Communications Law
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Doll Having Realistic Twisting Midriff
This post has a little to say besides: Check out this article on the CBABC website. It summarizes the genius of Barbie’s brand strategy, which includes leveraging multiple forms of protection—copyright, trademark, patent, and industrial design—for their IP. Another great article about Barbie’s IP in the New Yorker. Both articles discuss how, in addition to […]
Copyrightable Titles?
Looking at Francis, Day & Hunter Ltd v Twentieth Century Fox Corp Ltd [Francis] made me think of a few artists who could possibly challenge the general rule that there is no separate copyright in the title of the work, or rather, satisfy the exception. The quote regarding the exception to the rule: …provided that [the title] […]