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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The top appeals court judge at the Sixth Circuit has issued a precedential opinion insisting that "all manner of works," even stuff that's boring and "run-of-the-mine," can be protected by copyright law, affirming a judgment that stuck a business with more than $1 million in damages and fees for copying the terms and conditions used by a car-dealer (..)

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 3, 2024

Discussing the Mahatma’s take on copyright and the interplay between the 1955 Copyright Bill and the Berne Convention, we are pleased to bring to you this post by Shivam Kaushik. The post is a part of our IP History series. He had a very nuanced view of role and function of copyright law in the Indian society.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

On January 10, 2023, Justice Pratter of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that storing melted rink ice from championship hockey matches in a piece of memorabilia is not copyrightable. Fanatics”) for copyright infringement. Interestingly, the court granted the dismissal without prejudice.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

Temporary or incidental storage of work or performance to provide electronic links, access, or integration, where the owner has not expressly prohibited such links, access, or integration, falls under the ambit of fair use of copyright, according to Section 52(1)(c) of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 26, 2021

Calling it a “ball of confusion,” the Ninth Circuit recently considered a case involving the music of the Turtles, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, and whether royalties are owed under California copyright law for music dating prior to 1972. In doing so, the Ninth Circuit reviewed nearly 200 years of copyright law to reach its conclusion.

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IPilogue

MARCH 2, 2023

This is a far cry from the revenues earned on the WWE 2K games, which have sold hundreds of thousands of copies each. This development has led legal commentators to observe that, unfortunately, the copyright law surrounding celebrity tattoos remains unclear. Copyright protection over tattoos has been a hot topic for some time.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Under the Copyright laws , the dichotomy between idea and expressions exists, such that safeguard has been given to expressions under Copyright, but the same is not available for ideas. The Court in several cases have held that it is not the creator’s idea but the expression of that idea which is copyrightable.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 5, 2022

When standard approaches failed, a business professor recently turned to copyright law, hoping for a solution. Berkovitz alleged that the Defendants infringed his exclusive right to reproduce, make copies, distribute, or create derivative works by publishing the midterm exam and final exam on the Course Hero Website without permission.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

In this part 1, we tackle the first of three questions regarding the legal copyright landscape from an NFT purchaser’s perspective, as the extent to which the IP framework applies to NFTs remains uncertain. We address these questions in a two-part post.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2023

While there are a number of aspects covered by “Artificial Intelligence”, ranging from definitions to scope, from life-saving to life-threatening, there has been surprisingly limited public policy discussion on the intersection of AI and IP in India. Yashna is a fifth-year law student at UILS, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

In analogizing semiconductor chips to traditional areas of copyright law, the legislative history notes that, just as a plagiarist who copies only one chapter of a book may be held liable for infringement, a person may be liable for copying a part of a mask work if it is a qualitatively important portion that results in substantial similarity.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2021

This time, however, WPL’s arguments pose grave dangers to all owners of other copyrighted works. WPL did not try to compete with SAS by building a different or better product.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Under the Copyright laws , the dichotomy between idea and expressions exists, such that safeguard has been given to expressions under Copyright, but the same is not available for ideas. The Court in several cases have held that it is not the creator’s idea but the expression of that idea which is copyrightable.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Registration of a mask work with the Copyright Office provides certain legal benefits, including the ability to bring a lawsuit for infringement of the mask work. Inspection of a Registered Mask Work. government.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 17, 2021

In legal terms, those rights are intellectual property (IP) rights such as copyright, patents, and trademarks, confidentiality obligations, and contract rights. Each IP right has its own rules, and applying those rules to data leads to a complex, multi-layered analysis where the law can be unsettled and uncertain.

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

APRIL 10, 2021

When developing Android, Google had copied the text and format of function calls from Oracle’s Java SE Application Programming Interface (API). LEXIS 1864 (2021), the Supreme Court held that Google’s copying was permissible fair use. Software and IP. In Google LLC v. 18-956, 2021 U.S.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

But if you have not taken that route for one reason or another and you encounter highly similar products on the market, there are other ways to protect your products through IP. Unfair competition may protect your fashion items against copying in two scenarios. Last but not least, fashion items might be protected by copyright.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 20, 2023

copyright laws in a suit accusing it of copying more than a hundred Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and Mansion Global articles without paying for them. A New York federal judge has ruled that a Chinese real estate listing website's use of Amazon's web servers is enough to force it to face claims that it broke U.S.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Securing the right IP protection for an NFT will be key to its successful commercialization and exploitation by the creator and its owner. In this blog post we examine how copyright is leveraged to protect NFTs, both in the US and China, with a comparative approach that elucidates both the challenges and potential solutions.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

In Brooktree, the court stated that “If the copied portion [of the mask work] is qualitatively important, the finder of fact may properly find substantial similarity under copyright law and the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act,” even if other portions of the chip were not copied. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.,

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

Pina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, the IP Intensive Program, and the IP Innovation Clinic, the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the IPilogue, the Deputy Editor of the Intellectual Property Journal, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Is GitHub’s New Feature a Copyright Infringer?

