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Donald C. Brace Memorial Lecture by Professor David Vaver – “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond”

IPilogue

This past Monday, Osgoode’s very own Professor David Vaver delivered the 2021 Brace lecture on “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond” as the series’ very first international speaker from outside the United States. That anyone’s use of a copyright-protected work infringes the copyright owner’s property.

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[Guest Post] UK House of Lords Inquiry into Large Language Models

The IPKat

The panel emphasized that copyright laws inherently strike this balance and should be upheld in the context of AI development. The principle of copyright is the same, but the context is slightly different. Mr Conway emphasized the importance of copyright in the context of AI model development.

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Saturday Sundries

The IPKat

Image credits: Riana Harvey Events and publications The Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute joins forces with the Centre for Commercial Law Studies in organising their annual IP event, this year tackling the hot topic of investigating the crucial narratives on the role of IP law and theory in promoting a sustainable world.

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[Guest post] Book review: ‘Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law: 20 Years of the IPKat’

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To mark this milestone, we organized an event in London in June 2023 [Katreports here , here , here and here ] and Kats Hayleigh and Eleonora put together a collection of chapters authored by current and past IPKat Team Members, as well as some eminent Katfriends. The book, titled Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law.

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IP Scholarship, Citations, and Knowledge Governance: Some Insights from the History of IP Teaching in India

SpicyIP

Mr. Kadirgamar traces it back to 1970 when WIPO conducted two surveys: one, on the teaching of industrial property law and the second on the teaching of copyright law teaching. In this symposium, Professors Narmada Khodie (then Head, Department of Law, University of Bombay, India) and K. Here’s a hitch, however.

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Nintendo’s Actions Demonstrate Our Intellectual Property Laws are Broken

JIPEL Copyright Blog

scene in the past, things seemed to come to a head in November 2020 when Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Tournament Organizers (TOs) of the Big House, an upcoming streamed Melee tournament, and subsequently forced them to cancel the event. While Nintendo has waffled on its support for the Smash Bros. Super Smash Bros.

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IT’S THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT FOR ME: WHY CLAIMS AGAINST MEME CONTENT SHOULD NOT MATTER

JIPL Online

Such uses are often methods of social commentary regarding the user’s own life, or more broadly, current events; they also often utilize copyrightable material. [i] ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. The Ultimate Meme FAQ) , Quality Logo Products (Mar.