Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Annual Copyright License (ACL) from CCC helps minimize an organization’s infringement risk by providing a consistent set of global reuse rights across millions of publications from thousands of rightsholders that complements existing publisher agreements, subscriptions, and other content purchases.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This article provides a brief overview of the use of Creative Commons licensing in relation to NFTs based on the Creative Commons’ FAQ page linked above. Creative Commons Licensing. By purchasing an NFT one only purchases an actual digital token that normally contains a link to or a copy of a digital artwork.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

You may not love Asian carp, but you will hopefully love copi (and will give the fish a try at your favorite restaurant, thereby preventing ecological disaster). This recasting was done by a Chicago marketing company, Span Studio , which came up with a new name for the fish—"copi". There may be a lot to this change of name.

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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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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

But IP nerds will specifically remember that eleven years ago, in March 2012, India’s first compulsory license was granted by the Indian Patent Office against Bayer’s Nexavar. One year later, in March 2013 the compulsory license order was upheld by the IPAB in a landmark ruling by the then Chairperson, Justice Prabha Sridevan.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Since the Canadian copyright law reforms in 2012, education and libraries have increased spending on licensing and a non-partisan House of Commons study found no need to create new restriction on education and library copying rights.

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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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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 29, 2022

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. “These platforms are not providing any license language for the actual asset attached to the NFT.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A Case of ‘Smart Copying’: ‘Peace Maker’ Restrained from Imitating ‘Officer’s Choice’ Do you enjoy your whiskey? They further argued that they lack a distribution license for it in Delhi, and neither party has a registered office or conducts their business in Delhi. Would you mix up these two labels: Officers choice and Peace Maker?

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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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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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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 28, 2022

What is a Compulsory License? Compulsory licenses are permissions from the government that allows someone else to use the copyright of the owner without his consent. In this article, we will look at compulsory licensing in Copyright and under what conditions a compulsory license is granted in India.

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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.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 12, 2021

Ensuring Access to TB drugs: Is Compulsory License the Way? As pointed out above, the petitioner in the case suggested that compulsory license is the “only way” to ensure accessibility to the drugs in contention. The Indian Patent Act under Section 84 and 92 permits the issuance of such licenses. Note: Long post ahead].

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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]. What are the terms by which you are selling the NFT and licensing your work, the art you put into the platform that’s going to be attached to the NFT? NFT Copyright Licensing.

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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. And RICO claims failed because they were RICO claims.

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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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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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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 2, 2022

According to the right of first sale, rightsholders have the right to sell a physical copy the first time. However, any owner of a legally obtained copy is free to sell, rent or distribute that copy as they see fit as long as no new copies are made. The post 3 Count: Physical Media? appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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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

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

DECEMBER 18, 2023

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 for a limited period. The Internet Archive has no license.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Kirloskar Press, the Bombay High Court (BHC) began proceedings on what may become the first instance of a literary work being compulsory licensed in India. As such, the petitioner approached the court under Section 32 of the Copyright Act for a compulsory license. Recently, in the matter of Anil G Karkhanis v.

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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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Erik K Pelton

APRIL 22, 2024

Registration creates a tangible asset that can be bought or sold, licensed and assigned value. This is valuable in being taken seriously and not being knocked off and copied. 22 Discourages others from even thinking about infringing or copying your brand. It shows competitors that you’re protected.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 22, 2021

No Private Investigator’s License. According to the filing, Rightscorp doesn’t have a private investigator’s license, even though it acts as one. Tracking alleged pirates without a license violates California and New Jersey law, the Internet provider notes. RCN also adds a new allegation.

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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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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Questions: (1) As I understand it, the publisher would have had to submit 2 copies of the magazine to the Library of Congress to complete the registration process. How can I find out if the publisher actually sent copies of the magazine to the LoC to complete the process? (2) That wasn't uncommon back in the day.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 29, 2022

This means that a majority of published research is hidden behind paywalls and not available to those that don’t or can’t pay for access to it outside of pirated copies. This is largely achieved through the use of Creative Commons licenses. Gratis articles are free to view, but there is no clear license to allow or encourage reuse.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a ruling that a marketer had an implied copyright license to distribute marketing materials containing digital copies of photographs of the late musical artist Prince. Beaulieu v. Stockwell, Case No. 21-3833 (8th Cir. 30, 2022) (Gruender, Benton, Grasz, JJ.).

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

In addition, there are concerns that many stock photography sites provide limited licenses to users and many unwittingly overstep them. A variety of services work to find copied images , and many engage in speculative invoicing and litigation as part of their strategy. Reasons to Calm Down (Some).

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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. Where these are not provided, UpCodes has integrated the local amendments.”

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Several copyright and licensing stories of interest have captured our attention during recent months. The post Copyright and Licensing Around the World: Autumn is a Time of Change appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center. The Supreme Court of Canada issued its decision on July 30 th in the long running case of York University v.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 8, 2022

1: Russia Mulls Making Software Piracy Legal and Patent Licensing Compulsory. However, one of the common uses of it is for researchers to publish copies of papers that they have completed. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Though the Navy had purchased some 38 copies, it ended up installing it on more than 550,000 machines. With 635 unique users and a $35,000 licensing fee, that amount came to the final total of $154,400. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

According to Google, there were at least 50 instances of copying, some of which were “word-for-word”. Copy and Paste Roundup. In 2017, partially based upon that report, the European Union voted to renew the license for glyphosate. At this time, neither the CCI nor the European Commission has released any comment.

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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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