WATCH OUT COPYCAT Legally replicating Céline’s Luggage Tote just got a lot more difficult. Céline holds federal trade dress protection for its coveted Luggage Tote and will have a much easier time suing in connection …
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Italy’s competition watchdog, AGCM, has opened a probe into collective-rights management society Nuovoimaie to see whether the entity abused its dominant position in the field of copyright. The original article is in Italian. Sorry about that!
More than Just a Game Interactive Entertainment and Intellectual Property Law (Second edition), Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London Friday, 8 April 2016. Interactive Entertainment is bursting with Intellectual Property. In …
Does an artist have any legal rights to prevent someone else releasing a cover of their original before it’s even out? The composer (or their publisher) of a song has to grant the first mechanical licence …
This is an abstract of a study commissioned by WIPO entitled “The Legal Status of Video Games: Comparative Analysis in National Approaches” for a better understanding of the legal status of video game in Italy. In …
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is considering whether linking to copyright infringing content should itself be considered infringement. Melchior Wathelet, advocate-general to the ECJ, has ruled that simply linking to infringing content is not …
Abstract. Authors’ moral rights and cinema: the rights granted to authors and their powers in respect to moral rights in civil and common law countries; the significance of the recognition of specific moral rights as part …
File sharing films impact. Introduction The main argument of those who support piracy is: that every important sector of big media today was born of a kind of piracy so defined. “…If piracy means using …
Film law practice. A comparative study between Straw Dogs and Irreversible. How audience’s perception of sexual violence in films can influence BBFC’s valuation and vice versa Abstract The audience’s perspective and the BBFC’s position in regard …