Have you ever posted a video of yourself performing a little dance on TikTok? Or uploaded photos of your latest vacation on a sun-bathed island on Instagram? There is a good chance that you did, since more than 5…
Few are those nowadays who have not heard of the wonders of machine learning technologies. Names such as “ChatGPT”, “DeepSeek” or “Midjourney” have become known to virtually everybody and, for many, are now part…
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that European libraries may digitize books and make them available at electronic reading points without first coming to an agreement with the holder of…
The Industry-Level Analysis Report of the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Office of Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) was presented by the European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy in…
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History
The World Intellectual Property Office’s (WIPO’s) member states designated April 26 – the day on which the WIPO Convention came into force in 1970 – as World Intellectual Property Day with the aim of…
Copyright laws - among others in Germany - and the great difficulties to know and assess what is allowed - and what is not.
Stars like Elvis, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Lady Gaga are musical icons and partly…
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) together with its intitiative "Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy" (BASCAP) has launched a unified consumer awareness campaign against counterfeiting.
T…
On 16 November 2011 LexDellmeier held a one-day seminar on the topic how the strategic creation, maintenance and defense of IP-rights can positively influence the company value.
The first part of the seminar…
LexDellmeier bietet Unternehmern und Unternehmen die Gelegenheit bei diesem Seminar tiefere Einsicht zu gewinnen, wie eine gekonnte Strategie bei der Schaffung, der Eintragung und dem Schutz von IP-Rechten den…
For decades Germans have been watching "Tatort" (in English "Crime Scene") on Sunday evenings. It is a famous crime series in which each episode shows a different crime movie of about 90 minutes. „Tatort“ is…
© is an abbreviation of copyright but in Germany the designation of a work with this sign is not necessary as the copyright automatically is obtained with the creation of the work.
However it is very advisable to…
The protection begins with the creation of the work, lasting throughout its creator´s lifetime and being upheld for further 70 years after his death (as the right of his legal heirs).
Concerning anonymous works,…
The creators of works of literature, science and art receive protection for their works through the German Copyright Law (Urheberrechtsgesetz).
Works can be:
Lingual works as writings, speeches, computer…