Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

Unsophisticated consumers may conflate the purchase of an NFT associated with a digital good with ownership of IP rights in that good. The Offices found: To the extent that an NFT is associated with a copyrightable work, the creation, storage, marketing, or transfer of that NFT may implicate copyright owners’ exclusive rights.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 30, 2024

Many professionals in construction and property development are well versed in contract law, safety regulations, insurance law, and the like. Yet the law that governs ownership and use of architectural works—principally, copyright law—often is not well known even among seasoned veterans of development and construction.

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IPilogue

JUNE 14, 2022

At the heart of Taylor’s decision was an often overlooked but significant legal distinction in the copyright law governing the music industry. All music can be subdivided into three categories of copyright: lyrical, compositional, and sound.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Intellectual Property Ownership. Or whether the agencies should be provided royalties for the same if the idea is used for marketing purposes after their contract has ended? The creations of the mind are protected by Intellectual Property; however, ideas don’t fall under the protection of copyright. Challenges.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The general consensus is that copyright law favors the publishers, but in a recent motion to dismiss, Elbakyan had other things on her mind too. “ Section 25 of the Contract Act is relied upon to contend an agreement without consideration is void.” ” Mandatory Economic Component Absent Mr. .

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

In most cases, the spouse doesn’t contribute copyrightable creativity. Argument: spouse’s contribution should not be seen through copyright law but through family law. Ownership should require a lower burden of proof: comes from the relationship between the spouses and not from the connection to the creation.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

[Image Sources : Gettyimages] One of the important issues in online is copyrights. Due to the recurrent copyright difficulties, which have a significant impact on an individual’s business interest, it is imperative to preserve the ownership rights of digital works. iii] NFTs are limited to having a single owner.

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

There was a recent story that is an instructive lesson in copyright law that has application to the NFT market. The article titled “Cryptobros spent $3 million on Dune book, believing it gave them copyright. The NFT is a smart contract coded with the NFT. the Bored Ape or CryptoPunk). The digital asset.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Your trademark identifies your company as the source of goods and services related to your NFTs and digital assets (the pictures linked to your NFT smart contracts). The image of the Crypto Punk linked to the NFT placed on to the blockchain is copyright protected. The art inside the gallery is protected by COpyright law.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

The rights of speakers, organisers, and participants under Indian copyright law will be discussed in this Article, which will explore copyright concerns connected to webinars. Ownership of copyright in the lectures presented by the speakers. The Delhi High Court, citing several sources, held in Pepsi Co.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

NFTs Are Not Copyrightable. The confusion only seems to increase when you introduce copyright into the mix. Again, NFTs are just an ownership record and a link to content. If they don’t embed an underlying asset, they likely don’t even fall within the subject matter of copyright. Tarantino : The Bottom Line.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Is there a contract template for this scenario? Below is a sample agreement that's based on our downloadable work-for-hire contract on our Crafts Law website. A work-made-for-hire agreement is used so that the hiring party acquires ownership of the work. copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

Construing these allegations as true and in Service’s favor, Service subjectively believed that he possessed an ownership interest and that he never approved the Comedy Dynamics deal. I’m pretty sure the drafters of 512(f) never contemplated that it would be invoked in disputes over ownership.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

Worse, it’s not clear the users have a “possessory interest” in those bits due to the possibility that copyright and contract law that may limit what users can do with those bits. ” Implied-in-Law Contract/Unjust Enrichment The court says that these state law claims are preempted by copyright law. .”

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IIPRD

JANUARY 5, 2023

A growing number of daily releases makes India’s copyright laws particularly important in. A precise elucidation about the ownership of cinematographic films has been provided by Section 17 of The Copyright Act, 1957 Act. Introduction. Who Owns What and Why.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 7, 2021

As Warner points out, just because a lawsuit may involve a copyrighted work, this doesn’t mean that it necessarily arises under the Copyright Act. Accounting Claims Between Copyright Co-Owners Don’t Arise Under Copyright Law. Accounting Rights Can Only Be Enforced Against a Co-Owner, Not a Licensee.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

Risks for all stakeholders include FTC Part 255 regulations for endorsements and influencer contract drafting and, in this game, one of the things we’re going to be talking about is, you know, intellectual property. These are the contract terms that are the most obvious to all the stakeholders in the influencer-marketing game.

