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Striking the Right Chord: How the New MoU and Proposed Standard Agreement Aim to Give Screenwriters, Lyricists, and Composers Their Due Credit

SpicyIP

As remarked by composer and MCAI chairperson Vishal Bharadwaj in his recent interview , producers often demand ownership over derivative rights, and music labels often force composers to let go of their moral rights. Similarly, for the composers and lyricists things werent any better.

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Alalääkkölä v Palmer: New Zealand Supreme Court confirms copyright is relationship property

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Background As recounted by Lyall (2024) , Finnish artist Sirpa Alalkkl and her husband Paul Palmer, who married in 1997 and separated some 20 years later, disputed the ownership of copyright in artworks she created during the course of their relationship. Because economic rights can be assigned, copyright has a value realisable in money.

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Book Review: The Artificial Inventor - A Challenge for the Patent System

The IPKat

The challenges presented by this state of affairs, including whether ‘artificial agents’ can be considered inventors, patent their inventions, and enjoy the benefit of patent ownership – and how their inventions would be evaluated against established human rules in the first place, are considered in this book.

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IPSC Breakout Session 3, Language and Authorship/ownership

43(B)log

So if you bring kids up speaking this language, you will definitely have lost control.] Ownership should require a lower burden of proof: comes from the relationship between the spouses and not from the connection to the creation. Gerhardt: compare right of publicity, moral rights? Merger is off the table. [So

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IPSC Panel 14 – Copyright Authorship & Ownership

43(B)log

Twain thought he should have ownership of his lectures—“my lecture was my property.” It’s not clear that giving Cord’s estate ownership would be social justice, but that’s a question worth asking. Prototypical 19 th case: Publishing agreement is silent on ownership; publisher complies w/formalities and author doesn’t.

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Copyright implications of Augmented Reality for cultural goods – Part 1

Kluwer Copyright Blog

At the same time, AR may be a catalyst for boosting the ecosystem surrounding bodies managing cultural heritage, because an attractive cultural site with entertainment features can definitely have an impact on the local tourism-related industry. When copyright is involved, both economic and moral rights issues are at stake.

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Born to be authors: the copyright of the child

Kluwer Copyright Blog

A copyright lawyer will be familiar with legal issues on subject matter, originality, authorship and ownership. This question resonates with copyright lawyers as it focuses on the statutory or non- statutory definitions of subject matter, according to both the common law and civil law approaches. What is it? What does it do?