Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

For the majority, what was important was that “[b]oth Goldsmith and AWF sold images of Prince (AWF’s copying Goldsmith’s) to magazines to illustrate stories about the celebrity, which is the typical use made of Goldsmith’s photographs.” “[T]he first fair use factor. “[T]he first fair use factor.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

Within just over a month, a raft of barely-underground Discord servers like AI Hub have popped up to provide users with access to software—and step-by-step instructions—for creating new songs using hundreds of community-made AI models designed to mimic specific artists’ voices. Most voice model files are actually quite small.)

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The IPKat

MARCH 27, 2022

A very popular design of one of these boots is based on a traditional Spanish riding boot - the Regina boot or Heeled Regina - which looks like the below (and for a closer look click here ). Although their products have the "country" look and feel about them, the products aren't designed for serious country wear.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

That is the difference between the court of public opinion in one’s industry and a court of law in a governmental building—”In writing, plagiarismis a straight-up cardinal sin: If you copy, you’re wrong. Now social media has allowed for PSRs with reality TV celebrities, Instagram influencers, and the like.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Starting from those technical definitions, the notion of portability made its way into the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In combination with the legislative design and other uncertainties about its modalities of exercise, these characteristics have caused the GDPR portability to have limited success in practice.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

WCT’s app was first released in 2014 for the iPhone and Pebble watch as a metric-tracking cycling app that was designed to “track speed, distance, altitude, and grade.” But the app was not updated after 2016 and was removed from WCT’s website. The court grants summary judgment on lack of likely confusion.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Surveillance and analysis of IP-related activities on the internet, such as domain name registration, web crawling, social media monitoring, and online marketplace scanning which can help detect potential IP infringement cases, such as cybersquatting, phishing, counterfeiting, piracy, and plagiarism. 299, 33 I.L.M.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As the story goes, they provided him with a copy of a few scenes from “Ghostbusters” in which the theme would appear. You can judge for yourself by downloading a copy of “Jap Herron” here. This prompted a lawsuit by Don Post Studios, which asserted that the Cinema Secrets mask was a copy of its own mask.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The Court noted that the Patents Act is specifically designed to deal with matters concerning allegations of unreasonable conditions in licence agreements, abuse of one’s status as a patentee, the necessary inquiry into these allegations, and eventually the relief that can be granted. Controller of Patents & Designs Patent Office Mumbai.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

Courts don’t do really prong one beyond assessing access (not independently assessing copying). Prior attempts to measure tarnishment: Buccafusco et al 2016 focused on porn parodies, found burnishing except among very conservative consumers. Possibly related to internet adoption. Share of 9 th Circuit opinions also exploded in 2006.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2022

(For a more detailed discussion of these issues, you can also see Diane Nelson’s excellent article in The New York State Bar Association’s March/April 2022 Journal, entitled ‘ We’re Gonna Rock Down To’ Copyright Protection: The Unauthorized Use Of Popular Music In Political Campaigns During The Social Media Era).

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