The TTABlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The Board affirmed a refusal to register the proposed mark LETTERS & NUMBERS (in standard character form) on the Supplemental Register, finding it to be generic for printed and electronic publications "in the field of educational and entertainment materials targeted to children on the topic of alphanumeric characters and symbols."

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 9, 2021

An archived recording of the meeting is available online. Although final terms and conditions won’t be finalized until late 2021 for articles and 2022 for books, here are five things you ought to know: 1) Embargoes are out, immediate OA is in. 3) Monographs, finally! 3) Monographs, finally! 4) The uphill road to rights retention.

Journalism 98

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2023

” Multiply that by hundreds of millions of people shrugging several times a week, and the answer is “the recording industry, big time.” Strangely, the value of ‘likes’ and ‘views’ is comprehensively understood when the topic of conversation isn’t centered on ripping music from YouTube.

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Music Copyright Technology Copyright Law 126

TorrentFreak

MARCH 9, 2022

RCN focuses heavily on the piracy tracking evidence from Rightscorp but has also brought up another topic; the decision by major record labels to remove DRM from the iTunes music store in 2009. RCN asked the labels to share the records it has on the DRM removal decision but none were found.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The plaintext collection of 196,640 books, which is nearly 37GB in size, was used to train several AI models, including Meta’s. There are other book datasets as well, which are too large to have been created from public domain content. And then there are datasets that use copyrighted music , images, and video as well.

Copyright 85

Copyright Government Public Domain Publishing 85

SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Nonetheless, what’s the solution in the long run – abolishing copyright from scholarly works as Steven Shavell proposed; disallowing corporate assignment of copyright over scholarly works, akin to Akshat’s suggestion in the music industry context; revamping Legal Deposit under The Delivery of Books and Newspaper (Public Libraries) Act 1954.

Trademark 59

Trademark Publishing Journalism Copyright 59

LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

“ Chat GPT responded: There are many examples of ancient trademarks that have been discovered through archaeological and historical records. For example, the “cuneiform” script used in Mesopotamia was a standardized system of writing that was used for record-keeping and commerce.

Trademark 52

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 18, 2023

This is the first of a series of posts on the topic of improving the Data Management practices of an enterprise so that its data can become an asset. Accountants have long kept financial records for enterprises (at least as far back as double-entry booking, invented in Renaissance Florence). Data, after all, is not new.

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Copying Government Editing Business 97

TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Site Blocking and CDN Providers Large international rightsholders are broadly in favor of site-blocking measures, but the topic is controversial in Japan. anti-piracy campaign run by Authorized Books of Japan (ABJ) to protect manga and similar content. If personal information is required, rightsholders should present a court order.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Consider the wide swath of entities vital to disseminating others’ speech—bookstores, book publishers, essay-compilation editors, theaters, newspaper letters to the editor and op-eds, live television guest interviews, cable television operators offering cable channels, art shows, community bulletin boards, and comedy clubs, just to name a few.

Social Media 112

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

Instead of merely using various material including the song in question – added the court – the film combined it with cultural commentary on topics such as gender, sexuality, and the artistic process. Tales from the Public Domain , “documentaries are records of our culture. Google, Inc.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And little bit of updated information on the topics we covered: * Psychology, in particular, seems to have a replicability problem ; even outside of psych, everyone knows that bad papers are still getting published (and they may even have a discoverability advantage ).

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Publishing Journalism Reporting Designs 98

TorrentFreak

APRIL 10, 2024

It allows all types of creative industries – film and television, music and book publishers, sports leagues and broadcasters – to request, in court, that internet service providers block access to websites dedicated to sharing illegal, stolen content. Let’s be clear: this approach focuses only on sites featuring stolen materials.

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Television Business Reporting Law 101

Copyright Lately

AUGUST 22, 2021

The complaint raised concerns that Dolezal was using copyright law to purge the historical record of her controversial past, while seeking substantial monetary damages in the process. In June, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals threw the book at a company called Design Basics. Also, I’m looking for future article topics!

Copyright 87

Copyright Fair Use Settlement Designs 87

Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

When people find out that I am an Intellectual Property attorney, I am often battered with questions about the topic. Copyright is the type of Intellectual Property most often associated with artistic works like fine art, movies, or books. Perform sound recordings publicly through digital audio transmission.

Intellectual Property 67

Intellectual Property Invention Intellectual Property Law Design Patent 67

LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

On the consumer protection side, the topic was initiating a Mag-Moss rulemaking concerning earnings claims – the statements that businesses may make when trying to encourage consumers to work for them or sell their product or service. So how did things roll out at the meeting?

Marketing 52

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Caveats: Given its vastness, and multiplicity of audiences and offerings, I can’t hope to do ”YouTube and Copyright” any sort of justice in this small a space; and I don’t plan to write a book or a white paper about it. On the positive side, it helps drive more reliable use analytics of one’s content on YouTube. It, too, is controversial.

Copyright 113

Copyright Social Media Licensing Publishing 113

Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

When people find out that I am an Intellectual Property (IP) attorney, I am often battered with questions about the topic. Copyright is the type of IP most often associated with artistic works like fine art, movies, or books. Perform sound recordings publicly through digital audio transmission. That’s understandable.

Intellectual Property 52

Intellectual Property IP Invention Designs 52

Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2023

If you’re interested in doing a deeper dive into how all of this works, I recommend following Andres Guadamuz’s blog on the topic.) In addition, the original images scanned into those databases, unlike Google’s display of book snippets, are never shown to end users. 17 U.S.C. §

Derivative Work 108

Derivative Work Art Copying Fair Use 108

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that California Civil Code section 980(a)(2) , which grants “exclusive ownership” of a sound recording fixed before February 15, 1972, to its “author,” provides only an exclusive right of reproduction and distribution, and does not provide an exclusive right of public performance.

