Plagiarism Today

MARCH 14, 2022

First off today, Mark Savage at the BBC reports that Katy Perry has emerged victorious once again in the lawsuit over her 2013 song Dark Horse. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. million in damages.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

UMG has been the distributor for Disney music since 2013. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. , which users claim is completely different from the song UMG is actually claiming. The post 3 Count: Bright House appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 26, 2022

Through discovery, Starz learned that these infringements went all the way back to 2013. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. However, Starz was unaware of the infringements and only learned about them in August 2019.

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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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Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

4th 677, 685 (2013). 3d 1268, 1273 n. 4 (9th Cir. California’s statutory Right of Publicity “requires a plaintiff to prove all the elements of the common law action plus a knowing use by defendant as well as a direct connection between the alleged use and the commercial purpose.” Roberts , 222 Cal.

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Patently-O

JULY 21, 2022

Holt was part of forming two additional companies, BJM and Matrix and Symbiont licensed the technology (including the patent) to those companies. The agreement included a number of provisions — primarily a license with royalties for feed sold using the process. All cases “arising under” the U.S. Applying Gunn v.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 7, 2025

The answer to this conundrum may simply lie in the time-tested solution that has proven successful during earlier periods of technological advancement: licensing. 2 Licensing enables copyright owners and users to come together in a mutually beneficial manner, helping the market function more efficiently and responsibly.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The belief is that when users are presented with this roadblock, they will be more likely to turn to licensed services instead. They include the resurrected Demonoid , EZTV ( first blocked in 2013 ) plus additional sites operating under familiar brands such as Primewire ( 2013 ), Solarmovie ( 2013 ), and Putlocker ( 2016 ).

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

Next up today, the BBC reports that Eurovision 2021 contestant James Newman has secured a major court victory against Kelly-Marie Smith, who claimed that a song Newman co-wrote in 2013 was an infringement of a 2006 track she wrote. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2022

PPL filed an application for re-registration as a copyright society in March 2013. First, it directed that PPL’s 2013 application stands revived and has to be considered on merits. The court’s judgement means that the status of administration of sound recordings goes back to where it was in 2013. Image from here.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 15, 2022

For example, Google was a key player in 2013 in starting the Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge (to not sue on open-source software). Google was also instrumental in the beginnings of the License On Transfer network (which helps members who have been sued by “patent trolls”).

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The IPKat

MARCH 8, 2023

In accordance with the national laws of civil procedure, in January 2013, the court requested the plaintiff to pay the court fees in advance. The court repeated this request and asked the plaintiff to submit the originals of the complaint in March 2013. He refused the offer, proposing a license agreement instead.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 13, 2024

In this post, apart from discussing the background and arguments raised in the case, I will discuss how the court, relying upon the now scrapped draft 2013 guidelines , applied the technical effect test to decide the patentability of the invention. demonstrate technical effect. demonstrate technical effect.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

Though there have been some attempts to legitimize commercial fan fiction, such as Kindle Worlds in 2013 , those efforts have largely been short-lived, and the fan fiction community remains almost entirely free of commercialization. At most, they have a non-exclusive license to use those elements for non-commercial purposes.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

2013), the Federal Circuit threw out expert testimony on damages because it relied on calculations that assumed, without evidence, that all shipments of certain mobile phones included an infringing power circuit, even though the power circuits were found in chargers and not phones. Similarly, in the second case, Niazi Licensing Corporation v.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 21, 2022

According to the prosecution, the five sites offered access to copyright-infringing material and generated over a million euros in revenue between 2013 and 2018. In fact, the real Rojadirecta previously won a WIPO domain dispute against Miguel’s company because he impersonated the original site, violating the Creative Commons license.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 27, 2021

In 2013, Constellation acquired perpetual, irrevocable, and exclusive license rights in the Corona marks, which gave Constellation the right to sell products under the Corona trademark. Constellation disagrees with Modelo’s position that hard seltzers are not allowed under its license.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 26, 2022

Between 2013 and 2017, Elias took photographs of hotels and licensed their owning companies to use them in promotional activities. The owners of the hotels later made the licensed images available to another company, Ice Portal, to facilitate their appearance on travel agents’ websites for promotional purposes.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Zolgensma and the Inadequacies of the Compulsory Licensing Regime. Akhil discusses the compulsory licensing provisions in the TRIPS Agreement, as well as the objectives and principles relating to safeguarding public interest in Articles 7 and 8 and how they find reflection in India’s Patent Act. Poster for Zolgensma.

