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Fortune Magazine Commentary Lacerates BigTech for Spending More on Legal Than R&D

IP Close Up

A bastion of business coverage of large corporations since the 1920s, Fortune Magazine, lambasted BigTech companies because they “acquire and kill competitors and copy other Continue reading.

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Ninth Circuit Concludes Direct Copying Can Be Evidence of “Secondary Meaning” for Trade Dress Infringement 

LexBlog IP

. (“JSC”) against Trendily Furniture, LLC, Trendily Home Collection, and Raul Malhotra (collectively, “Trendily”) finding Trendily liable for trade dress infringement for willfully copying, manufacturing, and selling identical JSC furniture pieces.

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Does Failure to Submit Copies to Copyright Office Put an End to Copyright?

Dear Rich IP Blog

Postcard: Malo-les-Bains - Avenue Kleber, sent 30 April 1915 Dear Rich: We are a specialized online magazine for postcard collectors. From 1983 to 1989 a print magazine, Postcard Collector, published many articles which we would like to republish. Each issue of the print magazine had a copyright notice ("© Krause Publications, Inc.")

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Drake and 21 Savage May Have More (Legal) Issues Than Vogue

IPilogue

The magazine was part of a faux press tour rollout , including a fake NPR Tiny Desk Concert and a fake Saturday Night Live performance. Drake and 21 Savage jointly promoted the fake magazine on their Instagram with the caption: “Me and my brother on newsstands tomorrow!!

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Supreme Court Rules adaption of Warhol print not “fair use”

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

In a 7-2 majority opinion authored by Justice Sotomayor, the court found that both Warhol’s artwork and Goldsmith’s original photograph served the same purpose of depicting Prince in magazine stories about him. The commercial nature of the copying further weighed against fair use.

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Was Batman a Plagiarism?

Plagiarism Today

Through our modern lens, this kind of copying can seem insane. Ethically, this type of copying would be seen as plagiarism and the creators would be treated accordingly, especially given that some of the images were traced. These days, comic artists and comic fans do not tolerate this kind of copying. It happened in 1939.

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Manga Publisher Wants Cloudflare to Expose Operators of Popular ‘Piracy’ Sites

TorrentFreak

Earlier this month the publisher already asked Cloudflare to disable infringing copies of the Grand Jump magazine made available through these sites. That said, some progress has been made, as the infringing Grand Jump copies are no longer available on wupfile.com, hexupload.net, and manga-zip.is.