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[Guest post] Book review: ‘Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law: 20 Years of the IPKat’

The IPKat

The book, titled Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law. And, speaking of the book, we are happy to re-publish the review that Bill Patry (Mayer Brown) provided of it, as just published by the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice.

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AI and Copyright Wars: The New York Times Takes on OpenAI and Microsoft

Intepat

Allegations and Claims by The New York Times The New York Times claims that these companies are trying to take undue advantage of the hard work and money put into creating such a high and superior quality of journalism. The New York Times is claiming damages and an order to stop OpenAI and Microsoft from using any of its articles.

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Copyrightability of a Programming Language

Patently-O

Although the Supreme Court eventually sided with Google on fair use grounds, it did not disturb the Federal Circuit’s copyrightability decision that strongly supported copyright protection even for functional software. Law Journal Reading List from the Briefs: Paul Goldstein, Infringement of Copyright in Computer Programs , 47 U.

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The Modern Copyright Dilemma: Digital Content Ownership and Access

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge.

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Humanizing Copyright Infringement: “Who Is the Bad Art Friend?” by Robert Kolker

IPilogue

Lamont Abramczyk is a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. As part of the course requirements, students were asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice.

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Saturday Sundries

The IPKat

21–869, full opinion available here ] for the Oxford University Press Law blog. In his post, William discusses the decision and reflects on how it might influence and become guidance for future disputes around fair use. Goldsmith Opinion [case no.

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What if? Discussing the Elsevier Ltd. And Ors v Alexandra Elbakyan and Ors in the Multiverse of Substantive Copyright Arguments

SpicyIP

She is intrigued by the field of Intellectual Property Law and wishes to explore the same. It is a common feature of agreements between the publishers and authors of journal articles to lack this element of royalty being paid to the latter (as highlighted here ). Discussing the Elsevier Ltd.