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IPSC Panel 14 – Copyright Authorship & Ownership

43(B)log

Cord told Twain the story in NY, which is governed by Hemingway’s Estate v. Twain thought he should have ownership of his lectures—“my lecture was my property.” It’s not clear that giving Cord’s estate ownership would be social justice, but that’s a question worth asking. Searching for any surviving descendants.

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Copyright implications of Augmented Reality for cultural goods – Part 1

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Thus, AR can be considered as a tool for boosting cultural heritage exploitation, helping achieve the educational mission of bodies governing cultural heritage, as well as enabling better participation in cultural life. This authorization may be grounded on property, contracts, cultural heritage rules or on copyright.

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The Legal Conundrum of AI as a Patent Holder: Affecting the Policy Decisions

IP and Legal Filings

Section 2(1)(s) includes the government as well apart from other ‘natural persons’ although it did not define the term ‘person’ with clarity. 5] Such a ‘personality’ entails a right to sue or be sued by another entity which an AI lacks. A person can have the moral right may not have the legal right in the invention.

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[Guest Post] Copyright as movable property: Constitutional issues with Nigeria’s Copyright Act 2022

The IPKat

Unlike the guarantees made under Chapter 4, copyright cannot arise as constitutional rights by reason of its mentions under Chapter 2, Section 251 or Item 13 under the Constitution. If the right to something depends on a contract, or a statute explicitly creating it (e.g., copyright), can one call such a constitutional right?

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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Velocity of Content

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. This proposed expansion of the exception was recently rejected by the UK government. This will be hard to defend.

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A Brief Thematic Review of Non-Fungible Tokens and their Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

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. NFTs are governed by smart contracts, which divide ownership and limit transferability.

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Limitations to parties’ choice of law in copyright exploitation contracts in the digital era (Part 1)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Thus, the digital context of copyright exploitation contracts leads to questions of applicable law. Business-to-business contracting parties enjoy significant freedom in determining the law applicable to their contractual relationship. The online exploitation of content protected by copyright inherently entails cross-border aspects.