TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2024

Our small request for 2024 was not unreasonable: stop sending us bogus copyright notices. South American news site Hollogram TV informs TF that their copyright complaint problems relate to just two URLs, but the consequences for them could be much more severe. domain, but the repo was reported for infringement nonetheless.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In parallel, websites that sell pirated copies of TIR’s copyrighted videos compete in the same market by targeting TIR’s customers. The adult company later states that while its complaint covers 65 videos “made, paid for, produced and owned by TIR,” just four have been registered with the US Copyright Office.

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Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Whether you are looking to make your own non fungible token to sell or you’re looking to buy an NFT as an investment, you need to be aware of copyright and trademark laws that might apply to your NFT. There are four main types of intellectual property rights; patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

This article summarizes the top developments reported on our blog and in patents, trademarks, and copyright law in 2021. Keep Calm and Fandom On: Copyright in Cosplay, Fanfiction and Fanart by Sabrina Macklai & Emily Chow. Ad-hear to the Law: My Top Ten IP-Related Podcast Episodes by Claire Wortsman.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JANUARY 4, 2024

The remaining issues in the case, you may recall, were copyright infringement and Arizona unfair competition. Here is the status per this morning’s minute entry in the court’s electronic case. The post Designer Skin v. S&L Vitamins trial update appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 18, 2023

Allowing an average consumer to judge infringement could result in the monopolization of prior art or non-novel aspects of a design. Image Sources : Shutterstock] The differentiation between principles of design infringement and trademark infringement is logical. The implications of this are uncertain.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

On November 7, 2018, Pest Control, Banksy’s authentication body, filed an EU trademark claim on behalf of the artist for Laugh Now. Typically, artists protect their artwork using only copyright law. However, artists are required to reveal their identity when claiming copyright infringement.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Copyright Creeping into Costumes. In general, any clothing, including costumes, is not protected by copyright laws. In Canada, under section 64(2) of the Copyright Act , it is not an infringement of copyright to reproduce the design of a “useful article”, so long as more than 50 copies are made.

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IPilogue

JULY 22, 2021

On June 8 th , the Federal Court of Australia ruled that AGL Energy, Australia’s largest electricity generator, failed to establish its trademark and copyright infringement claim against Greenpeace , an international environmental activist organization. In trademark law, a trademark owner can invoke s.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A thorough awareness of intellectual property laws is crucial, regardless of your career goals—be they that of a fashion designer, singer, filmmaker, or just someone curious about the legal side of entertainment. Copyright and trademark are the most important IP rights in this industry.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Unfortunately, copyright and trademark law do not provide particular protection for these characters, who, more often than not, exceed their original works to become well-known of their own. Several tests were created to see if a certain character might be copyrighted.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Weintraub Tobin’s Intellectual Property podcast, The Briefing , published nearly 50 episodes this year covering a variety of IP issues relating to trademark, copyright, and entertainment law. Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Protection Of Publicity Right As A Well-Known Trademark Although, publicity rights do not have any statutory protection per se in the Indian Law, but publicity rights in some form are protected by The Trade Marks Act, 1999 and The Copyright Act, 1957. A performer, in relation to a performance in which he appears or engages.

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43(B)log

JUNE 24, 2022

Does the ornamentality doctrine have doctrinal purchase elsewhere in trademark law? Easy to look at specimen in registration context, but harder to do in infringement. Silbey: Copyright infringement is a very different test from multifactor TM infringement, and therefore may require a different fair use test in response.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 27, 2021

The article endorses an intellectual property approach to understand the right and its infringement. This is achieved by understanding the parallels between publicity right and trademark law. Throughout the article, the author derives insights from US case laws which have had a considerable influence on Indian courts.

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Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Intellectual property should be registered with the USPTO or Copyright office to receive maximum protection. Linking your copyrighted work to a NFT and recording ownership on the blockchain shows provenance or immutable ownership. Like all other copyrighted works, the issue of “Fair Use” also arises in the Eeb3 and NFT space.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 28, 2024

1] The Copyright Act protects certain types of works, which are included in Section 13. 13 (1) states that original literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works as well as cinematograph films and sound recordings are protected by copyright. regarding the copyright for the film “De Dhakka.”

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws.

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Internet Defamation & Copyright Infringement on the Internet. You do all your original artwork, and so all of the different graphics and photographs displaying the different ceiling fans that you have on your website are copyright-owned by you and your company.

