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The Risks of Dual Licensing in The Pioneering Landscape of Contemporary Open Source

Traverse Legal Blog

As more and more projects in these fields adopt open-source licensing, the legal complexities tied to these licenses are becoming increasingly relevant, with dual licensing being a case in point. Second, altering the license could alienate a project’s community, leading to forks or abandonment.

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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Velocity of Content

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. This, of course, could be an accident based on true intellectual curiosity, but I do not believe it. 3:22-cv-06823 – Whither transformative?

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The Risks of Dual Licensing in The Pioneering Landscape of Contemporary Open Source

LexBlog IP

As more and more projects in these fields adopt open-source licensing, the legal complexities tied to these licenses are becoming increasingly relevant, with dual licensing being a case in point. Second, altering the license could alienate a project’s community, leading to forks or abandonment.

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Why Netflix’s “Bridgerton” Lawsuit is Good for Fan Fiction

Copyright Lately

And unlike the vast majority of songwriters and performing artists who have relinquished ownership rights to musical publishers and record labels, Barlow & Bear decided to release “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” themselves, which means keeping more of the earnings. In the Supreme Court’s opinion in Petrella v.

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What are the intellectual property rights for startups?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

These rights provide exclusive ownership and control over intangible assets, allowing creators to protect their innovations from unauthorised use, reproduction, or distribution. Firstly, intellectual property rights grant startups exclusive ownership over their innovative ideas and inventions.

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If “Trespass to Chattels” Isn’t Limited to “Chattels,” Anarchy Ensues–Best Carpet Values v. Google

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

As a result, the legal issues rarely are litigated any more. * * *. Underlying this litigation is an epistemological question: what does a “canonical” version of a web page look like? We need to know more about this license. WhenU concluded that trademarks was a dead-end. ” Wait, what? Trespass to Chattels.

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WIPIP Concurrent Session #3: Copyright Doctrine

43(B)log

Much of the litigation thus turns on what it means for a similarity to be probative of copying. In 1963, Disney expressed skepticism about monopoly aspects of extended term and “expressed doubt that Congress would approve a longer ownership period.” Mostly music infringement. Authors’ groups were proponents. 3) “So what?”