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Ga. Artist Escapes Ginsburg Photo Copyright Suit, For Now

IP Law 360

An Atlanta federal judge on Monday threw out a photography agency's lawsuit over a Georgia artist's alleged unlicensed use of a photograph of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, saying the agency doesn't have standing to sue, but will allow it to rework its complaint.

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Other Barks & Bites for Friday, February 18: Georgia Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal of Keyword Theft Claims, Eleventh Circuit Reverses Trade Secret Claim Dismissal and EUIPO Reports 200,000 Trademark Applications Filed in 2021

IP Watchdog

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Fifth Circuit affirmed Texas A&M’s sovereign immunity win over “12th Man” copyright claims; the EUIPO reported that 2021 ended with more than 200,000 EU trademark applications filed at the agency; DoorDash reported that it received a record number of consumer delivery orders during the fourth quarter (..)

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If “Trespass to Chattels” Isn’t Limited to “Chattels,” Anarchy Ensues–Best Carpet Values v. Google

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Let’s hope the judge corrects his errors or that the appeals court does it for him. * * *. The court approaches this case like it’s an adware case, but the court never once uses the term. Thus, a court’s hypothesis may have no grounding in reality. Trigger warning: this is a terrible opinion.

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Under a New EU-Focused Copyright Law, Musical Artists Currently Earn *Nothing*

TorrentFreak

According to an EU statement dated January 2022, Moldova’s State Agency for Intellectual Property ( AGEPI ) responded with a new draft transposing nine EU directives in full and four EU directives in part. An EU assessment published early 2021 identified many areas in need of attention ( pdf ). 1) from Law no.

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IPSC Closing Plenary Session: IP In the Courts

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Sealed defendant lists: a red flag b/c we can’t track what’s going on in courts that way—the rejoinder is that we need to seize their assets, but we don’t get unsealing even when there is no concern/seizure is accomplished. When someone fought back, they dropped the case and the court denied an attorneys’ fee request.

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The Shifting Post-AMG Landscape – Changes to the FTC Approach to Law Enforcement

LexBlog IP

Supreme Court issued its unanimous decision in the AMG case, and with this decision, it put an end to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) decadeslong reliance on Section 13(b) of the FTC Act as the primary tool to obtain monetary relief in federal court. Ten months ago, the U.S.

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15th Trademark Scholars’ Roundtable: Session 1: Congress and the Courts (including the role of the Supreme Court)

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Introduction: Rebecca Tushnet What might we derive from things the Court has said about trademark of late? I was particularly interested in doing a deep dive on the idea that the Court thought that both Dogan & Lemley and Dinwoodie & Janis were right, when most of us understood the two articles to be debating with each other.