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Government Gets the Law Wrong as it Finally Makes the Case Why it is Rejecting the Bill C-11 User Content Regulation Fix

Michael Geist

Gold continues with specific examples: For example, Facebook acquired exclusive broadcasting rights for several baseball games during the 2018, 2019 Major League Baseball seasons. When they make money from these activities, social media companies must be obliged to reinvest in our creators and into local content creation.

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IP Report 2021

LexBlog IP

There is an overall increasing trend from 2011-2018, with a sharp drop in 2019 (possibly due to flooding in Northern Queensland and drought in NSW), and a rebound in 2020. Ornamental plant varieties constituted 106 applications (34% of all applications). Fruit Crop plant varieties constituted 90 applications (29% of all applications).

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TIME TO CUT THE MUSIC?: TWITCH’S UNFAIR SOLUTION TO AN INEVITABLE DIGITAL MILLENIUM COPYRIGHT ACT PROBLEM

JIPL Online

v] Instead, these companies often opt to shift the associated risk of content creation and navigating licensing on to the creators themselves and wait until the last minute to implement more sensible, less destructive solutions that may cost them a bit more than doing nothing. 512 (2018). [xv] 512(c)(3) (2018).

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The Other ‘Maybe’ Authors: Copyright Ownership for AI Trainers

IP Intelligence

“The Ninth Circuit recently acknowledged that some authorities ‘suggest that the copyright protection afforded a computer program may extend to the program’s output if the program “does the lion’s share of the work” in creating the output and the user’s role is so “marginal” that the output reflects the program’s contents.’” Rearden LLC v.

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Catching Up on Recent FOSTA Developments (None of Them Good)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Because negates Section 230 on two independent grounds (FOSTA and content creation), Mindgeek has two separate reasons it could lose. So there’s no doubt that this judge is twisting the law to accommodate the victim’s horrifying circumstances. ” This Section 230 ruling puts Mindgeek into a major legal conundrum.

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The Other ‘Maybe’ Authors: Copyright Ownership for AI Trainers

LexBlog IP

2018) (citing Design Data Corp. That is, “superintending the arrangements” of content creation, being the effective cause and having decision-making authority on the final output are the hallmarks of control, not absolute certainty as to what the output would yield. ’” Rearden LLC v. Walt Disney Co. ,