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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

According to the complaint, these separate entities are just one big data-sharing family, leveraging their combined resources in non-standard ways such as Microsoft sharing hardware and cloud infrastructure resources in exchange for an ownership interest in OpenAI. Complaint at 31. But not so, says the court.

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FTC Seeks to Ban Noncompete Agreements in Employment Contracts

LexBlog IP

The proposed rule does not apply to noncompete provisions imposed upon 25% owners of a business in transaction documents related to the sale of the business. The term “worker” covers paid staff in addition to independent contractors and unpaid staff.

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Departing Employees Rename Their Former Employers’ Facebook Account. That May Be a Problem–La Baguette v. Tito & Tita

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The outer limits of the conversion claim are where some documents representing the intangibles are improperly transferred to the defendant (such as stock certificates, promissory notes, or life insurance policies). Defendants are free to flesh out their arguments regarding ownership of the Facebook page later in the case. __.

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Once Again, LinkedIn Can’t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scraping–hiQ v. LinkedIn

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The court remains skeptical of LinkedIn’s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles. Case 3:17-cv-03301-EMC, Document 219. With that said, the Ninth Circuit did some serious hand-waving on the privacy issues.

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Africa IP highlights 2022 #1: Copyright matters

The IPKat

Amongst other things, the Act also establishes a National Rights Registry (NRR ) , which is the central repository collating details pertaining to the ownership of various copyright works. The NRR allows copyright holders to register and view/download copyright certificates digitally.

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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

The patent had rights over a blockchain technology that improved the efficiency of certificate insurance and saved the users from the repetitive filing of the same documents demanded by multiple entities. The system allowed the certificate issuer to match user credentials with a specific certificate digitally.

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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

The patent had rights over a blockchain technology that improved the efficiency of certificate insurance and saved the users from the repetitive filing of the same documents demanded by multiple entities. The system allowed the certificate issuer to match user credentials with a specific certificate digitally.