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Police Photo: Public Domain or Fair Use?

Dear Rich IP Blog

There are no privacy issues - no vehicle/person/property is identifiable. Is it public domain or fair use? Public domain? Other states like Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts (called "open copyright" states) have a policy that makes state documents presumptively public domain. May I use it?

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Ringgold and the FAIR Principles: How Ringgold Data and Metadata are Reusable

Velocity of Content

Meta)data are richly described with a plurality of accurate and relevant attributes Ringgold Data is fully tagged and labelled, including descriptive elements, and documentation. Variability in data is clearly marked both within the data itself and all documentation with clear vocabularies.

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The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver that Can Block ‘Unlawful’ Traffic

TorrentFreak

The project overview makes it clear that DNS4EU is meant to protect the privacy of end-users and keep them secure. For example, the DSN resolver is not allowed to monetize user data and has to comply with applicable privacy regulations including the GDPR. Many of the proposed DNS4EU features aim to protect EU citizens.

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2023 IP Resolutions Start with a Review of IP Assets

The IP Law Blog

An inventor must secure a patent application within a very short period of time to prevent the work from falling into the public domain. In the US, privacy laws are generally driven by state law, but there may be applicable federal law depending on the nature of the information collected. A special note about customer data.

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Traditional Knowledge and Trade Secrets

IP and Legal Filings

Even a WIPO guide on recording traditional knowledge talks about empowering communities to write their own traditional knowledge, and provide limited access to the recorded documents in order to preserve secret traditional knowledge. With protecting their TK as trade secrets, the community at aim as perpetual ownership.

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Unfashionably Late: Seventh Circuit Rejects Misappropriation Claim Premised On Prototype Created Eleven Years Prior

LexBlog IP

Indeed, eleven years had passed since Chester worked on the actuator prototype, and it was undisputed that he never saw or took any documents with him when he left Koso. As such, the Court found the lack of evidence, coupled with the eleven-year gap, “renders the inferences that REXA asks us to draw exceptionally unreasonable.”

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Evaluating the Constitutionality of Viewpoint-Neutral Trademark Registration Laws That Do Not Restrict Speech—Vidal v. Elster (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This law protects the rights of publicity and privacy of people like politicians and celebrities who don’t want others to register their name or image as a trademark for goods or services. See the amicus brief discussing free speech limits on the rights of publicity and privacy filed by the Motion Picture Association in Elster.)