TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Formerly known as MindGeek, and Manwin before that , the company conquered the online adult market over the past decade by offering free porn to the masses. Among other things, he allegedly signed a contract to obtain the rights to MG Premium’s content in 2019, leading him to accuse his accusers of copyright infringement.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

In an effort to market his script, Desny called Billy Wilder, a writer, producer and director at Paramount Pictures. The Court, however, held that Densy stated sufficient facts to establish the existence of an implied-in-fact contract between the parties. That disclosure may therefore be consideration for a promise to pay.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

This examined the problem of authors’ remuneration: authors’ contracts tend to result in disproportionately low revenues relative to the returns of investors and intermediaries. Importantly, the parties may not contract out of this right to readjustment. On this prompt, Prof.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The social contract of copyright, which main purpose is to realize a broader collective concern, the access of citizens to science and culture ( Geiger, 2013 ), lies in the approximation of the interests of rightholders and users. The purpose of copyright, its social and innovation function, is thereby seriously undermined.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 1, 2022

Although NFTs have existed since around 2014, the NFT market exploded last year, generating an estimated $25 billion in sales in 2021 alone. [1] Depending on what rights or ownership a particular NFT transfers, it conceivably could qualify as any of various specific financial instruments listed in the Securities Act definition. [7]

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While the High Court found Morison liable for trademark infringement as well as passing-off, the trial judge did not make a finding of copyright infringement, stating that as the designer of the device was not called to testify, copyright ownership was not sufficiently proven.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 26, 2023

SBIR PRogram Benefits The SBIR program is designed to support small businesses in bringing innovative technologies to the market by funding research and development activities. Have at least 51% ownership and control by U.S. Be located in the United States. citizens or permanent residents.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 26, 2022

for unlawfully manufacturing, importing, advertising, marketing, selling, and distributing unauthorized, counterfeit versions of its popular CAKE brand of hemp-derived Delta-8 products. But the distribution right does not include “the mere transportation of goods without a transfer or sale of ownership interest in the goods.”

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IIPRD

JANUARY 18, 2022

The idea has spread across all market sectors, and now luxury fashion retailers have joined the tokenization bandwagon. NFTs are created using “smart contracts,” which are software codes that govern actions such as validating ownership and regulating their transferability.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A report by Citibank published in March, 2020 observes that the Metaverse economy could be a thirteen trillion dollar total addressable market by the year 2030. But needless to say, the Metaverse brings into picture several aspects of the law such as Copyright law , Contract law, Tort law and Criminal law. Contract Law .

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

In 2019, the Ninth Circuit upheld the district court’s injunction ruling in favor of hiQ. The court remains skeptical of LinkedIn’s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles. LinkedIn lawsuit started in 2017.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 25, 2022

In August 2019, a Starz employee discovered that one of the movies it had licensed ( Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure ) was also available on Amazon Prime. OK, that’s a clear breach of contract, but how is it copyright infringement? It’s copyright infringement because an exclusive license is a transfer of copyright ownership.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 31, 2022

In an effort to market his script, Desny called Billy Wilder, a writer, producer and director at Paramount Pictures. The Court, however, held that Densy stated sufficient facts to establish the existence of an implied-in-fact contract between the parties. That disclosure may therefore be consideration for a promise to pay.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

1400(b) ) are different from rules of personal jurisdiction, and in 2018 and 2019, Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the U.S. Google’s ISPs were obligated under their contract with Google to provide “‘[r]emote assistance services,’ which ‘involve[d] basic maintenance activities’ … if requested by Google.” Patent venue rules ( 28 U.S.C.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

As previously reported on this blog , non-fungible tokens (or “NFTs”) recently emerged as one of the hottest new items on the art market—artists, auction houses, museums, sports organizations and others have jumped at the chance to create and sell their own versions of these unique tokens. Copyright Claims: Roc-A-Fella Records Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

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). Third, is Trump’s claim of ownership barred by 17 U.S.C. Issue 3: Is Trump’s claim of ownership barred by 17 U.S.C.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

33] And let’s not forget the elephant in the room, the USPTO, which, as the issuer of patents, has the right to ask for ownership information and the recordation of secured interests throughout the administrative process, particularly as it comes to the broad fee-setting and fee-paying authority it has over the patents it issues and reviews.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Yet 2020 saw a slowdown in biosimilar activity with the lowest number of annual biosimilar approvals since 2016 and fewer product launches than 2019—as well as a decrease in district court litigation and post-grant proceedings. In 2019, FDA approved a record-breaking ten biosimilars. December 6, 2019. November 15, 2019.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

This ownership interest in the creative work is balanced with the general public’s need to access the creative arts and exercise First Amendment rights. While here the original artist’s use itself is unaddressed, the decision may temper a creator’s ability to market new creative works that incorporate copyrighted works.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

In 2019, actor Cameron Boyce , star of Disney franchises Jesse and Descendants , died tragically following a sudden epileptic seizure. The case involves an interesting interplay between copyright law, entertainment contracts and the First Amendment.

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2023

They develop, market and sell statistical process control (SPC) software and gauge management software. Peripheral issues relating to Mr Aughton's duties under his employment contract overlapped with these three core issues. Background The claimants - PQ for short - are based in the US.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In 1963, Disney expressed skepticism about monopoly aspects of extended term and “expressed doubt that Congress would approve a longer ownership period.” Guy Rub, Revisiting the Copyright-Contract Conflict Most courts said that contracts were never equivalent to © rights. Could attend to contracts of adhesion in that way.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

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.

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SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

In this post , Adyasha analyses the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2021 (‘Bill’) which seeks ‘ to tackle the menace of film piracy ’, and is a revision of the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2019. Reportedly, these patents are about connectivity, interface and security elements and the complaints are filed in European and Asian markets.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

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IPilogue

MARCH 1, 2022

K: “I have had difficulty understanding longer contracts, especially when I was first starting out. I can only imagine the time it takes to catch these and comment to claim ownership and promote the book in which these graphics are published. What about with larger brands (i.e., She has amassed over 99.2k

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under New York’s statutory prejudgment interest rules, an aggrieved party may recover prejudgment interest on a sum awarded because of a breach of contract or wrongful interference with title to, or possession or enjoyment of, property. [1] The wrongdoer does not get the benefit from fluctuations in the market. ” [2].

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Patently-O

APRIL 10, 2022

In spite of its ownership of the patents, however, a jury found that a predecessor of BioVeris (IGEN) had exclusively licensed the patents to Meso Scale Diagnostics, and that Roche was liable to Meso for directly infringing one of the patents, and for inducing infringement of two others. City of Omaha , 230 U.S.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 5, 2021

Industry pushed very hard against cheap copying, and yet as of 2019 there were only 538 registrations in 20 years versus hundreds of thousands of utility patents. Ownership is of linguistic description of structural properties of invention. Could we temporarily override rights in quantum tech to repair market power problems?

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The plaintiff was granted, through an agreement, an exclusive non-transferable, non-assignable license for selling, supplying, and distributing the defendant’s brands in domestic and international markets. The Joint Parliamentary Committee Report on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 was tabled in the Parliament on December 16, 2021.

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