📜 MFN treatment is a unique principle enshrined in the TRIPS Agreement and represents a traditional principle originating in GATT, and not to be found in any other IP conventions. The principle has been broadly applied, given that a country that wishes to accede to the WTO must sign the TRIPS Agreement

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🎶 🇲🇾 Presently, in Malaysia, licence issuance and fee collection activities for musical works are undertaken by the following institutions (“Licensing Bodies”), which represent the categories of rights holders and works set out below:

✍️ Music Authors’ Copyright Protection Berhad

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💰 Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today’s richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.

– Mark Getty ✑

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🥛 In a recent decision, EU has confirmed that Oatly slogan being 𝐈𝐓’𝐒 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐊 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐒 , was deemed distinctive by the general courts as the courts deemed that it is easy to remember and having at least

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👩‍🏫 It is should be noted that the copyright law aims to place an emphasis on balancing the interest of copyright owners for protecting their original work as well as accommodating the interest of the public for having reasonable access to copyright works of others. Hence, during this pandemic

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