CopyrightsWorld

MAY 7, 2022

In 2021, NFTs rocked the planet by storm, resulting in a digital creative revolution while also being one of the year’s fastest rising asset classes. Non-fungible token technology has enabled artists to sell digital originals without the use of intermediaries while also receiving royalties on secondary sales of their work. However, this is only the early stages of the capabilities that non-fungible tokens offer to the web 3.0 world.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 7, 2022

In the final season of Breaking Bad, Walt and Skyler White are seen gazing at a huge quantity of banded banknotes representing some of the unlaundered profits of a drug empire. Neither really knew how much was there. Show creator Vince Gilligan later guessed at perhaps $80 or $95 million, give or take. Small change for Elon Musk perhaps but to most other people, it’s an astronomical amount of money.

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IP Law 360

MAY 7, 2022

Contempt of court is an overlooked but potentially effective tool to punish whoever leaked the draft opinion overruling Roe v. Wade and protect the integrity of the U.S. Supreme Court, says Michael Zuckerman at Zuckerman Dispute Resolution.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 7, 2022

Plaintiff and Defendant manufacture microphones (pictured above, plaintiff’s on the left). Plaintiff define its trades dress as: (1) two vertical bars on either side of the microphone with two circular enclosures near the top and bottom, (2) a small portion of the microphone’s mesh protruding above the top circular enclosure, and (3) a threaded adapter with rounded hinges and a tapered bottom containing the microphone’s cord port.

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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?

Technology

IAM Magazine

MAY 7, 2022

Domestic filings outnumbered foreign ones for the first time in 11 years last quarter, in the latest indication that India’s companies are coming to the patent party.

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The Trichordist

MAY 7, 2022

Chris Castle's commentary on the unfrozen mechanicals rate negotiation.

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Publishing Music Copyright 79

Likelihood of Confusion

MAY 7, 2022

How can a statute of limitations for copyright infringement bar a state law claim for an accounting of profits between co-authors brought under diversity jurisdiction? Good question, right? I’ll let. The post Humdinger of a copyright case appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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The IPKat

MAY 7, 2022

This review of Licensing Standard Essential Patents: FRAND and the Internet of Things by Igor Nikolic is brought to you by Brussels-based trainee patent attorney, Henry Yang. Bloomsbury have kindly provided IPKat readers with a 20% discount for this title, please see the code below. Sir Robin Jacob wrote in the foreword: ‘this is such a good book’. Indeed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 7, 2022

In July 2021, Trump sued Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube for terminating/suspending his accounts. At the time, I made a 6-step prediction for how the lawsuits would go: Step 3 in the Twitter case, the transfer from Florida to California, occurred in October 2021. Now, to no one’s surprise, Judge Donato dismissed the Twitter case (Step 4 of my prediction).

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