TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Six causes of action including copyright infringement, trafficking in circumvention devices contrary to the DMCA, trademark violations, and unfair competition, encouraged three defendants to settle with Bungie. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Public Domain Copyright Infringement Privacy Reporting 108

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 29, 2024

Image via Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt Public Domain Mark 1.0 In this context of international and EU legal obligations to protect cultural rights, the EU has set a legal imperative to protect the public domain.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 19, 2022

The project overview makes it clear that DNS4EU is meant to protect the privacy of end-users and keep them secure. For example, the DSN resolver is not allowed to monetize user data and has to comply with applicable privacy regulations including the GDPR. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 23, 2024

Meta)data are released with a clear and accessible data usage license Ringgold IDs are effectively in the public domain, e.g., in JATS and PubMed data, although are not released under a specific license attached to the data. This enables interactions between systems and use cases across the scholarly research workflow. 

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Public Domain Licensing Privacy Designs 98

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Designed to be freely available licensed or public domain; we occasionally use fair use images where no free image is available, such as when a famous work has been destroyed. Like most large websites that are not in the news every day, we receive very few copyright claims despite our size.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 15, 2023

In case of copyright, the copyright often belongs to one who records the traditional knowledge who may be an outsider to the community, in such cases the community has little power over how they are portrayed. Patent laws fail to protect traditional knowledge as it does not recognise generation innovation.

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Ownership Privacy Public Domain Copyright 79

43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2023

One lesson: Threats to privacy are threats to communities and practices that sustain creativity. public interest opposed in those cases and in Kirtsaeng. It’s easier to identify superior moral claim in race/gender discrimination than in the public domain. The “clean air and water” of culture are at risk.

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Public Domain Contracts IP Privacy 52

SpicyIP

JULY 17, 2023

The court, however, dismissed the application holding that the impugned film was based on information in the public domain and clarified that the publicity and privacy rights are not heritable and died with the late actor. Petersburg. The Commercial Court relied on Ultra Homes v.

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Personality Rights Copyright Patent Copyright Infringement 97

IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. Copyright Law Copy Right is a legal concept that gives creators exclusive rights over their original works and allows them to control the use and distribution of those works.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

Perhaps one of the most salient legal issues is whether there is copyright infringement or a violation of the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (“VARA”) in the virtual modification (e.g., addition of written or pictorial elements) of a work not in the public domain and/or where the creator is still alive.

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Moral Rights Fair Use Art Social Media 52

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

This unauthorized usage may also give rise to breaches of confidence or violations of privacy. While economic interests can be quantified and compensated monetarily, non-economic concerns such as privacy violations, damage to reputation, and mental distress may not be entirely redressed through financial means.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2022

and Copyright in Graffiti and Street Art). Its massive use brings legal consequences for classic IP rights and offers real challenges in particular to trade marks, copyright and related rights and patents. closing dinner), IP Lunches (incl. Diversity and Inclusion Today, Would you like some IP with your Wine?,

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Intellectual Property IP Registration Copyright 117

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. We know, however, that many laws limit free access and use of information goods, most prominently copyright law (and IP law generally). Guy Rub , The Ohio State University Michael E. ML Genius v.

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Blogging Contracts Copyright Law Copyright 90

Patently-O

AUGUST 22, 2022

And, once a patent expires (or is refused or forfeited by public use), the balance allows “free access to copy whatever the federal patent and copyright laws leave in the public domain.” And, in addition the court noted that trade secrets protect a “most fundamental human right, that of privacy.”

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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.” 22-1641 (7th Cir.

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IP Advertising Advertising Copyright 72

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Over the same period, however, the government’s messaging around Canada’s AI- copyright policy has been anything but consistent. It is unclear whether the use of copyrighted works for training an AI system is considered copyright infringement if the…owner’s permission is not obtained.…

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Copyright Government Copyright Law Reporting 70

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance. It also provides a cost-effective way to accelerate such processes.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance. It also provides a cost-effective way to accelerate such processes.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance. It also provides a cost-effective way to accelerate such processes.

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Technology Patent IP Invention 52

The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Even companies that regularly take steps to protect intellectual property through, for example, registering trademarks or registering copyrights, can benefit from a yearly review. An inventor must secure a patent application within a very short period of time to prevent the work from falling into the public domain.

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IP Intellectual Property Social Media Cease and Desist 98

SpicyIP

AUGUST 28, 2022

Given these terms shape our legal thinking and arguments, which in turn, influence the outcomes of court judgment and policies, this post attempts to highlight the extant confusion revolving around the relationship between copyright and user interests. Section 52: A Multi-monikered provision? create works and make them available).

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

Whether similar disclosures will appear in the days and weeks ahead is unknown but thanks to GMP’s ability to accurately retrieve information, at least some facts have entered the public domain. If West Midlands Police or Leicestershire Police receive similar requests, their record retrieval skills shouldn’t disappoint.

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Public Domain Reporting Intellectual Property Publishing 106

The IPKat

MAY 29, 2023

The second edition offers revised, or wholly rewritten chapters to the overlaps discussed in the first edition so as to reflect recent developments, as well as to include new chapters (the overlap between privacy and copyright law; privacy and secrecy; trademarks certification marks and collective marks; and IP and traditional knowledge).

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Intellectual Property Editing Privacy Moral Rights 89

SpicyIP

JULY 13, 2021

The plaintiff censured the defendants for violating privacy, right to publicity, free and fair trial, also invoking the Ashok Kumar jurisdiction of the court. In determining whether the deceased possessed personality rights enforceable by his heirs, the court based its reasoning on the intertwining between privacy and publicity rights.

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Privacy Personality Rights Moral Rights Copyright 105

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. Piyush Subhashbhai Ranipa v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 20, 2022

Whilst certain user safeguards are already embedded in the liability regime ( Part 1 ), the Swedish Ministry of Justice goes the extra mile and proposes to comprehensively address user interests in the text of the Copyright Act. A mandatory right to make non-infringing content available to the public. 1997/98:15, p.

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Copyright Intellectual Property Law Public Domain Copyright Law 56

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

Even companies that regularly take steps to protect intellectual property through, for example, registering trademarks or registering copyrights, can benefit from a yearly review. An inventor must secure a patent application within a very short period of time to prevent the work from falling into the public domain.

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IP Intellectual Property Social Media Cease and Desist 52

43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Plaintiffs also alleged infringement of Monbo’s right of publicity, unjust enrichment, and violations of the Lanham Act and related Maryland trademark law. Monbo’s right of publicity claim was both expressly and impliedly preempted because it focused on use of his image in works covered by plaintiffs’ copyright claim.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 12, 2022

Probably can’t know whether copyright is empirically justified, we can still study copyright empirically and understand how it will be difficult. Skepticism: good for parties, but systemic effect has third party costs to the public—extralegally erodes spaces that law preserves for public use, like facts being in the public domain.

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IP Public Domain Music Copyright 72

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This law protects the rights of publicity and privacy of people like politicians and celebrities who don’t want others to register their name or image as a trademark for goods or services. See the amicus brief discussing free speech limits on the rights of publicity and privacy filed by the Motion Picture Association in Elster.)

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