Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This article provides a brief overview of the use of Creative Commons licensing in relation to NFTs based on the Creative Commons’ FAQ page linked above. NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have become a buzzword in recent years. The new FAQ page has been created to assist people with the use of CC licensing and CC0 in their NFT projects.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 11, 2024

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in agriculture is a topic that evokes sharp reactions across the globe. Problems related to GMO Agriculture The use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture has certainly roused a great deal of enthusiasm for potential benefits and ignited a never-ending debate over potential risks.

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Erik K Pelton

MAY 9, 2022

Non-traditional trademarks are those things that indicate the source of a brand, but are not brand names, logos, or slogans. And it’s one of my favorite topics to talk about because there’s so many exciting and interesting examples of different non-traditional trademarks. That’s a registered trademark.

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Intepat

JUNE 19, 2023

On the other hand, blindly commercializing one’s intellectual property can lead to a loss of important assets without significant returns. Therefore, it becomes pertinent to grasp the different ways in which one’s intellectual property can be commercialized and how to find the most viable commercializing strategy for one’s organisation.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 29, 2022

Few issues in the world of intangible rights contain as many legal uncertainties as do non-fungible tokens. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), ranging from art and literature to fashion and cinema, remain among the hottest legal topics in the world of intangible rights, despite the lack of clear legal regulation. Kat friends Mutlu Y?ld?r?m

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 30, 2024

We explored the webinar topics in more depth, and the following is our edited and abridged conversation. Word embeddings can be used outside LLMs, and have been for a number of years. But LLMs use contextual word embeddings, preserving words that come before and after the given word. That’s what we’re doing here.

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Corsearch

APRIL 5, 2024

These sessions, led by esteemed panelists from organizations such as Warner Music Group, Estée Lauder, PwC, and more, explored a diverse range of topics crucial to the modern trademark landscape, which are covered in more detail below. Portfolio management: Regularly audit trademarks and watches to ensure alignment with business objectives.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 2, 2023

Some of these issues are specific to doing business with the government and others are broader issues that all companies face when using AI, and generative AI (GAI) in particular. This rapid increase in the use of AI creates a number of legal issues, some of which are addressed below. Joint Statement at 2.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The court held that geographical indications must be free to be used by all, not least because they may be an indication of the quality and other characteristics of the goods concerned, and may also, in various ways, influence consumer tastes by, for instance, associating the goods with a place that may give rise to a favourable response.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The use of look-a-likes within the context of image rights by Jan Jacobi Copycats trying to find a fair balance “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness”, Oscar Wilde famously stated. Background In 2016, Verstappen featured in a TV commercial for Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Panel #2, TM, moderated by Vice Dean Felix Wu Jack Daniels says that use as a trademark is special: like copyright’s bête noire, confusion caused by trademark use is the central concern of trademark law. That is, Rogers is for uses that might confuse, but not about source.

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43(B)log

MARCH 25, 2024

21, 2024) The sudden shift in the political valence of the commercial speech doctrine strikes again! The Fifth Circuit upholds mandatory cigarette warnings as acceptable compelled commercial speech under Zauderer , reversing the district court’s 2022 decision. Food & Drug Admin., 2024 WL 1208111, F.4th 23-40076 (5 th Cir.

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The IPKat

APRIL 25, 2024

Since we last wrote for the IPKat on the topic , additional posts have discussed the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee’s inquiry into the impact of AI on the creative industries and the UK House of Lords Inquiry into Large Language Models. Are there alternatives if copyright protection is unavailable?

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The IPKat

MARCH 27, 2022

Topics included the territorial scope of existing marks, the potential need to expand the specifications of trade marks used in the Metaverse, the importance of clearance searches before entering this environment, and the consideration of co-existence agreements to avoid conflicts.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The legal world is buzzing about AI and its use for all kinds of things, including generating logos, text, and other things people would normally want to register for copyright or trademark protection. There’s no doubt AI is incredibly useful for generating content, though there is still no substitute for a real human author or artist.

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The IPKat

JULY 7, 2023

The conference series was created by Dr Gaetano Dimita and the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London in 2015 to bring together creators, legal practitioners and researchers in the field of Interactive Entertainment. The second panel of the day identified interoperability as a key attribute of the Metaverse.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

With fundamental issues of interpretation remaining pending before the CJEU – such as the meaning of “material” and “non-material” damage; and the imposition or otherwise of liability under Article 82 in the context of a hacking incident – the court used its inherent discretionary jurisdiction, to grant a stay.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

With this consultation, the Office seeks to assess whether the current IP regime strikes the appropriate balance to encourage the development of AI and its use across the UK economy. This is not the first time the UKIPO has engaged with a public call for views on the topic of AI and IP. The consultation closes on 7 January 2022.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

The court summarizes the plaintiffs’ allegations: Plaintiffs give examples of how PeopleConnect has allegedly exploited their names, likenesses, and so forth for commercial purposes. Here, Plaintiffs have alleged an economic injury; they were not paid – implicitly, by PeopleConnect – for the use of their names and likenesses.”

