IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

Image Sources: Shutterstock] Basic understanding of Copyright Copyright is a legal theory that provides artists complete ownership over their creative works, preventing unauthorised use and copying. AI will play a rapidly expanding role in all aspects of our daily life and therefore the law must govern its applications.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Statute of Anne marked the beginning of copyright protection in the United Kingdom, whereas in France, the first statute granting copyright protection was enacted after the French Revolution known as the Declaration of the Rights of the Genius in 1793, which gave authors protection for ten years (Moh. Zafar Mahfooz Nomani, 2023).

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 1, 2022

The Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions Act (PTKCEA), 2016 passed by the Kenyan government elaborated categorically upon the IP rights of traditional communities. Section 21(2) (c) of the Act confers the right not to have TK and cultural expressions subject to derogatory treatment.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 18, 2023

Section 2(1)(s) includes the government as well apart from other ‘natural persons’ although it did not define the term ‘person’ with clarity. 5] Such a ‘personality’ entails a right to sue or be sued by another entity which an AI lacks. A person can have the moral right may not have the legal right in the invention.

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Garrigues Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

However, an architect’s intellectual property rights in his/her work can conflict with the ownership rights in the built work creating a situation that is less than desirable for both, in which each may hamper the interests of the other. Moral rights Moral rights establish the connection between the author and his/her work.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Would it automatically place works compulsorily acquired in the public domain or only transfer ownership to the government? There would also be the need to address how moral rights would operate in the context of a compulsory acquisition.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Without further ado, here’s what I found in the Januarys: Virtual World, Gaming, and IPs: Sifting through January pages, a decade-old post by Deepshikha Malhotra caught my attention, discussing Property Rights in the Virtual World. The question of ownership in the virtual world, particularly in video games, has long been debated.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. This proposed expansion of the exception was recently rejected by the UK government. This will be hard to defend.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

A copyright lawyer will be familiar with legal issues on subject matter, originality, authorship and ownership. UK Government National Curriculum ). Rather, it focuses on the just safeguards that should exist around the exploitation of those works, both in relation to economic and moral rights. What is it?

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

Cord told Twain the story in NY, which is governed by Hemingway’s Estate v. 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. Deals with © and moral rights, first sale, users rights.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The law of the country selected in a choice of law clause (indicated as the lex contractus ) governs issues of contract interpretation, performance and (consequences of) termination (Article 12 Rome I Regulation ). Consequently, choice of law clauses in favour of common law jurisdictions may affect the level of protection accorded to artists.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Justice Rothstein offered a Canadian perspective on how our moral rights framework would line up with Dean Zemer’s approach. Justice Rothstein explained that the concerns raised by Dean Zemer would fit neatly into the Canadian understanding of moral rights.

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The IPKat

MAY 25, 2022

For example, IP academics might hold a belief in the right to own the copyright and moral rights of their own creative works and output, which may conflict with their University’s position on the ownership of lecture recordings.

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