Blogging 83

Blogging Copyright Settlement Music 83

The IPKat

JANUARY 21, 2022

The book covers the rights of performers, particularly the rights conferred under Part II of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended). In addition, the book contains chapters on related rights such as moral rights, civil and criminal proceedings, contracts and other forms of protection.

Moral Rights 128

Moral Rights Contracts Editing Related Rights 128

43(B)log

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Challenged material: a video in which Daily “uses the Gust phrase ‘Addiction to Intoxication’ ”; Gust’s book “can be seen on the video”; Daily “makes a statement that. Copyright: For the book, plaintiffs didn’t allege facts indicating that defendants engaged in direct copying or unlawful appropriation.

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 3, 2022

This blog post summarizes some of the significant decisions grouped by the hot topics below. 21, 2020) (“Ultimately, the decision whether to allow public access to court records is left to the ‘sound discretion of the trial court … to be exercised in light of the relevant facts and circumstances of the particular case.’” (quoting Nixon v.

Law 59

Law Confidentiality Designs Design 59

The TTABlog

MAY 10, 2023

Others are titles of books, or emblazoned in an ornamental manner on t-shirts or artwork. As we note above, some third-party uses are service mark uses.

Artwork 76

Artwork Service Mark Registration Trademark 76

LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

This is why ChatGPT seems so knowledgeable about a vast array of topics and subject areas. In particular, ChatGPT has been trained on text and databases, including text publicly available on the Internet, including approximately 570GB of data obtained from books, web texts (e.g., Again caveat emptor. ” Ms.

Intellectual Property 52

Intellectual Property IP Inventor Copyright 52

SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Last week we published 9 posts on topics such as our comments on the proposed Trademarks (1st Amendment) Rules, the Madras High Court’s decision with respect to patentability of business methods, and Union Minister of State for Commerce’s response on ability of the current IPR regime to cater concerns arising out of AI generated work.

Trademark 103

Trademark Social Media Registering Trademarks Copyright 103

Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 6, 2023

On the assumption that readers might be interested in this topic and less interested in reviewing all the responses, I have pasted below a selection of questions and answers from Copyright Clearance Center’s (CCC’s) own response. With 34 questions asked about both copyright and technology, some parties responses exceed 100 pages.

Copyright 98

Copyright Fair Use Licensing Copying 98

TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Rapid copyright takedowns, trusted flaggers, and other types of enforcement are all hot topics. In common with all complex pieces of legislation, the final text will probably fall short in meeting everyone’s demands but at the moment, interested parties are doing whatever they can to ensure that their interests are taken care of.

Due Diligence 120

Due Diligence Music Business Copyright 120

SpicyIP

JANUARY 9, 2023

Jaipur Police passes a circular, clarifying that no licenses required for using sound recordings during weddings and regional events. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes’ enters public domain. Continuing with our annual tradition, we curated a list of the top IP developments in India.

Trademark 105

Trademark IP Registration Reporting 105

LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

” Beyond pure economics, intellectual property rights can impact on the ease or difficulty with which sacred books may be translated into new languages, which has extra-economic impacts as well, as some have noted. That book has a U.S. So a lot is implied in, or possible from, the title ( as is often my intent on this blog ).

Intellectual Property 52

Intellectual Property Invention Trademark Copyright 52

Copyright Lately

APRIL 19, 2022

Judge Jackson hasn’t decided a reported fair use case while on the bench (although she did dismiss a pretty bizarre infringement lawsuit against several record labels and studios a few years ago as a district court judge). Clarence Thomas.

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Fair Use Art Copyright Social Media 78

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

A “derivative work” is defined as a “a work based upon one or more preexisting works,” such as the movie version of a book, “or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted.” There is no evidence in the record that Warhol was aware of the single-use restriction in the license. Fast-forward three decades.

Fair Use 95

Fair Use Derivative Work Blogging Licensing 95

LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

These were the hot topics in the recently decided Supreme Court case of Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Moreover, she wants the Court to reach that conclusion based on a novel legal theory—and on a record where no one disputes that Warhol conveyed something unique and distinct from his underlying source material.

Fair Use 52

Fair Use Derivative Work Art Licensing 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The opinion tackles one of the hottest topics in Internet Law: do UGC services engage in editorial functions protected by the First Amendment? Up to this point, I think the panel’s ruling has been pretty straightforward and obvious, even though it rejects the voluminous pro-censorship FUD directed towards these topics.

Social Media 97

Social Media Law Blogging Publishing 97

The TTABlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Applicant Douglas Wood contended that the book and its Spanish translation are different works, but he failed to show that the two books have significantly different contents. click on photo for larger picture) “The title of a single creative work, such as a book, is not considered to be a trademark, and is therefore unregistrable.”

Editing 52

Editing Public Domain Trademark Copyright 52

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2022

The letter discusses the BPCIA and the Hatch-Waxman Act frameworks (for small molecule drugs) and sets forth several topics for USPTO’s consideration and further discussion: engagement between FDA and USPTO to increase efficiencies, possible misuse of the patent system (e.g., New FDA Guidance and Information. See Figure 2.) Conclusion.

Litigation 52

Litigation Settlement Patent Marketing 52

The IPKat

APRIL 24, 2024

This Book Review of “Living with the Algorithm, servant or master? - The book examines the key questions and issues arising from the rapid development of AI as a technology and its intention is to map the international approaches to AI governance. One of the critical topics of the book, in my opinion, is the impact of AI on democracy.

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