SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

We are pleased to bring to you a guest post by Naman Keswani on the concept of naked licensing within trademarks law. This requires the proprietor to exercise quality control measures while granting licenses to use the trademark, as a deviance in the quality would cause confusion. In El Du Pont De Nemours & Co.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2021

The lawsuit actually began in 2012 when LaTele sued Telemundo over alleged copyright infringement of a telenovela. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Sims initially sought $3 million in the case, as well as injunctive relief.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Specifically, Cox alleges the metadata on the evidence indicates that they are files from 2016 though the case only deals with 2012-2014. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. 2: CEO of Major Anti-Piracy Company Arrested in Russia For High Treason.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 27, 2022

They allege that Megan Thee Stallion and Big Sean infringed their 2012 song entitled Krazy when creating Go Crazy for Big Sean’s 2020 debut album. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2022

For example, local artist Claude Tousignant had one of his paintings sell in 2012 for $110,000. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Under the current law, he received nothing, but would receive $5,500 under this law. The post 3 Count: Settled Again?

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 30, 2024

Trade Wings Hotels Limited , the Single Bench (SB) held that organizations such as Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) and Novex Communications can grant licenses for the musical works owned by them, even if they are not officially registered as copyright societies under Section 33(1) of the Copyright Act, 1957. The SB was adjudicating w.r.t.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

But IP nerds will specifically remember that eleven years ago, in March 2012, India’s first compulsory license was granted by the Indian Patent Office against Bayer’s Nexavar. One year later, in March 2013 the compulsory license order was upheld by the IPAB in a landmark ruling by the then Chairperson, Justice Prabha Sridevan.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

With the onset of the trend wherein users are gradually switching to online streaming to meet their music needs and discarding traditional methods such as radio, television, and music CDs, compulsory licensing for the internet was recognized as a key policy issue by the music industry last year. Background. The Plaintiff, Tips Industries Ltd.,

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Patently-O

MARCH 18, 2024

The Federal Circuit has issued an interesting nonprecedential order in In re VLSI Technology LLC , denying VLSI’s petition for a writ of mandamus that sought to reverse a district court order allowing Intel to amend its answer to assert a declaratory judgment counterclaim regarding a patent license defense.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

IPRS is a copyright society which is responsible for licensing and managing rights on behalf of music composers, publishers, and authors. The monopolistic power of these societies gives them considerable power in licensing and royalty distribution for their sector, impacting businesses, the public at large, and other stakeholders.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2024

To put it short, Section 31D, inserted after the 2012 amendment , creates a statutory licensing regime which allows a Broadcaster to communicate a literary or musical work and sound recording, either by way of public performance or broadcast, after paying royalties to the Copyright owner (rates to be fixed by Commercial Court).

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The complaint alleged that Scientific Games, through its acquired entity, SHFL Entertainment, brought patent infringement litigation in 2009 and 2012 based on fraudulently obtained patents for automatic card shufflers used in licensed casinos.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

billion damage award against defendant Intel Corporation because it found plaintiff VLSI Technology LLC had erred on its damages calculation, that one of the asserted patents was not infringed, and that Intel was wrongly barred from raising a defense that it had a newly acquired license to the asserted patents.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

On the other hand, there are digital products such as e-books, music files, and software, which appear to be licensed rather than sold, with terminologies that prohibit resale or sharing. Licensing vs. Ownership: Most digital goods are distributed under licenses that impose restrictions on resale rights.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Filed in 2012, the decision comes after 13 years with the litigation having outlived not only the suit patent, and the DVD industry, but also the institution that declared it essential !! This was contrary to their pleading where the Defendants had specifically denied that Moser Baer had a valid license to undertake replication.

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SpicyIP

MAY 4, 2023

Image from here [Long post ahead] In a momentous development, the Bombay High Court made a bunch of important interpretations concerning the rights of the authors of underlying literary and musical works in light of the Copyright (Amendment) Act 2012. The court passed a joint order in Indian Performing Right Society Ltd.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 28, 2023

Simply put “march-in” rights would allow the government to take control of the IP rights of inventions owned by private companies if those inventions have been funded by public money through grants from the government or through licensing agreements with government R&D institutions. crores for CSIR (2012-22); Rs.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 6, 2023

YouTube’s motion for summary judgment states that Schneider licensed her content to YouTube, presented no evidence of DMCA violations, and in some cases had filed untimely claims. YouTube’s Licensing Defense. The big questions now center on the nature of that license and whether YouTube can rely on it to fend off liability.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit [1] reversed a lower court’s denial of Intel Corporation’s (“Intel’s”) motion for leave to amend its answer to assert a new license defense in a patent infringement suit brought by VLSI Technology LLC (“VLSI”). and Finjan Software, Inc. Finjan Software, Inc.,

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TorrentFreak

MAY 10, 2024

Nealy’s personal life was no major success either, as he spent time in prison from 1989 to 2008, and again from 2012 to 2015. While Nealy was doing time, his former partner licensed the Music Specialist catalog to Warner Chappell. The venture didn’t score any hits and it eventually dissolved after a few years.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Professor Paul Goldstein, for example, has argued that, in light of the enumeration, the statutory text is intended primarily to protect certain licensing markets. Annemarie Bridy, Coding Creativity: Copyright and the Artificially Intelligent Author , 2012 Stan. 5, 12 (2012). 19 Courts will also play their customary role.

