LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2022

” China’s copyright law protects the expression of ideas instead of ideas themselves, which is similar to U.S. copyright law. ” China’s copyright law protects the expression of ideas instead of ideas themselves, which is similar to U.S. copyright law.

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The IPKat

MAY 8, 2022

Here's what Hanne writes: Second time is a charm: Danish design company wins plant box war by Hanne Kirk On 22 April 2022, the Danish Eastern High Court handed down its decision in yet another dispute concerning applied art and the question of originality and infringement under copyright law. Wolly & Co.

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Barry Sookman

MAY 3, 2020

Neutron – Technology & Marketing Law Blog [link] 2020-04-26 Changes Result in the Alberta Electronic Transactions Act Applying to Employment and Other Records [link] 2020-04-26 Redbox’s Terms of Use Fail (OUCH)-Wilson v.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Mennell, Koret Professor of Law; Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology; Faculty Director, Berkeley Judicial Institute; University of California at Berkeley School of Law, and Ella Corren, University of California at Berkeley School of Law, J.S.D.

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The IPKat

MARCH 16, 2024

A prototype and the stool were registered as designs on 5 November 1968 and 8 September 1983. Stamp sued La Foir'fouille and FF Digitale for copyright infringement before the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Lyon. The Court of Appeal first examined whether the stool was protectable under copyright law.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2023

Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. Under the SCPA, a mask work is a series of related images that forms a design or part of a design used to produce an integrated circuit. Copyright Office. Understanding Mask Work.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Copyright Claims Board (CCB), better known as the “copyright small claims court”, became a part of U.S. copyright law in December 2020 with the signing of the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act). . Before 2002 7 2002-2020 42 2020/2021 19 2022 15.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

In turn, this attracts interest from businesses ranging from fashion and sports brands, sport teams, designers, game developers, and other content owners. The purpose of copyrights is to protect creative works, including writings, from infringement. It has been debated whether NFTs/DC could be protected in China by design patents.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

On 5 February 2020, the U.S. Copyright Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) held a symposium that looked at the relationship between copyright and AI. Copyright Office and the U.S. Copyright Office launched a study to examine the copyright law and policy issues raised by generative AI.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

By Sarah Burstein, Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School USPTO Notice, 88 FR 80277 (Nov. In it, the USPTO reaffirmed its prior interpretation of the phrase “design for an article of manufacture” and did not—as many had hoped—expand its interpretation of that phrase. 11380, 11381–82.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In the verdict form the jury stated that Defendants had not proven fair use, the Plaintiff (Alexander) should receive $3,750 USD for actual losses from the Defendant’s use of the tattoo designs, and did not answer as to profits can be attributed to the Plaintiff for use of the tattoos. The Court’s Conclusions. Final Call, Inc.,

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IPilogue

MARCH 18, 2022

Mr. Harold Thomas, the artist and copyright holder of the Australian Indigenous Flag (“the Flag”) is an Elder of the Indigenous community. He designed the Flag in 1971 as a symbol of Indigenous resilience and representation. Crown Copyright in Other Jurisdictions. The copyright, therefore, vests with the Crown.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2022

According to Asahi, since 2020 the publishers have been asking Cloudflare to stop “delivering” pirated content from unlicensed sites but under US copyright law, that was unsuccessful. Will Targeting Cloudflare in Japan Bear Fruit?

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 22, 2021

Back in May, I wrote about an overzealous copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Rachel Dolezal , the woman best known for mispresenting her racial background. The complaint raised concerns that Dolezal was using copyright law to purge the historical record of her controversial past, while seeking substantial monetary damages in the process.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In 2020, Amazon teamed up with publisher Penguin Random House and authors including John Grisham, Scott Turow and Lee Child to sue several pirate ‘Kiss Library’ eBook sites operating out of Ukraine. Just a day after the complaint was filed, a Washington court issued a temporary restraining order designed to cripple Kiss Library.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 14, 2023

As teachers, we must encourage the use of LLMs, lest we be considered so 2020, or worse. This gets dangerously close to owning the underlying idea, and thus goes against a fundamental principle of international copyright law. The relevant case law on originality “transfers” is scant. LLMs are everywhere.

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IPilogue

APRIL 5, 2022

With a SOCAN license, businesses comply with copyright laws and may play songs that are part of SOCAN’s repertoire while supporting the creators of that music. After reading the title you might be wondering, what does the cobra pose have to do with copyrights?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 10, 2021

. “Contrary to Defendants’ allegations, Yout’s software platform is not designed to descramble, decrypt, avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair the YouTube rolling cipher technology,” Yout’s complaint read. RIAA’s Motion to Dismiss, Yout’s Response.

