Plagiarism Today

APRIL 26, 2023

Does the case have any chance at all? The post Fan Fiction Author Sues Amazon, Tolkien Estate appeared first on Plagiarism Today. A fan fiction author has filed a lawsuit against Amazon and the Tolkien Estate.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

Mask makers Composite Effects (CFX) have filed a lawsuit against All Elite Wrestling over the use of Luchasaurus' mask in merchandise. The post Understanding the Luchasaurus/AEW Mask Lawsuit appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

For the past decade, Canadian post-secondary institutions (outside Québec) have been refusing to acquire licences from the Canadian Copyright Collective, Access Copyright (AC), to cover the … Continue reading "Why Are Canadian Universities Vehemently Campaigning Against Any Clarification of Fair Dealing if They Are Already Licensing All the Content (..)

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Copyright Alliance

MAY 21, 2024

What do “The Notebook,” “It,” “The Bourne Identity,” “Twilight,” “The Pursuit of Happyness,” and “The Color Purple” all have in common? You guessed it—they were all first literary works before […] The post Turning Books to Movies: Three Copyright Tips for Authors appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The post All About the New USPTO Trademark Search System appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Erik introduces you to the new USPTO search engine and shares his thoughts about the updated platform in this podcast.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MAY 26, 2024

blog post [link] Whoa?! Isn’t all the traffic in the other direction on contributory infringement? Isn’t that unthinking […] The post Not all ISP’s are created equal appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. More to come … Louis Vuitton v. Akanoc jury verdict [link] & Aug.

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Erik K Pelton

APRIL 22, 2022

You can read more details about all of these in the Building a Bold Brand book at Amazon. The post Introducing: the Building a Bold Bold Brand Wheel appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. See my new visual below to lean about the meaning tricks, sound tricks, and combination tricks to help make bold brands.

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Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 14, 2023

The videos cover all trademark topics, from application to registration, searching to renewal, infringement to litigation. We post at least one new video a week, usually more. The post 500 hundred trademark videos on erikpelton.tv Take a look and subscribe on YouTube, and leave us a comment on your favorite one!

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Likelihood of Confusion

APRIL 30, 2024

Which is, after all, like a TV, right? They […] The post My chat with Verizon appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. But let’s say I’m willing to spring for a few bucks because someone is at my house who would like to watch the Yankees – Red Sox game on the Internet. So, great.

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Technology 109

Christopher Roser

MAY 7, 2024

In my previous post I looked at examples by Volkswagen in Salzgitter, Volvo in Kalmar, and Opel in Bochum, who all tried, just to switch back to an. Read more The post A Frequent Mistake—Undoing an Assembly Line—Part 2 first appeared on AllAboutLean.com.

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Michael Geist

MAY 13, 2024

This is a post I never thought I would need to write in 2024. If this was any other group, I believe the testimony would spark urgent calls to address the concerns alongside strong commitments from politicians and university leaders pledging to ensure that all feel safe.

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Christopher Roser

APRIL 2, 2024

This is the third post in my series on how Fendt handles its rather large variability. As mentioned before, all of their tractors—eleven different models with countless variants—come from the same assembly line in Marktoberdorf. Read more The post Variable Takt at Fendt in Marktoberdorf—Part 3 first appeared on AllAboutLean.com.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

More than 70% of all businesses have a website, and there are more than 600 million blogs on the internet. And every day, someone mindlessly adds a seemingly non-descript photo that they found on the internet to spruce up a post or page. By: Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

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Christopher Roser

MAY 28, 2024

In 2017-18, I had the chance to visit factories of all seven Japanese car makers as part of my Grand Tour of Japanese Automotive. Read more The post The Grand Tour of German Automotive—Overview first appeared on AllAboutLean.com. Let me show you what I saw and what.

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Christopher Roser

APRIL 30, 2024

From mobile phones to cars to airplanes, almost all items produced in large quantities come from an assembly line. Read more The post A Frequent Mistake—Undoing an Assembly Line—Part 1 first appeared on AllAboutLean.com. Assembly lines are everywhere in mass production. My general recommendation is that if you.

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Michael Geist

MAY 26, 2024

Further, many supporters of recent protests, including the encampments at universities, have remained silent, presumably saving their voices for criticism of efforts to enforce campus policies to ensure that all students and faculty are safe. Believe all women has been a foundational principle on campuses, yet not this time.

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BYU Copyright Blog

MAY 20, 2024

Not Past the Post Yet Commercial Educational Materials,University May 20, 10:08 AM May 20, 10:07 AM In October 2021, we first published a blog post on a case filed by Post University against Course Hero.

