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Publicly Posted PowerPoint ≠ Public Domain

Dear Rich IP Blog

Is it still considered copyright infringement to use them? How do you tell if materials are public domain or fit under fair use? How do you tell if materials are public domain or fit under fair use? Any work of authorship not protected under copyright law is said to fall within the public domain.

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Disney’s Limiting of the Public Domain

Chicago-Kent Intellectual Property Journal Blog

Disney’s Limiting of the Public Domain Sydney Fenton | April 6th, 2022 Creation of Copyright and the Public Domain On May 31, 1790, the first copyright law was enacted under the new United States Constitution, modeled after Britain’s Statute of Anne.[1]

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European Copyright Society letter to Commissioner Breton on a future agenda in the field of copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The members of the European Copyright Society (ECS ) have recently sent a letter to Mr. Thierry Breton ( Commissioner for Internal Market , European Commission ) outlining their view of what should be the priorities for a f uture agenda in the field of copyright law.

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Copyright for AI-generated works: a task for the internal market?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Voices emerged questioning whether current EU copyright laws should be amended in light of the many AI-generated works that have come about. One important question has been whether copyright law should be extended in order to protect such works. Importantly, copyright law is equally about culture.

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As Publishers Beat Internet Archive, Are Libraries The Real Losers?

Copyright Lately

The theory behind CDL is that by maintaining a consistent “owned-to-loaned” ratio between physical books and digital copies, libraries can meet the digital needs of twenty-first-century patrons without violating existing copyright law. million additional books protected by valid copyrights. At least, that was the idea.

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Contradictions of Computer-Generated Works’ Protection

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Such apparently creative outputs are not protectable as a matter of the American copyright law – or the law of the European Union (see Blaszczyk ). The recent United States’ case law shows that other jurisdictions may not follow suit. This is, in fact, one of the great beliefs of modern jurisprudence.

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The Modern Copyright Dilemma: Digital Content Ownership and Access

IP and Legal Filings

Development of Copyright Law Protection of Intellectual property rights has always been in existence among various sections of the society. TRIPS Agreement accepted the Berne Convention except Article which states that copyright protected work shall enjoy the copyright protection in all countries of the union.