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[Guest post] Can performers' rights be bought out at all? Brazil's new Dance Professionals Act revives a 1978 assignment ban for the streaming age

Recording a license agreement in the EU requires consent of the currently registered trade mark owner

Maradona's former lawyer drops the ball in EUTM transfer dispute

Never Too Late: if you missed The IPKat last week

Assignment in gross, or not? What happened to the goodwill?

T 1201/14: EPC's substantive requirements for valid transfer of priority right surprisingly substantial

Copyright law in the UAE: it's not what you might think

The life and death of the PRINCE Bill

Online image search: does France think that the best way to help copyright owners is to deprive them of their rights?