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mRNA Patent Litigation: The ‘Sport of Kings’

SpicyIP

Moderna was one such company that was granted a compulsory license. Easy for Moderna to now push for ‘licensing and not abrogating patents’. However, patent ownership controversy with the NIH is a separate story ( here and here ). As reported , these patents have been licensed to both Moderna and BioNTech.

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If You Ask Your Friend to Take Your Photo Using Your Camera, Who Owns the Copyright?–Shah v. NYP

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Shah pointed to his copyright registrations as evidence of his ownership, but the court says the allegations in his complaint show that he was never entitled to register the copyrights (i.e., To be clear, joint copyright ownership of photos like these could be a policy disaster, so I don’t share the judge’s lament on that front).

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NFTs and Copyright

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Although in principle, a NFT of a trademark or any work in public domain can be created. For instance, a seller could offer to turn the token into an actual transfer of copyright ownership of the original work. If something be it a digital art or physical goods can be turned into a NFT as long as it can be digitized.

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Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) and Copyright

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Although in principle, a NFT of a trademark or any work in public domain can be created. For instance, a seller could offer to turn the token into an actual transfer of copyright ownership of the original work. If something be it a digital art or physical goods can be turned into a NFT as long as it can be digitized.

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Generative AI, Digital Constitutionalism and Copyright: Towards a Statutory Remuneration Right grounded in Fundamental Rights – Part 1

Kluwer Copyright Blog

These litigations might have convinced the European legislator to deal with the issue in the proposal for a regulation laying down harmonized rules on Artificial Intelligence (‘ Artificial Intelligence Act’ or ‘AIA’), recently introducing a provision to address the issue of transparency with regard to the works used in the machine learning process.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

If not, the court may have to address several other interesting, rarely-litigated issues concerning the proper scope of copyright in recorded interviews. Third, is Trump’s claim of ownership barred by 17 U.S.C. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain.

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Why Netflix’s “Bridgerton” Lawsuit is Good for Fan Fiction

Copyright Lately

And unlike the vast majority of songwriters and performing artists who have relinquished ownership rights to musical publishers and record labels, Barlow & Bear decided to release “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” themselves, which means keeping more of the earnings. Was it a license on the world’s greatest terms?

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