Dear Rich IP Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Despite the publication date, I can't tell if this book is in the US public domain. It appears to have been only published in the UK, and I've seen evidence the copyright was renewed in the 30's. I have a recent UK copy of the book, and it has no copyright notice.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Thus, here, given that the plaintiff has Copyright Registrations, the burden shifts to Defendants to come forward with “evidence that the work[s] [were] copied from the public domain.” As a result, Defendants contend that Plaintiff’s Second Holy Temple Product can be copied and used in derivative works.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Copyright Act of 1976 became Public Law number 94-553 on October 19, 1976 and went into effect (as scheduled) as Title 17 of the United States Code on January 1, 1978. The new Copyright Act was the fourth general revision of copyright law since the original Act of 1790.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 22, 2022

For our patent law course today, the students read the Justice O’Connor unanimous opinion in Bonito Boats, Inc. Bonito Boats centers on a Florida statute prohibiting copying of unpatented boat hulls via direct molding. The Florida courts had refused to enforce the law because it conflicted with Federal Patent Law.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

January 1, 2024, brought numerous hangovers along with an unprecedented amount of media attention to intellectual property law. Freed from the shackles of copyright, Walt Disney’s iconic rodent was now in the public domain and, therefore, available for everyone to copy. But not so fast.

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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. For instance, CrypToadz is a prominent CC0 NFT project wherein the artwork related to the NFT is in the public domain.

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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. Copyright law protects just the expression, not the idea itself.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

The new lawsuit raises a host of complicated legal issues that, while exciting for copyright nerds like me, are often a nightmare to litigate. Key among them is the extent to which pre-1978 works first published abroad without proper copyright notice are still protected under U.S. copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 24, 2022

The guide is an amazingly thorough overview of copyright, written in a way to be understood by lay people and it includes nearly all of the important information one needs to know in just 10 pages and 4,000 words. Copyright Office, which is part of the federal government, the work itself is in the public domain.

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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. We know, however, that many laws limit free access and use of information goods, most prominently copyright law (and IP law generally). Guy Rub , The Ohio State University Michael E.

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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2022

But for IP types, perhaps their most notable accomplishment was the revenge that they took upon the copyright system. And, while the copyright laws were used to try to keep the film from public view, ultimately it failed, to the continuing benefit of cinematic creation. Enter the copyright laws.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

All this raises a simple question: Did the series copy St Onge’s work? Onge and others who spotted the similarities, someone who worked on the series closely copied or even traced St. And despite copying my video, the episode still contains several errors, like saying the Orlando version has 2 ride systems while showing 4.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. — Of course, no state law claim is exactly the same as a copyright claim.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 13, 2023

Shortly after his “I Have a Dream” speech was delivered in August 1963, King moved for a preliminary injunction preventing record companies from selling copies of the speech. CBS brought a summary judgment motion to establish that the speech was in the public domain. Under current law, it’ll be protected until 2058.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

. — For the claims related to illegal selling of scraped data, the court dismissed those because they were preempted by copyright. I did a deep dive on this topic in December , but the general gist of it is that copyright law preempts state law claims if the state-law claims come within the general scope of copyright.

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IP Tech Blog

MAY 18, 2023

Because the jury is charged with determining whether the defendant copied original elements of the copyrighted work, Judge Gilstrap held an evidentiary “copyrightability” hearing to “filter” out the non-original, non-copyrightable elements of the plaintiff SAS’s software.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2023

For the last few months, I have been wondering if our belief in “fair dealing” (or broadly, “limitations and exceptions”) has silently slipped into our “faith” in it – a faith that demands complete surrender to it while blinding us to the harm it covertly causes to the public domain. Otherwise, such a claim does not arise.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2023

Because the jury is charged with determining whether the defendant copied original elements of the copyrighted work, Judge Gilstrap held an evidentiary “copyrightability” hearing to “filter” out the non-original, non-copyrightable elements of the plaintiff SAS’s software.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A newly introduced article on “Obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models” includes two distinct requirements related to copyright. More interestingly, the provision explicitly links the use of copyrighted works for training AI models to the text and data mining (TDM) exception in Article 4 of the CDSM Directive. .”

