Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 17, 2021

Copyright Licensing of Digital Assets Attached to NFT Sales. Bonus: Free Open Source Copyright License for NFT sales below]. What are the terms by which you are selling the NFT and licensing your work, the art you put into the platform that’s going to be attached to the NFT? NFT Copyright Licensing.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Marketplace has had a flurry of exciting new enhancements over the past year based on market needs and feedback from both publishers and customers. Marketplace now displays Open Access license details within article/chapter search results for the uses a publisher makes available under a Creative Commons license.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Earlier today, UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) granted conditional marketing authorization to Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics for their CRISPR/Cas9 gene therapy, CASGEVY (exagamglogene autotemcel), marking the world’s first regulatory approval for a CRISPR-based gene-edited therapy.

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Nelligan Law

AUGUST 4, 2023

The legal nuances surrounding trademarks, counterfeiting, collaborations, and the ever-expanding resale market fascinated me as I delved deeper into understanding the mechanisms that governed our beloved hobby. These collaborations generate immense buzz and create exclusive, limited-edition sneakers that sell out rapidly.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Best Patent Law Book The nominations were: EPC.App and PCT.App (Self-editable EPC and PCT reference books) Patent Subject Matter Eligibility: A Global Guide, (eds) Paul W Browning, Christopher C Johns and Sara A Leiman The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA, by Jorge L.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Note: Due to the effects of Hurricane Ida, we missed over a week of regular news, so this is a catch-up edition of the 3 Count. However, the judge in the case granted a motion to dismiss that affirmative defense, specifically because it uses funds from paying customers to pay for its expansion in to new markets, not merely to offset costs.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 25, 2022

It accuses VNG Group of releasing the Zing MP3 app, which features music owned by Lang Van even though VNG, according to the lawsuit, do not have license to use. app store and clearly targeted the United States with its marketing. This is a library that Facebook and Instagram users can use when editing videos for those platforms.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 15, 2022

When Christie’s Auction House first entered the secondary art market of mainland China in 2005, it licensed its brand to a local auction house and received a total of RMB 97,000,000 (roughly $12,100,000) for its inaugural sale. [1] A relaxed regulatory environment helps explain the enormous growth of the Chinese art market.

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The IPKat

MAY 20, 2024

Find out by reviewing the latest edition of our miscellany post. Copyright, licensing, and commercial transactions form an exciting world, and this case confirms it. Always on the move to attend the latest events What's new in terms of events and opportunities in the IP field? Happy week to all our readers! To sign up, click here.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

The rule, entitled copyright exhaustion, places limits on the import of international editions of books. Without this rule, many authors fear the UK market would be flooded with cheaper international copies. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The publishers are not against libraries per se, nor do they object to ebook lending, but ‘authorized’ libraries typically obtain an official license or negotiate specific terms. The Internet Archive has no license. threatens) the traditional ebook lending market.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

3) What is the effect of open source licenses on the AI model that uses only some open source components? (4) There are many AI models that claim to be open source – just as there are multiple forms of open source licenses , from permissive licenses (e.g. MIT License or Apache License ) to less permissive licenses (e.g.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization doesn’t license authorized digital copies from publishers; instead, its books are scanned and digitized in-house. Among other things, IA argued that its lending activity causes no financial harm is substantially different from the ebook licensing market.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

The fact that so few copies exist means that burning it may run afoul of the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) if the editions are signed and numbered. Now they are stuck with a book that they paid far more than market value for and no clear path to recouping that cost. In other nations, moral rights may prohibit that.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We recently came across one such short paper on “ SEP Litigations & Issues in Determining the FRAND License ” published in the September 2023 issue of the Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (see here ) and extended a guest post invitation to its authors to discuss their key arguments. Apple Retail UK Ltd.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

6th Edition of Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials (with Rebecca Tushnet). We posted three chapters from the book: Featuring People in Ads (2022 Edition). Regulation of Political Advertising (2022 Edition). Regulation of Housing Advertising (2022 Edition). Books and Academic Articles.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Vanity Fair magazine had commissioned Warhol’s artwork in 1984 to accompany an article about the singer’s rise to fame based on Goldsmith’s photograph under a one-time-use “artist reference” license between Vanity Fair and Goldsmith’s agent. Hence, the Foundation’s use was non-transformative.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 16, 2022

The consultation sought views on the prospects for facilitating patent and copyright protections for “inventions and creative works which are made by AI”, and for making easier the use of copyright-protected material by AI in innovation and research, through alternative approaches to licensing and text and data mining (TDM) exceptions.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 1, 2023

This means that whatever exceeds the aforementioned limits falls outside the scope of the limitation and a license is needed for the legitimacy of this use. A general carve out – license system Greece chose to give preference to a license-based solution and apply a general carve-out system (see similarly Sweden and Ireland).

