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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

Come with this Kat for a stroll around this week’s posts from IP blogs. This week, a controversy involving a famous Hollywood actor damaging one of Banksy’s artworks has taken the news and Aaron Moss, on Copyright Lately, discusses the possibility of Banksy suing the actor based on infringement of his (?) moral rights.

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Copyright Regulation for Pseudonymous, Anonymous, and Related Creative Works in India

Intepat

Section 57: This section emphasizes moral rights, which allow authors to protect the integrity of their works, regardless of whether they are pseudonymous or anonymous. State of Tamil Nadu (2021) This case involved the unauthorized use of an artwork created by an unknown artist.

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Uffizi museum sues Jean Paul Gaultier over unauthorized reproduction of Botticelli’s Venus on fashion garments

The IPKat

Not a copyright dispute … and the non-role of Article 14 of the DSM Directive In sum: the CHC provides a way to control for-profit reproductions of Italian cultural heritage, irrespective of their copyright status (it is in any case worth recalling that under Italian copyright law moral rights protection is … perpetual).

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“Sentiti Libera”: from street art in Genoa to the Manifesto Dress at Sanremo Music Festival 2023

The IPKat

While Sanremo is over for this year, this Kat is still musing on possible IP issues during the most appreciated Italian music show. Street art All this raises interesting IP points concerning the Italian IP legal system. The first one relates to street art and graffiti and how they are protected under the Italian law.

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Copyright Ownership with Independent Contractors

Sander Law

When hiring an independent contractor to design your logos, artwork and take photographs, it is important to think about who actually owns the copyright in the resulting work. Moral Rights. Although the initial creator of the work can assign their copyright to another entity, they cannot assign the associated Moral Rights.

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Spanish Court finds that virtual exhibition of NFTs based on paintings is "harmless use"

The IPKat

Background As previously reported by the IPKat last year, VEGAP, a collective management organisation for intellectual property rights in Spain, brought a claim against Punto Na SA, the IP holding company for the well-known clothing brand Mango, seeking compensation in respect of the alleged infringement of copyright in certain artworks.

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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. Right: Photo courtesy of Katie Hagebols retrieved from [link]. What about moral rights?