Dear Rich IP Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Dear Rich: I want to copyright a report I researched and wrote and hope to sell to a museum. My report includes my collection of 19th-century photographs, most of which are extremely rare. W hen researchers use the report, I want them to credit me. These photos are in the public domain and free for anyone to copy.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

First off today, Bevan Hurley at The Independent reports that former White House photographer Pete Souza says that he is facing legal threats over his use of a photograph he took on his own website. Second, since he was a federal employee at the time the image was taken, the work itself is in the public domain.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 16, 2022

First off today, Massimo Capizza at the National Law Review reports that the Supreme Court of the United States has denied certiorari in a case over the 2003 Josh Groban song You Raise Me Up , leaving a circuit split in place over how to determine substantial similarity between two works. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

First off today, Gene Maddaus at Variety reports that Senator Josh Hawley has introduced a bill that aims to drastically rewrite copyright law in the United States, rolling back the term of copyright to just 28 years with the option for renewal for another 28. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

The plaintiff argued that the filing of additional documents is required to show the contrary stands taken by the defendants in their written statements and in the replies to the examination reports of the Registry. The court favoured the plaintiff and allowed the application.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 9, 2023

28, 2023) Cap Export alleged that Zinus fraudulently obtained a patent after Zinus used the public domain bed-in-a-box sets of a non-party as the basis for its patent application. The litigation/fair report privileges did not, at this stage, bar the related state law claims. Cap Export, LLC v. Zinus, Inc., 2023 WL 6381821, No.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

A few days ago The IPKat reported on the injunction issued by the Rome Court of First Instance regarding the unauthorized minting of NFTs from a trade mark perspective. As a result, also the exclusive rights of adaptation (covered by Spanish law) and public communication are involved in this matter.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

2] While most Sherlock Holmes stories are now in the public domain, the estate alleged that some works and character elements regarding Sherlock Holmes are still protected by copyright. [3] 2] Eriq Gardner, Netflix Settles‘Enola Holmes’ Lawsuit With Conan Doyle Estate , The Hollywood Reporter (Dec. 21, 2020), [link]. [3]

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Defendants also use privacy protection services to hide their names and contact information from the public domain name WHOIS database.” . “Many Defendants do not provide any contact information such as a physical address, email address, or phone number, and conduct their transactions entirely pseudonymously.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 19, 2023

However, routine content exchanges such as sharing published reports, articles and other information found on the Web, have copyright implications, which can expose companies to a greater risk of infringement. Where copyright protection begins and ends Employees consume and share copyrighted materials all day long. It’s just business.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The IPKat will continue to report on the progress of the case. Perceived implications of recent Court of Appeal of England and Wales’s ruling on originality Recently, Eleonora Rosati reported on a judgment of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales inter alia restating the UK standard of originality.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

No amendment offered in public session. Measures A prohibition on circumvention of TPMs could extend protection to materials in the public domain or prevent the exercise of exceptions. 5- National Treatment Paragraph 5.2 Restore Article 12(3) mandating exceptions to the circumvention prohibition.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 29, 2022

Intellectual property proceedings in Turkey rely heavily on the report of an expert(s) appointed by the court to provide an assessment on relevant aspects of the dispute. Here, the Court appointed an expert to provide a report regarding the use of the portrait and its communication to the public.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 30, 2023

“[A]lmost all public domains of the library were blocked in November 2022 by order of the US Secret Service. We can’t confirm the accuracy of the reported figures but if these are legit, it must be one of the most successful pirate site donation drives in history. law enforcement actions caused substantial damage.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The management report must include a chapter where the management informs about the status of compliance of the entity with applicable regulations governing IP matters. If an annuity is not paid in due term, the patent expires, and the invention enters the public domain, thus, it may be used or exploited by any interested party.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The public domain is, broadly speaking, a good thing for both consumers and creators, although the creators of the original work passing into the public domain might feel differently were they still alive to put up a fuss.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 7, 2023

Last week the Financial Times reported that UK pay-TV broadcaster Sky had obtained a novel blocking injunction at the High Court in London. With no announcements from Sky or the Premier League, and the associated court orders not yet in the public domain, the scope of the Sky order remains unclear.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The issue has already made its way to the courts in several instances and a few weeks ago we reported that anti-piracy groups are also getting involved. There are other book datasets as well, which are too large to have been created from public domain content. What makes Books3 unique is the fact that the source was published.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

