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Congratulations to Bonnie Hassanzadeh on Receiving the IP Osgoode David Vaver Medal for Excellence in Intellectual Property!

IPilogue

Vaver’s influence on intellectual property law, is an original piece of artwork created by Toronto-based artist,? IP Osgoode awards the medal yearly to an Osgoode student in the graduating class who merits special recognition for outstanding achievements in the area of intellectual property law.

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Insights from the Global Online Thesis Topic Meetings

IPilogue

He explained that an NFT typically includes only information about the artwork’s location. The actual artwork is not stored within the NFT because storing large amounts of data on a blockchain is fairly expensive. She received a cease-and-desist notice from the photographer Michael Halsband, directing her to destroy the artwork.

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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part II

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The First Sale Doctrine in the Metaverse The first sale doctrine, also referred to as the ‘ principle of exhaustion’ , is a longstanding tenet of copyright (and more in general intellectual property) law. Resale Rights Another notable difficulty when it comes to tokenising artworks is brought on by the resale right regime.

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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.

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AI and Fair Use: Navigating Legal Challenges in India and the United States

IIPRD

According to this case, the US Supreme Court ruled that although a copyrighted photograph might serve as a starting point for an artwork, its use cannot be considered fair use if it is not transformative enough and threatens the market for that work. Goldsmith (2023) [2].

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Congratulations to Ryan Wong on Receiving the IP Osgoode David Vaver Medal for Excellence in Intellectual Property!

IPilogue

Vaver’s influence on intellectual property law, is an original piece of artwork created by Toronto-based artist, Aries Cheung. IP Osgoode awards the medal yearly to an Osgoode student in the graduating class who merits special recognition for outstanding achievements in the area of intellectual property law.

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Supreme Court Rules adaption of Warhol print not “fair use”

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

In a 7-2 majority opinion authored by Justice Sotomayor, the court found that both Warhol’s artwork and Goldsmith’s original photograph served the same purpose of depicting Prince in magazine stories about him. The commercial nature of the copying further weighed against fair use.