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Whitney Houston’s Never-Before-Heard Demo is Now Available as NFT

JD Supra Law

This December, the estate of Whitney Houston plans to sell a demo recorded by then 17-year-old Whitney Houston, minted as a NFT on the OneOf sales platform. The-never-before-heard-track will be unveiled on December 1st during Miami Art week (held from November 29 to December 5, 2021). By: Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti, LLP

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3 Count: Breaking Up

Plagiarism Today

3: Rare Lou Reed Demos Released by RCA in Copyright-Extending Move, and Then Quickly Withdrawn. Finally today, Jem Aswad at Variety reports that RCA/Sony Music briefly released a 17-track album of demos from Lou Reed before removing it days later in a bid to extend the copyright on the various tracks.

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Scarlett Johansson 'Shocked, Angered' By ChatGPT AI Voice

IP Law 360

Scarlett Johansson revealed in a statement Monday that she declined OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's offer to voice the current ChatGPT, but said she was "shocked, angered and in disbelief" when she recently heard a demo of the generative artificial intelligence system's voice that "sounded so eerily similar" to her own.

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Patent Poetry: Trade Show Demo Bars Patent

JD Supra Law

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a grant of summary judgment that the asserted claims of a patent are barred because the device sought to be patented was demonstrated at a trade show. Minerva Surgical, Inc. Hologic, Inc., 2021-2246 (Fed.

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Singer Tells Justices Jurors Should Hear His 'Rockstar' Song

IP Law 360

Supreme Court that at least one appeals court judge seemingly decided for herself that his 2001 demo sounded nothing like the Nickelback hit record "Rockstar," something he thinks a jury should decide instead. The frontman of a band called Snowblind is telling the U.S.

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IP.com Launches IQ Ideas+ 3.0: Revolutionizing Ideation with AI-Powered Innovation to Maximize ROI in R&D

IP.com

Contact sales for a demo, trial, and pricing. To see IQ Ideas+ with Compass AI in action, reach out to the IP.com sales team at sales@ip.com or schedule a demo at ip.com/iqideas/ All of this can be done in minutes, exponentially increasing ideation efficiency and time to market. Welcome to IP.com®,

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Trade Show Demo Sinks Gynecological Patent At Fed. Circ.

IP Law 360

The Federal Circuit ruled Wednesday that a Delaware federal judge had it right when he ruled a patent cited in a long-brewing legal fight over competing devices for treating heavy menstrual bleeding should never have been issued in the first place, since the device was already demonstrated at the gynecological industry's "Super Bowl."

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