Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The post Hot Take on the Wavy Baby Decision (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Let’s hope future courts deal with that issue much more carefully. They would be hard-pressed to be less careful.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 18, 2024

The post A Report from the White House’s Inaugural “Creator Economy Conference” (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. If not, then the creator economy will continue to be an unbalanced ecosystem that fails to reach its full potential.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

Bright Data is the Decision We’ve Been Waiting For (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The post X Corp.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

— I’ve only touched on a fraction of the issues in this case, and this blog is already well over 2,000 words. GitHub (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants reproduced code as output without attribution, copyright notice, or license terms. –Doe 1 v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

For one, it’s a significant case that deals with many of the issues that have arisen in some of the other cases I’ve blogged about on this site, but it’s in Delaware, not in the Northern District of California. Sometimes, when we blog these technology cases, we act as if the law in California is the law everywhere. The post Ryanair v.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JULY 26, 2021

Last week I posted a blog on the American Music Fairness Act (AMFA), draft US legislation that seeks to end the exemption that US terrestrial broadcasters enjoy with respect to payment of broadcast royalties to performers and labels for playing recorded music.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

Last week I indicated in my blog post (“Copyright Registration for AI-assisted Creations: How Much AI Input is Too Much?”) Thank you CIPO (Canadian Intellectual Property Office). that I would be seeking to register with CIPO the copyright on a work fully generated by AI platforms DALL-E2 and ChatGPT.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As year-end approaches, I like to look back at the main themes that emerged over the past 12 months affecting copyright, creators and the content industries, drawing from my blog posts throughout the year.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A couple of weeks ago I put up a blog posting looking at the history of copyright and news content over the past two hundred years or more. It discussed the longstanding question of who “owns” the news, and who should be compensated when news content is copied. The US Launches Study on Free-Riding by News Aggregators"

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Hugh Stephens Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This blog post, coming at the time of Remembrance (Poppy) Day, November 11, reflects on the enormous, beneficial attributes of the internet—when used for positive ends—but also on the costs of personal sacrifice embodied in the Remembrance Day ceremonies.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Warning: this blog post has a long opening sentence, so take a deep breath.

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Dragons' Den

JANUARY 16, 2025

You can read more about it in our blog. Disclaimer: The purpose of the IPO's Dragons' Den IP blog is to help identify the IP in entrepreneurs pitches and highlight how IP works, or could work, in the real-life examples featured.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

In my blog post on the case , I praised the decision and predicted “that the Supreme Court will eventually grant a petition … and render a definitive decision regarding the discovery rule.” Ochoa’s Commentary In my previous blog posts, I advocated in favor of the discovery rule. MGM Domestic Television Distribution, LLC , 39 F.4th

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 21, 2022

However, VeePN distinguished itself by actively promoting the use of its services for the purpose of piracy, including promoting the use of Popcorn Time in a blog post. The company has removed the “Popcorn Time VPN” blog post from its site, but still lists PayPal and Alipay as payment options.

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Dragons' Den

JANUARY 9, 2025

It was Sara Davies who wanted to know more about exactly what part of the product was protected by the patent, or as she described it "the patentable step." "the

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IP Watchdog

JULY 11, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal published a Director’s blog post today addressing the Office’s current backlog of patent and trademark applications, which the latest USPTO data shows to be 785,387 unexamined applications/ 25.6 months total pendency for patents and 14.5 months total pendency for trademarks.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Key takeaways from the meeting and published materials will be summarized in our Three-Part Blog Series. During this meeting, panelists from industry and the USPTO provided helpful tips on drafting and prosecuting patent applications that include AI components, including special tips for the biotech industry.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Image by Greg Altmann/Pixabay This blog post appeared first in Open Canada, the journal of the Canadian International Council, on November 20, 2023.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JANUARY 2, 2025

Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe NFL is a lot of things, but I never thought it was stupid. Originally posted 2014-11-17 17:55:38. It turns out that it isn’t.

