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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

sued Bright Data for trespass to chattels, breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract, violation of California Business and Professions Code Section 17200, and misappropriation. Here, the court agreed, and dismissed Twitter’s breach-of-contract claims on that basis. In November 2023, X corp. on all counts.

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The unbearable lightness of trade secrets and public tenders

The IPKat

Not for the first time in connection with a public procurement tender, an unsuccessful bidder then files with the contracting authority a request for examination of the documentation submitted by the successful bidder, this to evaluate the propriety of the award process, with an eye towards possibly challenging it through legal proceedings.

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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

The lawsuit involves sound recordings of 19 interviews that then-President Trump voluntarily gave to Woodward between December 2019 and August 2020, plus one interview from 2016 (when Trump was still a candidate). If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. complaint filed Jan.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

Concerned about the effect the book would have on Twain’s reputation, publisher Harper & Brothers and his daughter Clara Clemens filed a lawsuit to stop further publication of “Jap Herron.” In 1999, Cinema Secrets licensed the right to sell a Michael Myers Halloween mask from the film’s copyright owner.

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GEORGIA V. PUBLIC.RESOURCE.ORG, INC.: UNANSWERED QUESTIONS AND HOW THE COURT SHOULD SOLVE THEM

JIPL Online

xxi] Therefore, the Court held that this placed the annotations in the public domain, and thus not eligible for copyright protection. xxvii] As a result, States might be free to manipulate the arrangements they have with private parties to circumvent the government edicts doctrine and prevent unfettered public access.

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U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Photographer But Destabilizes Fair Use — Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Specifically, when a derivative work is created pursuant to a statutory exception, then the derivative work is prepared “lawfully,” even though the artist who created the derivative did not get a license or other permission from the owner of the copyright in the underlying work. Goldsmith herself had been entirely unaware of the licensed use.)