Kashishipr

JUNE 1, 2022

For every business or brand owner at present, the design of a product has become a crucial concern, and why won’t it be, after all, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” ” The unique design of a product, such as that of Mini Cooper and Coca-Cola, forms brand identity. Infringement of Industrial Designs .

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

AG Yost disingenuously argued that the law enhances parents’ control over their children’s contracts. The court easily brushes this aside, saying “this Court does not think that a law prohibiting minors from contracting to access to a plethora of protected speech can be reduced to a regulation of commercial conduct.”

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Social Media Law Contracts Publishing 81

Plagiarism Today

JUNE 8, 2022

According to The Mercury News , In 2009, she was awarded a no-bid contract to be the sole grant writer for the county. However, it was in 2018 that she was offered an additional contract. This has led to Supervisor Otto Lee calling for an inquiry into the book and the various contracts that were awarded McCorquodale.

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The world of scholarly publishing is rapidly changing in response to pressure from research funders and policymakers to accelerate the move to open access (OA), such as the 2018 Plan S mandates and the recent memorandum from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

” Prager, which makes misleading videos that appear designed to radicalize kids to the MAGA agenda, sued YouTube over its demonetization decisions, claiming that YouTube had engaged in biased content moderation. YouTube defended on Section 230 and other grounds. See my blog post on the lower court ruling.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 6, 2023

The proposal is subject to a 60-day public comment period commencing when the Federal Register publishes the proposed rule. Under the rule, existing noncompete clauses must be rescinded no later than 180 days after the final rule is published. FTC Chairperson, Lina M. ” [4].

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Scott Stornetta published a paper describing a cryptographically secured chain of blocks. The engine that runs the bitcoin ledger that Nakamoto designed is called the blockchain; the original and largest blockchain is the one that still orchestrates bitcoin transactions today. These became known as smart contracts.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

The belated Portuguese transposition of the CDSM Directive was finally published in the Portuguese Official Journal (Diário da República) on the 19th of June 2023. The contract adjustment mechanism and other contractual safeguards explicitly apply to commissioned works and work-for-hire ex Art. Museu do Azulejo by G.P.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

Today’s example is AB 2273, the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AADC), Before we get overwhelmed by the bill’s details, I’ll highlight three crucial concerns: First, the bill pretextually claims to protect children, but it will change the Internet for EVERYONE. Age-Appropriate Design Code.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 12, 2023

” Despite the contract, the defendants allegedly posted negative remarks about Hah’s work online. ” Despite the contract, the defendants allegedly posted negative remarks about Hah’s work online. Hah’s filings focused on breach of contract, so his other claims weren’t properly alleged.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 21, 2022

The book covers the rights of performers, particularly the rights conferred under Part II of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended). The first edition was published in 1990 and it is now in its 6th edition, updated from its previous version which was published in 2015.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Second, I will explain why imposing legal restrictions on the ability of Internet services that gather, organize, and disseminate user-generated content (which I’ll call “UGC publishers”) to terminate accounts or remove content leads to unwanted outcomes. In other words, the law simply wasn’t designed to redress the plaintiffs’ concerns.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Léon has recently published a book on the subject, which is being launched on 12 January 2024. Copyright and Designs Chijioke Okorie outlined the developments in copyright law across the African continent throughout the year as part of the “Africa IP Highlights” series for 2023.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Disapproval of these two apps on grounds ostensibly designed to protect consumers, absent factual allegations to believe that these disapprovals occurred for pretextual reasons, does not suffice to demonstrate anticompetitive conduct. Contract Breach. Implications.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. by Christopher Heath. €

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Marrakesh Treaty Marrakesh Treaty was adopted on June 27, 2013, to facilitate access to published works for people who are Blind Persons, Visually Impaired Persons, or Print Disabled (hereinafter beneficiary) who refrains from indulging in any printed form of copyrighted work.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

The copyright aspects of their position statement focus on the culumative protection of design and copyright. The copyright aspects of their position statement focus on the culumative protection of design and copyright. Stay tuned in the next weeks for a post looking at these issues in detail.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 2, 2022

More than 250 employees in editorial, sales, publicity, design, legal, and marketing departments at HarperCollins have been on strike since November 10, notes Andrew Albanese , Publishers Weekly senior writer.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Ann Wolff, a sculptor started working with Kosta Boda, a Swedish glass manufacturer, in 1972, creating the iconic "snowball" glass lantern, a staple of Swedish household design: As of today, more than 15 million copies of the glass lantern have been sold worldwide.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 15, 2022