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Registration of a mask work with the Copyright Office provides certain legal benefits, including the ability to bring a lawsuit for infringement of the mask work. government. Id, section 2407.2(C).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Photo by Udo Pohlmann via Pixabay Over the last decades, European lawyers got used to the – at times remarkable and even forceful – interventions of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in copyright law. Copyright as Protected Possessions Article 1 of Protocol 1 protects “the right to peaceful enjoyment of possession”.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 26, 2024

A leaked copy of Expendables 3 triggered legal action against downloaders and pirate sites , and then came the arrests and prison sentences ( 1 , 2 ) for those who obtained and leaked the movie. Since geolocation by IP is not always accurate, the usual caveats apply. The larger the dots, the more defendants located in that region.

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IPilogue

JUNE 13, 2022

Nikita Munjal is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow and a third-year JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Pina D’Agostino’s Directed Reading: IP Innovation Program course. Artists in the digital space have always been vulnerable to the unauthorized distribution, copying, and sale of their work. What Can Be Done?

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 26, 2021

Calling it a “ball of confusion,” the Ninth Circuit recently considered a case involving the music of the Turtles, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, and whether royalties are owed under California copyright law for music dating prior to 1972. In a lawsuit that was originally filed in 2013 titled, Flo & Eddie, Inc.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2024

The libraries use this concept of CDL justify the mass digitalization of copyright works digital versions of their legally obtained items and lending them to patrons in a controlled manner. This rule covers lending digital copies of copyrighted works, while works in the public domain can be freely digitized.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 28, 2022

In a recently filed suit involving the popular videogame Fortnite, the Central District of California faces an important question regarding copyright law: does a copyright in a registered choreographic work extend protection to a smaller portion of the work when that portion is copied by a third party and implemented as a dance move in a video game?

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SpicyIP

JUNE 19, 2022

The IP Reveries series is an experimental ‘fun’ series set in an imaginary classroom where we are using a dialogue format to raise questions and discussions around IP that traditionally don’t find a place to get voiced either due to long standing assumptions, or due to being seen as ‘too trivial’ to discuss in more formal settings.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Furthermore, they allege that Reelz has copied many elements from Live PD including the show’s format, the show’s hosts and the same catchphrase to name a few. 2: HC Directs Telegram to Disclose Details of Channels Violating Copyright Law. The lawsuit was filed by songwriters L.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2024

In doing so, it calls into question a fundamental assumption of many traditional intellectual property (IP) frameworks as copyright laws only protect works created by humans and not AI. AI additionally possesses no copyright on the material that it generates.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 25, 2024

“Is offshoring the training of AI a credible and efficient response to minimize copyright compliance risks or is offshoring merely a theoretical argument designed to both influence lawmakers and for government relations purposes?” Artificial Intelligence (AI) is global, and copyright laws are national.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 20, 2022

Since the underlying asset in NFTs is primarily art, disputes in relation to NFTs bring up interesting questions pertaining to copyright law, the answers to which have the potential to shape the evolution and growth of NFTs as a medium to create, distribute and collect art. The reproduction right. The distribution right.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

Unlike BitTorrent transfers, the IP addresses of people who watch centrally hosted streams are not publicly available, so can’t be easily tracked. This is also what James Gibson , Professor of Law at Richmond University, hinted at. No Lasting Copy. That’s not impossible, but far from straightforward.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 26, 2021

Calling it a “ball of confusion,” the Ninth Circuit recently considered a case involving the music of the Turtles, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, and whether royalties are owed under California copyright law for music dating prior to 1972. In a lawsuit that was originally filed in 2013 titled, Flo & Eddie, Inc.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 24, 2023

A robust and substantive IP portfolio does not only protect inventions but, also demonstrates the strength of the innovative business models of companies. Digital locks can be used by FinTech businesses to offer an extra layer of security to copies of their works. Author : Dabiru Bhagyashree, a 4 th year IP Hons.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 31, 2023

District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the rapper and singer, Future. A Virigina-based rapper, Gutta, accused the rap star of copying his song “When U Think About It” when Future released “When I Think About It” on a 2018 mixtape. copyright law.

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