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Role of Intellectual Property in Promoting Creativity

Does the Intellectual Property Regime play a role in promoting creativity? As stated by most governments, the objective of patent, copyright, design and other laws is to promote the progress of inventive activity and creativity. Are these laws actually achieving their stated objective? While most of us would like to believe that they are, no empirical study has been able to conclusively prove so far that IP laws actually promote creativity. The logical question that follows would be whether we…

April 9, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Patents, Trademarks 0Comment 811Views 1Like

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Activision’s “Copyright strikes” spark outburst in Call of Duty gamers!

In a wide array of videos popular on YouTube, gameplay videos have quite a fan following. These videos involve gamers playing some of the most popular games, for viewers to watch. While copyrights over such games are reserved with the developers, they often face allegations of copyright infringement. YouTube, in its attempts to discourage such infringing videos, has introduced “copyright strikes” whereby the account flagged by the content owner for alleged infringement receives a copyright strike from YouTube restricting the…

April 6, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 1874Views 0Like

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Happy Birthday sue You; Happy Birthday sue You!

There’s no one who hasn’t awkwardly stood around their birthday cake while people sing "Happy Birthday to You". It’s the world’s most famous song, sung to millions each year. And this six-word set of lyrics with a simple melody is protected by copyright. In 1868, two Hill sisters from Kentucky composed a song called "Good Morning to All" (now known as the tune of "Happy Birthday"), which went like: Good morning to you, Good morning to you, Good morning, dear…

March 30, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, IP Commercialization/Licensing, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 1986Views 0Like

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OCR: Credibility of India’s Intellectual Property Enforcement in Question

United States Trade Representative (USTR) ordered an Out of Cycle Review (OCR) for India in October. While the USTR insists that the aim of this exercise is to provide constructive feedback to India in order to improve its IP protection and enforcement, many in India are not happy about this move. Not only has the government criticized this move, but also refused to participate in it arguing that the US laws are not applicable to India. Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s Commerce…

March 30, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law, Patents 0Comment 865Views 0Like

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Can you sue if your tweet gets copied?

Here is the next post in the series of Student Blog Contest. The Internet is often considered the Wild West of laws; People believe that laws that exist offline do not apply online, or there exist different rules of behaviour. So when you tap out a tweet and hit send, putting it in public domain, can you sue if it gets copied? Short answer: No. Long answer? It’s complicated. Copyrighting a tweet is extremely hard, for various reasons. Reporting on…

March 30, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 5428Views 0Like

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Digital Rights Management : An Analysis

Laws alone cannot eliminate copyright infringements. For copyright law to take its course, there have to be effective detection of infringements and identification of infringers. Furthermore, as with any property rights, owners of copyrighted content have to take certain measures to protect their copyrights before expecting law enforcement to aid them. Digital Rights Managements and ETMs are such measures a copyright owner is expected to take in order to protect his copyrights in the digital world. The term Digital Rights…

March 25, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights 0Comment 2184Views 0Like

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“Blurred Lines” for American Music Industry after Copyright Controversy

On March 10, 2015, a panel of eight jurors of a California Federal Court found the artists Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams guilty of copyright infringement in a plagiarism suit filed by the heirs of artist Marvin Gaye, alleging that the 2013 hit “Blurred Lines” by Thicke and Williams was a rip off of Gaye’s 1977 song “Got To Give It Up”. ‘Blurred Lines’, written and performed by Robin Thicke, T I and Pharrell Williams, was released on March 26,…

March 19, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 897Views 0Like

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Electronic Frontier Foundation to preserve Software

Since the dawn of internet, the technological development has been exponential, leading to digitisation of almost all possible activities as from tablets and phones to watches, glasses, TVs and even refrigerators become “smarter”. The laws such as Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), enacted to focus on the rise of digital era, are unable to completely match the pace of this development. Recently, the US Copyright Office initiated the sixth triennial rule-making process which has been accepting petitions since then. Electronic…

February 20, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 835Views 0Like

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Spanish publishers suffer as Google News closes Operations

Google News closes operations in Spain

A while ago, Google closed its operations in Spain, in response to the new copyright law which has made it mandatory for Google, Yahoo and other news aggregators to pay licensing fee to all news publishers for using their stories or snippets in Google news. The regulation, expected to come into effect in 2015, will deal with websites that share pirated content. As per the law, Spanish Government will have the authority to penalize websites up to $750,000 for directing…

February 11, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, IP Commercialization/Licensing 0Comment 935Views 0Like

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This image depicts the word copyright. This post is a summary of copyright and entertainment law related news. Click on the image to read the full post.

Dear Sinapse Readers (entertainment and copyright law enthusiasts), In 2014, the authors of Sinapse got together to bring to its readers analytic data in the form of 'Series' posts. We have put together all the entertainment and copyright law related information for you, so that you're able to assimilate all of it at one go! But don't stop there. Read the whole thing if you want to be thoroughly informed: 1. Licensing & Merchandising in Copyright Law …

February 8, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 1135Views 0Like

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Role of Intellectual Property in Promoting Creativity

Activision’s “Copyright strikes” spark outburst in Call of Duty gamers!

Happy Birthday sue You; Happy Birthday sue You!

OCR: Credibility of India’s Intellectual Property Enforcement in Question

Can you sue if your tweet gets copied?

Digital Rights Management : An Analysis

“Blurred Lines” for American Music Industry after Copyright Controversy

Electronic Frontier Foundation to preserve Software

Google News closes operations in Spain

Copyright and Entertainment Law series posts: 2014

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