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

RIGHTS PROTECTED : Under this law Copyright law protects the copyright of authors, musicians, etc. Copyright is essentially a right to copy. Copyright is a term describing rights given to creators for their literary and artistic works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 14, 2023

In a policy paper , copyright and art-law experts led by the author clarified the general copyright law principles applicable to stakeholders dealing with digital cultural heritage worldwide and formulated recommendations, addressed to policy-makers, to facilitate their digital activities. Proposal 1. Proposal 7.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Fair use is a defense that is typically not used to dismiss copyright infringement claims before they’re properly argued. copyright law. ” The direct and vicarious copyright infringement claims rest on this suspicion, and the same is true for the DMCA violations.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This contribution is based on a paper published in 44 European Intellectual Property Law Review 595 (2022). . Photographs are included in Article 2(1) of the Berne Convention as copyrightable artistic works. All Berne Union Member States must thus provide copyright protection to photographic works.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Benefits for Registration of Copyright in India Legal Protection: The registered copyright owners have the right to take legal action against anyone who infringes the copyrighted work. In India, the general term of copyright protection is the lifetime of the author plus 60 years after their death.

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2021

The registration acts as a prima facie proof of the date on which such rights came into being, and the infringement proceedings, as provided for in the respective copyright act of some specific jurisdiction, can be deployed for seeking enforcement of such rights. Therefore, it is always an option to copyright the entire blog.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The primary goal of copyright law is to safeguard the interests of creators of original, publishable works. The purpose of copyright protection is to make sure that the artist reaps the rewards of creating their original work and that no one else benefits unfairly from it. Picture Credit: gettyimage]. What Constitutes Art.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

A person authorises the use of the space for the transmission, sale, distribution, or display of an unauthorised work unless they know or have good reason to suspect that doing so will result in a copyright violation. The Purpose of copyright. How to prevent copyright infringement. Public domain resources as a starting point.

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Patently-O

APRIL 6, 2023

In that case, the Court found that Google’s use of Java API naming conventions in its Android operating system was fair use under copyright law. Because its fair use decision decided the case, the court did not rule separately on whether the API was even copyrightable in the first place. Oracle America, Inc. ,

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 20, 2023

Introduction Any literally or artistic work that is original and creative i.e.; not copied from anywhere by the owner is protected under Copyright Act, 1957. Making AI as a separate legal entity may prompt to copyright infringement to those who provide the said data or information in public domain.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Discussing the history of the term of copyright and translation rights in Independent India by sifting through the Parliamentary Debates, we are pleased to bring you this three part post by Prachi Mathur. Hons) student at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2022

“Primarily, I feel this is a lack of executive understanding of this problem, mixed with a combination of lack of training and proper playbooks for the editorial specialists looking at copyright strikes to understand that open source licenses are valid licenses to copyright content. Give feedback.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The defendants moved for summary judgment on the grounds that the elements claimed to be similar between You Raise Me Up and Soknudor were not actually “sufficiently similar” to support a finding of copyright infringement. There was no dispute among the parties that plaintiff did hold a valid copyright in Soknodur (except as to the lyrics).

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

MAY 8, 2020

Myers , based its decision on this doctrine, which limits copyright protection for works created by officials who are empowered to speak with the force of law. After several cease-and-desist demands, the Commission filed suit against PRO for infringing its copyright in the annotations. Manchester , and Callaghan v.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Goldsmith SCOTUS Decision Welcome to the ever-evolving world of intellectual property law, where creativity intersects with legal rights, and the boundaries of art and originality are constantly being defined and redefined. Role of Licensing Agreements: This case underscores the importance of licensing agreements in copyright law.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 12, 2022

Saregama India Ltd & Anr deliberated upon the intersection of copyright infringement and confidentiality law and held that ideas cannot be copyrighted but can be protected through the application of confidentiality law. Merely showing certain elements were copied does not pass the threshold for copyright infringement.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

Frankly, if Barlow & Bear’s work doesn’t infringe Netflix’s exclusive right to create derivative works under copyright law, I’m not sure what would. Unlike trademark law, copyright is not a “use it or lose it” proposition. Even better, it’s in the public domain.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Chefs across the world spend a good amount of time to come up with new food recipes but even though how much fascinated was their recipe, their efforts often go in vain as there are no specific laws to give protection to their food recipes, in absence of which other people can easily copy their recipes without committing any illegal act.

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