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Likelihood of Confusion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Originally posted 2013-10-15 11:38:13. Republished by Blog Post PromoterYou’ve heard the tale in one form or another: A bar plays a recorded song over its sound system (without permission), then gets sued for violating the public performance right of the musical composition’s copyright holder. But it’s just an urban legend, right?

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The preferred approach in Australia follows the Federal Court in Multisteps Pty Ltd v Source & Sell Pty Ltd [2013] FCA 743 , which does not require a person to be a user of the product (or similar product) to which the design relates. Picture is by MagAloche and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 8, 2021

The most vocal critics were in the open-source programming community , who were upset that GitHub trained their AI on significant amounts of open-source code and can even reproduce that code verbatim in some circumstances, but does not follow the respective open-source licenses. This has led to a massive debate about the legality of Copilot.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

Additionally, the court determined that this usage did not economically substitute the original use of the briefs in providing legal advice, nor did it impair any potential market for licensing these briefs, thereby reaffirming the defendants’ motion for summary judgment and dismissing the complaint with prejudice.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Prince appealed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which largely reversed that decision in April 2013. Three years later, she licensed one of those photos of Vanity Fair who, with permission, commissioned a new work based on it by Andy Warhol. 3: The Andy Warhol Ruling.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 7, 2021

That said, the author acknowledges that these costs declined from 2013-2017, only to once again rise. More specifically, in the words of the author, The decline in the 2013 to 2017 period is largely attributable to post-patent grant review mechanisms. International license. What accounts for this?

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Patently-O

MAY 1, 2024

May 1, 2024) offers some interesting insight into leveraged patent transactions, and the effect of a lender’s ability to license or assign a patent on the patent owner’s standing to sue for infringement, especially after default. Zebra Techs. 2022-2207 (Fed. ” IT sued Zebra for infringement in the W.D.Tex.,

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Due to Hollywood legal action, PrimeWire was among the first 30 sites to be blocked in the UK back in 2013 , but that was just the beginning. When the MPAA reported the site to the USTR in 2013 , it was hoped PrimeWire would fold but, despite additional reports over subsequent years, it carried on regardless.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2013, Philpot uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons, which is governed by the standard Creative Commons license requiring attribution. Philpot claims his standard photo licensing fee is $3,500, but reuses of the photo from Wikipedia Commons didn’t require any payment (just attribution). Nature of the Work.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Unless these rights are contractually assigned or licensed, it is for the authors, and the institutions that employ them, to determine the conditions under which their works are to be published, reproduced, and otherwise used (including by way of OA) – not for the publishers. It is not transformation if nothing changes” (2022): [link]. [5]

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 12, 2022

In Part I of this series of articles, we provided an overview of the 2013 and 2019 policy statements that preceded the 2021 Draft Policy Statement.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 15, 2024

It was further found that, the funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have played the major role in the creation and to the overall growth of the private sector pharmaceutical industries in the US, by licensing or assigning patented products created using their funds to the industries. Telecomm. & & Tech.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Marrakesh Treaty Marrakesh Treaty was adopted on June 27, 2013, to facilitate access to published works for people who are Blind Persons, Visually Impaired Persons, or Print Disabled (hereinafter beneficiary) who refrains from indulging in any printed form of copyrighted work.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The social contract of copyright, which main purpose is to realize a broader collective concern, the access of citizens to science and culture ( Geiger, 2013 ), lies in the approximation of the interests of rightholders and users. licenses for specific uses). 7(1) and art. 17(7) CDSM Directive.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 12, 2022

An international bestseller, it was the focus of a publishers' bidding war at the 2013 London Book Fair.[2] One should distinguish this from a situation where the book title is wholly descriptive, e.g., a book entitled "Patent Licensing". International license. So, there it is. It was sufficient, until it wasn't.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

The named plaintiffs are two photojournalists whose photographs of the George Floyd protests and the 2016 election were featured on websites of various traditional media outlets without those outlets having obtained any license from the plaintiffs because those media companies used Instagram’s proprietary embedding tools.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Patents are licenses given by law to protect intellectual properties, this includes any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter as the Act of Congress defines them under 35 U.S.C 2013) ruled that naturally occurring DNA sequences could not be patented because they are products of nature.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 15, 2022

I have also covered the litigative attempts of PPL to continue to issue licenses by getting rights assigned in its favour and cleverly using the first proviso to Section 33(1). It has continually been relying on suspect assignment agreements in its favour and using the proviso of Section 33(1) of the Act, to issue licenses.

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