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Jean Paul Gaultier, Birth Your Own Venus

IPilogue

In April 2022 , Uffizi sent a cease-and-desist in response to Jean Paul Gaultier’s current use of the Birth of Venus , but the fashion brand never replied and continued its unauthorized use. . The Italian Code , which came into effect in 2004 and was updated in 2016, operates independently from copyright law.

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

And that, in turn, further restricts what should be in the public domain and gives companies power to create property rights where none are otherwise granted in the law. Facebook objected and sent a cease-and-desist letter. That gave rise to a CFAA claim in 2016, and I can’t square that opinion with this one.

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Monkey Business at the Ninth CircuitThe Monkey Selfie Strikes Back

Shades of Gray

where he asserted copyright ownership in the image, including by sending a cease and desist letter to Wikimedia for including the image in its database of public domain images. An appeal has been filed with the Ninth Circuit, and Naruto’s opening brief is scheduled to be filed on June 28, 2016.

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Analysing Amazon’s Strategic Approach to Tackle Patent Infringement

IIPRD

Patent are valid for the duration of 20 years before coming into public domain) Patent infringement can occur in two ways. 8] Cease and desist letters are also measures to tackle such infringement wherein the seller is demanded to stop the sale of the product and never sell it again. LEXIS 111933 & 2016 U.S.

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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

Elster claims these words invoke an exchange between former President Trump and Senator Marco Rubio from the 2016 presidential primary debate where Rubio made a crude joke about the implications of Trump having small hands after Trump called him “little Marco”.