Sat.Sep 09, 2023

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AI and copyright: More developments – human prompts are not ‘direct instructions’

SpicyIP

Image from here. Théâtre D’opéra Spatial. On September 5, 2023, as explained here , the US Copyright Office (USCO) issued an interesting decision in a copyright registration matter that involved AI-generated work. Previously, in the Thaler case , the US Copyright Office had refused to register an AI-generated work since the application named the AI-system as the author.

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WordPress Rejects 86% of All DMCA Takedown Notices

TorrentFreak

Automattic , the company behind the popular blogging platform WordPress, receives thousands of takedown requests from copyright holders. For several years the volume of notices continued to increase , with a peak in 2018, after which the trend slowly went in the other direction. This week, the company published its latest WordPress.com transparency report , revealing that it processed 2,412 takedown notices during the first six months of the year.

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The odd inversion of the trademark “rights in gross” conundrum (Best of 2016)

Likelihood of Confusion

First posted on August 18, 2016. Is reselling domain names a violation of the UDRP? At his blog, Gerald “Mr. UDRP” Levine lays out the question, and then answers it. The post The odd inversion of the trademark “rights in gross” conundrum (Best of 2016) appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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New California Non-Compete Law Furthers the State’s Employee Mobility Protections and Seeks to Void Out of State Employee Non-Compete Agreements

Trading Secrets

On September 1, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation that furthers the state’s protections for employee mobility and seeks to void out of state employee non-compete agreements. Specifically, the new law provides that any contract that is void under California law is unenforceable regardless of where and when the employee signed the contract.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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New California Non-Compete Law Furthers the State’s Employee Mobility Protections and Seeks to Void Out of State Employee Non-Compete Agreements

LexBlog IP

On September 1, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation that furthers the state’s protections for employee mobility and seeks to void out of state employee non-compete agreements. Specifically, the new law provides that any contract that is void under California law is unenforceable regardless of where and when the employee signed the contract.

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New California Non-Compete Law Furthers the State’s Employee Mobility Protections and Seeks to Void Out of State Employee Non-Compete Agreements

Trading Secrets

On September 1, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation that furthers the state’s protections for employee mobility and seeks to void out of state employee non-compete agreements. Specifically, the new law provides that any contract that is void under California law is unenforceable regardless of where and when the employee signed the contract.

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