LexBlog IP

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.

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Intepat

JUNE 15, 2023

Hence, the purpose of this blog is to delve into the significance of copyright protection, the limits of protection and the remedies against infringement. What is copyright protection? In the context of the Copyright Act, computer software is categorized as a ‘literary work’. Who owns the copyright?

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 1, 2023

What is Copyright The term “copyright” describes a group of legal privileges that belong to the person who first created an original work of authorship, such as a piece of literature, music, film, or software. The owner of the copyright, or the person who created the original work, has control over it.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 9, 2021

In this post, I will be analysing the recommendations pertaining to the amendment of patent laws in order to facilitate inventorship and ownership by AI. I will be restricting the discussion to the evaluation of the Indian patent regime, as the implications of AI on Indian copyright law has been previously dealt with here.

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43(B)log

JULY 20, 2022

CC has a recent trademark registration for a design mark “consist[ing] of the stylized wording ‘COLOR COPPER.COM”, [with] a diamond shape between the wording ‘COLOR’ and ‘COPPER’ made up of four smaller diamonds, each diamond having a pattern inside of it,” COPPER.COM disclaimed. There’s no written agreement” will do it.]

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A thorough awareness of intellectual property laws is crucial, regardless of your career goals—be they that of a fashion designer, singer, filmmaker, or just someone curious about the legal side of entertainment. It gives authors and artists the sole ownership rights to their original writings, music, films, and artwork.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2021

But as I will discuss in this post, they fulfill the eligibility criteria as provided under the Copyright Act, 1957. Typeface’ refers to the particular design of letters, numbers, marks and symbols. What we colloquially refer to as ‘font’ is actually the typeface as font changes with the size, italic, bold, and style.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 24, 2023

8] Who Owns The Copyright In Ai? When it comes to AI, there are various entities for which a claim for copyright could be made: Programmer: One of the main contention of granting ownership to AI is that it is the programmer who designs, creates, or trains the computer software, without which the AI system would not have been created.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 2, 2022

TRADE MARKS Lise Charles (WTR) provides an overview of the most-read posts on Word Trademark Review (WTR) on European trade mark case law over the past year, including analyses of cases dealing with issues such as unconventional signs (i.e., disputes between domain names and trademarks). Daktronics, Inc., 21-438).

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CopyrightsWorld

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

While even individuals face this challenge, digital creators like photographers, writers, publishers, poets, visual artists, logo designers, illustrators, music & video creators and lyricists are being affected tremendously and left wondering what to do to protect their rights? Copyright basics still apply in the digital world.

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Larson & Larson

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Product designers, inventors, and artists of all types need to understand the meaning of intellectual property and how to protect their creative contributions. . More specifically, Sections of Title 17, including chapters one through eight and ten through 12 in the United States code cover copyright law. Title 25 of the U.S.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 28, 2023

One of the primary legal concerns is related to copyright – both in terms of protecting the work generated and the concern of infringing someone else’s work. Copyright law protects original works of authorship, including literary works like blog articles. Many are concerned with the potential for plagiarism.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Seun Lari-Williams , PhD researcher in the fields of copyright and dispute system design at the University of Antwerp, regarding Nigeria's Copyright Act 2022 (which came into effect in 2023) and its constitutional reference to copyright as movable property.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The primary goal of copyright law is to safeguard the interests of creators of original, publishable works. The purpose of copyright protection is to make sure that the artist reaps the rewards of creating their original work and that no one else benefits unfairly from it. Copyrighting Art. right to copyright will exist.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Something has recently gone awry with the law of copyright ownership in a movie or other film — a “cinematographic work”, as s. 2 of the Copyright Act RSC 1985, c. Part I of the Act deals with the ownership of copyright in works. A copyright owner may of course transfer the right as it wishes (s.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) refer to the legal rights granted to individuals or businesses for their creations or inventions. These rights provide exclusive ownership and control over intangible assets, allowing creators to protect their innovations from unauthorised use, reproduction, or distribution.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In the conventional sense, copyright law requires that the concerned work must, in its entirety, be an outcome of the intellectual labor of a human being. Courts across the globe, recognizing this aspect, have granted copyright protection to works generated using computer programs. AI-generated art and copyright protection.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 23, 2021

Big data is a relatively new concept that has created a greater conundrum in the realm of Intellectual Property (IP) laws. Big data refers to the large and diverse sets of information that can grow at an ever-increasing rate. What is Big Data?

