Plagiarism Today
MAY 22, 2025
On May 18th, the Chicago Sun-Times published a book list generated by AI and containing 10 fake books. Here's how it happened. The post How a Fake AI-Generated Book List Made it Into Major Papers appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Erik K Pelton
MAY 20, 2025
The following is an edited transcript of my video 25 Examples of Non Traditional Trademarks. Door handles that have a special shape or lettering. The handles of Dunkin’, Hair Cuttery, and REI are some examples of door handle trademarks. Beer tap handles. Almost every kind of beer tap handle tells you more than just the name of the brand. It conveys more of a message about the beer and the beer manufacturer.
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Hugh Stephens Blog
MAY 17, 2025
Image credit: Reuters As Canadas cultural community assesses the make-up of Prime Minister Mark Carneys new Cabinet, two common phrases come to mind, Hope Springs Eternel and Grasping at Straws. The cultural and copyright industries have a number of legitimate concerns, which were well articulated in a pre-election brief published by the Coalition for the … Continue reading "How will Mark Carney’s Cabinet Appointments Impact Canada’s Cultural and Copyright Industries?
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MAY 20, 2025
The court summarizes the case: Rodney Woodland, a freelance artist and model, posts semi-naked photographs of himself in different poses on Instagram. Montero Lamar Hill, better known as the recording artist Lil Nas X , also has an Instagram accountand he, too, shares semi-naked photos of himself in varying poses (as one apparently does on Instagram these days).
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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?
Plagiarism Today
MAY 20, 2025
Louisiana's Secretary of State is facing controversy after an Ohio artist claims the state ripped off his design for a voting sticker. The post Did Louisiana Plagiarize its Voting Sticker? appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
MAY 20, 2025
Torrent site uploaders come in various shapes and sizes. Only a few become so popular that their ‘brand’ is widely recognized by online pirates. COLLECTiVE falls into the latter category. The uploader operating under this tag, Will1869, shared many high-profile titles, mostly films. He purportedly operated as a one-man team. These releases appeared on major torrent sites including 1337x and the recently defunct TorrentGalaxy.
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IP Law 360
MAY 23, 2025
When patent partner Terry Rea set out to retire, the onetime acting director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had her eyes on the independence that retirement promises flexible hours, fewer deadlines and less stress over having lots of people counting on you.
Plagiarism Today
MAY 20, 2025
Ed Sheeran asks SCOTUS not to hear Thinking Out Loud case, UK House of Lords votes for AI transparency again and Lil Nas X wins photo fight. The post 3 Count: Old Town Photos appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Copyright Alliance
MAY 20, 2025
We’re thrilled to introduce fashion designer, illustrator, teacher, author, and YouTuber,Zoe Hong. She has been able to build a YouTube channel with over 634k subscribers. Throughout her success, she has […] The post Creator Spotlight with YouTuber and Fashion Designer Zoe Hong appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
TorrentFreak
MAY 20, 2025
After a decade of focusing on efforts overseas, the push for website blocking has landed back on American shores. Domestic site blocking initiatives were shelved for over a decade in the U.S. following the SOPA backlash, but that hesitation appears to have evaporated. With Representative Zoe Lofgren’s introduction of the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act ( FADPA ) in February, the controversial mechanism of court-ordered blocking against foreign ‘pirate’ sites is no longer just a
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Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.
IP Law 360
MAY 19, 2025
The rise of music created by artificial intelligence is introducing new challenges to copyright law, especially when AI-generated songs can sound strikingly similar to the works the technology is trained on.
Plagiarism Today
MAY 19, 2025
Video game developer Bungie is facing yet another allegation of plagiarism. This time, in the alpha release of their upcoming game, Marathon. The post Video Game Studio Bungie Accused of Plagiarism… Again appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
The IPKat
MAY 21, 2025
The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Salvatore Marcenaro (Wolf Mndez Abogados Asociados) concerning a recent third-party attempt to register the well-known Colombian FRISBY trade mark in the EU.
Michael Geist
MAY 20, 2025
The need for fact-based, good-faith discussion and exchange to address our most challenging policy issues has never been greater. My Hub Canada op-ed notes that universities should be ideally suited for a leading role, yet in recent months, the drumbeat of intolerance has undermined their ability to do so. Last week, thewell-documented riseof antisemitism and anti-Zionism on North American campuses hit home as I was conducting a global exchange that brought together students from five continents
TorrentFreak
MAY 17, 2025
Strike 3 Holdings is a familiar name in U.S. federal courts. As the most prolific copyright litigant, the adult entertainment company has filed over 15,000 lawsuits in federal courts. These lawsuits typically target people whose Internet connections were allegedly used to download and share copyright-infringing content via BitTorrent. Many of these cases result in private settlements and are never heard from again.
Plagiarism Today
MAY 19, 2025
UK ministers block AI transparency amendment, France orders VPN providers to block pirate sites and Anthropic apologized for false citation. The post 3 Count: AI Bypass appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
JD Supra Law
MAY 19, 2025
On May 9, the United States Copyright Office (Office) issued a pre-publication version of its third Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (Report), which focuses on the question of the use of copyrighted materials to train AI models under the fair use doctrine.
SpicyIP
MAY 18, 2025
Image from here Did you hear about the interesting case involving a compulsory license over sound recordings that came before the Delhi High Court recently, named Al Hamd Tradenation vs. Phonographic Performance Limited ? Deliberating on the scope of Article 31(1) of the Copyright Act and whether u nreasonable licensing fees can be regarded as withholding the work from the public, the Court found the petitioners case meritorious.
