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Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law: Conflicting or Complementing

IIPRD

Introduction If we take a broader look at the Intellectual Property Laws, the primary objective of the legislation in framing these laws is to provide exclusive rights to the IP right holder as against the entire world. In contrast, the CCI has the authority to decide upon all the happenings in the market.

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Protecting Application Programming Interfaces (API) Through Intellectual Property Laws

Kashishipr

Still, if keeping it as a trade secret is preferred, the entity owning the information can consider licensing its API while explicitly preventing it from reverse engineering or sharing the same with a third party by the inclusion of a separate clause. Accolade case, wherein Accolade had copied Sega’s API code. Conclusion.

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Publishers Secure Widespread Support in Landmark Copyright Battle With Internet Archive

TorrentFreak

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service offered by the Internet Archive (IA) differs from the licensing agreements entered into by other libraries. ” Copyright Experts, Professors, and Lawmakers A second amicus brief is submitted by more than a dozen professors and scholars of copyright and intellectual property law.

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Statutory Licensing in India in the Age of Online Music Streaming: A Comment on Tips vs. Wynk

Kashishipr

With the onset of the trend wherein users are gradually switching to online streaming to meet their music needs and discarding traditional methods such as radio, television, and music CDs, compulsory licensing for the internet was recognized as a key policy issue by the music industry last year. Background. The Plaintiff, Tips Industries Ltd.,

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Stormy Dispute: Copyright Infringement Case in Lafayette, Indiana

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

Rigsby now alleges that All Seasons Roofing, operating under the account “ @All Seasons Roofing and Restoration ” on Facebook, unlawfully copied and displayed his video on their platform without obtaining the necessary permissions or licenses.

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Clarifying Copyright Fair Use in Commercialized and Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from Warhol v. Goldsmith

LexBlog IP

Clarifying Copyright Fair Use in Commercialized and Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from Warhol v. Goldsmith by Jaime Chandra Clarifying Fair Use in Commercialized & Licensed Visual Arts: Insights from the Warhol v. We’re talking about Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc. Let’s dive in!

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Copilot or Co-Conspirator? Is GitHub’s New Feature a Copyright Infringer?

IPilogue

Intellectual property law professor Andres Guadamuz argues that Copilot, as it stands, does not infringe copyright. This is because Copilot would copy small snippets of commonly used code which are unlikely to amount to substantial reproduction or meet the threshold of originality necessary to be protected under copyright.