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Copyright Alliance

JANUARY 4, 2024

On January 3, we published part one of this blog series summarizing the biggest copyright-related AI activities that took place within the federal government. In today’s post, we pick back […] The post AI and Copyright in 2023: In the Courts appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By: Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog The Supreme Court is currently considering a case that could have a significant impact on the viability of typical copyright troll claims and, more broadly, the continued prevalence of copyright trolling.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Copyright Office didn’t even have a system for registering blogs until 2020. Were blogs registered before, then registered properly? Given the difficulties and complexities of filing a registration, this was not a theoretical issue. For example, the U.S. It depends.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As I wrote in a blog post a year or so ago (“Will the “Artists’ … Continue reading "Britain Walks Away from Trade Agreement with Canada: Will Artists be Collateral Damage?"

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

However, for this week’s blog, I am going to go back to an earlier technology, photography, and look at its connection to creativity … Continue reading "We all Remember the Iconic Photo of the Last Spike, but Who was the Photographer?" This is an evolving and important issue.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Last month, Director Kathi Vidal posted on her blog about global efforts to address climate change through sustainable innovation and about USPTO resources to support the military community. By: WilmerHale

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Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 14, 2021

None of this is shocking to readers of this blog, of course. This clutter imposes costs—such as increased time and effort to search for or challenge unused marks—on legitimate users of the trademark system.” ” See page 3 of Final Report.

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Copyright Alliance

JANUARY 23, 2024

To date, the vast majority of training content, whether books or blogs or songs or images, has been scraped from the web […] The post Facilitating Efficient and Effective Copyright Licensing for AI appeared first on Copyright Alliance. AI models have an almost insatiable appetite for content.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 24, 2024

In a recent blog summarizing an extensive study from the European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), we discussed just how impactful intellectual property (IP) rights, such as patents and trademarks, can be in securing funding for start-ups.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 21, 2024

I never blogged the dual state and federal rulings in the Social Media Addiction cases from last Fall. I couldn’t blog just the state case without discussing the new development, so I planned to modify my blog post on the state court ruling to compare/contrast the federal ruling.

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Likelihood of Confusion

AUGUST 1, 2024

Republished by Blog Post PromoterThis item came across the ether yesterday: RT @adage: Edible 3-D food printing becomes a reality at Hershey [link] pic.twitter.com/LVWDV2ioe2 — Likelihood TM Blog (@likely2confuse) January 29, 2015 Adorable. Originally posted 2015-01-30 12:02:44.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JUNE 12, 2024

Republished by Blog Post Promoter Originally posted March 21, 2016. Says Pamela Chestek, of the Property, intangible® blog: I haven’t written about “zombie” or “heritage” marks in a long time. Originally posted 2016-12-20 14:56:14. So when she does, we don’t want to miss it! Here’s the story.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 13, 2024

This case involves the CancelWatch “blog” on Substack, which says: “We report the activists trying to ruin people’s lives and careers.” Smith has not alleged that the blog post was provided to Substack by its author for any other reason than publication. Substack is entitled to immunity. Substack Inc. ,

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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. In the time it took you to read this far, a new website was built (per Siteefy, a new site goes live every three seconds). By: Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 21, 2024

Because of the close relationship between such claims, this Holland & Knight blog post discusses a contract case involving confidentiality, even though trade secrets do not seem to be implicated. By: Holland & Knight LLP

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 27, 2024

This blog involves a unique approach being used by a Hawaii law firm to seek to uncover the name, address, email address, MAC address and other information about alleged copyright infringers. The firm is using a DMCA 512(h) subpoena to seek to uncover this information.

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The Illusion of More

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As discussed on this blog and elsewhere, caselaw has produced two frameworks for considering whether […] The post The Generative AI Fair Use Defense Under Google Books appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

There wasn’t even a system for registering blog content, like this site, until June 2020. Blogs have been a form of expression since at least 1994 , meaning that, for more than 26 years, bloggers had no practical way to register their work. Even today, the system is wholly inadequate.

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