Contracts Licensing Public Domain Settlement 
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JULY 18, 2023
Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. The flexibility of contracts makes them a prime candidate for restricting uses that copyright law leaves unprohibited. That still leaves a rather broad space for contract law to effectively limit the use of information.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
DECEMBER 15, 2021
The Lenz case got a lot of press, but it ended with a confidential settlement. To settle that dispute, the parties worked out an “exclusive” license: the second-comer could sell the design on Amazon, and the registrant could keep selling it on eBay. A few plaintiffs have won default judgments (including one I blog below).
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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
MAY 7, 2021
Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance. However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable?
Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
MAY 7, 2021
Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance. However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable?
Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
MAY 7, 2021
Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance. However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable?
43(B)log
FEBRUARY 4, 2023
Looking at post-1978, 9 th , 2d, and 6 th Cir (Motown) and SCt; copying and use without license. Identifying race of plaintiffs: didn’t prove that difficult; most figures are public. May also resolve through settlement. What goes on in settlement? Can contact living people—lawyers on settlements may be still alive.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JUNE 20, 2023
Specifically, when a derivative work is created pursuant to a statutory exception, then the derivative work is prepared “lawfully,” even though the artist who created the derivative did not get a license or other permission from the owner of the copyright in the underlying work. Goldsmith herself had been entirely unaware of the licensed use.)
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