IPilogue

APRIL 14, 2022

They held that an inadvertent mistake of law in a copyright registration application does not automatically nullify the application. . a fabric and design company in Los Angeles, owns copyrights in various fabric designs. Looking ahead, the Supreme Court’s decision strongly protects copyright applicants and holders.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The members of the European Copyright Society (ECS ) have recently sent a letter to Mr. Thierry Breton ( Commissioner for Internal Market , European Commission ) outlining their view of what should be the priorities for a f uture agenda in the field of copyright law. The letter is available here and its contents are reproduced below.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Today, we begin with developments in the copyright field. The Regulations were made pursuant to section 45 of the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act and came into force on 18th March 2022. The photographer, Esther Umoh called this person out for copyright infringement on social media platform “X”.

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IP Tech Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

While trademarks protect the brands used in the metaverse and copyright protects NFTs as intellectual works, what about the protection of the shape, patterns and colors characterizing the non-physical commodities in the metaverse? Are they protectable by design patents? In China, a GUI alone cannot be registered as a design patent.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 5, 2021

Last week’s Supreme Court of Canada copyright decision in Access Copyright v. York University has unsurprisingly been applauded by the education community, which having faced years of litigation launched by the copyright collective, now finds its position vindicated. The same was true after the Access Copyright v.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Introduction The copyright covers a vast domain of subject matters such as literacy, drama, music, artistic, cinematographic, and sound recordings. The act lays provision for accessibility of such copyrighted work to people with disability, such as blind, visually impaired, etc but does not lays any such guidance over the procedure.

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The IPKat

MAY 28, 2023

Copyright infringement cases often involve works of art, literature, or design. This recent French decision gives us an opportunity to look at a rarer case, that of copyright infringement in a typeface. In 2014, Mr Y founded Productions Systems, a company dedicated to the creation of digital fonts. 112-1 and L.112-2

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

Fuxi, the putative copyright owner, has a registration for an image of printed sage leaves (the left image): The alleged infringer, the Sunny Factory, sells the candles on the right on Amazon. That’s by design–the DMCA was designed to resolve matters outside of court. ” This is clearly wrong.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 22, 2022

While trademarks protect the brands used in the metaverse and copyright protects NFTs as intellectual works, what about the protection of the shape, patterns and colors characterizing the non-physical commodities in the metaverse? Are they protectable by design patents? In China, a GUI alone cannot be registered as a design patent.

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The IPKat

JUNE 9, 2022

Derek "Del Boy" Trotter (fictional) Can a fictional character be protected as a self standing copyright work? According to Shazam, copyright would subsist in the OFAH scripts, the lyrics and opening theme song of OFAH, and … the OFAH characters. If so, what is the test to be applied?

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BYU Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

The lawsuit centers on allegations of copyright infringement under chapters 1 and 12 of 17 U.S.C. Price argues that in 2009, he created an artistic graphic design to print on shorts for his two sons. He notified the District and requested the removal of MCLAW DESIGN from their products. Amended Complaint pg.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The plaintiff, NOC, is a teenager who has copyrighted designs in hand-drawn dots that Target allegedly copied in the clothing line. However, Target’s allegedly infringing works apparently were designed no later than December 2017. Work #11: posted to Facebook in 2014 and got 209 likes and 37 comments. Target Corp.

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The IPKat

APRIL 2, 2024

Additionally, the Mark enjoyed a narrow scope of copyright protection, and since Tesco had not copied several of the original elements of the work, the Court held that Tesco had not infringed copyright.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 31, 2022

This post is based on the chapter “The Football Game as a Copyright Work” in Natalie Helberger, Joost Poort, Martin Senftleben, Mireille van Eechoud, Stef van Gompel (eds.). It derives from a paper given at the 25 th Anniversary celebration of IViR on 4 July 2014 and at the University of Oxford IP Moot “converzatione” on 18 March 2016.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

First off today, Ted Johnson at Deadline reports that a group of six United States Senators have signed a letter to the domain name registry Verisign calling upon the service to suspend the domains of pirate websites and generally do more to combat copyright infringement.

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IP Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2023

Although the Copyright Office’s official guidance on whether you can be the author of AI output is a solid “maybe? Consistent with the Copyright Office’s guidance in the Compendium, Third Edition, there is often “creative input or intervention from a human author” at multiple steps in the process. This creates a major problem.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2023

Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. Under the SCPA, a mask work is a series of related images that forms a design or part of a design used to produce an integrated circuit. Understanding Mask Work. Id, section 1203.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 3, 2021

” The decision removes any doubt that the Supreme Court remains strongly supportive of user’s rights in copyright and vindicates years of educational policy in shifting away from Access Copyright toward alternative means of ensuring compliance with copyright law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 11, 2022

The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC), part of the English High Court, has ruled that copyright subsists in the character of Derek ‘Del Boy’ Trotter and that a character can be protected as a literary work under the UK’s closed list of copyright works ([ 2022] EWHC 1379 IPEC ).

