Copyright Law Designs Graphic Design 
JD Supra Law
MARCH 31, 2025
This is consistent with longstanding precedent (in the US, at least) that only works by human authors can be protected by copyright. Authors, here, is a copyright-law catch-all term encompassing all creators, be they writers, painters, filmmakers, graphic designers, or even software coders. Monkeys need not apply.)
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Graphic design is credited to award-winning graphic designer Jeremy Samples, so it's disappointing they would copy instead of producing original artwork. The company is also routinely accused of having an outsized impact on copyright law , including the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Actt of 1998.
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Kluwer Copyright Blog
JANUARY 5, 2022
This post is based on the chapter “Audiovisual Coverage of Sports Events and Copyright Law: Originality in the Details?” Bernt Hugenholtz, Kluwer Law International, 2021. These additional creative elements can be protected by copyright law, provided they meet the EU originality standard.
IPilogue
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
A well-accepted principle is that copyright law protects the expression of ideas rather than ideas themselves. For example, the idea to make a video game that mimics basketball is not extended copyright protection. In Canada, these video game elements are given special copyright protection.
IP Tech Blog
JANUARY 4, 2023
In turn, this attracts interest from businesses ranging from fashion and sports brands, sport teams, designers, game developers, and other content owners. The purpose of copyrights is to protect creative works, including writings, from infringement. It has been debated whether NFTs/DC could be protected in China by design patents.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
The board says the unregistrable emoji animations “include a familiar heart design and some very minimal amount of motion, which is de minimis and thus unprotectable by U.S. copyright law. The red color adds to the familiar and predictable nature of the heart designs. As the heart breaks, it tilts to the right.
The IPKat
MARCH 3, 2022
Paris Bar (Variante 3) The legal issue The relationship between art, artists and their “helping hands” is one that goes down to the very roots of copyright law, and the beginning of art itself. However, given our case´s German context, we should turn to German law for answers. But who is the actual “creator” of the work?
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