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Crypto Group Buys Dune Book, Confuses it for Buying the Rights

Plagiarism Today

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

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Book review: Performers' Rights

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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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Book Review: The Artificial Inventor - A Challenge for the Patent System

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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.

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Book review: Intellectual Property Protection for AI-Generated Creations

The IPKat

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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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

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 volume is a beautiful testimony to the work of late Shamnad Basheer, who co-edited the first edition.

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Generative AI and Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

[Image Sources: Shutterstock] Basic understanding of Copyright Copyright is a legal theory that provides artists complete ownership over their creative works, preventing unauthorised use and copying. There will be serious consequences for assigning other than human ownership to AI-generated creations.

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The Modern Copyright Dilemma: Digital Content Ownership and Access

IP and Legal Filings

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.,