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The IPKat

APRIL 22, 2023

Over the past few years, The IPKat has hosted a number of posts on the lengthy Danish saga relating to protection and infringement of copyright in pottery created by designer Anne Black. Now, the final word seems to have been spoken, as Katfriends Hanne Kirk and Charlotte Mittet Høfler (both Gorrissen Federspiel) report.

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The TTABlog

APRIL 2, 2024

"The mark consists of a three-dimensional configuration of the interior of a hex shaped box with a honeycomb configuration of seven interior hexagonal indentations on the bottom of the box and the design of a six point star, having flat points, on the top of the box. Opposer Taylor admitted that alternative designs are available.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 17, 2023

Serial copyright plaintiffs beware: the discovery rule may not excuse late-filed infringement claims brought by “seasoned litigators.” ” If you pay any attention to new copyright filings, you’re probably used to seeing the same names repeated over and over again as often as the refrain in a Daft Punk song.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

The copyright owner in Runt is seeking to enjoin director William Coakley from releasing a behind-the-scenes project about alleged on-set bullying and sexual harassment that it claims he fabricated. The case involves an interesting interplay between copyright law, entertainment contracts and the First Amendment.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 15, 2023

were not designed to protect originality or creativity.” “Yet Yet that is precisely what Plaintiff seeks to protect in this case: the originality and novelty of its own cooler design.” 6:12-CV-499, 2014 WL 11848751, (E.D. July 25, 2014), report and recommendation adopted, No. 6:12-CV-499, 2014 WL 11829325 (E.D.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MAY 4, 2022

Fish Principals Craig Deutsch , Jennifer Huang , and Grace Kim , discuss challenging design patents at the PTAB in their Law360 Expert Analysis article. Challenging design patents at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is difficult — nearly two-thirds of petitions directed to design patents have been denied institution.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. German copyright law stipulates that the author is entitled to appropriate remuneration for every use of their work (Section 32 UrhG). These provisions served as, among other things, models for Articles 18 and 20 in the new DSM Copyright Directive (2019/790).

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 24, 2023

Although the Copyright Office’s official guidance on whether you can be the author of AI output is a solid “maybe? .” Consistent with the Copyright Office’s guidance in the Compendium, Third Edition, there is often “creative input or intervention from a human author” at multiple steps in the process.

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The IPKat

JUNE 12, 2022

The analysis covers the years 2014 to 2016 and 2017 to 2019. The report measured an industry’s usage of patents, trade marks, and designs, and normalised based on total employment in that industry. excluding copyright) 27.1% of industries for designs, compared to 55% for patents. This paper.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 22, 2024

The Paris court noted that the site “encouraged the infringement of copyright and related rights by setting up tools specifically designed for the mass and illicit sharing of protected content.” The case is listed for hearing on April 8, 2014. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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The TTABlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

Its sales figures prior to 2014 (totaling $514,798) were "unimpressive." Text Copyright John L. Natural Dog Acquisition LLC v. And so, Petitioner failed to prove priority, resulting in denial of its petition. And so, Petitioner failed to prove priority, resulting in denial of its petition. Read comments and post your comment here.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

The TTAB has re-designated as precedential its September 2022 opinion in this cancellation proceeding. 92064830 (September 6, 2022) [re-designated as precedential, January 4, 2024] (Opinion by Judge Frances S. Text Copyright John L. The CAFC affirmed the Board's decision on October 19, 2023 [ TTABlogged here ]]. Andrusiek v.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2024

The big struggle for rightsholders was a lack of clarity in Spanish law; specifically whether the mere provision of links amounted to a ‘communication to the public’, a regular feature of many copyright cases that have ended up at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 27, 2022

PART 2: of the blog gives a detail about Copyrights, Industrial Designs, Geographical Indications, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Plant Variety Protection and Trade Secrets. Copyright gives protection to expressions only and not to ideas. Broad classification of ‘works’ which are protected by copyright are-.

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IIPRD

MARCH 4, 2024

This right can be related to music, a book, a logo, any art work, work related to science, designs of the industries. Copyright : – So, it is a right which is given to original creator of the work for the fixed period of time. There is a Copyright Act, 1957 which deals with copyright in India. 24863/2014. [3]

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

magna cum laude , from George Mason University School of Law in 2014 and his B.S., Vivian Cheng focuses her practice on trademark and copyright litigation and also counsels clients on a broad range of issues relating to trademark, trade dress, and copyright protection and enforcement, unfair competition, and false advertising.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In terms of design law, it does not appear that McDonald's has chosen to protect the aesthetic appearance of the Happy Meal. Nor does the unregistered EU design law appear to be a valid legal basis. Perhaps, McDonald’s should not have disregarded design law. Both designates class 42 (i.e. Burger King ].

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CopyrightsWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This article is part of our series showcasing well-known copyright ownership cases from the music and film industries, technology, and more. This week’s post looks at three well-known copyright infringement cases involving tech giants battling each other over ownership rights. Apple vs. Microsoft.

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