SpicyIP
APRIL 18, 2025
Inox India Limited and Others , Aditya Bhargava discusses the jurisprudence on the difference between copyright and industrial designs and the two-pronged test to distinguish between the two intellectual properties adopted by the Court in this case. Inox India Ltd.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
APRIL 17, 2024
In addition to raising questions about ownership of outputs , infringement in training , and the future of copyright as a policy tool to encourage creativity , economists are in the early stages of analysing the effects of these technologies on human creativity. For simplicity, I will label this ‘commercial significant artistic creativity’.
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SpicyIP
APRIL 18, 2025
Part II] Cryogas Judgment: Supreme Court Stops Copyright from Gaslighting Design By Aditya Bhargava In the first part of the post, I looked at how jurisprudence has evolved from the Microfibres case in 2006 up to the present case in Cryogas. If its not, copyright may still subsist (since it was never a design to begin with).
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Now, a further development on IP and NFTs comes from Spain, as Katfriend Mercedes Morán Ruiz (CEDRO) reports: Can the owner of an artistic work convert it into an NFT for its use in the Metaverse? In short, the lovers of copyright have plenty of time for fun ahead. Obviously, the response of rightholders was immediate.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2022
It seems inevitable that UK copyright law will change at some stage. It increasingly appears that judges are waiting for a case which requires the inconsistencies between EU and UK copyright law to be addressed. 4 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1994 (“CDPA”), when considered under either UK or EU copyright law.
Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 2, 2022
However, those familiar with copyright law, immediately began to point out flaws in the plan. However, for artists, rightsholders and those familiar with copyright, it was completely predictable. A rethinking of blockchain and crypto’s role in copyright, and an examination of both if and how it might actually help.
The IPKat
APRIL 6, 2025
Copyright Law by Angela Chung Do everything by hand, even when using the computer. The Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) provides some moral rights: non-economic rights personal to the author of a work. Case law has typically dealt with the physical destruction of tangible artistic works, such as famous murals being painted over.
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