TorrentFreak

MAY 28, 2023

A few years ago, the RIAA started targeting YouTube ripping sites by sending relatively rare takedown requests to Google. Instead of the usual DMCA copyright notices, the music group asked the search engine to remove various URLs for alleged violations of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. The delisting requests are supposed to make it harder for people to find ‘YouTube MP3 download’ sites in search results.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 28, 2023

On April 3, 2023, the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) issued much needed guidance on how digital goods and services – namely non-fungible tokens (NFTs), virtual goods, and services provided in the metaverse – should be classified for trademark purposes.

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SpicyIP

MAY 28, 2023

[ This Weekly Review has been co-authored with SpicyIP intern Shikhar Chauhan. Shikhar is a second-year law student at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. He shares a keen interest in developments concerning IP Law.] Here are the quick summaries of the 3 posts, 4 case summaries, and other IP developments that took place last week. Important IP cases that we’re missing out on?

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The IPKat

MAY 28, 2023

Copyright infringement cases often involve works of art, literature, or design. This recent French decision gives us an opportunity to look at a rarer case, that of copyright infringement in a typeface. A very Kat font Background The facts deserve some attention. In 1994, Mr X, a pioneer in digital typography, created a family of typefaces called "Le Monde Journal" for French newspaper Le Monde.

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Barry Sookman

MAY 28, 2023

I was delighted to have had the opportunity to discuss the challenges and legal issues associated with generative AI at the 2023 World Technology Law Conference in Toronto. I gave the keynote speech which was followed by presentations showing various uses of generative AI by Kritika Bharadwaj (Day Pitney LLP, United States), Matt Hervey (Gowling WLG, United Kingdom), Ideshini Naidoo (Thomson Reuters, Canada), and Stephen Henderson (Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, Canada).

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Likelihood of Confusion

MAY 28, 2023

Lee Gesmer reported last month on a pretty important decision in copyright law: A First Circuit ruling applying the Visual Rights Act, which–well, Lee says it very well himself, actually: The post Moral rights in Massachusetts appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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