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Fonts & Typefaces: Are they Copyrightable? 

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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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The puzzled tie of copyright, cultural heritage and public domain in Italian law: is the Vitruvian Man taking on unbalanced proportions?

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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. On top of that, as the case demonstrates, the public domain may receive other threats from an aggressive extension of the scope of personality rights.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2021

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Citing the agreement, the defendant requested the suit to be referred to an arbitration. In this case, the Bombay High Court ruled that registration of copyright is not mandatory for obtaining relief in an infringement action. However, later the defendant served a termination notice against which the plaintiff filed this suit.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023

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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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