Velocity of Content

JANUARY 19, 2024

Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision to block key provisions of HB 900, Texas’s controversial book rating law. In a 36-page decision, a three-judge panel ruled that the law likely violated First Amendment protections against compelled speech. On Wednesday, the Fifth U.S.

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Patently-O

MARCH 25, 2024

By David Hricik, Mercer Law School I realize most readers aren’t law professors, so you can stop now… I have taught IP courses for years and often the books seek to teach the subject through cases, which is a very difficult way to learn it.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you’re a subscriber to our blog, you have likely caught wind of our recent rebrand to ADventures in Law. Overflowing with a dynamic mix of weekly blogs, engaging bimonthly podcasts and enriching monthly CLE webinars, ADventures in Law stands as the go-to hub for all things advertising law! By: BakerHostetler

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Email me if you see any errors. * * * Some other emoji law highlights from 2023: * A Canadian farmer discovers that a thumbs-up emoji can cost tens of thousands of dollars. I did a Q&A on emoji law. * The Free Law Project now allows caselaw searches by Unicode emoji !!! . * I did a Q&A on emoji law. *

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Introduction: Emphasizing the importance of understanding beer laws and regulations - Square Peg Brewerks LLC successfully navigated a trademark dispute by understanding beer laws and regulations. By: Whitcomb Selinsky, PC

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 22, 2024

With the advent of AI technology capable of replicating a person's voice and utilizing it for commercial purposes, several key legal issues are likely to emerge under California's right of publicity law. The right of publicity refers to an individual's right to control and profit from their own name, image, likeness, or voice.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Facebook , a California appeals court shocked the advertising community by suggesting that using common demographic criteria for ad targeting, such as age or gender, may violate California’s anti-discrimination law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

After a multi-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Internet Law Works-in-Progress conference is returning! The conference provides a venue for authors of Internet Law papers (broadly conceived) to workshop their drafts and get pre-publication feedback from peers. Some background about the series ).

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 16, 2024

Tennessee has become the first state to enact legislation introducing new safeguards for the voices of songwriters, performers, and celebrities from artificial intelligence and deepfakes, as Governor Bill Lee signed the ELVIS Act (Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security) into law on March 21, 2024. By: Adams and Reese LLP

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Likelihood of Confusion

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

It's the Fashion Law Institute! Will there be beautiful people? Please, darling! The post Fashion. appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Likelihood of Confusion

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Part of me does not want to give the—ahem—geniuses behind the DUMB STARBUCKS stunt any more press, but the rest of me feels that you, The post “DUMB STARBUCKS”: Grasping at laws. appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law invites you for its upcoming trademark law symposium, "Section Two Small: Exploring the New Constitutional Limits on Trademark Law" on Friday, November 3, 2023.The Full program here. Registration here.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Recently, amendments to the Implementing Regulations of the Chinese Patent Law were issued and will take effect from January 20, 2024. The Regulations align with the revisions made to the Patent Law in 2020 and provide further guidance.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking HB 900, the controversial “book rating” law from taking effect in Texas. There was some urgency because the law was set to take effect on September 1,” he tells me. But for now, the headline is that the controversial book rating law in Texas is blocked.”

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 1, 2024

Welcome to the second edition of The Leisure Law Insider! It will be released quarterly, covering the latest news and developments in leisure and hospitality law, regulation, and policy. By: Akerman LLP

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IP Law 360

APRIL 17, 2024

Tennessee recently enacted a law that extends the right of publicity protection to individuals' voices in an attempt to control the proliferation of artificial intelligence in the music industry, presenting fascinating questions about the First Amendment, the fair use doctrine and more, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 8, 2023

But, are face scans really an option for age verification, or will it conflict with other privacy laws? In particular, face scanning seemingly directly conflict with biometric privacy laws, such as Illinois’ BIPA, which provide substantial restrictions on the collection, use, and retention of biometric information. Choice of Law.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 6, 2023

If you are in business and use a word, phrase, symbol, design, or any combination of these to identify your goods or services, you have a trademark and need to consider "What does trademark law protect against?". By: Whitcomb Selinsky, PC

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IIPRD

JANUARY 18, 2024

Introduction If we take a broader look at the Intellectual Property Laws, the primary objective of the legislation in framing these laws is to provide exclusive rights to the IP right holder as against the entire world. For example, Patent Law aims to prevent copying or imitating patented goods by anyone other than the patentee.

