Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

Nineties grunge-rock band Nirvana, already embroiled in a long-running legal battle against fashion company Marc Jacobs over its “happy face” t-shirt designs , now finds itself on the less happy end of a new copyright infringement lawsuit worthy of Dante’s trip through the underworld. copyright law. Nirvana LLC.

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Intepat

APRIL 18, 2022

You can file a lawsuit against the infringer if someone uses your original work. If the creator did not file for copyright, he has to submit collective evidence that he is the original owner. Hence, copyright registration will signify the work is inaccessible to competitors. Inaccessible to competitors. Proof of validity.

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Intepat

OCTOBER 6, 2024

A patent can be granted when the invention meets certain criteria: Novelty: it must be new and not available in the public domain. and in a way that it must be new and not available in the public domain. Industrial Applicability : there has to be a practical application to the invention.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

After he was released from jail, he got copyright registrations for the photos and sued (pro se) the media entities for copyright infringement, 1202 violations, and more. Shah argued that the copyrights transferred to him “by operation of law” when the friend/bystander handed back the camera.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. ” Nevertheless, the successor licensee sent DMCA takedown notices to Amazon targeting the registrant’s stripped-down sticker.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In a nutshell, generative AI raises two main copyright issues that branch off into further sub-problems which in turn intercept (if not collide with) some fundamental rights, especially freedom of artistic expression, freedom of art and science and the right to science and culture (Arts. 11 and 13 EUCFR , 19 UDHR , 27.1 UDHR, and 15.1

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

AGA did not accept the sales of the cookers changed by the UKIG since they were no longer counted as the original AGA Cookers which led to the infringement of AGA`s trade mark rights. Furthermore, AGA also discussed a possible copyright infringement in its design. On the copyright side, AGA was granted permission to appeal.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 8, 2021

Wall-Street.com , clarifying that – for the purposes of bringing infringement actions before a court – copyright registration of a work is not “complete” until the registration certificate for it comes back from the Copyright Office (to the person or entity who sent in the registration). Public Domain work.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

From the above description of NFTs, it may be hard to imagine any copyright related issues as these tokens are metadata files that have been encoded using a piece of work that may or may not be subject to copyright protection. Although in principle, a NFT of a trademark or any work in public domain can be created.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

From the above description of NFTs, it may be hard to imagine any copyright related issues as these tokens are metadata files that have been encoded using a piece of work that may or may not be subject to copyright protection. Although in principle, a NFT of a trademark or any work in public domain can be created.

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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

AI-Generated Art: Where Artistry Meets Algorithms Before diving into the intricacies of copyright registration /ownership, let’s set the stage by understanding the birth of AI-generated art.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

But, if the author writes a book where one of those kids is named Harry and has a scar on his head from the villain that tried to kill him as a baby, that author will probably receive a copyright infringement letter in the near future. . How do I get a Copyright? How To Win Big In a Copyright Infringement Case.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Another troubling ruling for an Internet access provider trying to shake a contributory copyright claim based on user-caused copyright infringement. 11, 2023): Time and again we have declared that “prevailing defendants in copyright cases are presumptively entitled (and strongly so) to recover attorney fees.”

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

But, if the author writes a book where one of those kids is named Harry and has a scar on his head from the villain that tried to kill him as a baby, that author will probably receive a copyright infringement letter in the near future. . How do I get a Copyright? How To Win Big In a Copyright Infringement Case.

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Patently-O

APRIL 6, 2023

The district court held a copyrightability hearing and followed a burden shifting procedure created by the 11th Circuit in Compulife Software Inc. In particular, the court first assumed that the work was copyrightable based upon the registration documents. SAS sued in E.D.Tex for copyright infringement.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Restellini alleged copyright infringement and related claims in connection with WPI’s digitization of certain material about the artist Amodeo Modigliani. WPI counterclaimed against Restellini and third-party Institut Restellini SAS – Documentation Centre alleging copyright infringement and false advertising.

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IP Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2023

When a human author uses generative AI tools to create their work, the scope of copyright protection extends to the human-authored aspects of the work, not the AI-generated material within that work. This evidentiary challenge will be central to any case concerning the scope of copyright protection for works containing AI-generated content.

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Art Law Journal

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Find out how copyright law applies to content created through generative AI. Are you using AI like Dall-e or ChatGPT to create content?

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Cables” was passed on the ground that registration in favor of the mark lies in favour of Mukul Singhal who had established its claim of prior use via documentary evidence. 20 Lakh to Louis Vuitton in a Trademark infringement suit against Club Factory. Comedian Vir Das, Netflix booked for copyright infringement.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

Other posts IP Financing in India – Part I: Perfection of Security and (Non) Registration of Copyright Despite the increasing importance of intellectual property in the modern economy, there is a surprising lack of attention given to IP financing in India. MSM Discovery Pvt.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Hulm asserted ownership of copyright on the app on the basis of a copyright registration of a literary concept note detailing the working of its app, arguing that the app is an adaptation of the literary concept note. However, the current case discusses the protection of GUIs under the Copyright Act. Modak case.,

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 8, 2024

Other Posts Scandal and Obscene Trademarks: Determining Immoral Trademarks in Indian Law Obscene/ scandalous marks are prohibited from registration, but are they? Discussing the historical foundation of refusing registration to such marks Prof. Similipal kai chutney (red ant chutney) from Odisha gets a GI registration.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Vidya Drolia case laid down certain conditions for non-arbitrability of disputes and stated that grant and issue of patents and registration of trademarks were exclusive sovereign or government functions, thus making them non-arbitrable. Durga Trading Corporation was clarified in this case. Hero Electric Vehicles Private Ltd v.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The court found the claims of direct, contributory, and vicarious copyright infringement time-barred because plaintiffs didn’t submit evidence of continuing infringement by the moving defendants within 3 years of the filing of the complaint. The similarities in setting, theme, etc. Trademark etc.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

However, the UK and Spain Patents and Trademark office granted trademark protection to the ‘Bitcoin’ mark and its logo (Registration number: M4046141). A smart contract may be used to transfer the copyrights that subsist on a digital artifact to the buyer. However, this can be prevented with stringent IP laws in place.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 17, 2023

Krbl Limited was alleged infringement and passing off of the plaintiff’s trademark registrations for marks that include the word ‘Royal’, by the defendant’s mark ‘Zabreen Royal’ (‘Impugned Mark’). Responding in the affirmative, the Calcutta High Court has swung the interpretative pendulum back in favor of GUIs being registrable.

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43(B)log

JUNE 24, 2022

But there is an assumption that registration = minimal distinctiveness unless validity is questioned. If courts won’t invalidate marks (or can’t in the case of incontestable registrations) then doing on the defense side at least preserves something. Ramsey: BB is interesting because they used a public domain image on the shirt.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Fourth, if not, can Trump circumvent the registration requirement by seeking a declaratory judgment, or will he have to comply with the registration requirement? Fifth, assuming Trump owns a valid copyright, did he grant an implied license to Woodward to publish transcripts of the interviews and/or the record­ings themselves?

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