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maintaining ex-employees' voicemail/email doesn't violate Lanham Act or right of publicity

43(B)log

30, 2022) “This case began as a routine suit for breach of a noncompete provision in an employment contract. Pennsylvania right of publicity: Pennsylvania protects the name or likeness of any natural person that has commercial value and is used for any commercial or advertising purpose without written consent.

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Spilling Secrets to AI: Does Chatting with ChatGPT Unleash Trade Secret or Invention Disclosure Dilemmas?

Trading Secrets

This article was originally published on Seyfarth’s Gadgets, Gigabytes & Goodwill blog. If there is anything movies like The Terminator have shown us, it’s that AI systems might one day become self-aware and wreak havoc. Spoiler alert: sharing invention details with ChatGPT does not count as public use or on sale.

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Best practices to avoid copyright infringement

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Additionally, they have the final say in how their work is published, broadcast, streamed, adapted, and exhibited. Exclusive rights may inspire producers to produce more works to share with the public. Because their effort might be beneficial for the improvement of their life, the general public may also profit from it.

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Spilling Secrets to AI: Does Chatting with ChatGPT Unleash Trade Secret or Invention Disclosure Dilemmas?

LexBlog IP

This article was originally published on Seyfarth’s Gadgets, Gigabytes & Goodwill blog. If there is anything movies like The Terminator have shown us, it’s that AI systems might one day become self-aware and wreak havoc. Spoiler alert: sharing invention details with ChatGPT does not count as public use or on sale.

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Implementing Article 15 of the CDSMD into the Greek legal order: “creative” or further confirmation of the EU press market’s fragmentation?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

As it introduces a new related/neighbouring right for press publishers (PPR), the provision has been placed in Section VII of L. 51, which awards a special neighbouring right to publishers of printed matter in relation to the typesetting and pagination format of the works published by them, and Art. 15 of the CDSMD. 51B (para.

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The Good Get: Interviews, The Predicates Of Copyright Ownership, & Divorcing Subjects From Owning Copyright Content

LexBlog IP

It is strange because that would mean that the unpublished portions would also be government works available for public use. The Woodward position gets stronger, however, when one looks to the final published product, whether one engages the audio version by listening or the print version by reading.