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Why Moral Rights are Dead Serious: Preserving the Posthumous Moral Right of Integrity – Part I

SpicyIP

Such treatment usually amounts to violations of the moral rights of the author. In this post, I shall examine the concept of the moral right of integrity and its potential as a tool in protecting the works of authors posthumously.

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Permissibility Of A Waiver Of Moral Rights Of An Author Under The Copyright Regime

IP and Legal Filings

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 moral right of the author permissible?

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Non-fungible Tokens: Commercializing Exclusive Digital Art- A Companion Piece

IPilogue

The sale of an NFT also includes a smart contract. If we refer to the computer serial number example, just because you own one version of a computer does not mean you own the patent for the underlying software in the computer. Strickland-Murphy noted that corporations and billionaires were early adopters of the NFT craze.

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Limitations to parties’ choice of law in copyright exploitation contracts in the digital era (Part 2)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This is the second of a set of two blog posts (see Part 1 here ) which analyses the limitations to parties’ freedom to determine the law applicable to contracts aimed at the exploitation of protected content online. to the extent that the contract covers significant acts of exploitation in Germany (Article 32b German Copyright Act ).

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

The IPKat

InternKat Giorgio Luceri discussed these events under the lens of the moral right of integrity. Spoiler: The GC considered that the referred application would exploit the reputation of the Porto PDO.

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[Guest book review] The Handbook of Fashion Law (with a discount code)

The IPKat

Given the multifaceted nature of fashion law encompassing intellectual property, competition, contract, and e-commerce law, among others The Handbook of Fashion Law reflects this breadth by offering an equally expansive scope of topics, structured in a coherent manner.

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Copyright implications of Augmented Reality for cultural goods – Part 1

Kluwer Copyright Blog

While creating AR experiences, so-called markers provide information on the real-world element of reference to be overlapped with digital images. This authorization may be grounded on property, contracts, cultural heritage rules or on copyright. When copyright is involved, both economic and moral rights issues are at stake.

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