JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has published a notice with supplemental guidance for its staff members examining design patent claims that include computer-generated images. By: AEON Law

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 18, 2024

law enforcement, they don’t appear to be crucial to the operation, since Z-Library continues to thrive. However, publishers are actively trying to put a halt to that too. Looking more closely at the data, we see that this recent surge in publisher activity is largely driven by Z-Library. and Zlibrary-asia.se

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2024

“We deliberately violate the copyright law in most countries. 90% of Italian Publishing Market Behind Complaint Anna’s Archive is a relative newcomer to the world of online shadow libraries, but its impact has already ensured the inevitable. million books and 99.4 million papers for download.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Nevertheless, all copyrighted content receives the same protection under the law, so academic and other publishers are keen to protect their interests in the same way as other rightsholders. Publishing Houses Take Action to Block Z-Library. Book piracy undermines the remuneration of creators: authors and publishers.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2024

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Publishers vs. Internet Archive The self-scanning approach differs from the licensing deals other libraries enter into.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. The publishers see IA’s library as a rogue operation that engages in willful mass copyright infringement, directly damaging their bottom line.

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The IPKat

JULY 11, 2022

The EPO Board of Appeal has published its full decision on the question of whether a machine can be an inventor ( J 8/20 ). Thus, contrary to the recent Nature article on this topic, AI is not breaking patent law. If an applicant wished to acknowledge the AI inventor out of fairness, they are free to do this in the description (r.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

On 21 st October 2021, Facebook announced that it has reached an agreement with APIG , an association of French press publishers, committing itself to the payment of licensing fees pursuant to the press publishers’ right introduced by the 2019 Copyright Directive. Information society service providers. This change was to bring art.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 13, 2023

After the first DSM Directive-related referral from Belgium on the provisions concerning contracts of authors and performers [IPKat here ] , it is now the turn of Article 15 (the related right for press publishers) as implemented into Italian law. All this would serve to ‘foster the availability of reliable information’.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 11, 2024

Have they published any books? Learn more about our experience at: [link] The post Trademark Law Firms – Measuring the Competition appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Do they provide personal service or do they have layers of people to talk to before you get to the actual attorneys handling of the work?

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 3, 2024

At the same time, however, it’s a threat to major publishers who rely on those same paywalls to generate revenue and subsequent profits. The publishers have the law on their side. The previous orders have all centered around film and music pirate sites but the latest comes at the request of a publisher.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 25, 2023

Figures for the second half are yet to be published but if recent events are anything to go by, those numbers could be significantly higher in the next report. Instead, the notices carry the names and addresses of three publishing companies; Wolters Kluwer Health (New York), Knovel, a subsidiary of Elsevier, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Publishers Share IPFS Concerns This week, IPFS was repeatedly mentioned by the Association of American Publishers ( AAP ) in its overview of the most notorious piracy markets submitted to the U.S. The publishers see them as a threat, as they make the piracy angle easier too. Trade Representative.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

The published version. The post “Assuming Good Faith Online” Essay Published appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. I’m pleased to announce the publication of my essay, “Assuming Good Faith Online,” in the Journal of Online Trust and Safety.

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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. What the court has ruled remains unclear because a written opinion and order have not yet been published.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Yet the laws of technology itself are few. Melvin Kranzberg , an American academic whose field was the history of technology, created just six laws of technology more than 35 years ago. The most essential of Kranzberg’s laws is the first one – technology is neither good nor bad, nor is it neutral.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Its users, which currently number around 20 million, are able to upload content to the platform, which at times includes published research papers. In September 2017 the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) wrote to ResearchGate on behalf of 140 publishers. Decision of the Court.

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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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The IPKat

MAY 7, 2024

Kat (re-)unification Should the EU unify the copyright laws of its Member States and introduce, over thirty years after the start of the harmonization process, a unitary copyright title? In 2015, the European Commission itself called unification of copyright laws “ a long-term target ”. The short answer is: yes.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 18, 2024

A Q&A guide to New Jersey right of publicity laws. This Q&A addresses the types of persons and aspects of identity protected by the right of publicity, remedies for violations of the right, defenses to right of publicity claims, personal jurisdiction and choice of law considerations, and transfer and licensing of the right.