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BYU Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Copyright Office, along with several others, on March 29, 2017. March 31, 2023, in response to Oppenheimer’s Complaint, the Institute refuted all the plaintiff’s allegations and countered with accusations of trademark violation and unfair competition, citing infringement of the Lanham Act and state laws.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. Thus clarifying that copyright in the screenplay exists independently of the copyright in the film. HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt. the licensee.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Union Of India Image from here The Delhi High Court recently questioned the Controller’s office regarding mechanisms for the governance of patent and trademark agents. Lokesh dives into this issue and argues that there already exists such a mechanism under Patent and Trademark law albeit mostly unused.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 31, 2023

The main assets of any fashion firm that are virtual designs, may need to be protected as trade dress under trademark law. For undisputed ownership of virtual designs, Intellectual Property (IP) laws must be thoroughly handled with. However, in order to file a lawsuit of infringement, copyright registration is required.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 19, 2023

A basic understanding of Intellectual Property (IP) law is essential to managing an Amazon storefront, as IP issues can be a minefield for the uninformed. The purpose of a trademark is to prevent consumer confusion about the source of the corresponding product. Registering copyrights with the U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2023

While the court in Titan Industries did not require proof of falsity, confusion or deception, the Gautam Gambhir court emphasized the need for evidence to establish confusion and disrepute, potentially due to the case being analyzed under trademark law. Interestingly, the court in Gautam Gambhir v. . &

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

The full story behind Netflix’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Barlow & Bear, and why it’s actually a win for the fan fiction community. When it comes to copyright cases, Netflix has seen stranger things. First, as far as copyright cases go, this one’s easy.

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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). The trademark laws used to regulate cryptocurrency-related marks are in their nascent stage. Interestingly enough, copyrights play a pivotal role in the NFT market.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

BHC Clarifies that Organisations not Registered as Copyright Societies Can also Issue Licenses In landmark development, BHC has clarifed that organizations such as Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) and Novex Communications can grant licenses for the musical works owned by them. media coverage! The Sweet Sound of Victory? Marico Ltd. &

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

If you’ve been glued to news coverage of the Ed Sheeran trial for the past two weeks, you may have missed an even bigger story from the world of music copyright. From a copyright perspective, these particular tracks are clearly derivative of both the original sound recordings and the underlying musical compositions.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 11, 2022

One such avenue to safeguard such rights is through the way of Copyright and Trademark. Indian legislation does not provide exclusive statutory protection under the head of Personality Rights, but separate aid can be entreated under Copyright Act, Trademark Act, Fundamental Rights, and through various judicial pronouncements.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

But, as the DHC also noted, Sumeet Machines involved an honest concurrent claim in a copyright infringement claim and not in a trademark infringement claim, which the Court denied. Rather, it can be invoked as an active defense against an infringement suit. However, much has changed after that.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 27, 2023

Steeplechase has a copyright for the book, “Piano Book for Adult Beginners: Teach Yourself How to Play Famous Piano Songs, Read Music, Theory & Technique” and registered trademark rights in STEEPLECHASE ARTS & PRODUCTIONS for, among other things, music instruction books, including for the Piano Book.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The first and the foremost question which crosses our minds is that does the digital assets in the virtual reality fall under the category of “Goods” under trademark law, and who should be held liable for infringement when the infringer is unknown. Copyright Infringement. Patent Infringement.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so we have a fair sprinkling of cases dealing with copyright, patents, trademarks, competition law etc. Both suits were filed before the 2012 amendment to the Copyright Act. The Indian Performing Right Society Limited (IPRS) v.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

More specifically, is Copyright a Hindrance for Open Access in India? (I In another development, Publishers united to Fight Copyright Infringement on ResearchGate , although it was settled out of court. As Swaraj said, it’s Time to More Seriously Question the Spectre of Copyright in the Realm of Education.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Chapter 5, authored by Giancarlo Frosio, considers the interrelation between IP law and extra-contractual liability. This topic has become increasingly relevant in recent years, especially with the development of online copyright and trade mark infringement (which has brought online intermediaries into the spotlight).

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 23, 2023

Police Commissionerate, Jaipur issues Circular on Section 52(1)(za) of Copyright Act Wedding bells can now ring without copyright worry in Jaipur, as police circular clarifies empty copyright threats at weddings won’t be accepted! Other Posts COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Infringement? Welcome Clarification?:

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