Plagiarism Today

MAY 16, 2022

First off today, Massimo Capizza at the National Law Review reports that the Supreme Court of the United States has denied certiorari in a case over the 2003 Josh Groban song You Raise Me Up , leaving a circuit split in place over how to determine substantial similarity between two works. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Three pharmaceutical companies, including Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Micromet AG, and Cambridge Antibody Technology (now acquired by AstraZeneca), in September 2003 announced signing a non-exclusive cross-license agreement. The convenience of a licensing agreement majorly depends on the terms and conditions mentioned in it.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Wikipedia entry begin as follows— For the 2003 novel, see The Miniaturist (Kunal Basu novel)." Therefore, once copyright protection ends, and the work falls in the public domain, others must have the right to call the work by its name…. International license. It was sufficient, until it wasn't.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

To ensure more legal clarity and make Russia more attractive for investors, these laws were amended in 2002 and 2003 , respectively, thereby introducing a national regime of IP rights exhaustion. The picture in the upper middle is by Amin and is licensed under the Cretive Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Almost two years after the 2021 amendments to the Patent Rules 2003, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has proposed a fresh set of amendments which, if accepted, can change the Indian Patent landscape substantially. Without these details, it is essentially diluting the possibility of compulsory licenses as well.

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Intepat

MAY 4, 2023

After the period of protection, the inventions and information surrounding it fall into the public domain. Apart from this, the public disclosure at the time of application allows others to build upon this preexisting knowledge. The Supreme Court in Eldred v.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A few years later, in 1984, Goldsmith’s agency, which had retained the rights to those images, licensed one of them to Vanity Fair for use in an article called “Purple Fame.” In 1981, Goldsmith, who was then a portrait photographer for Newsweek , took a series of photographs of the then-up-and-coming musician Prince. He did just that.

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