Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Music is an artistic work which is subject to copyright protection. Music lovers can now effortlessly stream music from anywhere in the world. Even in restaurants, bars, and lounges, the music is played to entertain their customers, whether by employing DJs or playing music through sound systems.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It focuses on authorship of the copyright in stage plays as dramatic works, texts that can be performed from a script (rather than musical theatre, dance, or performers rights). Who receives the credit and the licensing rights? And who poses moral rights in the work? The monograph is presented in six chapters.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Many orphan works are part of India’s rich cultural heritage, and their inaccessibility can hinder efforts to promote and preserve traditional arts, literature, and music. Section 57: This section emphasizes moral rights, which allow authors to protect the integrity of their works, regardless of whether they are pseudonymous or anonymous.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Music is an artistic work which falls into the purview of copyright protection. Nowadays, music lovers can easily stream music. Even restaurants, bars and lounges play music to entertain guests, either through hiring DJs or by playing music through sound systems. The defendant no 1 i.e,

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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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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Copyright is a legal right that grants creators exclusive control over their original works of authorship. This includes various forms of creativity such as literary works, musical compositions, paintings, sculptures, software, and even films. Musical Works : Compositions, songs, and music scores.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Music is an artistic work which falls into the purview of copyright protection. Nowadays, music lovers can easily stream music. Even restaurants, bars and lounges play music to entertain guests, either through hiring DJs or by playing music through sound systems. The defendant no 1 i.e,

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

streamers) broadcast themselves to an audience doing almost anything including playing video games, cooking, making music, performing ASMR, walking around in public, debating politics, etc. This led to the creation of YouTube’s “Content ID” system to monitor posted videos and livestreams for music and other copyrighted material.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

That is, in an NFT there can be an underlying copy of a work of art –typically an image, photograph, piece of music, video or certain audiovisual content– that may be subject to copyright. Therefore, the moral right of “disclosure” had already been exhausted. an exploitation that caused them no harm).

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The web is riddled with copyright infringing content, ranging from full-length blockbuster films, through small music samples, to reposted celebrity photos on social media. While these clips may not directly hurt revenues, copyrights also have moral rights which include the right to integrity, which could come into play here.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 20, 2023

Firstly, Originality, Section13 of the said act, to claim ownership over work (literally, musical, dramatic) created by AI, originality in work is an essential component, that can be detected by originality tests. Also, Moral rights of the creator is given in under Section 57 of the said act, are not relevant to the Artificial Intelligence.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

50% with the composer and lyricist together (authors, 25% each) and 50% to a music label such as TIPS (assignee, music/film producer will usually transfer rights to label or enter into a Section 17(b) scenario, where the label is first and sole owner ab initio ). Firstly, the producers must accordon-screen credits.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 27, 2025

AI, a simulation of human intelligence by a computer system designed to perform tasks typically done by human beings, has in just a few short years evolved beyond what was previously believed possible, and has manifested itself in even creating new works of Intellectual Property, such as art, literature, music, etc.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 15, 2023

Dua Lipa and Warner Music are being sued by talk box inventor and singer, Bosko Kante, for breach of contract and copyright infringement in hit song 'Levitating'. Separately, if someone records samples to be used on your song, absent an agreement to the contrary, it may be that they own the rights to those recordings.

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SpicyIP

MAY 1, 2023

Moral rights What about the moral rights of the individuals whose works form a part of the training database and are used by AI in a different context? There needs to be transparency about the manner in which a training dataset has been obtained/licensed by the AI developer.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Copyright protects works like literary, computer programs, plays, music and paintings. Generally, the author of a copyright work has the right to reproduce, publish, perform, communicate and adapt his work. Creators who obtain intellectual property protection for these works receive legal, economic, and moral rights over them.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In a ruling relating to the infringement of musical works , the limitation period ran from the letter of formal notice. What's more, while such an action for damages may be time-barred in respect of certain disputed facts, this does not mean that it will be time-barred in respect of others, including as regard moral rights.

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The IPKat

MARCH 18, 2023

As someone who has also authored a practical guide ( Copyright in the Music Industry ) that is aimed at a novice audience, this Kat must stress the intended audience of the book and, as such, the lack of references and appendices of legal texts.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

These technologies are capable of generating new content, such as text, computer codes, music, photos, videos, and sounds, as a result of human input, like a brief textual explanation of what is wanted. ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Midjourney are some examples of generative AI tools that are presently in use.