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The IPKat

APRIL 24, 2023

Last Friday, WIPO published An International Guide to Patent Case Management for Judges. while also " integrating pertinent patent law doctrines ". For each jurisdiction, there are several chapters which sets out the procedure and practice for managing patent cases, namely patent infringement cases.,

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

From a cold, legal perspective, a 2020 blocking application filed by publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society should’ve been straightforward. Supported by millions of students, academics and scientists, when Elbakyan takes on the ‘greedy’ publishers, a win for her is seen as a win for all.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The minutes of oral proceedings have been published from the referring Board of Appeal case behind G 2/21 ( T 0116/18 ). The inventive step of the claimed invention was acknowledged based on the post-published data submitted by the Patentee. suppressallis" shown in their post-published evidence for technical effect.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

We are pleased to bring you a guest post by Mili Baxi, on the development of a publisher’s right in digital media. Mili is a graduate of Institute of Law, Nirma University, currently completing her LLM at LSE. European Union and Australian Approach for Press Publishers’ Interest. Image from here. Introduction.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 17, 2022

In recent years music publishers have repeatedly spoken out against online platforms that use their music without a proper license. Such use is contrary to copyright law and a clear violation of Apple and Google’s policies. As compensation for the alleged infringing activity, the music publishers demand compensation.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 27, 2023

The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) recently published its Meds Pipeline Monitor 2022 report, which highlights medicines in the pipeline that may impact future clinical practice and drug spending in Canada if approved for sale. By: Smart & Biggar

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

“Choudhuri appears to allege that Zillow ‘illegally’ published information regarding the property at issue on its website, including listing it ‘for auction.'” ” Claim for Publishing Third-Party Content. I’m always intrigued by the intersection of Section 230 and real estate law.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Internet Archive is doubling down on its defense that its program for a lending library of digitized books is protected by copyright law's fair use doctrine, telling a New York federal judge that the major publishers seeking to shut it down are painting an inaccurate picture of what it does.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2022

Major Manga Publishers Prepare to Sue Cloudflare. Major manga publishers Shueisha, Kodansha, Shogakukan and Kadokawa are no strangers to legal action against pirate sites and their operators. Since the lawsuit is yet to be filed, it is currently unclear which pirate sites the publishers are complaining about. com and manga1001.com.

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The IPKat

JULY 4, 2022

In 2019, the EU legislature introduced an EU-wide related right (Article 15 of the DSM Directive , on which see Katposts here ) for EU-based press publishers in relation to online uses of their press publications by information society service providers, including news aggregation services, social media, and search engines.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2022

Praised by all who find its services useful or even vital, Sci-Hub also has to deal with attacks from publishing giants who would prefer to see the platform taken offline, or blocked by ISPs wherever that is a viable option. “Inject freedom into science publisher websites, with style. Please contribute new websites!

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JD Supra Law

MAY 8, 2023

On March 24, 2023, the Southern District of New York held that the Internet Archive (“IA”)’s digitization and lending online of the Hatchette Book Group (“Publishers”)’s copyrighted physical books infringed Publishers’ copyrights and was not a fair use. By: Irwin IP LLP

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IP Watchdog

JULY 6, 2022

Copyright Office officially published a report titled Copyright Protections for Press Publishers, which explores existing frameworks in nations around the world providing additional rights under copyright law for news publishers, and includes recommendations regarding similar changes that could be effected under U.S.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In May 2023, the UK Court of Appeal upheld the invalidity of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Apaxiban patent for lacking “plausibility” But how does this finding interact with the position of relevant laws in India? from Faculty of Law, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSU), Vadodara. Nagar (Mohali) and LL.B.

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43(B)log

MAY 16, 2024

Law school students are encouraged to submit papers relating to topics involving intellectual property law. Articles must be written or published between September 1, 2024 and August 31, 2024. Articles must be submitted to the Boston Intellectual Property Law Association on or before September 30, 2024.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 5, 2024

The UPC, a single patent court for European Union Member States, has published the first statistics on its case load since its establishment in 2023. Between June 1, 2023, and January 31, 2024, a total of 196 cases were filed with the Local Divisions.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2022

According to Article 16 EU DSM Directive 2019/790 (“DSM Directive”), a “publisher” may have a claim to a share of the author’s statutory remuneration claims – such as fair compensation for private copies – if the author has granted the “publisher” a right in his work. But who is this “publisher”?

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