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CopyrightsWorld

MARCH 30, 2021

The second one is to get ownership of their copyright, know their rights under the copyright laws and how to protect them. According to the copyright laws, a work that has required significant mental activity to create, and is, therefore, considered original, automatically becomes its creator’s intellectual property.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 13, 2022

[For this Kat, it is a question of whether DJs should pay for all uses of music or whether the context should determine who pays for the DJs’ use of music] Source: Pinterest In April , the then President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta assented to the Copyright Amendment Bill 2021 which has now become the Copyright (Amendment) Act No 14 of 2022.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Through Twitter, she expressed that she had outlived all her recording contracts and that her master recordings should legally belong to her. Ownership of masters within the music industry has become a contentious and popular matter, particularly after Taylor Swift’s legal battle resulted in her re-recording her greatest hits.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

The Court, however, held that Densy stated sufficient facts to establish the existence of an implied-in-fact contract between the parties. There the Court quoted Justice Traynor’s dissenting opinion in Stanley : The policy that precludes protection of an abstract idea by copyright does not prevent its protection by contract.

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CoCal IP Law Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Please join us on Monday, November 13, 2023 at Noon, where we will discuss the issue of master ownership and the legal copyright conflicts between record labels and artists. Taylor Swift may be the first to make this copyright issue truly public, leaving fans wondering who really owns Swift's music and why. She says she [.]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 27, 2023

The court summarizes the case: “plaintiffs allege that YouTube has violated the copyright laws by withholding broad access to Content ID… Plaintiffs also allege that YouTube automatically strips metadata out of uploaded videos, including copyright management information (CMI), which makes it harder to catch infringing conduct.”

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SpicyIP

MARCH 20, 2023

Creation and Perfection of Security As a quick background to how security interests are created and collateral is used- an obligation is secured by the means of a contract- this contract leads to creation of a security right. However, mere creation is not sufficient for protecting the interests of a creditor.

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 20, 2022

In the past week, Green revealed that Fred Simian is home, yet the strange, twisted tale of a Bored Ape has many more turns left, involving copyright law, cryptocurrency, and blockchain code. Well, a smart contract isn’t really a contract – a smart contract is simply a bit of self-executing code.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 23, 2021

Copyright comes into the picture since the law safeguards the computer software and programs that are used to collect and analyze big data. Also, the European Union has a Database Directive in place as an initiative to harmonize Copyright Protection offered to databases in all Member States alike.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 4, 2024

His chapter probes the future of copyright law, attempting to turn the focus of copyright to collaborative authorship. Even if, on account of originality, the tasks executed by digital workers amount to authorship, of course such authorship does not automatically translate into ownership.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

Just don’t forget about real world copyright law. ? ” But given that these guys don’t seem to be coming to the table with anything other than an admittedly fake IP rights contract, I wouldn’t hold my breath. .” Definitely. It would have taken a bit of due diligence, but not much. You Own the NFT.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While US copyright law is a matter of federal law (in Title 17 of the U.S. Contract law is largely a matter of state law, and the validity of clauses in contracts constraining the access to software and code may (in this context) be construed as copyright-adjacent rules. But that’s me.

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CoCal IP Law Institute

APRIL 11, 2024

Please join us Monday, April 15, 2024 at noon where we will discuss Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 68 (Rule 68) and the "open question" of whether post-offer attorney’s fees are part of the recoverable "costs" for a defendant, in particular, in copyright cases. I think defendants should be able to use the Rule 68 [.]

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 5, 2025

Considering the above, it is clear that both the BTS and the movie fall under the definition of the Cinematograph film as provided in the Copyright Act. If yes, then this would be a clear case of infringement ( Section 51 ), unless fair dealing/use ( Section 52 ) or other copyright doctrines save the alleged infringers.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It’s not possible to “trespass” an intangible asset; any legal protection for the asset comes from contract law (but the plaintiffs gave a license) or IP law, such as copyright law, which the plaintiffs aren’t invoking. Implied-in-Law Contract/Unjust Enrichment.

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Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This case, among others, showcases the ongoing legal dilemmas surrounding AI and copyright, especially as more artists and creators integrate AI into the artistic process. Such decisions highlight the evolving nature of copyright law in the face of AI advancements. Our firm specializes in AI and copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

According to the complaint, these separate entities are just one big data-sharing family, leveraging their combined resources in non-standard ways such as Microsoft sharing hardware and cloud infrastructure resources in exchange for an ownership interest in OpenAI. Complaint at 31.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This case, among others, showcases the ongoing legal dilemmas surrounding AI and copyright, especially as more artists and creators integrate AI into the artistic process. Such decisions highlight the evolving nature of copyright law in the face of AI advancements. Our firm specializes in AI and copyright law.

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Intepat

JUNE 15, 2023

Copyright protection is an attractive option for app developers since the protection is automatic once the app is fixed in a tangible form e.g., when the code is encapsulated in a digital representation. Copyright registration also enables developers to access their legal remedies and seek damages or injunctions in cases of infringement.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Copy Right Law in the Entertainment Industry The cornerstone of intellectual property protection in the entertainment sector is copyright law. It gives authors and artists the sole ownership rights to their original writings, music, films, and artwork.

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