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Copyright Ownership in State Board Textbooks: Impediments to Accessibility

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In this post, I look at the question of the government’s copyright ownership in State Board textbooks, and its implications on access to knowledge and education. Government’s Role as Publisher and Copyright Owner. Image from here. Crucially, instead of taking a user rights-based approach, particularly to education, Section 3.4

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1202 and Lanham Act claims can't save lawsuit against embedding photos

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Lanham Act false advertising: The theory was that Meta misrepresented “the creation and ownership” of Logan’s photos. Dastar doesn’t clearly bar false advertising §43(a)(1)(B) claims in general, but it does bar the claim as pled here: “a copyright claim repackaged under a trademark statute.” SellPoolSuppliesOnline.com, LLC v.

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How Lulu Lost Her Mark

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A company from Coral Gables, Florida applied for the Louise Brooks trademark in 2018. Publicity photos published after 1924 were rarely renewed (a requirement for works published before 1964) and they often did not include a copyright notice (a requirement for works published before March 1989). The story behind the trademark.

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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)

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According to the complaint, these separate entities are just one big data-sharing family, leveraging their combined resources in non-standard ways such as Microsoft sharing hardware and cloud infrastructure resources in exchange for an ownership interest in OpenAI. Complaint at 31. Not all was lost, however. Corelogic, Inc. ,

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Understanding the CCB’s First Two Final Determinations (Guest Blog Post–Part 3 of 3)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

It took eight months, but the ownership question of the photographs has been settled. However, it is not what I expected for the first case to be finally determined: Section 512(f) and an ownership dispute between former business partners. On June 4, 2018, Oppenheimer found his image on Prutton’s website. It seems like it did.