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Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User

TorrentFreak

The team at Blender Studio drive Blender development by providing help and training courses to Blender users in an open environment, sharing everything in public and making all content available under free licenses. In this case, at least, a Creative Commons license appears to have carried no weight. No Rights to Post Video on YouTube.

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The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 180: Victoria Owen Sets the Record Straight on the State of Canadian Copyright Law and Content Licensing By Libraries and Educational Institutions

Michael Geist

Since the Canadian copyright law reforms in 2012, education and libraries have increased spending on licensing and a non-partisan House of Commons study found no need to create new restriction on education and library copying rights. Show Notes: CFLA, Don’t Blame Copyright for Declining Revenues.

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IP CloseUp Views were Up a Record 21% in 2021; Total Increase Since 2018 is 44%

IP Close Up

IP CloseUp celebrated its Tenth Anniversary in 2021, with viewership up 44% since 2018. Annual increases since 2018 were 7%, 11 % and 21%, respectively. The 2021 Continue reading.

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Post-Default Creditor’s Right to Assign, License and Enforce Patent does not Disturb Patentee’s Separate Right to Sue Infringers

Patently-O

May 1, 2024) offers some interesting insight into leveraged patent transactions, and the effect of a lender’s ability to license or assign a patent on the patent owner’s standing to sue for infringement, especially after default. Zebra Techs. 2022-2207 (Fed. ” IT sued Zebra for infringement in the W.D.Tex.,

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Time to look Beyond Compulsory Licenses? A Glimpse at the Ribociclib Case

SpicyIP

Image from here Recently, the Print reported that Novartis and Eli Lilly have voiced their opposition to the idea of compulsory licensing (“ CL ”) for breast cancer medications, Ribociclib and Abemaciclib. It also says that no licenses were given out. In 2018, the drug generated Rs 12.7 The patent was granted on May 5, 2017.)

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Ensuring Access to TB drugs: Is Compulsory License the Way?

SpicyIP

Y Chandrachud (2020-21) and is a Rhodes Scholar (2018). Ensuring Access to TB drugs: Is Compulsory License the Way? As pointed out above, the petitioner in the case suggested that compulsory license is the “only way” to ensure accessibility to the drugs in contention. Readers can access posts by Rahul here. . image from here.

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Licensing vs. Franchising: Are You Accidentally Creating a Franchise?

IP Intelligence

A trademark license may seem straightforward. Since a license is like any other contract, the licensor can add any number of conditions to the agreement, right? Air Voice Wireless LLC , 2018 WL 6303852 (C.D. How does a license differ from a franchise? Unlimited Prepaid, Inc. 15 U.S.C. § 45(m)(1)(A).