TorrentFreak
MAY 19, 2025
Rampant piracy of live sporting events has been a hot topic in Europe for several years. Anti-piracy measures against relatively static targets have their place but preventing access to pirated live streams is much more difficult. After calling for assistance from the European Commission, many rightsholders are hoping for new legislation to hold intermediaries more accountable.
The Trichordist
MAY 22, 2025
Martina McBride called for justice. Congress listened politely. And then gave her to the wolves with the AI safe harbor.
JD Supra Law
MAY 23, 2025
Ninth Circuit affirms dismissal of copyright infringement claim against musician Lil Nas X, finding that mere availability of plaintiff influencers photographs on Instagram does not amount to access to those photographs and that defendants Instagram photographs were not substantially similar to plaintiffs photographs in selection and arrangement of constituent elements.
Patently-O
MAY 23, 2025
by Dennis Crouch Sigray, Inc. v. Carl Zeiss X-Ray Microscopy, Inc. , F.4th (Fed. Cir. 2025) The Federal Circuit established an important precedent regarding inherent disclosure and implicit claim construction in this IPR appeal, holding that the Board's purported interpretation of the prior art was rather an implicit claim construction that neither party requested.
IP Law 360
MAY 19, 2025
The Federal Circuit on Monday found that a trademark tribunal wrongly dismissed Sferra Fine Linens' opposition to Sfera Joven's trademark application, remanding the case with a directive that some of the likelihood-of-confusion factors be reanalyzed.
The IPKat
MAY 19, 2025
In the new AI-age, where Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can generate sophisticated textual answers in seconds, the relevance of AI to the patent industry is an active area of debate. The recent EPO Board of Appeal in T 1193/23 specifically questioned the reliability of LLM-generated interpretations for technical terms within patent claims.
JD Supra Law
MAY 23, 2025
Warner Music Group just sued DSW for using 200+ hit songs in social media adswithout permission. Those TikToks could now cost $30M. On this episode of The Briefing, entertainment and IP attorneys Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler break down the legal firestorm and what every brand needs to know before hitting post..
SpicyIP
MAY 19, 2025
Image generated through ChatGPT It was brought to our notice that the submission, which had previously secured second place in the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on IP Law, contains substantial portions taken from a piece that the author had previously co-authored and submitted to another competition. After an internal review, it was determined that the above allegations are true and the concerned submission, by Aditya Sushant Jain for the essay titled The Copyright Black Box In Training
IP Law 360
MAY 19, 2025
The Regents of the University of Minnesota have settled their hard disk drive patent infringement claims against two indirect Broadcom subsidiaries, according to a joint status report filed in California federal court.
IP Watchdog
MAY 22, 2025
Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a series of seven warning letters to several pharmaceutical companies renewing the agencys challenge to dozens of patent listings in the U.S. Food & Drug Administrations (FDA) Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations, also known as the Orange Book. The FTCs redoubled effort to improve consumer access to generic drugs by removing patent listings from the FDAs list of approved New Drug Applications (NDAs), which continu
JD Supra Law
MAY 23, 2025
Warner Music Group just sued DSW for using 200+ hit songs in social media adswithout permission. Those TikToks could now cost $30M. On this episode of The Briefing, entertainment and IP attorneys Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler break down the legal firestorm and what every brand needs to know before hitting post..
SpicyIP
MAY 19, 2025
The SpicyIP Summer School Application deadline has been extended, and a few slots have been opened to those who may have graduated before 2023 as well, and who are looking to get into (or back into) the field of IP and would like to participate in this cohort! A post on the never-ending PPL and licensing fees saga, India-UK FTA and its consequences, and the Indian concept of derivative works from the ANI vs.
IAM Magazine
MAY 23, 2025
USPTO acting director Coke Morgan Stewart outlines the office's goals for fighting fraud, using AI and embracing workforce efficiencies at this year's INTA Annual Meeting
IP Intelligence
MAY 22, 2025
The Federal Circuit issued its long-awaited en banc opinion in EcoFactor v. Google , [1] which provides further clarity on the admissibility standards for damages experts under Rule 702. This decision reverses the original panel’s ruling, which had raised concerns that the Federal Circuit had previously lowered the admissibility standard for damages experts.
JD Supra Law
MAY 20, 2025
As the U.S. imposes sweeping new tariffs on over 180 countries and territoriesincluding a baseline 10% rate and steep increases for China (originally 145%, now reduced to 30% for 90 days) and Taiwan (32%, now reduced to 10% for 90 days)the medical device industry finds itself at the intersection of trade policy and intellectual property enforcement.
IP Watchdog
MAY 23, 2025
This week in Other Barks & Bites: Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi unveils an electric SUV to rival Teslas Model Y; the Federal Circuit affirms the Trademark Trial and Appeal Boards dismissal of opposition proceedings under Lexmarks zone-of-interests tests, but reverses the Patent Trial and Appeal Boards finding of no patent invalidity over the erroneous construction of claim terms; the Federal Trade Commission renews its campaign to remove drug delivery device patent listings from the Orang
IAM Magazine
MAY 23, 2025
USPTO acting director Coke Morgan Stewart outlines the office's goals for fighting fraud, using AI and embracing workforce efficiencies at this year's INTA Annual Meeting
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