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Publishers Secure Widespread Support in Landmark Copyright Battle With Internet Archive

TorrentFreak

“That would catastrophically harm the digital markets on which the music industry, the movie and television industry, the news industry, and similar industries depend to profitably create and distribute their works—and would thereby undermine the incentive for the creation of new works that copyright law exists to protect.”

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Roll for Initiative! How Wizards of the Coast’s trademark dispute is helping to keep the nasties out of tabletop gaming

IPilogue

After a test copy of New Genesis was leaked online, WOTC took issue with development company TSR LLC’s use of their IP rights in the game. This is an interesting example of how intellectual property law can be utilized to smother the proliferation of harmful views.

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

2021 Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture The 2021 edition of the Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture will be held on 3 November 2021 at 7:15pm (CET) and this year it will be delivered by Professor Barton Beebe (NYU). Further details about the event, schedule and registration can be found here. More details about the event can be found here.

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IP and NFTs: Where are We?

LexBlog IP

February 2022: Nike sues online retailer StockX for trademark infringement based on StockX’s sale of NFTs for limited edition Nike sneakers that include images of the sneaker. District Court for the Central District of California. The case is in the discovery phase. Nike, Inc. StockX LLC , Case No. 1:22-cv-00983, U.S.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 3 of 4: Related rights and exceptions and limitations

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This personal intellectual creation is lacking if the photographs in question are “mere reproductions of other photographs” in which an original has been merely reproduced (copied) as closely as possible. If a copy of a computer program is published in the territory of the EU/EEA with the consent of the rightholder, Section 69 No.

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3D Shape Trademark on Cars

Kashishipr

In simple terms, the shape must be highly recognizable, noticeably distinct from other products in the market, and offer a clear indication of the origin of the product. Ferrari’s 250 GTO was a limited edition car produced exclusively between 1962 and 1964. ’ Shape Trademark Protection for Morgan Cars.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 2 of 4: Exploitation rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The BGH ruled that the exclusive right of distribution of the author also included the right to offer the original or copies of the work to the public to purchase and to advertise to the public, in a targeted manner, the purchase of either the original or copies of the work. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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