of an alpha-numeric signature , or ‘hash’, by passing the underlying work through an algorithm or by including an URL that contains the underlying work. The reproduction right includes the right to prevent the copying of the underlying work in any manner.

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Tips for Avoiding Copyright Infringement

LexBlog IP

Specifically, copyright protection attaches to the original, creative work when it is fixed in a tangible medium, such as when it is written, drawn, recorded digitally, or typed electronically. ” It also protects images, photos, videos, and other written work, such as blog posts. Making a copy of a video or audio recording.

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Shielding Innovation: Understanding Copyright Protection for App Developers and Their Software

Intepat

Introduction With the rise of the mobile application industry, India emerges as a highly profitable market, witnessing over twenty-eight billion downloads in 2022, accounting for 5% of the total global downloads. In the context of the Copyright Act, computer software is categorized as a ‘literary work’. 1 lakhs extending to Rs.