Hugh Stephens Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

Image: Shutterstock.com There is the question of what is ethical, and then there is the question of what is legal. Sometimes they are the same, often not. The legality of using copyrighted content without authorization for commercial purposes, such as in training AI models—as META and a number of other companies have done—is being decided … Continue reading "Is it Ethical to Use Pirated Content for Commercial Purposes?

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 25, 2025

Menu Search for About About the Author Reprint & Permissions Consulting Stop Plagiarism 1. How to Find Plagiarism 2. Contacting a Plagiarist 3. Finding the Host 4. Contacting the Host 5. When All Else Fails 6. The Long Haul Stock Letters Your Copyrights Online 1. What is a Copyright? 2. Limitations of Copyright 3. Copyright Myths Contact Facebook YouTube RSS Mastodon Bluesky Search for The MrBeast AI Thumbnail Controversy Jonathan Bailey June 25, 2025 4 minutes read Earlier this week, Jimmy

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Erik K Pelton

JUNE 27, 2025

A client recently received this scam in the mail just three weeks after submitting their USPTO trademark application. The scam. from PSO (with an address in Bluffton – Hilton Head, SC) is for a worthless “publication” of the trademark with a cost of $1,450. The value of this publication is $0. If you got this letter from PSO, trash it.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 25, 2025

The government’s inclusion of warrantless information demand powers in Bill C-2 has attracted mounting concern, particularly the stunning decision to target everyone who provides services in Canada which creates near limitless targets for warrantless disclosure demands. Department of Justice officials have confirmed that Bill C-2 extends far beyond just telecom companies to services such as financial institutions, car rental companies, and hotels.

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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

JD Supra Law

JUNE 27, 2025

In a recent precedential decision, the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) upheld an opposition by Tequila Cuadra S. de RL de CV (“Tequila Cuadra”) and denied an application filed by Manufacturera de Botas Cuadra, S.A. de C.V. (“Botas Cuadra”) for the mark CUADRA for alcoholic beverages except beer, including tequila in particular.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 26, 2025

Menu Search for About About the Author Reprint & Permissions Consulting Stop Plagiarism 1. How to Find Plagiarism 2. Contacting a Plagiarist 3. Finding the Host 4. Contacting the Host 5. When All Else Fails 6. The Long Haul Stock Letters Your Copyrights Online 1. What is a Copyright? 2. Limitations of Copyright 3. Copyright Myths Contact Facebook YouTube RSS Mastodon Bluesky Search for 3 Count: Wrong Arguments Jonathan Bailey June 26, 2025 2 minutes read Have any suggestions for the 3 Count

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The Illusion of More

JUNE 26, 2025

Headlines flood the feeds announcing that a California District Court sided with AI developer Anthropic, finding that LLM training with unlicensed works is fair use. While the headlines are true, I wouldn’t read the conclusions as gospel just yet. In the big picture, we are going to see a variety of fair use opinions in […] The post Not So Fast: Some Oddities in the Anthropic Fair Use Opinion appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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Fair Use 100

IP Law 360

JUNE 25, 2025

Halfway through 2025, now is a good time for companies to thoroughly evaluate their trade secret portfolios and follow eight steps to reassess protection processes for confidential information, says Robert Jensen at Wolf Greenfield.

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Confidentiality 80

Plagiarism Today

JUNE 25, 2025

Menu Search for About About the Author Reprint & Permissions Consulting Stop Plagiarism 1. How to Find Plagiarism 2. Contacting a Plagiarist 3. Finding the Host 4. Contacting the Host 5. When All Else Fails 6. The Long Haul Stock Letters Your Copyrights Online 1. What is a Copyright? 2. Limitations of Copyright 3. Copyright Myths Contact Facebook YouTube RSS Mastodon Bluesky Search for 3 Count: Rest of the Story Jonathan Bailey June 25, 2025 1 minute read Have any suggestions for the 3 Coun

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 27, 2025

Last week, a coalition of entertainment companies filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, an AI company that builds generative tools using publicly available data. These lawsuits follow similar actions against other leading AI firms. The strategy is clear: ensnare AI startups under an avalanche of litigation before they can challenge entrenched business models.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 26, 2025

Over the past two years, rightsholders of all kinds have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models. Most of these cases allege that AI developers used copyrighted works to train LLMs without first obtaining authorization. Meta is among a long list of companies now being sued for this allegedly-infringing activity, including a class action lawsuit filed by authors Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 25, 2025

Strategic protection of intellectual property (IP) is crucial for driving the growth and sustainability of high-tech startups, enabling them to secure their innovations, maintain a competitive edge, and strengthen their market position.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 23, 2025

Menu Search for About About the Author Reprint & Permissions Consulting Stop Plagiarism 1. How to Find Plagiarism 2. Contacting a Plagiarist 3. Finding the Host 4. Contacting the Host 5. When All Else Fails 6. The Long Haul Stock Letters Your Copyrights Online 1. What is a Copyright? 2. Limitations of Copyright 3. Copyright Myths Contact Facebook YouTube RSS Mastodon Bluesky Search for 3 Count: Finally it’s Over Jonathan Bailey June 23, 2025 2 minutes read Have any suggestions for the

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 24, 2025

Earlier today the United States filed a Statement of Interest in Radian Memory Systems, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co. (Civil Action No. 2:24-cv-1073), a patent infringement matter in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division. The filing was made by attorneys from both the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, and the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), and suggests that the court should find the existence of irreparable har

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The IPKat

JUNE 23, 2025

The patent system exists to advance innovation by encouraging inventors to share their ideas publicly. In return for revealing how their invention works, inventors receive patent protection. Patents should therefore be comprehensible to professionals working in the relevant field, not just patent attorneys.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 24, 2025

Getty Images, a well-known visual media company and supplier of stock images, is facing off against a London-based artificial intelligence company, Stability AI, in what is considered to be the first major copyright trial of the generative AI industry. Opening arguments began on Monday, June 9th, before the British High Court.

