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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. The flexibility of contracts makes them a prime candidate for restricting uses that copyright law leaves unprohibited. That still leaves a rather broad space for contract law to effectively limit the use of information.

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The Not-Quite-So Legal Future for Web Scraping

Plagiarism Today

Namely, it says that scraping content from a publicly accessible website is not a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), even if such activity is barred by the site’s terms of service. Web scraping has been a divisive topic both ethically and legally in large part because of variety of activities it covers.

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[Guest post] Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works

The IPKat

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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Employees with a side hustle: Can I protect my intellectual property?

Nelligan Law

Intellectual property is the overarching term for rights that flow from these intangible ideas, with different categories of rights and protections contained within it. The Copyright Act and The Industrial Design Act both touch on the topic of employment and IP.

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Once Again, LinkedIn Can’t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scraping–hiQ v. LinkedIn

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

They may look to state hacking laws, trespass to chattel claims, or other causes of action “such as copyright infringement, misappropriation, unjust enrichment, conversion, breach of contract, or breach of privacy.”. __. This is a long-running dispute and the parties are fighting over whether hiQ is still in business.

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Permissibility Of A Waiver Of Moral Rights Of An Author Under The Copyright Regime

IP and Legal Filings

Article 6bis of the Convention fails to establish a period or tenure for an author’s moral rights, leaving it to the discretion of the Convention’s contracting parties. Facts: The plaintiff set out to complete the difficult undertaking after entering into a contract with the Central Public Works Department (defendant No.

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Introducing a zero-embargo Secondary Publication Right in Bulgaria

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay In recent years, a so called ‘Secondary Publication Right’ (SPR) has been adopted in a number of European countries and become a policy hot topic at the EU level. In terms of the type of works eligible for re-use, the new regime covers works of academic literature. A new para 2 to art.