Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

When people find out that I am an Intellectual Property attorney, I am often battered with questions about the topic. Unfortunately, Intellectual Property law has gotten so complicated that many people aren’t even sure which type of Intellectual Property (copyright, trademarks, or patents) protects their creative work.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Since FinTech is a dynamic concept and originated from the intellectual labour of its creator, the chief question running in the minds of stakeholders is “How to protect their work from copying”? To solve this problem, various countries have inducted its shielding in their national Intellectual Property Rights [“IPR”] policies.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

A common issue among digital influencers is whether the content they generate is protected by intellectual property rights. Types of Intellectual Property Rights applicable to Digital Influencers. Why should digital influencers defend their intellectual property rights? Yes, the answer is yes!

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

It is a common practice to make copies of deteriorating or far away cultural heritage. As of 2022, it is not even a new idea to use digital methods to copy heritage, considering that the mass digitisation of cultural heritage, especially books, started more than two decades ago. Photo by awsloley via Pixabay.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 30, 2023

District Court for the Southern District Court of New York granted summary judgment in favor of book publishers and against Internet Archive (“IA”) in a copyright infringement action involving ebooks brought by the four leading book publishers in the United States, Hachette Book Group, Inc.,

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More Than Your Mark

AUGUST 27, 2021

While every business recognizes the need to protect its intellectual property, it’s easy to get confused about what each type of intellectual property protects. Only the copyright owner has the right to make copies, distribute copies, perform, display, or make derivative works of the copyrighted work.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2022

This clearly didn’t go down well with the Genshin XYZ team who responded with a DMCA takedown notice claiming that the cracker was infringing on their intellectual property rights. “The original software is a DLL which we publish inside a DLL loader programmed by us in C# with VMProtection.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

When people find out that I am an Intellectual Property (IP) attorney, I am often battered with questions about the topic. The result is that Intellectual Property is often left unprotected or undefended. Fortunately, you don’t need to grasp all the complexities of Intellectual Property law to protect your creative work.

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Garrigues Blog

JULY 27, 2021

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published its World Intellectual Property Indicators Report 2020 , which contains valuable information on changes in intellectual property indicators and trends worldwide, from 2018 to 2019, as we discussed in this post. Trademarks.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Understanding Mask Work. Inspection of a Registered Mask Work. government.

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The IPKat

MARCH 22, 2023

The book - titled Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law. Twenty Years of The IPKat - will be published in May by Oxford University Press (OUP). The goods news of the day is that there is now a 30% discount code available to use for those interested in purchasing their own copy (or copies!)

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This Kat continues her review of the “ Handbook of Intellectual Property Research ” (ed. published recently in open access (review of Parts I and II, here ). In Confucianism, imitation is viewed as a ‘noble art’ and is encouraged, which, the author says, may be reason behind a high number of copying and counterfeits in Asia.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It is time to vote for your favourite intellectual property law books of 2023 in the annual IPKat Book of the Year Awards! The IPKat team continues to read and review as many brilliant IP books as possible, of which there are many, for the Kat community. Rules of Voting Only ONE vote per person.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

by the musician and, according to a copyright notice and a published cease and desist letter, it was used without permission. Next up today, Jordan Pearson at Motherboard reports that the government of Belarus has temporarily legalized the piracy of intellectual property from “unfriendly” nations.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Understanding Mask Work Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. government. Id, section 2407.2(C).

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IP Spotlight

DECEMBER 13, 2021

intellectual property registration system, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) plans to stop issuing patent and trademark certificates in hard copy format. The USPTO’s trademark regulations do not require the USPTO to mail trademark registrations in hard copy form. As part of its plan to modernize the U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

First off today, Alison Flood at The Guardian reports that, in the United Kingdom, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has announced that they are pausing any changes to their copyright laws after authors expressed concern the change could drastically hurt their income. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2022

When movies are recorded directly from cinema screens, the resulting pirate copy is known as a ‘cam’, regardless of the device used – camcorder or otherwise. Our report published late November provides more detail and last week an FDA/FCPA newsletter dated December 20 ( pdf ) confirmed events as reported.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