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The IPKat

JUNE 17, 2023

Interestingly enough, there was no need to discuss if Morford’s work would be protectable at the outset also because the plaintiff had managed to register his work with the US Copyright Office in 2020. The notion of ‘substantial taking’ should not be intended in a quantitative sense.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The C4 dataset, created by Google in 2020, is taken from the Common Crawl dataset, which is an open-source dataset and “ a massive collection of web pages and websites consisting of petabytes of data collected over twelve (12) years, including raw web page data, metadata extracts, and text extracts ” (§ I.78 76) (see here and here ).

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Under the Indian Copyright Act , such works are classified as “computer generated works”. Copyright law grants authorship to the “person who causes the work to be created” for such works. Indian Copyright Registration The Indian Copyright Office is similarly confused how to handle such requests.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

In turn, this attracts interest from businesses ranging from fashion and sports brands, sport teams, designers, game developers, and other content owners. The purpose of copyrights is to protect creative works, including writings, from infringement. It has been debated whether NFTs/DC could be protected in China by design patents.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I’m talking about section 113(c) , which allows photographs of useful articles incorporating copyrighted works to be made and used without violating copyright law. While these sorts of objects typically aren’t themselves eligible for copyright protection, they often contain pictures or designs which are protectable.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 22, 2022

And, once a patent expires (or is refused or forfeited by public use), the balance allows “free access to copy whatever the federal patent and copyright laws leave in the public domain.” ” Compco Corp. Day–Brite Lighting, Inc. , 234 (1964). Bonito Boats. ” In re Jackson , 972 F.3d 3d 25 (2d Cir.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the years DISH has filed large numbers of civil lawsuits, some based on copyright law and others the Federal Communications Act. DISH Files Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against IPTV Provider. Together they were accused of direct and contributory copyright infringement. DISH Identifies Universe IPTV Operators.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

.” This is exactly what happened to Jaguar Land Rover in its claim against Land Wind (Jiangling Motors) in China for copying of Jaguar Land Rover’s car design. After their patent battle from 2014 to [2019], the design patents of Jaguar Land Rover and Land Wind for their off-road vehicles were invalidated by each other.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 24, 2022

A closed and less public ecosystem is generally considered a plus for security but when any site becomes a target for determined law enforcement, all bets are off. In October 2020, when Denmark-based private tracker DanishBits shut down , that was just the beginning. Is this the kind of claim that may appear in future cases?

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Under powers inherited from the Ministry of Communications, telecoms regulator Anatel (Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações) together with movie group Ancine (Agência Nacional do Cinema) will also implement an internet blocking system designed to disrupt IPTV pirates’ ability to do business. A reported 1.5 Most recent actions below).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2023

In 2020, the creator of Le Monde newspaper’s font, together with the company he founded, brought a copyright infringement case against Google and the company that created the ‘Spectral’ font. and some bottom serifs like a, d etc.)

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Image by Pexels from Pixabay Introduction: Brazilian Copyright Framework and the existing L&Es Brazil has signed most Intellectual Property (IP) law Treaties, but notably it has not adhered to the WIPO Copyright or the WIPO Phonogram and Performance Treaties. 10.534/2020. Under art.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Over the past five years the Australian Government has committed significant resources to several copyright-related initiatives , not least the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Act 2018. Copyright Enforcement Review & Consultation.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 10, 2021

Last year, I wrote about an epic copyright battle between the Philadelphia Phillies and the original creators of the Phillie Phanatic over ownership rights in the beloved baseball mascot. H/E), a creative design firm, which in 1984 assigned the copyright in the mascot for a term of “forever.”

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Whatever that advice was, anyone with even a basic understanding of copyright law in the United States could see otherwise. One of the interesting aspects of the case against Carrasquillo is that at the time of his offenses, rightsholders were pushing extremely hard to plug a perceived loophole in copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 8, 2022

The broadcaster claimed that IPTV providers Banjo TV, Bollywood IPTV, Comstar TV, Express IPTV, Gennie TV, Gold TV, IPGuys, Istar, Red IPTV, Sky IPTV, and Zumm TV, used DataCamp services that were designed with IPTV/OTT delivery in mind. “DataPacket has no access, let alone involvement, with the software those subscribers install. .

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Patently-O

MAY 6, 2024

” The printed matter doctrine a unique and somewhat amorphous concept in patent law that straddles the line between patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § Kevin Emerson Collins, Patent Law’s Authorship Screen , 84 U. And a core issue in the case was whether the designation of origin was an excludable printed matter.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 24, 2021

In April 2020, a coalition of entertainment companies headed up by Universal, Paramount, Columbia, Disney and Amazon filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the operators of ‘pirate’ IPTV service Nitro TV. channels, which are only possible to offer after content is copied and stored, contrary to copyright law.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Musical Arts, designs, pictures, software, material, and many other sorts of Intellectual Property can be transferred using an e-commerce platform in the digital age. As per the Consumer Protection Rules, 2020 which provides safeguards against misrepresentation and other fraudulent gimmicks used by sites to scam people. [13]

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