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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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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

Within just over a month, a raft of barely-underground Discord servers like AI Hub have popped up to provide users with access to software—and step-by-step instructions—for creating new songs using hundreds of community-made AI models designed to mimic specific artists’ voices. We own all sounds captured on a sound recording.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

This is the second installment of a reflection on the topic of content moderation and bias mitigation measures in copyright law. The first part of this post briefly discussed the concept of bias and examined the role of property rights in data and factual information, with a focus on copyright.

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Copyright Lately

JULY 17, 2022

Tammy’s complaint (read here) refers to defendant Travilyn as her “biological mother,” which tells you all you need to know about the state of their familial relationship. Livingston v. Jay Livingston Music, Inc. . “Que Sera, Sera” received the 1956 Academy Award for Best Original Song.

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IIPRD

APRIL 21, 2021

These goods and services present online that form the bread and butter for business are a protected product/content that is categorized as intellectual property and is protected under the Intellectual Property laws through copyright, trademark , design , etc. References]. [1] 2] The Copyright Act, 1957.—Section

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

In this part II we discuss two additional aspects, with a focus on UK copyright law and the EU copyright acquis. The First Sale Doctrine in the Metaverse The first sale doctrine, also referred to as the ‘ principle of exhaustion’ , is a longstanding tenet of copyright (and more in general intellectual property) law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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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.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Although cloud offerings are often global and multi-jurisdictional, the IP laws governing services generally remain territorial and national. Copyright laws, for instance, vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. What constitutes copyright infringement in one country may not be in another. Thus, in Tiffany(NJ) Inc.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

In particular, ChatGPT is a type of “language” model designed to respond with a natural language reply when prompted with a text-based question. The “Chat” in ChatGPT refers to this question-and-answer design, where ChatGPT behaves like a ChatBot. ” OpenAI, ChatGPT General FAQ.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Hulm asserted ownership of copyright on the app on the basis of a copyright registration of a literary concept note detailing the working of its app, arguing that the app is an adaptation of the literary concept note. However, the current case discusses the protection of GUIs under the Copyright Act.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Setting aside the private international law aspects, the case deserves examination on two main grounds. which refer to a person’s rights to name and image. This has already emerged in previous and not-so-old cases on the copyright/cultural heritage intersection, even though from relatively different perspectives.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Historical Legacy of Innovation : India’s rich history of invention is highlighted, with a reference to Aryabhata’s contributions to mathematics. Pandit He emphasized India’s excellent IP journey, highlighting a 36% increase in IP filings, as well as a significant increase in patents, design registrations, and trademarks.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

Steel” (which is actually more a Godfather reference than a God one). Patent and Trademark Office granted ownership of the word “Jesus” to Jesus Jeans, owned by a publicly traded Italian company, BasicNet, giving the company exclusive rights in America to sell clothing bearing the name “Jesus.” ” Id.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 17, 2023

An Abitron employee had unearthed documents that suggested that Abitron (rather than Hetronic) had retained ownership of the trademarks in question after a series of business restructurings. Having “put aside” Steele , the majority applies its most recent two-step extraterritoriality test (often referred to as the RJR Nabisco, Inc.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Copyright safeguards also encourage the top-flight playmakers or shot-stoppers to inject an innovative originality within their victory dances thereby increasing the thrill of the sport and advancing the enthusiastic involvement of the spectators, all of which furthers the broader vision of the copyright law, i.e., of public welfare.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. The Court interpreted the clause on ownership of work made during a contract of service (Section 17(c)) to not apply in situations where there is a contract between equals.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Now here he claims this infringed his copyright, when in fact this is merely a retaliatory claim due to my filing a DMCA claim based on his appropriation of my design and copyright computer code expressions on multiple occasions without written or verbal permission. I proceeded to do that. It seems like it did.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 20, 2022

1. Hors d’oeuvre: deconstructed Article 17 served on traditional copyright law principles. The Ministry bases its assessment on the definition of a service and the Commission’s guidance, referring in this part of the proposal to page 5 of the guidance (Ds 2021:30, p. But this divergence is intended. 158, 288).

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