Tag Archives: subject matter

• The Protection of Photographs in French Copyright Law

  Posted on 二月 3, 2012 by adminsampsung in Copyright

  by FrenchKat at The1709blog Recent postings surrounding the “Red Bus” decision (http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWPCC/2012/1.html) have inspired me to make some brief observations about the French copyright law’s approach to the issue of the protection of photographs. Priot to 1957 such works were usually dealt with as a sub-species of artistic works such as paintings (photography being thought [...]

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  Red bus suggests copyright law is not black and white

  Posted on 一月 25, 2012 by adminsampsung in Copyright

  by Rosie Burbidge @ Art and Artifice Blog A recent case in the UK Patents County Court concerned the nature and scope of copyright protection for a computer manipulated monochrome photograph of a bright red bus going over Westminster Bridge. The photograph may be of a specific subject matter but the case has much wider implications for the worlds [...]

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• Post-Bilski split on patentable subject matter

  Posted on 一月 23, 2012 by adminsampsung in Patent

  By Norman @ IPKat Sunday, 22 January 2012 In Bilski v Kappos, 130 S Ct 3218 (2010) the majority of the US Supreme Court held the business method patent at issue to be unpatentable as claiming an “abstract idea” (13). But Bilski has by no means settled the question of whether business methods are patentable in US law. There is a long-standing [...]

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