For example, according to statistics released by China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), an average time to prosecute patent applications filed under PPH, from initial filing to receiving a final decision (e.g., allowance or abandonment), is approximately 11.9 European Union.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Although, with media platforms gaining popularity and accessibility with every passing days,content makers are getting vulnerable to violation involving Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). There is a need to understand that the content published is available to anyone and everyone with internet and can be copied and used.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Citing data recently published by the European Intellectual Property Office, which found that piracy in the EU grew by 3.3 % in 2022, the CSD president said piracy remains a problem for sports groups like LaLiga and for governments around Europe. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 18, 2023

Ever since its launch in 2009, rightsholders have complained that file-hosting platform 1fichier.com fails to take intellectual property rights seriously. The Court found that Dstorage could be held liable for failing to remove illegal copies of Nintendo games hosted on 1fichier, based on notifications sent by rightsholders.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 31, 2023

There is plenty of issues surrounding exhaustion of intellectual property rights, which are also the subject of numerous decisions [ IPKat here , here or here ]. If the purchaser has bought patented biological copies and sees these copies multiply, does he use them or manufacture new copies?

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 4, 2024

According to a just-published DMCA notice, Nintendo’s main target was the Switch-Emulators-Guide repo and, by extension, over 120 forks. Specifically, the reported repositories provide to users unauthorized copies of cryptographic keys (prod.keys) extracted from the Nintendo Switch firmware,” Nintendo writes.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This time, a group of music publishing companies, including Concord Music Group, Inc., This time, a group of music publishing companies, including Concord Music Group, Inc., The Lawsuit Another week, another lawsuit against generative AI. ABCKO Music, Inc., ABCKO Music, Inc., See Concord Music Group, Inc. Anthropic PBC , M.D.

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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.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Readers are reminded that they can vote for their favourite intellectual property law books of 2023 in the annual IPKat Book of the Year Awards! Votes must be made via email before 15th January 2024 as per the instructions below. You can check out the previous nominees and winners here. Rules of Voting Only ONE vote per person.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

This was the key question before South Africa's apex court, the Constitutional Court in Villa Crop Protection (Pty) Ltd v Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH decided in December 2022. Do common law doctrines such as the doctrine of (un)clean hands apply in the consideration of a patentee's claim for patent infringement in South Africa?

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Michael Geist

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

While studies have found the opposite is true with the company’s algorithms more likely to amplify right wing voices, the suggestion that governments or political parties should base their support for legislation on the perceived political leanings of Internet platforms or publishers is incredibly dangerous. Yet it never has.

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The IPKat

MAY 30, 2024

Underwood Chair in Law and Director of Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program at Vanderbilt University. Forever analyzes the transfer of copies of people’s minds into synthetic bodies that exist eternally while delving into legal and philosophical issues. Order directly from the publisher Anthem Press here.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Background Mr Safarov is the author of a book that was published in 2009. The following year, a youth NGO published an electronic version of that book on its website without the author’s permission. The copy was subsequently removed from the NGO’s website at Safarov’s request. Let’s see more in detail what happened.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

“Girl you are not going to enjoy your time here,” read a particularly prophetic comment on Danielle Bernstein’s very first Tik Tok video, published in late February. However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Introduction Intellectual property rights (IPR) in e-commerce are a vital component of e-commerce. Regardless, intellectual property and e-commerce are inseparably linked. Intellectual property regulations and technology security methods are used to provide protection.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 11, 2023

here and here ) have questioned the lack of transparency, intellectual property rights concerns, and the lack of information about the amount of taxpayer money that has gone into these arrangements. Since then, the Indian public has raised several questions regarding the details of these arrangements. Many articles (e.g.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 9, 2023

Next up today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Meta has failed to get a lawsuit against them dismissed as a sculptor who sued the company over allegations that that counterfeiters have copied and reposted her photos in Facebook ads. The lawsuit was filed by JL Cook, a sculptor that specializes in snakes and other reptiles.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Through the Internet Protocol, the growing idea of intellectual property has successfully adapted the law over time to the online community. There are issues with protecting intellectual property rights as our lives become more and more dependent on the Internet. It is the right to copy, as the name implies.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“As alleged, the defendants profited illegally off work they stole, often uploading works within mere hours of publication, and in the process victimized authors, publishers and booksellers,” U.S. As such, the site impacted the revenues of authors and publishers of millions of books. Attorney Breon Peace comments.

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