Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Music is an artistic work which is subject to copyright protection. Music lovers can now effortlessly stream music from anywhere in the world. Even in restaurants, bars, and lounges, the music is played to entertain their customers, whether by employing DJs or playing music through sound systems.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Many orphan works are part of India’s rich cultural heritage, and their inaccessibility can hinder efforts to promote and preserve traditional arts, literature, and music. Section 57: This section emphasizes moral rights, which allow authors to protect the integrity of their works, regardless of whether they are pseudonymous or anonymous.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Copyright is a legal right that grants creators exclusive control over their original works of authorship. This includes various forms of creativity such as literary works, musical compositions, paintings, sculptures, software, and even films. Musical Works : Compositions, songs, and music scores.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 15, 2023

Dua Lipa and Warner Music are being sued by talk box inventor and singer, Bosko Kante, for breach of contract and copyright infringement in hit song 'Levitating'. Kante alleges both 1) copyright infringement and 2) breach of an oral agreement. billion plays on Spotify).

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

streamers) broadcast themselves to an audience doing almost anything including playing video games, cooking, making music, performing ASMR, walking around in public, debating politics, etc. Twitch is not the first streaming platform to face these issues; in 2007, YouTube faced similar copyright issues and a billion dollar lawsuit.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Under Singapore’s Copyright Act , it is a criminal offense for a person or company to conduct wilful copyright infringement. The statute of limitations for copyright infringement in Singapore is six years. Copyright protects works like literary, computer programs, plays, music and paintings.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Basically, because an NFT is an encoded digital metadata file of a copy of a work that can be copyright protected. That is, in an NFT there can be an underlying copy of a work of art –typically an image, photograph, piece of music, video or certain audiovisual content– that may be subject to copyright.

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SpicyIP

MAY 1, 2023

The fact that we have in the past not dealt with issues of such complexity, i.e. the licensing of large volumes of data from different people who have not organised themselves as an organisation or society, does not mean that copyright infringement should go unchecked.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 20, 2023

Firstly, Originality, Section13 of the said act, to claim ownership over work (literally, musical, dramatic) created by AI, originality in work is an essential component, that can be detected by originality tests. Also, Moral rights of the creator is given in under Section 57 of the said act, are not relevant to the Artificial Intelligence.

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The IPKat

MAY 31, 2023

Copyright This Kat reflected on a judgment issued by the Tribunal Judiciaire of Paris on 31 March 2023 which concerned a claim of copyright infringement in a typeface. The Court held that a musical box infringed of an author’s moral rights.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Topics include access and substantial similarity, fair use, performers’ rights, moral rights, expert testimony, the role of lay listeners, sound sampling, as demonstrated in dispositions of litigated and settled infringement disputes. More information about this event here.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

These technologies are capable of generating new content, such as text, computer codes, music, photos, videos, and sounds, as a result of human input, like a brief textual explanation of what is wanted. ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Midjourney are some examples of generative AI tools that are presently in use.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 31, 2022

Or is it the copyright symbol with the small ‘C’ inside you think about instantly? Or perhaps downloading a pirated movie is Copyright Infringement ? Most people know of copyright; however, they don’t know much about the term.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 29, 2024

Baby Gift House was amongst one of the first cases to delve into the commercial aspect of personality rights. [5] The interests of an artist can be protectable as an extension of its Moral Rights which grants the performers the right to given credit and also claim authorship for their performance. Ammini Amma and Ors.,

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The compliance with the basic principles of originality, durability, and authenticity would only provide protection of copyright to the works in terms of literary, artistic, musical, dramatic, cinematographic and sound recordings and even computer software.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 28, 2024

1] The Copyright Act protects certain types of works, which are included in Section 13. 13 (1) states that original literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works as well as cinematograph films and sound recordings are protected by copyright. ” A similar view was reiterated in “ Kanungo Media (P) Ltd.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Delhi High Court] On August 9, the Delhi High Court devised a judicial mechanism to combat novel ways of copyright infringement and issued the first-ever Dynamic+ injunction in favour of Universal City Studios LLC., Indian Performing Right Society Ltd. Ltd and Indian Performing Rights Society Ltd. Music Broadcast Ltd.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

With further ado, here’s what I found in Novembers: Database Protection in India: Since Prof Basheer’s 2005 post about the inaccurate implication of the theft of data as copyright infringement, to 2023, not much seems to have changed. Speaking of late movie stars, one may wonder about the posthumous enforcement of celebrity rights.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The performer is abetted with the right to claim damages in case his performance is distorted, mutilated, or modified in a manner prejudicial to his reputation. Performers right provided under the Copyright Act encompasses special rights, exclusive rights, and moral rights. Cinematographic films; 3.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Therefore, the purchaser of an NFT will only receive the underlying copyright when the smart contract accompanying the NFT expresses this. Of course, unless waived by the artist, the moral rights associated with the artistic work remain with the artist. What about copyright infringement?

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SpicyIP

JULY 11, 2021

Vempati Ravi Shankar – Facebook Copyright Dispute: Issues on Moral Rights and Posthumous Enforcement of Celebrity Rights. The plaintiff also claimed violation of moral rights and infringement of posthumous celebrity rights. Trade Secret: In the Light of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 6, 2024

Most recently, the state of Tennessee enacted the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act to replace the Personal Rights Protection Act, aimed specifically at protecting music industry professionals from unauthorised AI voice cloning. For instance, ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted books by J.K.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Three interesting cases on derivative works, two involving Jeff Koons and one Tintin, have recently put French copyright law in the international spotlight (e.g. music synchronised in an advertisement) and adaptations (e.g. here and here ). A composite work is therefore a derivative work, i.e. simple incorporations (e.g.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Marcel Pemsel examined the decision of the Higher Regional Court of Cologne on whether the provider of domain name system (DNS) resolver and content delivery network (CDN) services can be liable for copyright infringement if it provides its services to the operators of websites with illegal content (in this case, music).

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The IPKat

JANUARY 17, 2024

In this sense, a somewhat similar – though dated (by that meaning: pre- Infopaq [IPKat here and here ] ) – case litigated both in France and the UK cannot but come to mind: Hyperion Records v Sawkins [IPKat here ] , concerning copyright protection of a ‘reconstructed’ baroque music score. The decision was upheld on appeal.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Topics will include access and substantial similarity, fair use, performers' rights, moral rights, expert testimony, the role of lay listeners, sound sampling as it appears in court and out-of-court litigation. For more information and to register, click here.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 21, 2022

Recognising the challenges for performers in the position and enforcement of their rights, the book also includes discussion on other forms of protections and remedies for performers, such as moral rights, contracts, passing off and copyright infringement.

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