The IPKat

MAY 28, 2023

Copyright infringement cases often involve works of art, literature, or design. This recent French decision gives us an opportunity to look at a rarer case, that of copyright infringement in a typeface. Le Monde Journal font In 2008, Mr X collaborated with Mr Y. A very Kat font Background The facts deserve some attention.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? The lawsuits brought by the owners of such works, including artworks in the case of image-generators and journalism in the NYT case, claim that this should not be allowed. copyright law.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Fast-paced organizations that rely on and invest heavily in R&D should not only regard published content as the heart of innovation, but also possess a deep appreciation of the system of copyright protecting this intellectual property. How Do Different Departments Use the Annual Copyright License?

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 14, 2023

Your employees and copyright awareness – sharing your policy may not be enough. shows that companies are discussing their copyright policies more frequently, leading to 74% of employees reporting awareness of those policies. Do Your Employees Understand Your Company’s Copyright Policies?

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Art Law Journal

MARCH 4, 2021

Fashion designers face a unique set of challenges in protecting their intellectual property, but new court decisions are providing further guidance for fashion designers and legal practitioners. The post How to Protect Your Fashion Designs appeared first on Art Business Journal.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The members of the European Copyright Society (ECS ) have recently sent a letter to Mr. Thierry Breton ( Commissioner for Internal Market , European Commission ) outlining their view of what should be the priorities for a f uture agenda in the field of copyright law. The letter is available here and its contents are reproduced below.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 13, 2022

1: Krafton Sues Garena, Apple, and Google over Free Fire Copyright Infringement. First off today, Aaron Orr at Pocket Gamer reports that the developer of the battle royale game PUBG has filed a lawsuit against competitor Garena after alleging that Garena’s mobile game Free Fire is a copyright infringement of PUBG.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 22, 2021

Recent decisions suggest courts are losing patience with those who bring dubious copyright infringement claims as part of their business models. Back in May, I wrote about an overzealous copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Rachel Dolezal , the woman best known for mispresenting her racial background.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the third trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this edition, we update you on what has happened between July and September 2023 in EU copyright law. In this case, the video game publishers are the copyright holders for the video games in the entire EU and EEA.

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Art Law Journal

APRIL 22, 2021

Users can create customizable products featuring their own photos or other graphic designs. Unfortunately, there is very little stopping some of these users from creating products with stolen copyrighted designs and other art, with the copyright holder […].

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Art Law Journal

MARCH 25, 2021

You’re considering a lot of different things when thinking about inking a new tattoo, but copyright infringement probably isn’t one of them. The post Who Owns the Copyright in Your Tattoo Art? appeared first on Art Business Journal. appeared first on Art Business Journal.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 31, 2021

The focus of the case is copyrightability of the SAS statistical software and its outputs. SAS argues that it made a “plethora of creative choices” in developing its material, and that creativity is more than sufficient to satisfy the originality requirements of copyright law. Patents should be the go-to in this area.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

A version of this paper is scheduled to be published in the Intellectual Property Journal. Is there such a thing as “inducing” copyright infringement? So is the Court’s view, that inducing copyright or IP infringement is indeed a Thing, sound? Thanks to Ronald M. Lieberman, Christopher G. I suggest not.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Not very long ago, the Indian Designs Office notified the Designs (Amendment) Rules, 2021 and now the Copyright Office (hereinafter referred to as ‘CRO’) too has notified the Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2021. The Copyright Rules, 2013 was last amended in the year 2016 subsequent to which, it was done recently.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Ubertazzi was one of the leading intellectual property academics in Italy (as well as a great lawyer), founder and editor of the most important Italian copyright journal (AIDA) and editor and author of the most widely used Commentary on Italian intellectual property laws. Ubertazzi were first given by Prof. In fact, one of Prof.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Voices emerged questioning whether current EU copyright laws should be amended in light of the many AI-generated works that have come about. One important question has been whether copyright law should be extended in order to protect such works. In this upcoming paper, this author takes a different approach to this hot topic.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We encourage a broad range of perspectives, and topics can be from within the various categories of intellectual property law including patents, trademarks, industrial design and copyright. There are three categories for entrants this year: Law student category (LL.B, BCL, and LL.L students) Graduate student category (LL.M,

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 28, 2022

This required Roblox designers to pay $1 (or 100 Robux) to include the sound effect in their creations. In a response to the legal demand, Syinix said that they do not think that there was any copyright infringement, but were interested in discussing the terms for obtaining such a license.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The registered owner of a design is granted unrestricted rights to their registered Designs in India. The right to cancel a design registration is one of these rights. The Act and Rules relating to the Design Law of India clearly detail the cancellation procedure. PROCEDURE.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The new endowment will support the MIT Press’s innovative efforts to publish open access books and journals. We’re always thinking ahead to new sustainable open publishing models for books and journals.” The post Arcadia Endowment Supports MIT Press Open Access “Experiments” appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 25, 2021