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The IPKat

MAY 31, 2023

The Court held that a musical box infringed of an author’s moral rights. Copyright This Kat reflected on a judgment issued by the Tribunal Judiciaire of Paris on 31 March 2023 which concerned a claim of copyright infringement in a typeface.

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SpicyIP

JULY 14, 2023

A longtime friend of the blog, Achille is currently serving as an Advisor to the Board of the Indian Performing Right Society. With over 35 years of experience in the creative industries, Achille pioneered music publishing in India with Deep Emotions Publishing in 1996 and has also served as a public servant in France.

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The IPKat

MAY 22, 2023

This post is brought to you by Oprah Nwobike , who is a lawyer and doctoral researcher at Brunel University London focusing on copyright and artificial intelligence in the music industry, under the supervision of IPKat's Dr Hayleigh Bosher. AI companies take music created by humans and generate ‘new’ AI music based on what has been trained.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 31, 2022

Copyright is the legal and exclusive right of the owner of some creative work, be it in an artistic, literary, musical, or educational form. The copyright owner or holder has the right to control who uses his creative work and the contexts in which the said work could be used.

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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. More information about this event here.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 27, 2022

COPYRIGHTS: Term copyright is a bundle of exclusive rights provided to the creator/owner of original works of authorship, which includes literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, cinematographic films, and sound recordings. Original literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works. Cinematograph films. Sound recordings”.

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SpicyIP

MAY 23, 2024

Image from here Sweet Sound of Victory: Looking at the Calcutta HC’s Decisive Decision on Rights of Authors By Surabhi Katare In a major development, Calcutta High Court’s passed a landmark judgement on May 17, 2024, in safeguarding the copyrights of authors of music and literary work used in sound recordings.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 26, 2023

Disputes over the rights to the script and music used in the movie have arisen between producers and other contributors such as scriptwriters and musical composers. [2] Music compositions are also given their unique copyright protection. Music compositions are also given their unique copyright protection.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 29, 2024

Baby Gift House was amongst one of the first cases to delve into the commercial aspect of personality rights. [5] The interests of an artist can be protectable as an extension of its Moral Rights which grants the performers the right to given credit and also claim authorship for their performance. Ammini Amma and Ors.,

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 28, 2024

13 (1) states that original literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works as well as cinematograph films and sound recordings are protected by copyright. The current stance on the Protection of Films Titles So many contemporary films share their name with other films; the question arises, are the film titles protected in India? [1]

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The compliance with the basic principles of originality, durability, and authenticity would only provide protection of copyright to the works in terms of literary, artistic, musical, dramatic, cinematographic and sound recordings and even computer software.

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IIPRD

JUNE 13, 2024

When artificial technologies are utilized for creating innovations, such as employing evolutionary algorithms for antenna design or engaging IBM Watson to produce music, IPR laws become relevant. AI is doing lots of creative work in the fields of animation, web apps, images, music, designing, and various other things.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

(c) does grant authors “rights in something he created” and that “already belong to him” at common law and is taken after a few short years from him and his heirs. Natural or moral right to own fruit of labors. Rests on natural moral right to enjoy products of own exertion and no interference with anyone’s right to do likewise.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

This decision will potentially make a difference in the relationship between record labels and streaming bodies in the future, especially at a time when streaming is generating a humongous revenue for the Indian music industry. Indian Performing Right Society Ltd. Ltd and Indian Performing Rights Society Ltd.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Unfortunately, in cases like Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria Limited (MCSN) v. There would also be the need to address how moral rights would operate in the context of a compulsory acquisition. What are the implications of compulsory acquisition in this context?

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2022

The protection of moral rights, including the rights of publication, authorship, alteration, and integrity, is perpetual. 8) computer software; and (9) other intellectual achievements conforming to the characteristics of the works.” copyright law.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Google, particularly looking into ‘consent’ and the moral rights of a performer. Then Spadika Jayaraj’s entertaining two-part series (See here and here ) on the Kuchipudi Copyright Conundrum would challenge us to think deeper, questioning how performance rights mesh with tricky definitions of dramatic and cinematic works.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Rosenblatt: how we think about that might be different in music sampling than other derivative works. In music industry, collapse of revenue stream didn’t stop music creation and skewed demand for popular works also leads to backwards-bending labor supply curve: low revenue leads to more music. Rosen: Moral rights? [he

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