The IPKat

MARCH 25, 2025

This book review has been prepared by Spyros Sipetas , PhD candidate at the Stockholm University. The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the review of The Handbook of Fashion Law (eds. Eleonora Rosati and Irene Calboli, 2025, OUP).

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The IPKat

MARCH 18, 2023

Kat approved This book is aimed at those who are new to the subject of intellectual property. The preface reiterates that the purpose of the book is to describe the essential nature of living IP law: "What we want is the reader to come away with a good idea of how IP works in practice."

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

She also highlights areas in need of further investigation, such as ownership and moral rights. An important pattern that cuts across patent and copyright emerges: the creation of new rights as an option for protection of new realities remains always a possibility, but it is not something that should be taken lightly.

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The IPKat

MAY 29, 2023

Now in its second edition, the book offers a perspective on how one can address the overlap between intellectual property (IP) rights, either to reconcile them in whole or in part, or to pre-empt one over the other. The book closes with Chapter 21 by Susy Frankel, focusing on the interactions between IP and traditional knowledge (TK).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Google Books and Transformative Use The past two decades have seen a wealth of technological developments, but generative AI is qualitatively different from everything that has come before. In this regard, an important precedent lies in the history of US litigation involving Google Books. Fair Use Precedent? copyright law.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This is a book review of Reforming Intellectual Property , edited by Gustavo Ghidini, Professor Emeritus, University of Milan and Senior Professor of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, LUISS University and Valeria Falce, Jean Monnet Professor in European Innovation Policy, European University of Rome. What Single Reform?

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

After discussing traditional legal methods in Parts I and II, the second half of the book introduces readers to empirical research methods. Marco and Saurabh Vishnubhakat study survival analysis in IP research in Chapter 33 of the book. Christine Haight Farley follows in Chapter 49, with a research framework on IP and morality.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This is a book review of “ Harmonizing Intellectual Property Law for a Trans-Atlantic Knowledge Economy ”, edited by Péter Mezei, Hannibal Travis, and Anett Pogácsás. Giulia Dore emphasizes the differing treatments of moral rights between civil law and common law countries, cautioning against harmonization that overlooks these distinctions.

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The IPKat

JULY 9, 2023

As its title suggests, this book focuses on the relationship between US copyright law and street art and graffiti. This book should not be perceived as a classic manual on the application of copyright to these art forms. This highly illustrative aspect makes the book easier to read and more digestible than a traditional law book.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2022

PermaKat Neil Wilkof commented on the reproduction of the work of art " Detail from the Portrait of Eugénie-Pamela Larivière" (which is in the public domain) by Louis Larivière in the Louvre, Paris" on a book cover. Reminder: last call to vote for your best IP book of 2021 by participating in the poll here !

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The IPKat

JANUARY 11, 2023

What moral rights looked like in the 12th century—the story of "Guide of the Perplexed" Neil Wilkof took us back to the medieval ages, and looked at the work of Moses Maimonides’ “The Guide of the Perplexed”. I PKat book of the year awards - voting extended! Parody under copyright and trade mark law: key guidance from Zorro.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Intellectual Property Generally Katfriend Thorsten Lauterbach reviewed the book, Teaching Intellectual Property Law: Strategy and Management , edited by Sabine Jacques and Ruth Soetendorp (in which this Kat co-authored a chapter). The book also discusses the real-life issues experienced by authors facing moral rights dilemmas.

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The IPKat

JULY 1, 2024

The Court held that there had been an infringement of the author's moral right of attribution, but the slight cropping did not infringe his right of integrity, nor his reproduction rights.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The Ukrainian IP Office recently announced that it has registered several works that, in addition to copyrightable content, also included artificial intelligence (AI) generated images protected under the new Ukrainian sui generis right for computer-generated subject-matter. 12), but does not include moral rights.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Unauthorized changes to a text reside in the murkier confines of the copyright system, where, at most, moral rights may hold court. What brought together the two siblings was a book publishing project, The Family Shakespeare , first published in 1807, with a second edition published in 1818. They bowdlerize books.").

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The IPKat

JANUARY 17, 2024

The book that is going to change copyright law? In 2015, the Romanian Academy/National Foundation for Science and Art, published a book that allegedly incorporated Slușanschi’s critical edition. In 2017, the Regional Court of Bucharest held that the defendants had infringed the professor’s moral right of attribution.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 10, 2021

InternKat Giorgio Luceri discussed these events under the lens of the moral right of integrity. Part II of the review GuestKat Anastasiia Kyrylenko wrote for the book “ Handbook of Intellectual Property Research ” (ed. SpecialKat Tian Lu wrote a short summary of the report. Calboli and M. Montagnani, OUP, 912 pp.)