1: Nirvana Beats T-Shirt Copyright Lawsuit Involving Dante’s ‘Inferno’ First off today, Bill Donahue at Billboard reports that members of the band Nirvana have emerged victorious in a battle over their iconic Dante’s Inferno shirt, even if it is likely not the final word on the case.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

But copyright law faces daunting challenges when copyrighted material not only inspires a creative process, but becomes the very object of it. The copyright exception for pastiche has received little attention in this regard. Pastiche in EU copyright law: All dressed up but nowhere to go? According to Art. In 2019, Art.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The following is a preview of a paper to be published in the Intellectual Property Journal. . Something has recently gone awry with the law of copyright ownership in a movie or other film — a “cinematographic work”, as s. 2 of the Copyright Act RSC 1985, c. Part I of the Act deals with the ownership of copyright in works.

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The IPKat

MARCH 24, 2024

Launch of the Journal of AI Law and Regulation (AIRe) The Journal of AI Law and Regulation is on. As the designated domain name for the island, ".ai" Forthcoming events On 2 May 2024 University College London (UCL) will host a Seminar on Collective Licensing and a Workshop on Copyright Solutions jointly organized with EODOPEN.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 22, 2023

Image by Kerttu from Pixabay This contribution was posted first on 17 January 2023 on The Digital Constitutionalist under the title: Safeguarding the Constitutional Role of Media as Fourth Estate of Democracy: Copyright as a Regulatory Framework for Freedom of Expression and Access to Information Online.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Image by Pexels from Pixabay Introduction: Brazilian Copyright Framework and the existing L&Es Brazil has signed most Intellectual Property (IP) law Treaties, but notably it has not adhered to the WIPO Copyright or the WIPO Phonogram and Performance Treaties. 9.610/98 ), which is complemented by the software protection legislation.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Photo: shutterstock.com Book launch: Copyright and the CJEU UCL’s Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (‘IBIL’) will host the launch of the new edition of PermaKat Eleonora Rosati’s book ‘ Copyright and Court of Justice of the European Union ’ published by Oxford University Press. The launch will be chaired by The Rt.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. German copyright law stipulates that the author is entitled to appropriate remuneration for every use of their work (Section 32 UrhG). These provisions served as, among other things, models for Articles 18 and 20 in the new DSM Copyright Directive (2019/790).

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

MARCH 17, 2021

Most people are familiar with patents and trademarks as the most common forms of intellectual property, however, copyrights and their importance as part of your overall portfolio of intellectual property assets are sometimes neglected. What rights does a copyright holder have? What rights does a copyright holder have?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lawsuit seeks a declaratory judgment that Trump owns the copyright in the sound recordings (or in the alternative, in his interview responses on the recordings), and that Trump is entitled to all or the lion’s share of the profits made from the sale of those recordings and transcripts, which the lawsuit (absurdly) values at almost $50 million.

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The TTABlog

APRIL 6, 2023

Refusal to register PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS for poster, t-shirts, political information services, political fundraising services, and on-line journals featuring politics, on the ground that the proposed mark fails to function as a trademark.] s Text Copyright John L. In re Cameron Sexton for State Representative , Serial No. Greenbaum).

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I have spoken positively about the government’s tax-focused programs and would back mechanisms that bring even greater support, perhaps through the establishment of contribution to funds that in turn support journalism. For example, the definition of “news content” contains no standards or link to professional journalism.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 15, 2022

In December 2020, the Board designated as precedential Sotera Wireless, Inc. Following its designation of Sotera as precedential, the Board has continued to look favorably upon stipulations of equally restrictive scope. Masimo Corporation. PDF copy available. Prior Art Stipulations, a Petitioner’s Tool for Addressing Fintiv Denials.

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

With no tools available that focus strictly on OA business models, agreement modeling is either done manually or developed in tools not designed for this specific task. Under the subscription model, a publisher might have 100 journals that a university pays $2 million per year to subscribe to.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 17, 2022

When copyright holders discuss online piracy, they often highlight the associated losses. The Internet is rife with examples of top designers who started with a piece of pirated software, mastered their skills, and went on to become a professional. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

In fact, although most battery patents relate to technical features of a battery, a recent lawsuit related to design patents addresses a specific visual battery pack housing. The Wall Street Journal , Feb. battery management systems that control the recharging of batteries based on the state of charge, temperature, etc.),

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