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Kluwer Copyright Blog
MARCH 11, 2025
Access to videogames, music or films that are not already part of the public domain may be lost forever if the service provider decides to stop offering it. Indeed, intellectual access to works in the public domain, their enjoyment and their use presuppose prior material access to these works. 811 of the CDSM Directive.
Patently-O
AUGUST 22, 2022
And, once a patent expires (or is refused or forfeited by public use), the balance allows “free access to copy whatever the federal patent and copyright laws leave in the public domain.” ” Compco Corp. Day–Brite Lighting, Inc. , 234 (1964). Hotchkiss v. Greenwood , 11 How. 248 (1851).
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IP and Legal Filings
JANUARY 23, 2023
The copyrights Act includes computer programmes and electronic communication, however this has been viewed as a grey area. Following the 2012 revision to the copyrights Act, it was made clear that Internet activities were also covered by the copyright law.
The IP Law Blog
JANUARY 12, 2023
When looking into company assets protectable under federal copyright laws, one should check the company’s website, marketing materials, manuals, YouTube videos, podcasts, posted content on Instagram, TikTok, and the like, photos, software, blog posts, articles, white papers, etc.
The IPKat
MAY 29, 2023
The second edition offers revised, or wholly rewritten chapters to the overlaps discussed in the first edition so as to reflect recent developments, as well as to include new chapters (the overlap between privacy and copyright law; privacy and secrecy; trademarks certification marks and collective marks; and IP and traditional knowledge).
Intepat
OCTOBER 6, 2024
A patent can be granted when the invention meets certain criteria: Novelty: it must be new and not available in the public domain. and in a way that it must be new and not available in the public domain. MYTH 5: IT’S FREE TO USE IF IT IS ON THE INTERNET Anything available online is not free for public use.
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. Copyright can be applied to art if it can be sold.
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