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The IPKat

MAY 31, 2023

The Court held that a musical box infringed of an author’s moral rights. Hayleigh Bosher reviewed the book entitled “Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Cultural Heritage” and edited by Irini Stamatoudi. Anastasiia Kyrylenko analysed a decision issued by the French Cour de cassation on 8 March 2023.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

1 Another key right is the creation of derivative works, which includes adaptations or translations. 3 This action would violate the right to translate, which is a specific aspect of the broader right to create derivative works. ↩︎ For example, mounting pages from art books on tiles as in Mirage Editions, Inc.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 6, 2024

While for the time being the BomHC has ordered various entities to remove content that violates Singh’s personality rights, the larger matter of the personality and moral rights of the singer being infringed remains unresolved, with the case scheduled for September 2.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

One core concept in AI-relevant cases that both find for, and against, fair use ( Google Books and Fox v. It is somehow different from the right to make transformative derivative works (where the word “transformed” is used in Section 101 ) such as film adaptations of books, which clearly require copyright owner consent.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

In Egypt, the framework for copyright protection is set under book three of law no.82 82 of 2002 for the Protection of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) (see also here ). It’s worth noting that the ECL remained faithful to its original “author’s rights identity”, similarly to its French counterpart.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Later adherence leaped forward, not least as a consequence of the incorporation of the substantive provisions of the Berne Convention in the TRIPS Agreement in 1994 (except for the protection of moral rights) and, eventually in the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT).

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 26, 2024

Malayala Manorama (1987), Raja Pocket Books v. Radha Pocket Books (1996) and Star India Private Limited v. The scope of these rights has been further developed judicially by an array of observations and pronouncements, starting with D.M. The courts laid the early groundwork for the concept through decisions in V.T.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

These creations can include artistic, literary, musical, and other forms of creative representation that are fixed in a tangible medium, such as paintings, books, software code, and songs.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

a remake or an adaptation of a book into a film). 113-4 IPC states that ‘A composite work shall be the property of the author who has produced it, subject to the rights of the author of the pre-existing work.’ A composite work is therefore a derivative work, i.e. simple incorporations (e.g.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 5, 2021

Risk of identity loss means that “everyone belongs to everyone else,” as the slogan used in Huxley’s book goes. Rothman: Does not agree that ROP is the coined opposite of the right of privacy, nor that it should have a purely economic and commercial focus. See her book. Moral rights as a solution?

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Speaking of late movie stars, one may wonder about the posthumous enforcement of celebrity rights. If you are the one wondering this, then see Karishma Karthik’s two-part post examining the moral right of integrity and its potential as a tool in protecting the authors posthumously. Feels like history is repeating itself.

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IIPRD

JUNE 13, 2024

The term “original” is not defined in the act, in the “Eastern Book Co v D B Modak” [2] the Supreme Court laid down the “modicum of creativity” approach to determine whether the creation will be accorded copyright protection or not. 2] Eastern Book Co v D B Modak, (2008) 1 SCC 1. [3] 3] PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE MANUAL. [4]

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

The first codified statute dealing with copyright protection of printed books dates back to 1710, known as British Statute of Anne. It is obvious from the early statutes that copyright protection was initially solely extended to books. These rights are transferrable for financial benefits. Parasuraman And Ors.,

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IP Close Up

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Private property rights like patents that cover inventions promote a growing innovation economy and a flourishing society. Without them there would be idle curiosity, but Continue reading

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IIPRD

JANUARY 29, 2023

However, the conversation being considered as a contract between them was unclear regarding the IP rights. The creator was vague in terms of rights that they will keep in terms of moral rights or was it an implied license as terms were not clearly stated though there was a transaction. 2d 119 (2d Cir. 2d 945 (9 th Cir.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This is a book review of the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Moral Rights , curated by Ysolde Gendreau (Université de Montréal, Canada), provided by Francesca Mazzi , Lecturer in AI, Innovation and Law at Brunel University London. Such gestures couldn't be overlooked in a book on moral rights.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It focuses on authorship of the copyright in stage plays as dramatic works, texts that can be performed from a script (rather than musical theatre, dance, or performers rights). The book addresses questions of whom is the author and first owner of a dramatic work? Who receives the credit and the licensing rights?

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The IPKat

JANUARY 4, 2023

The basic mechanism of the modern author is regulating reproduction of the work (the subject matter of copyright) and preventing affronts to the work and the author's connection with it (the subject matter of moral rights). In the word so favored by the Academy, "contextualization" matters.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 2, 2025

It distinguished between economic rights (which are assignable) and moral rights (which are not assignable). Because economic rights can be assigned, copyright has a value realisable in money. Yet what happens to a book publishing license signed in 2018 and the authors relationship ends in 2027?

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SpicyIP

JULY 9, 2021

In addition to copyright infringement, the plaintiff also claimed violation of moral rights and infringement of posthumous celebrity rights. In this post, I will explore the different considerations that the court might look into in reaching its decision about the above rights. The Right to Integrity. Rajagopal v.

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