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Olartemoure Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

Law 2300 of 2023 has been sued for allegedly violating constitutional principles. Specifically, the Constitutional Court is examining the allegation related to the legislative process of the law, as this regulation governs the fundamental rights to privacy and tranquility.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 10, 2024

This Parkinson’s Awareness Month, Adam Siegler at Greenberg Traurig discusses his experience working as a lawyer with Parkinson’s disease, sharing both lessons on how to cope with a diagnosis and advice for supporting colleagues who live with the disease.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

While attorney burnout remains a perennial issue in the legal profession, shifting post-pandemic expectations mean that law firms must adapt their office cultures to retain talent, say Kevin Henderson and Eric Pacifici at SMB Law Group.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

My friend Mark Herrmann recently informed me about his Drug and Device Law blog. Mark is the author, as we have noted in the past, of The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law so right there you know he can write even though he’s a lawyer. His co-blogger is Jim Beck. Originally posted 2012-03-13 10:54:08.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 25, 2024

Amid continuing business uncertainty, law firms should consider adopting a holistic employee experience strategy — prioritizing consistency, targeting signature moments and leveraging measurement tools — to maximize productivity and profitability, says Haley Revel at Calibrate Consulting.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is a review of Music Borrowing and Copyright Law, a Genre-by-Genre Analysis , edited by Enrico Bonadio (City, University of London) and Chen Wei Zhu (University of Birmingham). Heald suggests that Aplin and Bently offer one half of the response, and this volume provides the other, within the music context.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Works in any of the following fields may be entered in the competition: Օ Trademark law Օ Competition law Օ Antitrust law. I received a request to disseminate this CFP from the Jerzy Wiszniewski Foundation. The work may be a master’s thesis, doctoral or post-doctoral dissertation, monograph, or other work of a scholarly nature.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We invite you to review our newly-posted November 2023 California Employment Law Notes, a comprehensive review of the latest and most significant developments in California employment law. By: Proskauer - California Employment Law

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 25, 2024

In 2010, while I was attending my computer information systems class as a freshman at Arizona State University, my professor introduced me to the concept of Moore’s Law - the observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double every two years with minimal rise in cost.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 29, 2024

Check out the trailer for a new podcast coming from Venable’s Advertising and Marketing Law Group tomorrow, the Ad Law Tool Kit Show. Each week, our award-winning team will dive into a new issue—from negative option marketing to copyright protection and influencer endorsements—and examine the increasingly complex regulatory landscape.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JULY 8, 2023

Via fashionista-lawyer-to-the-fashionista-stars Olivera Medenica, it’s time to roll up for the Federal Bar Association‘s 2016 Fashion Law Conference at the Parson’s School of Design! The post Fashion Law at the Federal Bar Association appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. Look, here’s the text I copied.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The increasing sophistication of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has had widespread effects on fields ranging from art and film to law and healthcare.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In India particularly, the Copyrights Act, 1957 was enacted to prevent copyright infringement and recently the amendment act of 2012 was introduced to combat the changing needs of copyright law. Case Laws The first case in this regard is UTV Software Communication Limited v.

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The Illusion of More

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Songwriters, including Frank Zappa, John Denver, and Dee Snider testified in Senate hearings to oppose the […] The post Court Demolishes Texas Book “Rating” Law appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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Copyright Alliance

JANUARY 3, 2024

That was especially true for copyright issues related to AI, which sparked several Congressional hearings, a study by the U.S. […] The post AI and Copyright Law in 2023: Federal Government Activities appeared first on Copyright Alliance. 2023 was an extremely busy year for artificial intelligence (AI).

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Since the Canadian copyright law reforms in 2012, education and libraries have increased spending on licensing and a non-partisan House of Commons study found no need to create new restriction on education and library copying rights. She joins the Law Bytes podcast to discuss the CFLA statement and copyright law in Canada.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 29, 2024

On December 11, 2023, the State Council of the People’s Republic of China announced its decision to amend the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law of the People’s Republic of China (the “2023 Regulations”), marking the first update in over 13 years since the last amendment in 2010. The 2023 Regulations take effect on January 20, 2024.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 25, 2024

have shed further light on the intersection of patent law and artificial intelligence (AI), particularly with respect to whether AI-generated inventions can be patented. Two recent developments, one in the U.S. and one in the U.K., By: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

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