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Copyright 82

Plagiarism Today

JUNE 23, 2025

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IP Law 360

JUNE 26, 2025

The Senate’s latest version of the Big Beautiful Bill Act would impose a 41% tax on the litigation finance industry, but the tax is totally disconnected from the concerns it purports to address, and it would set the country back to a time when small plaintiffs had little recourse against big defendants, says Anthony Sebok at Cardozo School of Law.

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Litigation Law 92

McKinsey Operations

JUNE 25, 2025

The goal of a redesign is to increase value, but failure rates are high. New research updates classic rules of redesign to help leaders flip the odds of success.

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Designs Design 96

JD Supra Law

JUNE 27, 2025

In the past week, two significant rulings from the Northern District of California addressed the application of the fair use doctrine to the use of copyrighted books in training large language models (LLMs). Both Meta Platforms Inc. and Anthropic PBC faced claims from authors alleging copyright infringement due to the use of their works in AI model development.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 24, 2025

Judge rules Anthropic’s AI training is fair use, BBC threatens Perplexity and Greek man sentenced for decade-old piracy charges.

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Copyright Alliance

JUNE 27, 2025

Since Judge Chhabria of the Northern District of California issued his decision in the Kadrey v. Meta case on Wednesday, June 25, there have been a lot of articles about […] The post Kadrey v. Meta Decision: Did Meta Just Win the Battle, But Lose the War? appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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Copyright 81

TorrentFreak

JUNE 27, 2025

After a decade of focusing efforts overseas, the push for pirate site blocking has landed back on American shores. There are currently two bills in the making; the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act ( FADPA ) introduced by Representative Zoe Lofgren in February, and Representative Darrell Issa’s ‘American Copyright Protection Act’ ( ACPA ), which tackles the same issue from a different angle.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 27, 2025

On June 23, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued a significant order in Bartz, et al. v. Anthropic PBC, clarifying the application of the fair use doctrine to the use of copyrighted books in training large language models (LLMs). The decision provides important guidance for both AI developers and copyright holders, distinguishing between transformative uses for model training and unauthorized uses involving pirated or format-shifted works.

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Fair Use Copyright 73

The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2025

The critical edition at issue in the Romanian background proceedingsInternational copyright law (Article 2(3) of the Berne Convention) mandates the protection of “[t]ranslations, adaptations, arrangements of music and other alterations of a literary or artistic work” as “original works without prejudice to the copyright in the original work.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 23, 2025

Starting this week with some delightful snapshots for our readers from the SpicyIP Summer School which kicked off with intriguing sessions by Murali Neelakantan and Sandeep Rathod! Is IndiaMART a marketplace or a directory? – Post on Delhi HC’s granting of interim injunction against IndiaMART. Post on Delhi HC’s domestic injunction against Dr Reddy’s weight loss drug.

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IP Law 360

JUNE 24, 2025

The first federal court decision on the fairness of taking copyrighted material to train generative artificial intelligence is a mixed outcome for tech companies and content creators that could prompt both parties to seek coexistence, according to attorneys, with the judge concluding that while the technology is "spectacularly" transformative, using pirated material is inexcusable.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 23, 2025

The Walt Disney Company and Universal City Studios Productions are among the latest plaintiffs to bring a lawsuit against an artificial intelligence (AI) developer.

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Fair Use Copyright 82

The Trichordist

JUNE 27, 2025

Budweiser’s award-winning “One-Second Ad” campaign bragged about paying $0 for music rights—by leaning into a copyright myth. But when skipping royalties becomes a selling point, it’s not innovation. It’s appropriation. This is the immorality of virality.

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Music Copyright Branding Branding 77

IAM Magazine

JUNE 26, 2025

Radian Memory Services argued in Texas lawsuit that it would suffer irreparable harm if court did not intervene against Samsung from infringing its SSD technology

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Patent Technology 75

IP Watchdog

JUNE 26, 2025

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) on Thursday designated as informative a Director Review decision in which Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart said the Board abused its discretion by instituting two petitions for inter partes review (IPR) challenging the same claims. According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), informative decisions provide the Board "norms on recurring issues, guidance on issues of first impression to the Board, guidance on Board rules and practices, and g

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 26, 2025

In April, the Federal Circuit issued a significant patent law ruling involving artificial intelligence. In Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp, the Court addressed a core question facing many AI-driven businesses: When are solutions applying machine learning to real-world problems inventive and patentable?

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SpicyIP

JUNE 25, 2025

In the previous post , we had discussed the new OO 537/2025 that is allegedly in place to measure the performance of patent officials. I discussed the metrics in detail in the context of how it incentivises issuing reasoned orders in some instances, while not in other instances. In this post, I will discuss the need for a reasonableness checklist, how the metrics apply to PGO and finally what it means for patent quality.

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Barry Sookman

JUNE 22, 2025

Computer and IT Law: The Year in Review 2024–2025 – Toronto Computer Lawyers Group Presentation On June 19, 2025, I had the pleasure of presenting my annual “Computer and IT Law: The Year in Review” to the Toronto Computer Lawyers Group. This year’s talk covered legal developments across a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence, copyright , social media, privacy, cybersecurity, blockchain, online contracting and eCommerce.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2025

On Wednesday, predictive analytics firm Recentive filed a combined petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit challenging that court’s invalidation of Recentive’s machine learning patent claims this April. As Recentive argues, the Federal Circuit’s decision to eliminate all patent protection for novel machine learning applications using established models conflicts with the U.S.

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