When issuing a CC0 NFT, the artist declares the entirety of a project’s content to be in the public domain, allowing the public at large to use, modify or recreate the NFT artwork in compliance with the CC0 license for commercial purposes, without attributing it to the original artist.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We are pleased to report that the promised smooth transition has indeed come to pass: As of January 1, every valid EU trademark registration has spawned a UK “clone” with the same scope of protection and same priority date, preserving the owner’s existing rights in the UK.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2022

PermaKat Neil Wilkof commented on the reproduction of the work of art " Detail from the Portrait of Eugénie-Pamela Larivière" (which is in the public domain) by Louis Larivière in the Louvre, Paris" on a book cover.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Last week we reported that a San Francisco law firm acting for Japanese publisher Shueisha had filed an ex parte application at a California district court. The application, which sought discovery of information for use in a foreign proceeding ( 28 U.S.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 13, 2023

The New York Times reported on Dr. Martin Luther King’s copyright lawsuit over “I Have a Dream” in 1963. CBS brought a summary judgment motion to establish that the speech was in the public domain. King may have dreamed of a world without racism, even he wouldn’t dare to dream of a world without lawsuits.

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Intepat

APRIL 6, 2022

Also, the national examiners most often follow the Search Report conducted in the International Phase. Once published, the application is deemed to have entered the public domain. Within three months, the examiner establishes the examination report.

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Intepat

APRIL 6, 2022

Also, the national examiners most often follow the Search Report conducted in the International Phase. Once published, the application is deemed to have entered the public domain. Within three months, the examiner establishes the examination report.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Banksy's Laugh Now But One Day We’ll Be In Charge A while ago The IPKat reported [ here and here ] on a string of cancellations of elusive artist Banksy ’s EU trade mark (EUTM) registrations relating to some of their best-known artworks. The reason?

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Most of the discussion that has followed has focused on the tension between freedom of expression, the obligations of the host platform (in the reported words of the CEO of Spotify--“It is important to me that we don’t take on the position of being content censor”), and the interests of public health.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

They further claimed that any similarities that did exist were derivative of Irish folk songs such as Danny Boy (aka Londonderry Air ), which was in the public domain. Before turning to the differences in the expert witness reports, the district court examined the legal framework for a copyright infringement claim.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This decreased reliance and, in some cases, total abandonment of traditional copying is shown in examples from several universities across the country: Mount Saint Vincent University has not sold print course packs for the last 10+ years, except for occasional material that is in the public domain. between 2002 and 2021.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here the final version is a clear improvement over the original Parliament text as it no longer suggests that model providers need to distinguish between copyright-protected and public domain training materials and then apply different transparency standards to both, which would be unworkable.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

While I would expect two separate schematics of the ride to be very similar, after all they are both reporting on the object, there are too many small details that overlap. They have a lengthy and aggressive history when it comes to protecting their rights , even as many of their stories are based on public domain tales.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 26, 2022

A Bloomberg Law report says the Eleventh Circuit adopted a “heightened standard” towards CMI, with Trace Jackson, an intellectual property attorney at Rogers Towers, offering his understanding of what that means. ” Implications Moving Forward.

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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2022

The report goes that Grau's inspiration for the movie came from hearing stories about vampires from local farmers in Serbia, this while he was serving in the German army in 1916. This Kat did not find any detailed report of the German court's decision. And so it was that Nosferatu, directed by F.W.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Supreme Court of India , which dealt with issues of confidentiality, privacy (prior consent) of litigants and witnesses, restrictions on access to proceedings of trials and the preservation of the larger public interest due to the sensitivity of the proceedings. as per Rule 9(2)(iv).

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JUNE 16, 2020

Two other factors can influence whether an infringement is identified: disgruntled employees, competitors, or others may report the offense, and the more popular your work becomes, the more likely you become a target for a takedown. Vengeance is mine. And in other religious copyright news, this just in.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

Because it was not made by a human, this viral monkey selfie from 2011 is in the public domain. The Verge reports that “Thaler emphasized that humans weren’t meaningfully involved because his goal was to prove that machine-created works could receive protection, not simply to stop people from infringing on the picture”. “The

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

Because it was not made by a human, this viral monkey selfie from 2011 is in the public domain. The Verge reports that “Thaler emphasized that humans weren’t meaningfully involved because his goal was to prove that machine-created works could receive protection, not simply to stop people from infringing on the picture”. “The

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