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Dragons' Den

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

What is its appeal to the market? In IPO’s free, online, easy to use toolkit there are resources designed to help businesses identify their IP and understand how to protect, manage it and even license it to scale up their product. They spoke about wanting to scale up their business, and one way of achieving this is through licensing.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Here, there was no editing of the “lyrics, vocals, or instrumentals at all.” And it was “plain that widespread, uncompensated use of Grant’s music in promotional videos—political or otherwise—would embolden would­be infringers and undermine Grant's ability to obtain compensation in exchange for licensing his music.” So too here.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

He also stated that he created Intellectual Property for the Defendants’ social media accounts, digital marketing, and other advertising vehicles. He also stated that he created Intellectual Property for the Defendants’ social media accounts, digital marketing, and other advertising vehicles.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Unless these rights are contractually assigned or licensed, it is for the authors, and the institutions that employ them, to determine the conditions under which their works are to be published, reproduced, and otherwise used (including by way of OA) – not for the publishers.

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Today, we will be talking about NFT non-fungible token licensing. There was a recent story that is an instructive lesson in copyright law that has application to the NFT market. THE NFT smart contract does NOT include the licensing terms for the underlying digital asset (i.e. How to Create an NFT License Agreement.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 14, 2022

Koeltl at the District Court for the Southern District of New York, the plaintiffs say that as leading publishers of tens of thousands of books, they already issue licensed ebook editions to libraries. As a result, lending out a whole book is “reasonable in relation to the purpose of the copying.”

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

Real estate brokers generally retain VHT to photograph properties they are attempting to sell and then edit the photos, save them in their electronic database, and deliver them to the client pursuant to a license agreement. VHT licenses the individual photos themselves, not the database, and the database itself is not published.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 31, 2023

The decision was limited to AWF’s commercial licensing of a silkscreen image of Prince, based on Goldsmith’s underlying photograph, to Condé Nast. Goldsmith later granted a limited, “one time” license to Vanity Fair in 1984 for the magazine to use the photograph as an artist reference.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2024

Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning service offered by the Internet Archive (IA) differs from the licensing agreements entered into by other libraries. What it does offer is access to full-text books as a clearly competing substitute for the versions licensed by book publishers,” the legal scholars write.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 22, 2022

Furthermore, Business Casual alleged that although YouTube has automated processes to identify and flag videos containing copyrighted content, TV-Novosti intentionally circumvented these processes by applying certain editing techniques to the content that TV-Novosti allegedly copied. The plaintiff basically said “WTF? The complaint.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

The limitation on the use of Meta’s libraries occurred after the tech behemoth and the Italian copyright collecting society for authors and editors (“Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori”, “SIAE”) came to an impasse during the renewal of the license agreement for the exploitation of the Italian repertoire.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Alternatively, the terms and conditions of the online marketplace where the NFT is marketed may state that the sale of the NFT is complemented by an IP rights assignment in the related digital asset, tethering copyright ownership to NFT ownership (the crypto-native approach) (see, for example the Bored Ape Yacht Club ( BAYC )).

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For life science companies of any size, the detection, assessment, and prevention of adverse effects of their products/devices is not only important for maintaining patient safety, consumer trust, and overall market share, but also essential to ensuring they are in compliance with the requirements of the FDA, EMA and other regulatory bodies.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

However, copyright infringement occurs when such copyrighted music is streamed without acquiring proper license from the copyright owners. Through licensing of the copyrighted work, the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute are transferred to the licensee who pay royalty to the licensor i.e,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Fifth, assuming Trump owns a valid copyright, did he grant an implied license to Woodward to publish transcripts of the interviews and/or the record­ings themselves? The bottom line: even if he gets past the implied license problem, Trump still has to survive several other substantive and procedural hurdles to recovery.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

With the adoption of both the Directive on Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) and the Digital Services Act (DSA), the European Union has moved away from the notice-and-takedown model for copyright enforcement and content moderation. Click here and here to know more. Click here to know more.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Exceptionally, copyright accommodates other forms of licensing that restrict the author’s individual exercise of rights. 4 Retransmission Directive ) and extended collective licensing (with opt-out possibility) for out-of-commerce works (art. 12 DSM Directive). 12 DSM Directive). 17 of the Charter ).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 14, 2022

15 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM), the EU legislator wanted to aid press publishers in licensing and enforcing their rights in press publications. “edicola a campo de’ fiori” by imagina (www.giuseppemoscato.com) is marked with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Introduction. Heated debates followed.

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