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Utilizing the Annual Copyright License Across Your Organization

Velocity of Content

After all, many kinds of published literature, including news, blogs, books, journals, and standards — including the organizations’ own materials — are protected by copyright laws that place limits on how content can be used by others without the rightsholder’s permission. How Do Different Departments Use the Annual Copyright License?

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Missing Revenue in the Global Flip: Getting the Open Access Math Right

Velocity of Content

While the US policy differs from Plan S in that it purports to be “agnostic” toward business models, the end result, the flipping of hybrid/subscription journals to fully-OA, may be the same. The thinking is that if we can somehow manage to flip the institutional subscription revenues to OA models, the market will sustain itself.

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Fourth Circuit Issues a Bummer Fair Use Ruling–Philpot v. IJR

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In 2013, Philpot uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons, which is governed by the standard Creative Commons license requiring attribution. Philpot claims his standard photo licensing fee is $3,500, but reuses of the photo from Wikipedia Commons didn’t require any payment (just attribution). ” Market Effect.

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CCC Town Hall Preview With Bruce Rich

Velocity of Content

From Large Language Models (LLMs) to other research-based applications, AI technologies rely on millions of books, scholarly journals, and other curated publications. On Thursday, October 12, 2023, 1000 EDT/1500 BST/1600 CEST, CCC presents a Town Hall special program on LinkedIn Live, “AI, Licensing & The Path Forward.”

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When is it Fair Use to Use a Photo to “Illustrate” an Article?

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

” Factor four : The court acknowledges that a market exists for plaintiff’s photos, but the transformative nature of defendant’s use “mutes” the degree of market substitution. Independent Journal Review : Philpot is suing the Independent Journal Review over a Ted Nugent photo taken by Philpot. Aug 18, 2021).

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Dragons' Den IP Blog - Series 21 Episode 6

Dragons' Den

What is its appeal to the market? In IPO’s free, online, easy to use toolkit there are resources designed to help businesses identify their IP and understand how to protect, manage it and even license it to scale up their product. The Dragons seemed interested in the product and began firing their questions. Is the product unique?

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Q&A with Betty Chen for Corporate Counsel Business Journal

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Trial attorney Betty Chen was recently interviewed by Corporate Counsel Business Journal for the article, “Keeping Pace with Ever-Evolving Intellectual Property Disputes.” Nobody is going to take a wait-and-see approach (nor should they) before trying to gain a market foothold.