A garage band’s guide to IP
Who owns your songs, how to protect the band name, and why the drummer should sign something. Copyright and trademarks for people who would rather be rehearsing.
By Dmytro Doubinsky, DO InnovationsThe reading room.
Glimpses into the world of IP. Updated whenever the duck feels like it.
Bad Spaniels ends, Supermac’s registers, and eBay reaches the preliminary injunction
The fortnight to 13 August: a chew toy finally beats a distillery, two burger chains get three different answers from three different registers, the Anthropic settlement starts paying out, and the Federal Circuit says out loud what everyone had assumed for twenty years.
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- Mid-August 2026
Moral rights and Ukrainian music on russian platforms
Why availability of an author’s work on a hostile platform can violate moral rights: Berne art. 6bis, Ukrainian civil law, and the case law that gets you there.
By Dmytro Doubinsky, DO InnovationsYour article, read by the people you want reading it.
Founders, in-house counsel, students and fellow professionals. The duck reads every submission first. He rejects the boring ones.
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