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million ($3 million) acquiring a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune. The book, which details the effort by Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky to make a Dune film in the 1970s, is indeed a rare and valuable book. Make the book public (to the extent permitted by law) 2. Last year, the group spent €2.66
This judgment provides an opportunity to examine the concept of originality as applied to photographs, and also to understand what may constitute an infringement of moralrights. Slightly altered image of a Kat Facts In 2013, the RATP commissioned Amo Films to design and produce a collection of three photographic books.
This is a book review of the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and MoralRights , 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 moralrights.
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?
This is a review of Performer's Rights by the Rt Hon Sir Richard Arnold, Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. The book covers the rights of performers, particularly the rights conferred under Part II of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended). The book is presented in 11 chapters.
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Section 57 of the Copyright Act of 1957 covers authors’ special rights particularly, highlighting the importance of expanding such rights beyond solely economic grounds. As a result, the lifetime of these rights varies greatly between countries. Waiver of moralright of the author permissible?
In addition to copyright infringement, the plaintiff also claimed violation of moralrights 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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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).
The challenges presented by this state of affairs, including whether ‘artificial agents’ can be considered inventors, patent their inventions, and enjoy the benefit of patent ownership – and how their inventions would be evaluated against established human rules in the first place, are considered in this book.
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."
She also highlights areas in need of further investigation, such as ownership and moralrights. 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.
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).
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.
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?
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.
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 moralrights between civil law and common law countries, cautioning against harmonization that overlooks these distinctions.
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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What moralrights 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.
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 moralrights dilemmas.
The Court held that there had been an infringement of the author's moralright of attribution, but the slight cropping did not infringe his right of integrity, nor his reproduction rights.
This guidance is in response to a recent review by the Office of a comic book titled “Zarya of the Dawn” containing human-authored elements combined with AI-generated images. The analysis seeks to determine whether a human had ultimate creative control over the expression and formed the traditional elements of authorship.
Types of Works Eligible for Copyright Registration Under the Copyright Act, 1957 , a wide range of works are eligible for registration, including: Literary Works : Books, articles, research papers, computer programs, and more. Musical Works : Compositions, songs, and music scores.
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 moralrights.
Unauthorized changes to a text reside in the murkier confines of the copyright system, where, at most, moralrights 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.").
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 moralright of attribution.
InternKat Giorgio Luceri discussed these events under the lens of the moralright 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.)
The Court held that a musical box infringed of an author’s moralrights. 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.
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.
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 moralrights of the singer being infringed remains unresolved, with the case scheduled for September 2.
Or Schiller: “What is a book?” Ancient Indian culture recognized two fundamental ideas of modern copyright: that a literary or musical work has an original immaterial form distinct from its material reproduction, the manuscript, and that the author enjoys a sovereign moral claim. We talk about authors when we talk about copyright.
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.
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.
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 moralrights) and, eventually in the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT).
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.
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.
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.
Protection Of Personality Rights Under Ipr Although the provisions of the country’s current IPR laws can be used as an indirect reference, the law dealing to such a violation of image rights has not received exclusive recognition under Indian law.
C’s first subject matter—maps, charts, and books—may help us think about what facts are (as distinguished from works?). c) does grant authors “rights in something he created” and that “already belong to him” at common law and is taken after a few short years from him and his heirs. Natural or moralright to own fruit of labors.
This guidance is in response to a recent review by the Office of a comic book titled “Zarya of the Dawn” containing human-authored elements combined with AI-generated images. The analysis seeks to determine whether a human had ultimate creative control over the expression and formed the traditional elements of authorship.
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. Moralrights as a solution?
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 moralright of integrity and its potential as a tool in protecting the authors posthumously. Feels like history is repeating itself.
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