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Trade Dress Protection for Non-Traditional Marks in the Fashion Industry

IP and Legal Filings

It reviews the growing importance of the protection of non-traditional trademarks within the fashion world in assessing how firms use trade dress to create and maintain an identity that may thrive within market competition. Recent court decisions such as Christian Louboutin v. Yves Saint Laurent [1] and Herms v. Christian Louboutin v.

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Google Answers Question About Plagiarized Content, Kind Of

Plagiarism Today

However, despite those efforts, a study in 2012 found that Google only identified the original content 57% of the time , often ranking duplicates higher than source material. This has made copied content something of a sore spot with many Google watchers. Why SEO Practitioners Cares About Copied Content.

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Copyright and the Digital First Sale Doctrine: A Comparative Review

Intepat

This doctrine is mainly pertinent to the physical copies of copyrighted works, such as books, CDs, and DVDs. Digital content can easily be copied which raises the question of whether this doctrine ought to apply to digital works as well. However, the applicability of this doctrine in the digital era is still a matter of contention.

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Book review: Copyright in the Digital Single Market

The IPKat

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. It was against this background that the proposal for a Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market was made in 2016.

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Supreme Court: Bank Can Terminate Contract Over Lacking Anti-Piracy Measures

TorrentFreak

Trade Representative as a notorious piracy market. The shutdown of Megaupload in 2012 put a spotlight on the cyberlocker industry and, urged by rightsholders, major payment companies started to intervene. File-hosting platform 1fichier.com appeared around 2009 and since then has seen no shortage of copyright complaints.

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Copyright Liability for LLM Outputs

Velocity of Content

Professor Paul Goldstein, for example, has argued that, in light of the enumeration, the statutory text is intended primarily to protect certain licensing markets. 785, 851 (2013) (“By copying a master’s work, the ‘pupil’ might at least get a glimpse of the great author’s mind, which would seem like a normatively desirable process.

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Sony vs. Datel: Game Cheat Copyright Questions Referred to EU’s Top Court

TorrentFreak

The company’s Action Replay range battled against Codemasters’ Game Genie, with the latter eventually backing out of the market. In January 2012, the Hamburg Regional Court found largely in Sony’s favor. Datel’s venture into the new world of videogame cheat devices was more controversial.

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