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Hacking Fashion Week: IP Guide to Survival

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But if you have not taken that route for one reason or another and you encounter highly similar products on the market, there are other ways to protect your products through IP. Unfair competition may protect your fashion items against copying in two scenarios. One way is to take advantage of the European unregistered design.

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11th Circuit affirms Viacom's Rogers-based win for MTV Floribama Shore

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The Lounge has been in operation since 1964 and has gained regional fame by hosting many entertainment and athletic events.” Flora-Bama logo The Flora-Bama has been featured in artistic works by third parties. This was not a case like Parks because there was “no doubt” that the title was artistically relevant to the content.

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Fashion Copyright and Infringement

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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. In this paradigm-shifting judgment, the Court introduced the principle of “ minimum requirement of creativity ” in order to acquire copyright protection over an artistic work.

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[Guest post] Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works

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Does UK copyright law protection extend to computer-generated works which are not original? Ordinarily, for a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work to be protected under the CDPA it must be original. Traditionally, the English Courts applied a test of ‘sufficient skill, labour or effort’ to determine originality.

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

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Photographs are included in Article 2(1) of the Berne Convention as copyrightable artistic works. All Berne Union Member States must thus provide copyright protection to photographic works. For instance, copyright protection has been denied to photographs taken by paparazzi and photographs of sport events.

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The Doctrine of Fair Use in Copyright Law

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957, enumerates specific acts or works that are not deemed infringements of copyright, including fair dealing with a literary, dramatic, musical, artistic work, or work that is not a computer programme. In addition, courts support transformative or non-mirror image copying purposes.

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From Static Symbols to Fluid Brand Identities

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Through sharing their agenda and beliefs the trade mark holders try to connect to their users and have found this to be a successful way to strengthen their reputation and goodwill in the market. The Amul Girl which is used to promote the brand is depicted in the form of a cartoon and is frequently updated to match the current social events.