Ipkat Takes A Walk On The Wild Side

Slash together with burn

was flicking through an only slightly one-time re-create of the Times Higher when he came across a review of De Montfort’s Slash Fiction Study Day. What’s slash fiction the Kat hears at to the lowest degree around of yous ask?

Well, according to the De Montfort website:

Slash fiction is a category of fan stories, almost alone past times women, virtually homoerotic affairs betwixt manful somebody characters inwards pop films together with TV series.

Targets mentioned include Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter together with existent somebody slash (the fictional honey youngster of David Beckham together with Richard Madeley is mentioned).

is somewhat excited past times the IP issues involved. Rosemary Coombe has mentioned the phenomenon inwards relation to merchandise grade law. To that, the kat adds the possibility of a passing off activity together with fifty-fifty a personality rights claim.

Copyright inwards tattoos?

is grateful to Guy Selby-Lowndes who (a picayune spell ago) tipped him off virtually a tattoo furore reported on Needled. Suicide Girl (don’t ask…) Amina Munster has had a tattoo that appears on her breast registered amongst the U.S.A. Copyright Office. Savy Ms Munster appears to receive got taken an assignment of the copyright inwards the tattoo from her tattoo artist, but the tattoo creative somebody explains the depth of feeling involved:

My boss, Paul Booth, has his operate copied all the time. Just because it happens, doesn't larn inwards right. Paul has fifty-fifty had i of the tattoos he wears ON HIS FACE copied past times around asshole inwards Russia. It has deep personal pregnant for him, which the somebody who ripped it off couldn't fifty-fifty commence to fathom. Paul would honey cutting off the hands of the somebody who did it together with receive got his tattoo dorsum equally well. Not everyone has personal pregnant behind their tattoos, but a lot of us do, together with it cheapens that.

wonders whether a tattoo would larn copyright protection inwards the UK, next Merchandising Corporation of America Inc. together with Others 5 Harpbond Ltd together with Others . There Adam Ant’s brand wasn’t protected past times copyright because it wasn’t a ‘painting’ since: (i) make-up merely didn’t jibe into the lexicon pregnant of a ikon together with (ii) ikon must hold upwards on a surface, but a confront isn’t a surface. thinks that the courts powerfulness desire to revisit this illustration though, specially since the Definition seems real restrictive when compared amongst the broad Definition of music inwards Sawkins 5 Hyperion.