Unionized employees of HarperCollins have authorized a one-day strike for Wednesday, July 20, reports Andrew Albanese , Publishers Weekly senior writer. The local contract expired at the end of last year and no new agreement has yet been reached,” he explains.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Fast-paced organizations that rely on and invest heavily in R&D should not only regard published content as the heart of innovation, but also possess a deep appreciation of the system of copyright protecting this intellectual property.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Bill has now been published , proposing new laws for equitable remuneration for streaming, contract adjustment, right of revocation and transparency. After reviewing more than 300 pieces of evidence, the Select Committee published its recommendations in July 2021. The Copyright (Rights and Remuneration of Musicians, Etc.)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Now, the primary vehicle to stop web scraping is with breach of contract claims. Now, in its case against Bright Data, Twitter’s lawyers filed three claims: breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract, and unjust enrichment. In the end, it was a pyrrhic victory. They don’t need or seek alternative legal theories.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

She has published in journals such as the Texas Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, California Law Review, and American Bankruptcy Law Journal. Professor Littwin has been a principal investigator for a number of empirical projects. Toussaint, Ph.D., and the father of their three amazing sons.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 13, 2022

Tokenization of IP In a nutshell, "tokenization" means using a smart contract (i.e., The process of creating a digital asset with a smart contract is called "minting". The result is that the smart contract allows you to represent any IP, e.g., trademarks, designs, patents or copyrights, with a token. a MIT license ).

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Intellectual Property Non-Fungible Tokens IP Contracts 97

The IPKat

MARCH 14, 2024

Background The solicitors to Ini Edo and Minini Empire Productions Limited (MEP) stated in their petition to the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) and Trademarks and Patent Design Registry that Chinenye Nworah sought to bypass their right as co-owners of the IPRs to the movie, Shanty Town.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

These defense-favorable outcomes may work in the short term; but they leave open the potential liability of the contracting vendors (which may drive them out of the industry, leaving the marketing agent with no one to outsource to) and as well as the marketing agent’s possible secondary liability exposure for the vendors’ activities.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

In that regard, The Galaxy study mirrors one by Cornell University and the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts that was published in January. However, NFTs were never designed for this purpose. NFTs were not designed to be a copyright panacea, they were designed to create scarcity, something they failed to do.

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IPilogue

APRIL 5, 2022

The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (“SOCAN”), protects the performing and reproduction rights of more than 160,000 songwriters, music publishers, composers and visual artists. This program is purposefully designed for students in the final year of their legal education.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2022

The IPKat has published several posts over the past two weeks! PermaKat Eleonora Rosati posted about last week's General Court judgment on the partial invalidity of the shape mark of an icon of Italian fashion design and history: the Moon Boots. Background, analysis and comments are provided by GuestKat Anastasiia Kyrylenko.

Moral Rights 76

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Our GuestKat Anastasiia Kyrylenko posted about the legal requirements for the protection of Protected Geographical Indications (PGIs) and Protected Designations of Origin (PDOs) in the European Union, citing a concrete example from a non-EU country. published by Oxford University Press in August 2021 and available here.

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The IPKat

APRIL 4, 2024

The disproportionate remuneration stemmed from contracts entered into with dominant players, especially in the music industry, and this has over time been a major source of worry for the South African government. The MITT and CRC found the Copyright Act to be inadequate in addressing the issues.

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Olartemoure Blog

MAY 13, 2022

On 5 May 2022, The People’s Republic of China (PCR) deposited a declaration of extension of the territorial application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sales of Goods (CISG) to Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region. . 12/05/22 – International Trade. 12/05/22 – International Trade.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

These contract law provisions, totally alien to the Irish legal tradition, are designed to apply in negotiations and contractual relationships between artists and commercial exploiters of their works, including social media platforms and streaming services.

Copying 102

Copying Copyright Law Copyright Social Media 102

Intepat

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Filing under the Madrid System The Madrid System, established under the Madrid Agreement and the Madrid Protocol, is facilitated by the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) and is designed to streamline trademark registration across multiple jurisdictions.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

A graphic designer’s copyright infringement claim against a builder of sunroom additions—which allegedly modified and used online a print brochure that she had designed for the builder—was properly dismissed by a district court because the designer had not obtained a copyright registration for the brochure when she filed suit.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2021

” Plus: its decisions as to which apps are allowed to sell through the App Store is not an act that in itself causes harm the antitrust laws were designed to protect. Breach of Contract. Plaintiffs failed to make any allegation the Apple benefits from its rejection of apps or from suppression of apps in the search function.

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