TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

companies including Cloudflare, PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, and Google. Site Blocking and CDN Providers Large international rightsholders are broadly in favor of site-blocking measures, but the topic is controversial in Japan. Search Engines Google appears to be taking the same position in Japan as it does elsewhere. One of Yahoo!

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 9, 2022

Often, copyright owners and users have to analogize to works as diverse as music and books when assessing whether something is fair use, and a Supreme Court case regarding visual works could be helpful in developing law more specific to that oeuvre. . What is “transformative” has been a hotly debated topic for years.

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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.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2022

for the book in the example above). The software also works with Chrome but is yet to appear on Google’s Play Store. Named ‘Sci-Hub Injector’ and released under GNU General Public License v3.0, the browser extension is easy to deploy in Firefox and is installable in Chrome with a simple few steps.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2023

Strangely, the value of ‘likes’ and ‘views’ is comprehensively understood when the topic of conversation isn’t centered on ripping music from YouTube. ” Thankfully, Google Lawyer (Google Doctor’s twin brother) is always around to help. Both options are free; what’s the problem?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

Google LLC, 2022 WL 17072948 (N.D. Topics of conversation ranged from innocuous to serious, encompassing posts about parents discussing their own children, snow days and school closures, the school calendar, criticisms and concerns regarding District employees, and allegations that a District principal threatened a student.

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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. Google, Inc. To strengthen further its finding, the Second Circuit also cited its own 2015 ruling in Authors Guild v.

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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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Velocity of Content

JUNE 15, 2022

In mass media, Walt Disney Company, proprietor of “The Happiest Place on Earth” ®, had recently (1995) acquired the ABC television network, and Marvel was still mostly a comic book company, and just emerging from bankruptcy and reorganization. Marvel’s first widely successful superhero film, Blade , was released in August.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In this post, I’m looking at the vast domain of the YouTube video & social media platform —which, lest we forget, is a major division of Google/Alphabet — and how its copyright aspect manifests in options for individual contributors (“YouTubers,” in the jargon). See also: Copyright Match : A more widely-available alternative to ContentID.

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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.

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43(B)log

JUNE 29, 2023

Might be broken down by topic. Bernt Hugenholtz: complexity reflects European tradition of civil law in the books, and other reasons, many already pointed out—desire to deal w/urgent tech developments, etc. We’ll just behave like we do with Google Maps and follow what the automated systems tell us.

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IP Whiteboard

APRIL 15, 2021

Since that time, Meghan and Harry have been very open about their frustration with the British media’s negative coverage of Meghan, which The Duke and Duchess of Sussex consider to be laced with racially-charged undertones (while we’re on the topic, some unsolicited advice for readers: the Oprah interview is must-see viewing). The takeaways.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And this move—firmly distinguishing source confusion from other kinds of confusion, this time with a statutory basis, would have salutary effects on free speech and competitive freedom to operate, which are topics I believe the other speakers will take up in more detail. Is Google using TMs as marks? HomeVestors: title of TV show.

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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.

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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. Google, Inc. More than 9,000 responses have been filed. TVEyes, Inc., 3d 169 (2d Cir. 3d 132 (2d Cir.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 19, 2022

The transformative use doctrine did play a role in Google v. He certainly didn’t cite Harper & Row for this proposition in his Google v. After all, the last time the Court considered whether a creative work qualified as a “transformative” fair use under the Copyright Act was in 1994’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” case, Campbell v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Despite those caveats, the opinion is likely to be enormously consequential, far more so than the Court’s similarly narrow and context-specific ruling two years ago in the Google v. Barton Beebe’s empirical work on this topic. Penguin Books USA, Inc. , Oracle software case. (See See my commentary on that case here.)

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 9, 2023

Google preparing to approach Supreme Court of India against the CCI’s ruling that will force it to change how it markets its android platform. 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.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

RT: Don’t need a jury (though there may be subtle effects on how judges behave because of the jury background); Google v. Google’s global injunction against Google requiring delisting a site worldwide. 1950s books with both having a plot about a woman elected VP who becomes president when the male president dies.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 27, 2024

We have traversed through Junes , Julys , Augusts , Septembers , Octobers , and Novembers and shared some stories like 10 years of the Google Books Library Project, the Presumption of validity of patents, Corruption in IP Offices, the Serial Crisis in India, Law Making via Leaked Documents, etc. In sum, ‘tis a very interesting topic.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Students: this post surfaces numerous potential paper topics. Google ruling because it was a 3-opinion hairball from a 3-judge panel (running 167 pages), which I figured the Ninth Circuit would surely take en banc. Cases are already going up on appeal, so there will be a lot more law coming on these issues soon. * * *. Ruling #2: M.L.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2021

” [One thing we can prove: content on Google or Facebook gets a lift in credibility through the association–that’s not the same as “attribution,” but it’s a sign that consumers build trust relationships with Internet services similar to their trust in traditional publishers.]. Tornillo precedent.

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