Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

MARCH 17, 2021

Most people are familiar with patents and trademarks as the most common forms of intellectual property, however, copyrights and their importance as part of your overall portfolio of intellectual property assets are sometimes neglected. What rights does a copyright holder have? What rights does a copyright holder have?

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Copyright Intellectual Property Social Media Registration 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

6th Edition of Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials (with Rebecca Tushnet). Regulation of Political Advertising (2022 Edition). Regulation of Housing Advertising (2022 Edition). Regulation of Housing Advertising (2022 Edition). A First Look at Copyright Claims Board (CCB) Filings.

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Editing Social Media Blogging Advertising 88

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Another troubling ruling for an Internet access provider trying to shake a contributory copyright claim based on user-caused copyright infringement. 11, 2023): Time and again we have declared that “prevailing defendants in copyright cases are presumptively entitled (and strongly so) to recover attorney fees.” 22-1641 (7th Cir.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

NewsGuard is a journalism and technology tool that rates the credibility of news and information websites and tracks online misinformation for search engines, social media apps, and advertisers. The post Beware the “New Google” (And Much More) appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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43(B)log

JUNE 26, 2023

16, 2023) The court refused to dismiss copyright and trademark claims based on copying of a TV show format, including the hosts. REELZ allegedly told advertisers that the “working title” of the show was “PD Live,” and went so far as to announce that “REELZ ADDS #1 TV SHOW TO OUR PROGRAMS LINEUP” with “ALL NEW LIVE EPISODES.”

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Social Media Copying Fair Use Advertising 59

Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

If you’ve been glued to news coverage of the Ed Sheeran trial for the past two weeks, you may have missed an even bigger story from the world of music copyright. From a copyright perspective, these particular tracks are clearly derivative of both the original sound recordings and the underlying musical compositions.

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Music Copyright Copying Copyright Law 87

TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Collaborate with the MPA digital team on strategy and content for ACE, TPN and the MPA’s online presence and social media activity. It would be cynical to suggest that the media might be viewed as a conduit for political messaging, or as third-party amplifiers of carefully prepared statements and press releases.

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Reporting Advertising Advertising Social Media 121

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

California’s latest entry into this Internet death-spiral is the California Journalism Protection Act (CJPA, AB 886). The CJPA engages with a critical problem in our society: how to ensure the production of socially valuable journalism in the face of the Internet’s changes to journalists’ business models?

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Journalism Social Media Publishing Government 89

Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The dispute between writers and former friends Sonya Larson and Dawn Dorland over a short story involving a kidney donation has captured the attention of social media during the past week. An advertisement for Abby Sage Richardson’s dramatization of “The Prince and the Pauper,” produced by Daniel Frohman.

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Art Contracts Social Media Litigation 95

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Trademarks help in the advertisement of the goods in a global level: Trademarks helps a brand in gaining popularity by allowing a company to advertise or market their products on various domains around the world. Sections 9 and 11 of the Trademarks Act, 1999 address the notion of confusion. This procedure may take several months.

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Business Trademark Registration Cease and Desist 52

IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Despite the judiciary’s efforts to address the concerns under current intellectual property laws like copyright and trademark, the absence of relevant and specific provisions for the protection of personality rights has started to pose a serious threat. For every one of the twenty-one defendants, the plaintiff provided examples.

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Personality Rights Privacy Social Media Intellectual Property 63

SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Call for Papers: NLU Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies Vol. VIII, Issue I [Submit by January 7, 2024] NLU Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies is inviting original, unpublished manuscripts for publication for its upcoming issue. The last date for submissions is January 7, 2024.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

On the heels of the mandatory editorial transparency provisions in Florida and Texas’ social media censorship laws, the California legislature thought it could one-up those states by passing a law with at least 161 different disclosure requirements. The opinion upheld every aspect of Texas’ social media censorship law.

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