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Public Domain Day 2024 is Coming: Here’s What to Know

Copyright Lately

Oh Mickey, you’re so fine—but you’re not alone: An avalanche of copyrighted works will enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2024. public domain on January 1, 2024—and that’s a shame. public domain for failure to comply with the various formalities (e.g., copyright terms.

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5 Spooky Articles About Copyright and Halloween

Plagiarism Today

In 2019, it was due to road work on my street and both 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. If you want a more complete list of the Halloween-related articles that have been featured on this site, check out this post from October 2021. Night of the Living Dead is possibly one of the most famous public domain movies of all time.

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Foreign Works, US Rights: The 7th Circle of Copyright Hell?

Copyright Lately

Nineties grunge-rock band Nirvana, already embroiled in a long-running legal battle against fashion company Marc Jacobs over its “happy face” t-shirt designs , now finds itself on the less happy end of a new copyright infringement lawsuit worthy of Dante’s trip through the underworld. Welcome to the Seventh Circle of Hell. Nirvana LLC.

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The precedent work is “a set of replacement stickers for the dashboard climate controls for certain GM vehicles”: The Copyright Office registered this design. ” Nevertheless, the successor licensee sent DMCA takedown notices to Amazon targeting the registrant’s stripped-down sticker. .” per sticker set.

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Volkswagen is a happy camper as BoA upholds its EU trade mark opposition

The IPKat

Its EUTM Registration No. EU Designation of International Registration No. Volkswagen filed an appeal on 1st April 2021. Pictures of marks are in the public domain. 10511591 for the 3D mark below, covering goods and services in Classes 12, 16, 35, 37, 39, and 41: 2. International license.

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To be or not to be (a pattern mark) – that is the question!

The IPKat

In its judgement (5 October 2021), it concluded that #Darferdas only applies to signs that are not indissociable from the appearance of the goods. Universal Public Domain Dedication license. Picture on the left is of a painting by Vincent van Gogh ("Pair of shoes") and is in the public domain.

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The Other ‘Maybe’ Authors: Copyright Ownership for AI Trainers

IP Intelligence

the Office’s recent registrability decision regarding the graphic novel created by Kris Kashtanova creates nearly insurmountable, unnecessary hurdles to all kinds of AI authorship. Prediction and control of output have taken an outsized role in recent registrability and policy statements from the U.S.