Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 29, 2022

My name is Enrico Schaefer , and I am a Tech Law and BlockChain Attorney. One of the big problems with the NFT marketplace, where NFTs are both sold and purchased, is that the platform doesn’t provide any licensing language for the digital asset that the owner attaches to the NFT. What are you licensing?

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The team at Blender Studio drive Blender development by providing help and training courses to Blender users in an open environment, sharing everything in public and making all content available under free licenses. In this case, at least, a Creative Commons license appears to have carried no weight. No Rights to Post Video on YouTube.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Recording a license agreement concerning an EU trade mark is not mandatory but has several benefits (see the EUIPO’s trade mark Guidelines ): The license has effects vis-à-vis third parties ( Art. Background Brandavid Oy (‘Brandavid’) owned three EU trade marks, which it licensed exclusively to Oy Shaman Spirits Ltd.

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Patently-O

MAY 15, 2024

as a major turning point in American patent and antitrust law. Although Dick/Edison had patented the machine, they were an early adopter of the subscription model and wanted to also be the exclusive seller of copying supplies. by Dennis Crouch I see the US Supreme Court’s 1912 decision in Henry v. Dick’s favor.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A cannabis licensing firm copied a photographer's picture of the Empire State Building to push sales without permission, committing copyright infringement, according to a lawsuit from the photographer in New York federal court.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 18, 2024

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. For example, Patent Law aims to prevent copying or imitating patented goods by anyone other than the patentee.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The case involves ShutterStock, a photo licensing service. (We ShutterStock has a “contributor” program that allows anyone to upload photos into their licensing database in exchange for a fee if licensed. Only 2 visitors saw the subject image in ShutterStock’s database and neither licensed it.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 12, 2021

Before his stint with Vidhi, Rahul has worked as a law clerk for Justice D. Ensuring Access to TB drugs: Is Compulsory License the Way? This is especially worrying since it is common knowledge that Indian patent law contains robust flexibilities to promote patient interest. Y Chandrachud (2020-21) and is a Rhodes Scholar (2018).

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

He did allege sadness, distress, and “profound grief” from Natorp’s copying of images of a particular landscape job, but the Lanham Act doesn’t cover psychological, emotional harm. The same analysis applied to claims under Ohio’s statutory and common law of unfair competition.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2021

WPL) is a British company that decided to build a clone of SAS’s popular analytics software and, as several courts have found, broke the law to do it. Founded in 1976, it employs thousands of people in the United States and thousands more around the world. World Programming, Ltd.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Boston Suburban allegedly continued to use the “Logan Car Service” mark in online keyword advertising and in metatags, and continued to copy customer reviews from Boston Carriage’s website and publish them on online review platforms. This included a state-law dilution claim, since state law required only distinctiveness.

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 17, 2021

Copyright Licensing of Digital Assets Attached to NFT Sales. Bonus: Free Open Source Copyright License for NFT sales below]. How do you know if what you’re doing is lawful? NFT Copyright Licensing. We want to talk today about what is sold, bought, and licensed in an NFT sale. Let’s talk about it.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 23, 2023

On May 18, the Supreme Court addressed the issue of “fair use” in copyright law, specifically in relation to the petitioner Andy Warhol Foundation’s (AWF) commercial licensing of a Warhol print entitled “Orange Prince” based on respondent Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph of the artist Prince Rogers Nelson, better known simply as “Prince.”.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

this Kat was delighted to review Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship by Dr Luke McDonagh (Assistant Professor of Law at LSE Law School). This is the first academic monograph that solely considers the relationship between UK copyright law and historical and contemporary theatre.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2022

Mann, argues that Bungie misuses the law to go after cheaters while cheating itself isn’t unlawful. ” “Bungie apparently hopes to bamboozle this court into proscribing entirely lawful activities. .” ” “Bungie apparently hopes to bamboozle this court into proscribing entirely lawful activities.

