Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 28, 2023

Recently, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard the bill for informational purposes. In an attempt to address this concern, Minnesota offers some protection by maintaining the confidentiality of information subject to attorney-client privilege. The bill is currently pending approval by both chambers.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2022

Despite a reported development and marketing budget in excess of $100m, Genshin Impact is free to play but is monetized via gacha game mechanics. Mid-December a new release appeared on the forum titled ‘Genshin XYZ’, a piece of software that works with open-world action role-playing game Genshin Impact.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

The court found that this was transformative (creating the searchable database) and did not adversely impact the market for books. In fact, the court noted that this likely helps the market by making it easier for people to find relevant books. And the image may impact the market for images. Each case will be fact dependent.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 8, 2022

But, for those who are yet to pick up a copy, here is what is in store: The EU legislature adopted Directive 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) in 2019. It was against this background that the proposal for a Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market was made in 2016.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2022

Given that the production of today’s videogames requires the involvement of a large number of people, preventing all information leaks is an impossible task. As the takedown notice shows, Riot Games demanded not only the removal of the video, but also any additional copies that may be uploaded in the future.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

million ($3 million) acquiring a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune. With previous ones selling for around €25,000 ($28,000), their copy cost more than 100 times the going rate. Many copies of the book are already easy to access just through a simple search. Last year, the group spent €2.66

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Earlier today, video game critic and prominent YouTuber James Stephanie Sterling posted a video calling out a marketing firm working for Activision Blizzard in the run-up to the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. . A journalist who does this is not a journalist, but another marketer for the company, and they aren’t disclosing it.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 15, 2021

The Polish Ministry of Culture has announced draft changes to the Polish copyright law on the collection and division of the private copying levy (also known as the blank media tax or levy). In Part I of this set of posts, I describe draft changes to the Polish copyright law on the collection and division of the private copying levy.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 11, 2024

In Cyprus, Texas , Valcrum, LLC (“Valcrum”), a company specializing in trailer and axle market products, is engaged in a legal dispute with Dexter Axle Company, LLC (“Dexter”) from Indiana over trademark and trade dress infringement regarding a hubcap design.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

s advertisement for hats, copying Sarony’s Oscar Wilde No. The post How A Century-Old Insight of Photography Can Inform Legal Questions of AI-Generated Artwork (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Ehrich Bros.’s 2023, Generative AI Works Found Ineligible for Copyright Under the U.S.

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azrights

JUNE 7, 2022

It frustrates me that people turn to me when they’re copied, assuming this is the kind of work I’m engaged in doing, when they’ve never consulted me before about their IP. There was no real marketing or business guidance. It’s suitable for brand creators, whether founders, graphic designers, marketers, or IP or corporate lawyers.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Shi then left Elation to start a business marketing “similar, if not identical software” using replicated source code. A settlement agreement was reached where Elation could inspect the software developed by Shi and prevent the use of any trade secrets or confidential information.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The idea was to take market share away from piracy sites, by offering a legal and more convenient streaming platform. In recent years piracy started to grow again , including in well-served markets such as the United States. ” (Un)authorized Copying? Initially, this seemed to work.

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43(B)log

JUNE 30, 2023

Informal rules became law; he was thinking that Lex Mercatoria was a metaphor for Lex Informatica, where similarly we need to think about new tools. Collect information, organize it, disseminate it. Chair: João Quintais Samuelson: Joel Reidenberg’s Lex Informatica is a foundational text worth revisiting. Goldman: does.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Success is dependent on collaboration, networking, and sharing information. R&D Literature review is an essential step in the research process; it provides context, informs methodology, maximizes innovation, and helps to avoid duplicative research.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Winston & Strawn , 23-cv-11193 (S.D.N.Y. Cannon , 789 N.W.2d

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The court found, as a matter of law, that Ross copied portions of the Westlaw headnotes. With regard to the headnotes, the court observed that if a headnote merely copies a judicial opinion, it is uncopyrightable. Now, the purpose of the use must be distinct enough from the purpose of the original to justify copying.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 21, 2022

The similarities included both scenes and ideas that were rewritten, as well as lengthy passages of text that were copied either verbatim or near-verbatim. Hughes, for his part, apologized for the copying. He claimed that it didn’t matter if he copied, it mattered if he did something new and meaningful with it.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

