Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. This, of course, could be an accident based on true intellectual curiosity, but I do not believe it.

Litigation 98

Litigation Fair Use Copying Derivative Work 98

Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Unlike traditional proprietary software, SaaS or PaaS business models where license terms can often be renegotiated or amended in subsequent contract cycles, open-source licensing is far less forgiving of afterthoughts. It allows the contributor to retain ownership while granting Google the legal rights to use the contribution.

Licensing 52

Licensing Derivative Work Intellectual Property Moral Rights 52

LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Unlike traditional proprietary software, SaaS or PaaS business models where license terms can often be renegotiated or amended in subsequent contract cycles, open-source licensing is far less forgiving of afterthoughts. It allows the contributor to retain ownership while granting Google the legal rights to use the contribution.

Licensing 40

Licensing Derivative Work Intellectual Property Moral Rights 40

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As a result, the legal issues rarely are litigated any more. * * *. Underlying this litigation is an epistemological question: what does a “canonical” version of a web page look like? Implied-in-Law Contract/Unjust Enrichment. WhenU concluded that trademarks was a dead-end. physical property), not intangibles.

Licensing 93

Licensing Copyright Contracts Advertising 93

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Much of the litigation thus turns on what it means for a similarity to be probative of copying. In 1963, Disney expressed skepticism about monopoly aspects of extended term and “expressed doubt that Congress would approve a longer ownership period.” Could attend to contracts of adhesion in that way. Mostly music infringement.

Copyright 59

Copyright Copying Music Fair Use 59

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

The plaintiffs lost al of the framing cases then, but here we are in 2024, still litigating framing cases. Worse, it’s not clear the users have a “possessory interest” in those bits due to the possibility that copyright and contract law that may limit what users can do with those bits. What are we even talking about?

Copying 78

Copying Ownership Derivative Work Contracts 78

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

This examined the problem of authors’ remuneration: authors’ contracts tend to result in disproportionately low revenues relative to the returns of investors and intermediaries. Importantly, the parties may not contract out of this right to readjustment. Reversion of rights That said, some balance is offered in the U.S.

Contracts 52

Contracts Derivative Work Intellectual Property Music 52