Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Finally, it points out Viacom is the owner of three valid trademark registrations for the KRUSTY KRAB mark and 400 copyright registrations covering “creative aspects of the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise,” including episodes from the animated television series, movies, drawings, and stylebooks featuring artwork from the franchise.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 25, 2023

Howell ruled last Friday that the Register of Copyrights did not act “arbitrarily or capriciously” in denying a copyright registration to Dr. Stephen Thaler for artwork generated entirely by artificial intelligence. ” Dr. By not disclosing, you run the risk of having your entire copyright registration invalidated.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 13, 2021

Because NFTs are often digital artworks, it helps to think in terms of art. An NFT can represent anything in digital form, from visual artworks to music, multimedia, e-books and even digital trading cards. Similarly, one Bitcoin is interchangeable with another. The Mona Lisa is non-fungible.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

If upheld, we are sure to see a ripple effect on other segments of the creative industry like music, film, and television. The Beijing-based court agreed and ordered the defendant to publicly apologize and pay the plaintiff 500 Yuan (USD $70) in damages and 50 Yuan (USD $7) in court fees.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

The EUIPO has cancelled street artist Banksy’s trademark for the well-known artwork ‘Flower Bomber” on the grounds that it was filed in bad faith. Debate over television series based on real events: ‘biopics’ and honor, privacy and publicity rights. There will be a sequel!

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43(B)log

AUGUST 22, 2022

2012), also held that “although a television program was itself noncommercial, expressive speech, a billboard advertising the program was commercial speech, because “speech inviting the public to watch” a program “is not inherently identical to the speech that constitutes the program itself.” City of Los Angeles, 697 F.3d 3d 1146 (9th Cir.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

The same rule applies to digital artworks sold as NFTs. Meanwhile, television rights management company IDDH (International Rights and Divers Holding) , the supposed source of Squemme’s IP interests, liquidated all of the assets it had over twenty years ago and looks to have been defunct since 1999.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 30, 2021

statutes, busts, and other metal artworks. broadcasting video and audio services, such as providing radio and television broadcasts. building materials such as copper wires and steel used in home constructions. metal screws, bolts, fasteners. movable buildings such as fabricated homes and animal cages.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 23, 2022

statutes, busts, and other metal artworks. broadcasting video and audio services, such as providing radio and television broadcasts. building materials such as copper wires and steel used in home construction. metal screws, bolts, fasteners. movable buildings such as fabricated homes and animal cages.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

On November 16, 2021, film and television studio Miramax, LLC (“Miramax”) sued Tarantino and his company Visiona Romantica, Inc. Adams created an original digital artwork that “reinterpret[ed] and recontextualize[d] the album cover to create a new contemporary take on a portrait that defined an era.” 25 – July 2, 2021). at 4 ¶ 22. [21].

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Fundamentally, an NFT is just a transactional record and a link to a digital asset (often an image of artwork or a document) stored somewhere on the web. Some of the confusion surrounding the lawsuit stems from a basic misunderstanding of what NFTs actually represent. The NFT isn’t the image.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Anish Jain Trading as M/s Navkar Cosmo on December 20, 2023 (Delhi High Court) The Plaintiff contended that the Defendants had adopted identical packaging of its products, including eyeliner, kajal and mascara, and had only replaced the Plaintiff’s ‘GET BOLD’ mark with ‘NEW BOLD’, keeping the writing style and artwork identical.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2022

” Another candidate, Sasmita Khara, had “three choices for her image: a bucket, a bottle or a television,” and she “selected the TV because it is an aspirational item. ‘Voters can easily relate to it,’”; she actually carries a flat-screen TV around with her while campaigning.

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