He assembled various collages of the images and sent copies by postal mail to Doe and “his ex-wife, his adult child, several of his neighbors, and his place of business.” Spencer appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Spencer, the husband, came into possession of these materials via unspecified means.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It is that functionality, and not the copying, to which Apple truly objects. Opening software to information gathering and vulnerability testing is transformative, just as gathering information about and criticizing other types of works are classic transformative fair uses. But fair use protects precisely this kind of analysis.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 4, 2022

” Indeed, the court says “the Deposit Copy reads like a manual, instructing a user how to generate digital messages—and convert those digital messages to analog signals—that Pyrotechnics’s control panel and field module can send and understand.” Pyrotechnics wants to control the market for every component of its system.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Publishers Share IPFS Concerns This week, IPFS was repeatedly mentioned by the Association of American Publishers ( AAP ) in its overview of the most notorious piracy markets submitted to the U.S. Many of the sites AAP flagged as “notorious markets” are still available on the open web, distributed through regular web browsers.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Other announcements carry too little information to warrant an article. By recording the latest movies directly from the silver screen using concealed devices, ‘cammers’ fuel the illicit piracy market that thrives during the first few days of a film’s initial release. Movies Were Shared on TorrentGalaxy.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union ( DG TAXUD ) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) recently released the first joint annual report on EU enforcement of intellectual property rights: results at the EU border and in the EU internal market 2020.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One of TAMB’s subsidiaries employed defendant Roup for six years as a trainer and Roup signed an NDA covering “nonpublic business and operation information, training materials and manuals, and transcribed methods. including those comprising the TA Method’s proprietary choreography movements.” [Not

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 1, 2023

From research to medical communications to legal to marketing, sharing content with colleagues across job roles and departments is critical. s Information Seeking and Consumption Study, commissioned by CCC, is that executives share the most content and have the highest likelihood of copyright infringement. Is awareness enough?

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

“On information and belief, Microsoft and OpenAI are currently or will imminently commence making additional copies of the Publishers’ Works to train and/or fine-tune the next generation GPT-5 LLM,” the complaint adds. — A copy of the complaint, filed by the newspapers at the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Entertainment Software Association ( ESA ) has submitted its latest overview of “Notorious Markets” to the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR). These submissions serve as input for the USTR’s yearly overview of piracy ‘markets’ which helps to shape the Government’s global copyright enforcement agenda going forward.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 2, 2022

In the meantime, unofficial ‘scanlation’ groups stepped in to meet demand with their scanned and translated copies, leaving official suppliers to play catch-up and pirate sites to reap the benefits. Applicants Seek Information From Tech & Payment Companies. They did provide leads, however.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

Back in January, the crypto group Spice DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) made headlines for spending approximately $3 million to acquire a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune , a bible for a planned Dune move that would have been made in the 1970s. . The payment beyond excessive.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2023

“Because these publishers have such concentrated market power […], authors that want to reach wide audiences rarely have the negotiating power to retain sufficient control from publishers to independently authorize public access like that at issue here,” the Alliance adds. Thus, CDL should be upheld under fair use.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In all cases, whether on physical cartridges or supplied as digital downloads, Switch games contain security measures designed to prevent copying or being run on unauthorized devices. Nintendo says 100% of the copies available were necessarily pirated copies and every user who obtained a copy did so without paying for the game.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The student changed their login information, and the “expert” did not end up taking any exams or completing any homework for them. Note: The original post has been deleted and, though it appears to be a throwaway account and several of the person’s comments remain, I will not be naming them or sharing personal information.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

“On information and belief, Microsoft and OpenAI are currently or will imminently commence making additional copies of the Publishers’ Works to train and/or fine-tune the next generation GPT-5 LLM,” the complaint adds. — A copy of the complaint, filed by the newspapers at the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Responding to a request from the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), the music group highlighted several of these sites in its annual overview of ‘notorious’ piracy markets. Unauthorized Copies and Derivatives. While Songmastr’s service is a bit more advanced, the RIAA sees it as clearly infringing.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Even die-hard copyright geeks would be forgiven for overlooking a lawsuit first filed over three years ago by information services company Thomson Reuters against AI start-up Ross Intelligence. These copies, Ross claims, are fair use. “But Your Honor, how am I supposed to get home? That issue will be decided by a jury.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company demanded damages under copyright law claiming that the team “willfully and maliciously” copied, adapted and distributed its source code and other content without permission. This leads to the question of whether the alleged conduct of the defendants affected the market for those games and if so, in what way.

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