Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. For example, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) registered 191 mask works between 1990-2001.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The latter (also known as ‘first sale doctrine’ in the United States) provides that a copyright owner’s right of distribution in the original or a copy of a work is ‘exhausted’ on its first lawful sale by the copyright owner. As a consequence, both Directive 2001/29/EC and the Software Directive 2009/24/EC apply to video games.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even though that Court’s judgment was very specific to the V-Cast service, it left room, arguing a contrario and subject to certain conditions, to consider the mere provision of Cloud storage services of audio-visual content, with reproductions made on individual requests of end-users, to be covered by the private copying exception.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

On the occasion of the opening of a new store in NY, the well-known clothing brand created a collection of NFTs based on digital copies of works of famous artists such as Miró, Tàpies and Barceló, incorporating various outfits of the collection available at the store, to be displayed in the Decentraland Metaverse, at the coordinates 16.78

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Its introduction in 2001 was sudden, the technology is ideally suited for software piracy, and it wasn’t notably interrupted during the sample period which ends in 2007. A copy of the working paper is available through the USPTO website and SSRN. BitTorrent Piracy Triggered Innovation. .”

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2021

copyright laws by copying their source code, it also complained that Hytera infringed the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act. Hytera served as a distributor for Motorola until 2001. Hytera Corp. Not only did Motorola Solutions allege that Hytera violated U.S.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A similar copyright controversy surrounding Van Gogh happened in 2001 between two websites featuring digital copies of Van Gogh’s works. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission of Ireland confirmed that there is no clear breach of consumer protection law from an initial review of the different shows.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The technique of "electronic copying of audio fragments" (sampling) at issue here, in which a user takes an audio fragment from a phonogram and uses it to create a new work, is a form of artistic expression that falls under the freedom of art protected by Art. 13 EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (CJEU, C-476/17).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

This case involves Morford’s 2001 artwork named “Banana and Orange.” Copying-in-Fact. No Wrongful Copying To determine wrongful copying, the court uses the abstraction-filtration-comparison test. For example, we must resolve when duct-taping a banana to a wall infringes copyright.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2001, the professor published a critical edition of Demetrii principis Cantemirii. It is clear to me that the InfoSoc right applies to instances of both literal and non-literal copying (a clear example being the photo-fit at issue in Painer !)

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IIPRD

MARCH 1, 2023

Drawing upon the same, the ‘Artists Rights Directive’ was implemented by the European Union in 2001, which thereby declared Re-sale rights to be “unassailable and inalienable, enjoyed by the author of an original work of graphic or plastic art.” Official Journal of the European Communities (2001). Artists Rights Directive.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At the request of De Fontbrune , in 1998, the police confiscated copies of Wofsy’s book, and De Fontbrune sued for copyright infringement. This, however, was reversed in 2001 with a ruling against Wofsy, who became responsible for 10,000 francs per infraction.

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SpicyIP

JULY 31, 2023

From “Knowledge” to “Intention” of User, and “Copy” to “Infringing” Copy: The scope of the provisions relating to piracy remained intact in the latest bill as it mentions “making or transmitting or attempting to make or transmit or abetting the making or transmission” like previous drafts.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

The first sale doctrine restricts the rights holder’s exclusive right to distribute a copyrighted work to the public, where the distribution right to control secondary sales is ‘exhausted’ upon completion of the first lawful sale of a copy of the work by the rights holder or with their consent.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Johannsongs-Publishing claimed that You Raise Me Up, which was written by Rolf Lovland and Brendan Graham and released in 2001 by Secret Garden and later by Josh Groban in 2003 infringed on its rights in Soknodur. Rather, the defendants focused their attack by claiming there was no triable issue as to the element of copying.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Kwantum, a popular low-budget furniture store chain, sold copies of the chair without rightholder Vitra’s permission. Where a subject matter has those characteristics and therefore constitutes a work, it must qualify for copyright protection, in accordance with Directive 2001/29” [para. That’s basically it.

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SpicyIP

JULY 14, 2021

De jure functionality is defined as something functional in law if the degree of utility is so great that the configuration makes a superior design which others need to copy to be able to compete effectively. To shed some light on this, one can refer to the 2001 judgement of Surya Roshni Ltd. Special smell-marks: Attars and Agarbattis.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

From PR newswire, apparently a still from the 2001 film registered trademark For the 2001 Documentary, Monbo “organize[d] a group of highly skilled dirt-bike riders” to participate in a scripted film “that would highlight the exploits of an ostentatious group of dirt-bike riders in Baltimore called 12 O’Clock Boyz.”

