Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

The fact that so few copies exist means that burning it may run afoul of the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) if the editions are signed and numbered. In other nations, moral rights may prohibit that. In short, the group wrongly assumed that purchasing the book granted them the rights in the book itself.

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Copying Moral Rights Copyright Registration 340

The IPKat

MAY 29, 2023

This Kat is pleased to review the “ Overlapping Intellectual Property rights ”, edited by Neil Wilkof [full disclosure: a member of the IPKat team], Shamnad Basheer, and Irene Calboli (OUP, 2023, 864 pp.). The volume is a beautiful testimony to the work of late Shamnad Basheer, who co-edited the first edition.

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Intellectual Property Editing Privacy Moral Rights 90

Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

1 Another key right is the creation of derivative works, which includes adaptations or translations. 3 This action would violate the right to translate, which is a specific aspect of the broader right to create derivative works. ↩︎ For example, mounting pages from art books on tiles as in Mirage Editions, Inc. 209, 231 n.75

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

33(1)) This sui generis right is vested in the authors of the computer program, their heirs, persons to whom the authors or their heirs transferred economic rights to the computer program, or the lawful users of the computer program (Art. 12), but does not include moral rights.

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IP Art Moral Rights Registration 85

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Topics include access and substantial similarity, fair use, performers’ rights, moral rights, expert testimony, the role of lay listeners, sound sampling, as demonstrated in dispositions of litigated and settled infringement disputes. Registration is open here. pre-publication event: EULAs: Friends or Foes?,

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Intellectual Property Moral Rights Registration Editing 69

SpicyIP

JULY 23, 2023

The plaintiff is the proprietor of the word marks “Zenith” and other “Zenith” device mark and the defendant had registration over “Zenith” device which was later revoked by the IPAB, causing the defendant to use the impugned variant. million in damages to Constellation Designs LLC for infringing its patents in NextGenTV.

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Trademark IP Higher Education Moral Rights 98

IPilogue

MARCH 29, 2023

In March 2022, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) allowed its first artificial intelligence (AI)-authored copyright registration of a painting co-created by the AI tool, RAGHAV Painting App (“RAGHAV”), and the IP lawyer who created RAGHAV, Ankit Sahni. RAGHAV is the first non-human “author” of a copyrighted work.

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Copyright Moral Rights Copyright Law Registration 105