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Who owns the copyright to Ellen DeGeneres' record-breaking Oscars selfie?

Now that the 2014 Oscars have been awarded, there is something left to reflect upon, besides why Leonardo DiCaprio seems unable to bring home one those precious little statues. It is a copyright-related question, and concerns what has become the most retweeted tweet ever, this being awards host Ellen DeGeneres' all-star selfie featuring Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Lupita Nyong'o, Kevin Spacey and Jared Leto.
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Bird & Bird enters Korea via partnership with local firm

Bird & Bird has become the latest international law firm to enter Korea after signing a cooperation agreement with Seoul-based outfit Hwang Mok Park (HMP). The non-exclusive partnership will allow the two firms to participate in joint marketing and collaboration of client services, with a view to a more formal merger in the next two to three years.
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Food for thought: is an unauthorised photo of your restaurant meal an IP breach?

I do it. My friends do it. And I suspect that you've occasionally done it. It is what is colloquially referred to as 'food porn' - the salivating over restaurant menus online in preparation for a meal and then, depending on your social media connectedness, the Instagram shot of what you are about to devour.
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Baker & McKenzie opens office in Myanmar

Baker & McKenzie has become the latest international law firm to open in Myanmar. The US outfit, which has been mulling a launch in the country for some time, has opened its new base in the former capital and commercial centre Yangon, with a team being led by former Sydney-based infrastructure and corporate partner Chris Hughes.
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Bakers hires City intellectual property partner from McDermott

Baker & McKenzie has hired McDermott Will & Emery intellectual property and life sciences partner Hiroshi Sheraton in London. Sheraton, who trained as a medical chemist before he became a lawyer, practices on all aspects of intellectual property and patent law, with a particular focus on the life sciences sector.
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TTIP of the iceberg – what the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership means for lawyers on both sides of the Pond

It has been billed as the largest free trade agreement in history, yet many trade lawyers are still in the dark when it comes to the details of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal. TTIP, which was announced last summer and is now being negotiated, will for the first time create a trade treaty between the US and the EU in its entirety. Designed to drive growth by removing trade barriers and tariffs, independent research cited by the European Commission suggests the annual benefits could be as much as €120bn (£99.9bn) to the EU economy, €90bn (£74.9bn) to the US and €100bn (£83.2bn) to the rest of the world. "Everybody is going to be affected by this, and it really will change the balance of political power," says Ross Denton, a UK-qualified partner in Baker & McKenzie's European competition and trade department. "In recent years the balance [of US trade] has been gradually shifting towards Asia, because they don't have the same heavy tariffs. But if you eliminate most tariffs between the EU and US, then this will have huge ramifications for business."
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Minters hires two-partner IP litigation team from KWM in Australia

Minter Ellison has hired two senior IP litigators and their teams from King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) in Australia. Wayne McMaster was previously head of KWM's national IP and health & pharmaceuticals practice, whilst Robert Cooper worked alongside him on patent disputes and trademarks.
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Japan's Mori Hamada & Matsumoto to open in Yangon and Osaka

Japanese law firm Mori Hamada & Matsumoto is to open two new offices in Yangon, Myanmar, and Osaka, Japan. The Tokyo headquartered outfit will be the second Japanese firm to open in the two cities, with rival Nishimura & Asahi also launching in the former Burmese capital and largest city in May last year, and in Osaka in 2012.
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Hogan Lovells bolsters TMT group in Asia with Freshfields' practice head

Hogan Lovells has bolstered its technology media telecoms (TMT) group in Asia with the hire of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Mark Parsons, regional head of intellectual property, IP and TMT for the magic circle firm. Parsons, who focuses particularly on commercial transactions and regulatory matters in the technology sector, will join the UK firm in Hong Kong at the end of January, and is expected to enhance the corporate and commercial team.
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Are tweets protected by copyright?

Are tweets protected by copyright? Well, it would seem that under EU law - or rather CJEU understanding of EU law - the answer should be in the affirmative. In its 2009 decision in Infopaq, the court found that copyright may subsist in a text extract of 11 words and - more in general - it subsists whenever a work is its author's own intellectual creation.
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