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The IPKat

JUNE 17, 2023

Would you say that Cattelan’s work (realized for an exhibition in Miami in 2019) is an unauthorized reproduction of the 2001 work below, titled Banana and Orange , and thus an infringement of the copyright vesting in it? Of course, that is not all: Comedian has in fact also sparked litigation in the USA.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Relying on the server test , Sinclair unsuccessfully argued that it and its affiliates didn’t infringe the copyright in Nicklen’s video because they only embedded it on their websites from Instagram or Facebook, as opposed to maintaining a copy of the video on a Sinclair-controlled server.

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Olartemoure Blog

JULY 17, 2023

Barbie was created in 1959, and when she was 42 years old, in 2001, Bratz entered the scene. Mattel produced the line of dolls called “My Scene” In April 2005… MGA (Bratz) filed a lawsuit claiming that Mattel (Barbie) had copied the distinctive big-headed and slim-bodied appearance of the Bratz dolls in this new line.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 2, 2021

Hard copies of the documents uploaded in the online application are sent along with the UTRN to the Customs Office. Documents required to be filed online along with the application are as follows: Proof of ownership of the IPR and copies of the corresponding registration certificate. Demand draft of Rs.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 10, 2022

The patent application was filed back in 2001 and was originally owned by ADC who sold that division to SS8. In 2006, SS8 sold the patent to the “Imaginex Fund I”, an Intellectual Ventures shell. In 2012, IV merged Imaginex back into an IV fund.

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Patently-O

JULY 13, 2021

2001) (citing Gorham Co. Here, an anonymous third party, through counsel, provided the USPTO with copies of two webpages in a foreign language … each paired with an uncertified English translation. Door-Master Corp. Yorktowne Inc. , 3d 1308 (Fed. White , 81 U.S. 511 (1871)).

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Copyright Office and you find someone has infringed your copyright by copying substantial portions of your book. Can you receive payment by the alleged infringer of the fair market value of the portions of your book illegally copied as recovery for actual damages? The answer to all these questions is YES! On Davis v. Gap, Inc. ,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. Copyright law forbids duplication, public performance, and so on, unless the person wishing to copy or perform the work gets permission; silence means a ban on copying. A copyright is a right against the world.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 11, 2022

But at what point in the scripts was the Del Boy character sufficiently formed to satisfy this requirement, given that OFAH had 64 episodes plus Christmas specials, released between 1981 and 2001. The Infringement. The Defences. Passing Off.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 31, 2024

The Legal Stuff The De Minimis Defense As I’ve discussed before , there’s a whole doctrine with a fancy Latin name reserved for situations in which copying is insignificant enough to fall below the threshold of substantial similarity— de minimis non curat lex (“The law does not concern itself with trifles.”) The Gap, Inc.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This personal intellectual creation is lacking if the photographs in question are “mere reproductions of other photographs” in which an original has been merely reproduced (copied) as closely as possible. If a copy of a computer program is published in the territory of the EU/EEA with the consent of the rightholder, Section 69 No.

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Olartemoure Blog

JULY 17, 2023

Barbie was created in 1959, and when she was 42 years old, in 2001, Bratz entered the scene. Mattel produced the line of dolls called “My Scene” In April 2005… MGA (Bratz) filed a lawsuit claiming that Mattel (Barbie) had copied the distinctive big-headed and slim-bodied appearance of the Bratz dolls in this new line.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Germany has regulated exploitation rights, as harmonised under European law in Articles 2 to 4 of the InfoSoc Directive (2001/29), in Sections 15 to 22 UrhG. The right of distribution, as set out in European law in Article 4(1) of the InfoSoc Directive (2001/29), is found in Germany in Section 17(1) UrhG.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Concerning the claim of spoilage, the court noted that even though the copy of the defendant’s ad was poorly photocopied, advertisements did not amount to spoliation. 2001), wherein spoliation has been discussed. The court referred to the case of Silvestri v. Motors Corp., 3d 583, 590 (4th Cir.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

NATURE OF THE CASE The above decisions dealt with requests for a preliminary ruling related to the interpretation of Article 3 of Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society. 2) Does Article 3 of Directive 2001/29/EC.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This levy is a fee applied to items capable of carrying copyright-protected content for personal copying and is payable at the point of entry or initial local manufacture. This Bill aims to repeal the Copyright Act 2001 in its entirety.

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BYU Copyright Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Customers can purchase flashcards, sound graphics, and the SECRET STORIES book in different kits and sizes.The first Secret Stories book was registered with the Copyright Office on April 27, 2001. These illegal copies were made available (possibly to this day) to students and the general public through Springdale’s YouTube account.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 8, 2022

But, for those who are yet to pick up a copy, here is what is in store: The EU legislature adopted Directive 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) in 2019. Many readers will already be familiar with this title, since it won our IPKat book of the year award 2021 for best copyright book!

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Apple had accused Samsung of copying the features of the iPhone, like the rounded-rectangle shape, home button, and the grid icon layout. Samsung : This was a case, from 2011 to 2018, where Apple took the word against Samsung, claiming infringement of its smartphone design and utility patents.

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