LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

This blog explores some considerations surrounding influencer marketing and highlights key aspects that should be addressed in contracts to ensure a mutually beneficial and legally compliant partnership. Disclosure requirements are carefully monitored by the ASA and the CMA (see our previous blog in relation to this here ).

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Garrigues Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

However, an architect’s intellectual property rights in his/her work can conflict with the ownership rights in the built work creating a situation that is less than desirable for both, in which each may hamper the interests of the other. Moral rights Moral rights establish the connection between the author and his/her work.

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Intellectual Property Moral Rights Copyright Design 52

IIPRD

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In a world where information can be disseminated in the blink of an eye thanks to technological advancements, it is a difficult task to ensure that the original artists retain ownership of their creations amid the explosion of available works and the emergence of vastly varied creative forms.

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Intellectual Property Art Artwork Intellectual Property Law 52

SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Without further ado, here’s what I found in the Januarys: Virtual World, Gaming, and IPs: Sifting through January pages, a decade-old post by Deepshikha Malhotra caught my attention, discussing Property Rights in the Virtual World. The question of ownership in the virtual world, particularly in video games, has long been debated.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

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IP Copyright Trademark Intellectual Property 124

IPilogue

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In this piece, I will recapitulate Strickland- Murphy’s exploration of IP ownership of Non-fungible Tokens and expand on recent developments since May. Given this situation, Ratajkowski’s NFT auction was, as Ratajkowski explains it, an opportunity to reclaim ownership over her photo. What are non-fungible tokens?

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Non-Fungible Tokens Art Moral Rights Copyright Infringement 110

IPilogue

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Copyright laws should not stand between exposure to authenticity, but at the same time should not avoid dealing with illegal ownership claims.”. Dean Zemer explored the copyright principles of Fair Use, Orphan Works, and Perpetual Rights. Copyright law protects and should continue to protect communicative and dialogical spaces.

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Art Copyright Moral Rights Fair Use 105

IPilogue

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The embedding of “smart contracts” in NFT sales allows for the automatic distribution of royalties – roughly 10% – anytime a change of ownership is requested on the blockchain. Exercising control of downstream purchaser actions for traditional or non-digital artistic mediums is more complicated.

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Art Moral Rights Artwork Editing 105

Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This set of two blog posts analyses the primary limitations to parties’ freedom of contract in this context, from the perspective of EU law. These limitations are treated in Part 2 of this blog post. However, this finding does not ring true for all protective provisions. Exceptions to choice of law.

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Contracts Law Copyright Moral Rights 52

IPilogue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Justice Rothstein offered a Canadian perspective on how our moral rights framework would line up with Dean Zemer’s approach. Justice Rothstein explained that the concerns raised by Dean Zemer would fit neatly into the Canadian understanding of moral rights.

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The IPKat

MAY 25, 2022

As IP aficionados, many readers of this blog will have strong views about the proper scope of copyright law. Many readers of this blog will work in legal roles centred on copyright protection, have studied intellectual property law in post-graduate programmes or research and teach copyright in academic roles.

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