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Guest Book Review: The Copyright/Trademark Interface: How the Expansion of Trademark Protection is Stifling Cultural Creativity

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Katfriend Dr Sabine Jacques , Associate Professor in IP, IT & Media law at the University of East Anglia and author of The Parody Exception in Copyright Law (OUP 2019), provides the follow review of The Copyright/Trademark Interface: How the Expansion of Trademark Protection is Stifling Cultural Creativity – by Martin Senftleben.

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

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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. s Terms of Service (“ToS”) when it created a new account in 2019. Facebook objected and sent a cease-and-desist letter.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

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2019 WL 3555509 (D. And to characterize zero-click online terms of use that are imposed by cease-and-desist letter as enforceable contracts is horrible policy and bad law. This observation is as true now as the day when the Ninth Circuit made it, in 2019. Robert Wood Johnson University Hosp., 634 F.Supp.2d

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Analysing Amazon’s Strategic Approach to Tackle Patent Infringement

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It further expanded its domain as a manufacturer by establishing a market for its self-made products such as kindle for e-book services, audiobook and ‘cloud computing’ web storage services. Patent are valid for the duration of 20 years before coming into public domain) Patent infringement can occur in two ways.

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Evaluating the Constitutionality of Viewpoint-Neutral Trademark Registration Laws That Do Not Restrict Speech—Vidal v. Elster (Guest Blog Post)

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Brunetti (2019) and strike down this trademark registration law as an unconstitutional regulation of speech protected by the First Amendment. Tam ” (2018), and my guest post on Eric Goldman’s Technology and Marketing Law Blog written after the Federal Circuit’s decision in In re Elster.) Tam (2017) and Iancu v.

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A 512(f) Plaintiff Wins at Trial! ??–Alper Automotive v. Day to Day Imports

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In making this finding I draw an adverse inference from Defendant’s failure to initiate litigation against Plaintiff…by November 19, 2018, Defendant was using the DMCA Takedown Notices to suppress a market competitor rather than to enforce a legitimate good faith claim of copyright infringement. 2019 WL 13109708 (S.D.