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Safeguarding Access to Culture in the Digital Era in European Copyright law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Access to videogames, music or films that are not already part of the public domain may be lost forever if the service provider decides to stop offering it. Indeed, intellectual access to works in the public domain, their enjoyment and their use presuppose prior material access to these works.

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Why Should You Patent Your Invention?

Intepat

It gives the inventor or patent owner exclusive rights and prevents others from manufacturing, selling, or marketing the invention. The foremost advantage of obtaining a patent is that it gives exclusive rights to the inventor. Sense of ownership. Inventors can use patents to establish their businesses. Exclusive rights.

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Can We Patent An Idea That Made To Public?

Intepat

’ moment, inventors tend to get excited about sharing it with the world. It is time to think if our ideas are patentable if we share them in the public domain. This can also occur as a consequence of sharing your ideas in the public domain. The post Can We Patent An Idea That Made To Public?

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mRNA Patent Litigation: The ‘Sport of Kings’

SpicyIP

Some studies have shown that juries favour independent inventors / start-ups over bigger corporate defendants (e.g. However, patent ownership controversy with the NIH is a separate story ( here and here ). However, as is evident, ownership over this technology and its component parts is extremely fuzzy. This David v.

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A Brief Thematic Review of Non-Fungible Tokens and their Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

Due to the recurrent copyright difficulties, which have a significant impact on an individual’s business interest, it is imperative to preserve the ownership rights of digital works. NFTs are governed by smart contracts, which divide ownership and limit transferability. iii] NFTs are limited to having a single owner.

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Analysing the Intersection of Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Intellectual Property Rights

IP and Legal Filings

Since blockchain plays a pivotal role in the crypto market, several inventors have attempted to legally protect the various components of blockchain technology using patents. In the NFT space, a buyer is granted ownership over a copy of a digital artifact. Smart contracts are contracts that are used to regulate NFT transactions.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

The fictitious German inventors want to commercialise their invention, yet do not have sufficient funds to seek patent registration. Ochoa authors Chapter 9, which is devoted to the overlaps between copyright and the rights of publicity or personality rights.