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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

sued Bright Data for trespass to chattels, breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract, violation of California Business and Professions Code Section 17200, and misappropriation. As I wrote back in December, scraping claims are almost always about unwanted copying and distribution of data. In November 2023, X corp.

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ReCreating Europe’s report, datasets and data analysis on EU and comparative copyright flexibilities now available online – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Flexibilities have been classified on the basis of a blended taxonomy, centred around categories of uses, purposes/goals and rights/interests balanced against copyright, coupled with horizontal, catch-all categories such as “public domain” and “external copyright flexibilities”. parody and quotation). private study, e-lending).

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Digital collections from GLAM institutions: Policy Paper

Kluwer Copyright Blog

use of indigenous content, model contracts and/or national laws on limitations and exceptions). The initial pre-print version was drafted with the collaboration of academics from different universities and led to an international conference in 2020 in Geneva. version with further considerations (e.g., Proposal 8.

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Analysing the Intersection of Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Intellectual Property Rights

IP and Legal Filings

Most prominently, through its 2020 report, IBM stated that several patents granted to them in 2017 also comprised of blockchain patents. Smart contracts are contracts that are used to regulate NFT transactions. The copyrights that subsist on an NFT are also governed with the help of a smart contract.

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“No one can own the law” – United States confirms copyright protection does not extend to works of legislators or judges

IP Whiteboard

On 27 April 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States ( Supreme Court ) handed down its decision in Georgia Et Al v Public Resource Org, Inc. PRO counterclaimed seeking declaratory judgment that the entire OCGA was in the public domain. What was copyrighted? What did the Supreme Court find? reasons given by a judge.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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). If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. complaint filed Jan.

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. Anthony, 2020 WL 11206863 (N.D. Signal 23 Television v. Prior Posts on Section 512(f).