Plagiarism Today

APRIL 20, 2022

Web scraping has been a divisive topic both ethically and legally in large part because of variety of activities it covers. Web scraping has been one of the longest-running themes on this site, with the first articles about it going live as far back as 2006. . A wide myriad of laws impact, or at least can impact, scraping activities online.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

As the Newman court summarized, “this case has shed its intentional discrimination and constitutional claims, becoming—first and foremost—a breach of contract dispute.” This is one of several ideologically motivated lawsuits against YouTube for allegedly engaging in “discriminatory” content moderation.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Later, those two companies formed an official partnership to develop a C3-binding protein (the same topic for which Amyndas had shared data). Zealand’s patent applications also published relating to the same topic. ” I might think of it as a pair of ongoing secret love affairs that finally resulted in a jilted lover.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 10, 2022

The plaintiff pointed out that HDR gained access to the group on a false pretense (claiming to be interested in the topic, when really it was just a data snarfer). Ahwatukee411’s screening process is “intended to ensure that only residents (i.e., those with a vested interest in the Ahwatukee community) can join the group.”

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The IPKat

APRIL 25, 2024

Here’s what they write: Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works by Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst Artificial Kat Over the past two years the IPKat has hosted debate on the question of whether the outputs of generative AI tools are protected under copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

LinkedIn lawsuit started in 2017. In 2019, the Ninth Circuit upheld the district court’s injunction ruling in favor of hiQ. The Supreme Court vacated that decision and told the Ninth Circuit to reconsider its ruling in light of the Supreme Court’s Van Buren ruling. The Supreme Court in Van Buren endorsed this approach.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 31, 2021

The decision also found that HTC’s proposed FRAND jury instructions were not a substantially correct statement of the law, because Ericsson’s ETSI FRAND commitment was governed by French contract law, but HTC’s instructions were based on U.S. law without reference or comparison to French contract law. Background.

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Bio Law Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

” Prior to the infringement action, Elysium had licensed the asserted patents but stopped making payments, leading to a separate breach of contract action in California. 21, 2021, the U.S. § 101. ChromaDex, Inc. Elysium Health, Inc. Civil Action No. 18-1434-CFC-JLH, 2021 WL 4286527, at *1 (D. Elysium Health, Inc. Patent Nos.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 30, 2022

Judge Alsup dismisses most of Berenson’s claims, but the contract breach and promissory estoppel claims survive Twitter’s motion to dismiss. Still, I prefer it when judges rely on Section 230(c)(1) to take the “good faith” topic off the table entirely. ” Contract Breach/Promissory Estoppel.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

Third, this bill reaches topics well beyond children’s privacy. Instead, the bill repeatedly implicates general consumer protection concerns and, most troublingly, content moderation topics. I’m continuing my coverage of dangerous Internet bills in the California legislature. NO ONE WANTS THIS. Bye bye casual browsing.

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 3, 2022

This blog post summarizes some of the significant decisions grouped by the hot topics below. There have been some noteworthy recent decisions in trade secrets law. Sufficiency of Trade Secret Pleadings and Allegations of Misappropriation. In Oakwood Lab’ys LLC v. Thanoo , 999 F.3d 3d 892 (3d Cir. Thanoo , 999 F.3d 3d 892 (3d Cir.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 21, 2022

Recognising the challenges for performers in the position and enforcement of their rights, the book also includes discussion on other forms of protections and remedies for performers, such as moral rights, contracts, passing off and copyright infringement. An appendix provides extracts of relevant UK, EU and international regulation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Breach of Contract. ” The court says that’s not an affirmative promise to approve all such apps; plus, the contract reserved Apple’s right to decide in its sole discretion. .” There is no showing that Apple is reaping the fruits of anticompetitive conduct. Implications.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

delivered by a Michigan federal jury for the breach of its contract with Versata Software and the misappropriation of Versata’s trade secrets. delivered by a Michigan federal jury for the breach of its contract with Versata Software and the misappropriation of Versata’s trade secrets. The jury awarded $22.39

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 30, 2021

Topical Highlight. Sun Pharma v. Cipla: Madras HC Rejects COVID as an Excuse for Passing Off. In this guest post , Kedar Ganesh Dhargalkar analyses the recent case of Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. Cipla Ltd. , The Court granted an ad-interim injunction in favour of the plaintiffs. Thematic Highlight.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And while we’re on the topic of an opinion covering multiple interesting trade secret issues, the U.S. I had a trial this month, so I was delayed in my wrap up of noteworthy developments from November. Certainly not me. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit just issued an opinion in Caudill Seed & Warehouse Co.

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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? On Monday, a unanimous three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit issued an important Internet free speech opinion, NetChoice v. Attorney General (a/k/a NetChoice v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

At some point, the parties discussed revisiting the contract terms; these discussions ended up blowing up the relationship. For background, check out my post on the district court’s ruling here: “ Social Media Ownership Disputes Part II: Bridal Wear Company Takes Back Control of Instagram Account from Ex-Employee ”.

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