Beymen, the leading fashion brand in Turkey, has offered upscale men’s clothing since 1971, more recently adding women’s wear and home collections to its lines.  But when it sought to register two of its design marks in Canada (possibly to herald its entry into the Canadian retail market), Beymen ran into serious issues with Canada’s [...]

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Tout arrive en France, especially for folks following recent intellectual property news. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) released a key judgment in January in a case that pitted copyright against freedom of expression.

Posted in Commercialization, Contracts, Copyright, copyright reform, Design, European Union, Fashion Industry, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Image, Infringement, IP, Ownership, Supreme Court of Canada, Uncategorized
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I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Graham Henderson, President of Music Canada, who will be inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame on Thursday, March 21 as part of Canadian Music Week 2013. In addition to representing record labels such as Sony, Universal and Warner, Music Canada’s role is to [...]

Posted in Blogs, Canada, CD Levy, Cloud Services, Copyright, copyright reform, Digital Downloads, Digital Locks, events, Feature Post, General, Image, Infringement, Internet, IP, Music Industry, Music Industry, Technology
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In the recent decision The Hebrew University of Jerusalem v. General Motors LLC, the US District Court of the Central District of California ruled that Albert Einstein’s publicity rights  now belong to the public domain given that more than 50 years have passed since his death in 1955.

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