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Intellectual Property: What Are the Differences between Patent, Trademark, and Copyright?

More Than Your Mark

Only the copyright owner has the right to make copies, distribute copies, perform, display, or make derivative works of the copyrighted work. A copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years (for works made for hire, 95 years from when they are first published).

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WIPIP Concurrent Session #3: Copyright Doctrine

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Christopher Buccafusco (& Rebecca Tushnet), Base Rate Neglect in Copying-in-Fact Comes out of an excellent Buccafusco paper about the failures of copying in fact, which led me to think about base rate neglect in cases where plaintiff’s expert claims that it’s not possible that these similarities arose in the absence of copying.

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What are the intellectual property rights for startups?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Copyrights: Copyrights protect original works of authorship such as software codes, artistic creations, literature, music, films, etc. Startups can secure copyrights to prevent unauthorized copying or distribution of their creative works. This means that no one else can copy or distribute their creations without permission.

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WHAT, IN THE NAME OF GOD, …?: Intellectual Property Rights In Holy Names, Sacred Words, & Other Aspects of Creation

LexBlog IP

Likewise, the Office cannot register a work purportedly created by divine or supernatural beings, although the Office may register a work where the application or the deposit copy(ies) state that the work was inspired by a divine spirit. copyright law. Compendium, at Section 313.2 ]. ” Welsh (2015) at 134.