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IP Intelligence

MAY 9, 2024

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (Board) precedential decision to uphold a refusal to register a proposed color mark in In re Post Foods, LLC [1] highlights the strategic and technical aspects involved in registering a color trademark as applied to a product. Post then appealed the examiner’s refusal to the Board.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MARCH 28, 2024

I have — win, lose or draw — kept you all abreast of the progress of the various lawsuits against PissedConsumer.com (otherwise known as Opinion Corp.), This is […] The post PissedConsumer.com: Devere Group v. the gripe site that people hate so much. Why do some people hate PissedConsumer.com?

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Likelihood of Confusion

MAY 28, 2024

Nick O’Neill at the All Facebook Blog writes: This morning I got an email from the owner of the “Cristiano Ronaldo” public profile stating that he had been disable[d] after attracting over 2.85 There are more developments on social-networking brand management, as you would expect. million fans. The reason?

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Michael Geist

MAY 5, 2023

Is this all news outlets with a focus on their online presence? Is this far broader and designed to encompass Internet platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok (note the reference to “platforms”) with requirements that they be held accountable for posts without traceable sources? Is it online-only news sources?

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Given the overlap between blog posts and Substacks, there is unsurprisingly overlap between the most popular posts with the piece on Bill S-210 occupying the top spot on both charts. Why Is Meta Blocking All News Links? Because Bill C-18 Covers All News Outlets 5.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 7, 2024

Prior to this rule, only post-institution settlements were required to be submitted, but the PTO noted that over half of all settlements occur pre-institution. By: Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

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Copyright Alliance

MARCH 26, 2024

With all 30 Major League Baseball (MLB) teams scheduled to play on March 28, which is opening day, the 2024 season will be upon us before we know it. The imminent […] The post Beyond the Diamond: Exploring the Creative Side of MLB Players appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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The Illusion of More

DECEMBER 15, 2023

With all the talk about AI, one might think the problem of old-school media piracy has abated, but this week, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing entitled Digital Copyright Piracy: Protecting American Consumers, Workers, and Creators. Although much of the conversation was familiar territory (i.e.,

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The Illusion of More

APRIL 9, 2024

As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or […] The post Pass the TikTok Legislation. I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. And then… appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MARCH 30, 2024

” This is one of the edges that’s just bleeding all over the place. Originally posted 2009-10-23 14:01:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter The post Virtual trademarks, real money appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. Marty Schwimmer writes about “Real Trademark Issues In Virtual Worlds.”

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The Illusion of More

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

After a pandemic, an attempted coup d’ etat, and other jaw-dropping moments, it’s easy to forget all the ululating noise produced by the […] The post Where Are All the Trolls at the CCB? appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MARCH 13, 2024

: [P]hrases containing some form of “God” have been trademarked [sic] more than 3,400 times in the United States: “God answers knee-mail” and “All God’s Children Got Issues” and, of course, “T.G.I. Friday’s,” the restaurant chain.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2024

Rather, YouTube expressly states “we reserve the right to remove or take down some or all of such Content in our discretion.” It provided post-removal notice; “YouTube’s Terms and Conditions require it to do nothing further.” The post YouTube Defeats Claim Over Content Removal/Demonetization–Haocheng v.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MAY 26, 2023

I was going to do a post collecting all the briefs filed in the United States Supreme Court in Lee v. The post A basket of Lee v. Tam (“THE SLANTS”), but thanks to a nice blog. Tam briefs appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

With adoption of generative AI tools scaling exponentially amongst content creators, companies need to be vigilant to ensure all content posted on social media platforms complies with user guidelines about AI, especially where this is created by third party creators.

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Copyright Alliance

MARCH 7, 2023

Women make up only 25% of all directors, writers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the 250 top-grossing films; 2.8% of all producers within the music industry; and over […] The post Women Creators Advocating for Underrepresented Communities appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

On February 13, 2024, the USPTO posted Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions to the Federal Register to provide clarity for stakeholders and personnel. This guidance applies to all patents resulting from applications, filed before, on, or after February 13, 2024. By: Locke Lord LLP

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Christopher Roser

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In my previous posts I went into great detail through all the categories of the Toyota KPI dashboard: safety, quality, productivity, and cost. Read more The post The Toyota KPI Dashboard—Production Plan first appeared on AllAboutLean.com. However, the dashboard often contains even more: a section with the monthly.

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The Illusion of More

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

On October 30, Judge Orrick of the Northern District of California largely granted the AI companies’ motions to dismiss the class-action complaints filed by Sarah Andersen, Karla Ortiz, and Kelly McKernan on behalf of all visual artists whose works have been used without permission for the purpose of “training” generative AI models.

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Likelihood of Confusion

OCTOBER 15, 2023

We all understood by now that under Wal-Mart, trade dress that is deemed to be “product packaging” — unlike “product configuration” — “may be inherently distinctive and therefore, registrable, without. The post Too square appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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