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SpicyIP

JUNE 19, 2022

The IP Reveries series is an experimental ‘fun’ series set in an imaginary classroom where we are using a dialogue format to raise questions and discussions around IP that traditionally don’t find a place to get voiced either due to long standing assumptions, or due to being seen as ‘too trivial’ to discuss in more formal settings.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 2, 2023

The repository must also contain additional information relating to ads, including the parameters used to specifically display the ad to one or more particular groups of recipients and the total number of service recipients reached (with aggregate numbers broken down by Member State, if applicable).

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As part of the course requirements, students were asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. This may become a concern in Canada only when memes are used in a commercial context, as the Copyright Act allows exceptions for non-commercial user-generated content (s.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The recital makes it clear that the “summary should be comprehensive in its scope instead of technically detailed, for example by listing the main data collections or sets that went into training the model, such as large private or public databases or data archives, and by providing a narrative explanation about other data sources used.”

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The IPKat

MAY 22, 2023

Hayleigh Bosher and Coran Darling giving evidence at the Inquiry Artificial intelligence is a highly debated topic in the intellectual property field currently. The technology behind AI is complicated, however, at its core, AI engines ingest massive data sets which are used to train software that can generate code, images, sounds, or text.

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout 2021, our dedicated Trade Secrets, Computer Fraud & Non-Competes Practice Group hosted a series of CLE webinars that addressed significant trade secret and restrictive covenant issues facing clients today. Overview of Non-Compete Legislation and Enforcement Issues from 2021. View the Recording.

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 17, 2021

You have been reading about them all over the news, they’re the hottest topic in tech right now, especially in the blockchain space. With that in mind, we now have something called non-fungible tokens or NFTs. You can create a digital or non-digital asset and attach that to an NFT. “Who’s the owner?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It makes use of several technological developments and in particular computing devices with wireless connectivity that let the user connect to the Internet and other devices in different places. The latter synthesizes the information next to the real-life object using location tracking abilities. Image by Tumisu from Pixabay.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2022

3D trade marks are always a topic of interest, with some proprietors despairing as to whether trade mark law will provide them with any practical protection. Picture on top middle is by Riana Harvey, who grants permission for its use. The recent decision of the EUIPO’s Board of Appeal may provide some comfort.

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The IPKat

MAY 25, 2022

The IPKat is pleased to host the following guest post by Katfriends Hanne Kirk and Jakob Plesner Mathiasen (both Gorrissen Federspiel) on the topic of 'grand rights' in a recent Danish decision. This distinction is rooted in consideration for the author without any specific legal basis.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In fact, the Registry used to generate a sum of around 4 crores INR , from trademark searches before embracing public access. Whether it’s the IPAB website or the Indian patent website , the recurrent issue of non-functional platforms doesn’t surprise us anymore. where Prof. That’s a wrap for the sift of Septembers!

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A new breed of highly-commercialized pirate entities, many of which seem to love money more than manga, only add to what is already a complex problem. The domains they used have long since been replaced, but in the past, redirected to other domains listed in the same application. Publishers Seek Help From U.S. Executive Order 13984.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

This two-part blog post offers a reflection on the topic of content moderation and bias mitigation measures in copyright law. However, these tools are incapable of assessing contextual uses (see, e.g. here ). contextual uses. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. Introduction. YouTube’s’ ContentID).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

We know, however, that many laws limit free access and use of information goods, most prominently copyright law (and IP law generally). But copyright law isn’t limitless; it leaves many intangible goods, especially factual data, unprotected, and it allows many uses of protected works. The core facts of the case are rather simple.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

The Doctrine of Fair Use is a concept that originates from the case of Folsom vs. Marsh. Justice Story observed in his judgement, when the courts of law decide on cases like this, they must look to the nature and objects of the selection mode, the quantity and value of material used. Percentage of Original Material Used.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Overall the guidance here suggests that the office is looking to make non-obviousness a larger hurdle via increased flexibility. Still, the guidance will be useful for applicants and attorneys to understand how examiners are expected to analyze obviousness issues. Teleflex Inc. , 398 (2007). 2500 words). Read the Guidance Here.

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

Topical Highlight. Rounak argues that earlier, the Vidya Drolia judgment was interpreted to mean that every dispute involving any IPR would be considered non-arbitrable. Delhi High Court Clarifies Law on Arbitrability of Trademark Disputes. Golden Tobacco Ltd. Other Posts. Image from here. Logo Battles in Fashion Forever.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 8, 2021

While reading this decision – authored by the late Justice Ginsberg — it occurred to me that it might have immediate application to the routines regular bloggers (and podcasters ) use to protect their work under copyright. These are not written in legalese and are intended for use by the general public.

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