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The IPKat

MARCH 8, 2023

In December 2012, the plaintiff filed by fax an infringement action with the District Court of Nuremberg-Fürth. He refused the offer, proposing a license agreement instead. Neither the warning letter nor the complaints filed in December 2012 and December 2013 were sufficient to interrupt the five-year period of acquiescence.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 24, 2025

C Union of India (2012). Further, the financial data relied upon (from the Plaintiffs Trademark Licensing Agreements with other brands) was not directly linked to the Defendants infringing activities. Even if one were to assume D2 and D3 as wholly owned subsidiaries of Amazon Tech. (D1), Why Does it Matter?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 5, 2021

In the UK, for example, the BBC had wall-to-wall coverage of London 2012 and Rio 2016 but this time around, licensing restrictions imposed by the International Olympic Committee mean that coverage has been drastically reduced and additional subscriptions are required. Another lawmaker disputed Chu’s claim that his box is legal.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

What Kindle sells, instead of books, is licenses. Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to you by the Content Provider. When purchasing e-books on the Kindle app for Desktop or for the E-reader, books are not sold in the EPUB format, instead these licenses are downloaded in their own proprietary formats: AZW3 and KFX.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 13, 2024

They stated that though the song is credited in the movie, the makers did not obtain any consent, permission, or license from the ace musician to use his song. To rectify such changes, the 2012 Amendment was made by Parliament to the Copyright Act, largely achieved by lobbyists made up of composers and lyricists. Rajasthan Patrika Pvt.

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IPilogue

JULY 12, 2021

Not only did the Supreme Court of Canada hear the much-anticipated York University v Access Copyright appeal, an important case on the nature of copyright collective licensing and educational fair dealing, but it was also the Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella’s final hearing as a Supreme Court Justice. v Teranet Inc.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

But, modeling agreements also regularly include limited licenses regarding how (and for how long) the images will be used. 12-cv-1417, 2012 WL 6150859, at *7 (S.D.N.Y. 11, 2012) quoted in Electra v. In Gibson , the plaintiffs have sued under both the Lanham Act and N.C. state law: Section 43 of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C.

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The TTABlog

MAY 15, 2024

During its breaks from performing, the band continued to release recordings in new digital formats including compact disc and electronic downloads, licensed its music for streaming, managed its copyrights, and collected royalties.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In 2012, Japan passed legislation that made it illegal to download unlicensed movies and music from the Internet. Operating such a site without appropriate licensing is now an arrestable offense. Notable Criminal Cases Since the Changes.

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IPilogue

JUNE 14, 2022

Over the next year, Swift released re-recorded versions of both her Fearless (2008) and Red (2012) albums, receiving widespread commercial and critical success. Look What You Made Me Do. At the heart of Taylor’s decision was an often overlooked but significant legal distinction in the copyright law governing the music industry.

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Michael Geist

MARCH 1, 2023

Fair dealing is foundational to ensuring a fair copyright balance that benefits both creators and users, but it does not come close to a full substitute for licensing. Simply put, the licence is not competitive with other licensing alternatives. Yet the opposite is true.

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SpicyIP

JULY 23, 2021

In this post, I shall discuss the impact of non-working, the possible remedies in revocation and compulsory licensing, the issues surrounding disclosure of working and possible reforms in the system. Revocation and Compulsory Licensing. Brief Findings of the Study. Disclosure of Working.

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Michael Geist

JULY 20, 2022

In the 2012 ESA v. This time, the collective relied on the 2012 copyright reform process that added a section to the Copyright Act clarifying that the right to communicate a work to the public by telecommunication includes making the work available online by uploading it to the Internet. 92; see also Théberge, at paras. 339, at para.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2022

The judgement once again leaves copyright owners and music licensing in India in the lurch, as in the status quo, no organisation can currently license sound recordings on behalf of rights owners. Image from here. Background.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 2, 2022

In 2012, Parliament amended the Copyright Act to align copyright legislation with the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (“WIPO”) Copyright Treaty , which Canada signed in 1997. SOCAN , a music licensing organization representing over 175,000 music creators, publishers and visual artists, argued that s. Judicial History.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

The United Kingdom on the recommendation of the Whitford Committee on the issue of reprography established “Copyright Licensing Agency” which offers a blanket license to schools and colleges for a negotiated annual fee. for taking reprographic usage licenses after paying a prescribed tariff. The number suggests its misery.

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