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Kashishipr

OCTOBER 27, 2021

There has been a long-standing debate about the different modes of safeguarding an API through the laws on patents, copyright, and trade secrets. Copyright is the most obvious and preferred choice for protecting an API due to the basic reasons that it is permissible within the copyright laws of different nations. Patents and APIs.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

First off today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that the music production company Freeplay music has filed a lawsuit against CNN, alleging that the news organization used their music in news segments without a license. 3: NitroTV Hit with $51m Piracy Damages.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 22, 2021

Under US copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.”. No Private Investigator’s License. According to the filing, Rightscorp doesn’t have a private investigator’s license, even though it acts as one. ISPs Sued Over Repeat Infringers.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 11, 2021

The Java platform is available for free in certain circumstances under an open source license to be used to write and run programs that use the Java programming language, and it can run those programs across different types of hardware without having to rewrite the program for each different type.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Welcome to the fourth (and last) round up of EU copyright law for 2023! In this edition, we update you on what has happened in the last three months of 2024 in EU copyright law. Specifically, the Austrian law were found to violate the country-of-origin principle in Article 3 of the Directive.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2024

Patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house, with technical restrictions that prevent copying. Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can rent a digital copy of a physical book.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Several copyright and licensing stories of interest have captured our attention during recent months. Back in the spring, we reported on the long-running efforts to reform copyright law in Singapore. One of the most high-profile changes in the new law is a copyright exception for text and data mining (TDM). Access Copyright.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 8, 2023

Image Sources : Shutterstock] Protection Under Copyright Act, Licensing & Contractual Issues for the Celebrities A celebrity is a well-known person. Copyright And Licensing Questions India’s film industry produces the most films in the world, with a national and international audiences.

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

APRIL 10, 2021

When developing Android, Google had copied the text and format of function calls from Oracle’s Java SE Application Programming Interface (API). LEXIS 1864 (2021), the Supreme Court held that Google’s copying was permissible fair use. In Google LLC v. 18-956, 2021 U.S. Software and IP.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

In 1984, Vanity Fair sought to license the photograph for an “artist reference” in a story about the musician. Goldsmith agreed to license a one-time use of the photograph with full attribution. AWF licensed the “Orange Prince” to Condé Nast for an article about Prince.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

1: Top EU Court Rejects Polish Complaint Over Copyright Law. However, the ECJ has now rejected that complaint, saying that the law places clear limitations on the uses of such tools and that the law would have significant benefit for creators. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 14, 2022

copyright law. Genius filed the lawsuit in 2019 alleging that Google was unlawfully copying lyrics to songs that they had hosted. According to Genius, they had used watermarking techniques to prove that Google had copied from their database of lyrics. Neither side commented on the decision.

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IPilogue

JULY 12, 2021

Sabrina Macklai is an IPilogue Senior Editor and a 2L JD Candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. . During her 17 years on the highest court in Canada, Justice Abella was instrumental in advancing users’ rights in Canadian copyright law, particularly helping develop Canada’s fair dealing jurisprudence. v Teranet Inc.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2021

According to the lawsuit, Johnston made 15 copies of a master tape of his recording and sent it to various record labels, including Roadrunner. He claims that this granted Nickelback access to the song and that they copied various elements from it, including tempo, song form, melodic structure and more.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

“[I]ts primary funding source is the sale and licensing of publications containing its copyrighted works.” It allegedly sold or gave away unauthorized copies of the I-Codes and Custom Codes to both customers and prospective customers. Accuracy is important in building, but “codes are not static, nor are the laws that rely on them.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Which field of law will govern such digital assets and the NFT technology? In this paper, it is argued that Private-property law must be the field of law governing transactions involving Non-Fungible Tokens. 1] Consequently, Personal Property law has not yet been invoked to govern online transactions.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Govind Kumar Chaturvedi is an IPilogue Writer and an LLM graduate from Osgoode Hall Law School. Take-Two licensed Randy Orton’s likeness from WWE. The Defendants also filed a motion for partial summary judgement on the basis of three defences : 1) de minimus, 2) fair use doctrine and 3) implied license. was released.

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IPilogue

MARCH 2, 2023

Cynthia Zhang is a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Orton’s likeness was licensed through defendant WWE to defendant Take-Two Interactive Software, a video game publisher. This is a far cry from the revenues earned on the WWE 2K games, which have sold hundreds of thousands of copies each. megastar Randy Orton.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

1: Government Pauses Plans to Rewrite UK Copyright Laws After Authors Protest. Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. The IPO has said that it will continue evaluating potential changes to copyright law but did not set a timetable.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 9, 2024

However, many companies are unaware that much of the published scientific literature is protected by copyright law (with the rights typically held by the publisher or the author of the article), which governs how the information can be used and shared. It’s important to know, however, there are many types of open-access licenses.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

First off today, Gene Maddaus at Variety reports that Senator Josh Hawley has introduced a bill that aims to drastically rewrite copyright law in the United States, rolling back the term of copyright to just 28 years with the option for renewal for another 28. According to Sen.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

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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