Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

During litigation, the unredacted version may be used as evidence to support the ownership of the redacted portions in the registered mask work. It is recommended for the applicant to keep an unredacted version of the design along with the redacted version used for registration. Inspection of a Registered Mask Work.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 1, 2025

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 24, 2023

Combine that “mastermind/dominant” author doctrine with the run of cases discussing ownership of software outputs (i.e., Copyright Office (the Office) when it comes to copyright ownership of artificial intelligence (AI) output. The Office has answered that question with a resounding “maybe.” Merkin , 791 F.3d

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

This is a case focusing on ownership of social media accounts. See “ Social Media Ownership Disputes Part II: Bridal Wear Company Takes Back Control of Instagram Account from Ex-Employee ” and “ Another Confused Entry in the Social Media Account Ownership Jurisprudence–JLM v. (See We blogged this case twice before.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2025

In 2015, the Modi regime announced discussions about potentially reintroducing hereditary pattern taxes in some physique, but no concrete policy changes have occurred since then. As a result, the tax got rid of. What is Inheritance Tax (Wealth Tax)?

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

At the time, it was facing accusations that it was as plagiarism of a 2015 short student film. As Halloween grows both more popular and more lucrative, battles over authorship and ownership are only going to become more common. The first comes from January, which looks at the movie The Shape of Water.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

However, the important thing to know is that there was no doubt that Take-Two did copy the tattoos in question and there was no question of Alexander’s ownership of them. In March 2015, a jury awarded the estate of Marvin Gay $7.4 Last week, Moss summarized the history of the case in an article that is well worth reading.

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Patently-O

MAY 22, 2024

Whether a present assignment of future inventions automatically conveys legal title to those inventions when the inventions come into being, or instead merely conveys equitable title and requires a separate written instrument to transfer legal ownership. ” Quoting Shukh v. Seagate Technology, LLC , 803 F.3d 3d 659 (Fed. 2d 1568 (Fed.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 15, 2022

“Plaintiff, through its representative Carlos Vasallo, was offered YouTube’s copyright management tools in 2015, including Content ID, but Plaintiff refused them. These tools can also enable users to wrongfully claim ownership rights in others’ content or to take for themselves revenue that rightly belongs to others.”

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

This section also lacks in taking intention of the user ruining the watermarks, because sometimes there can be a situation where any person might end up ruining digital watermarks without intending to (Chakraverty, 2015). Fair use is the defence to infringement of copyright, when such protected content is used for a fair purpose. Ngwenya, S.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 5, 2025

Brief Facts In 2015, Naanum Rowdy Dhaan (Translation: I am also Rowdy), produced by Wunderbar Films, emerged as a significant project for Nayanthara and director Vignesh Shivan. Then we will discuss the issue of performance rights and its assignment in perpetuity to the producer. Finally, the post will also discuss the De-Minimis Defence.

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IPilogue

APRIL 20, 2022

In 2015, Marvel and Sony made an unprecedented deal that the two companies would share joint-ownership in Spider-Man’s copyright. With solid financial support from Disney, Marvel has successfully promoted the “ Marvel Universe ” and earned a worldwide reputation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

He served one prison term from 1989 to 2008, and another from 2012 to 2015. at 1-2] At its heart, therefore, this case is a dispute about copyright ownership. The plaintiffs responded by moving for partial summary judgment on the issue of ownership, based on the presumption of validity that attaches to timely copyright registrations.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

During litigation, the unredacted version may be used as evidence to support the ownership of the redacted portions in the registered mask work. It is recommended for the applicant to keep an unredacted version of the design along with the redacted version used for registration. Here is the number of mask works registered with the U.S.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 5, 2023

A precise elucidation about the ownership of cinematographic films has been provided by Section 17 of The Copyright Act, 1957 Act. According to the law, a scriptwriter who is engaged by a producer to write a good script has no ownership rights to the work he produces. [2] Who Owns What and Why. 1] [link]. [2] 7] CISAC v.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 16, 2022

The Court was not satisfied that any of this evidence confirmed that Pugliese was a US citizen in April 2015, when photos were created. Federal Court Dismisses Copyright Claim Due to Plaintiff’s Failure to Establish Ownership: [link]. This was not admissible proof of a US citizenship. The Federal Court also dismissed this case.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While the High Court found Morison liable for trademark infringement as well as passing-off, the trial judge did not make a finding of copyright infringement, stating that as the designer of the device was not called to testify, copyright ownership was not sufficiently proven.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 5, 2023

On January 2, 2015, a new system designed to assist copyright holders and better protect consumers went live in Canada. Under common ownership , the same companies have also been suing and obtaining settlements from intermediaries in the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that California Civil Code section 980(a)(2) , which grants “exclusive ownership” of a sound recording fixed before February 15, 1972, to its “author,” provides only an exclusive right of reproduction and distribution, and does not provide an exclusive right of public performance.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Interestingly, T-Series enjoys joint ownership of the franchise “Aashiqui” with Vishesh Films. Shyam Vithalrao Devkatta (2015), the Supreme Court held that a film title, such as “Desi Boys,” cannot be subject to copyright infringement (paras 8-11). In Krishika Lulla v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 25, 2022

In 2013 and 2015, it granted exclusive licenses to stream those works to Starz, a premium subscription channel. It’s copyright infringement because an exclusive license is a transfer of copyright ownership. That’s important, because in order to be valid, a “transfer of copyright ownership” must be made in a signed writing.

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The IPKat

APRIL 19, 2023

Ownership of every name periodically expires and, at that point, anyone may freely claim it on Namecoin by re-registering the expired name. McCoy’s registration on the Namecoin blockchain expired In January 2015. This is generally considered to be the first ever created NFT.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Aaron joined CCC in 2015, initially working on CCC’s Republication Licensing Service (RLS) prior to taking ownership of and launching the new Marketplace. He manages the prioritization of development efforts, customer outreach and usability testing, and the roadmap definition for Marketplace.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2023

Delving into the parallel creation model, proposed for machinima, it is proposed that it should be based on collaborative creation and no exclusionary ownership. Re-Examining The Copyright Ownership Of Player Created Content, GNLU L. Creations within the gaming framework can never be “independent” or “original”, to begin with.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In today’s world, there has been considerable growth in remote jobs, gig-economy work and artificial intelligence tools which introduce new complexities with the ownership of worker creations. With the increasing prevalence of AI tools and hybrid work models, the traditional understanding of ownership and IP becomes obscure. [2]

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In patent law, inventorship is tied directly to ownership. However, those inchoate rights are assignable in a way that decouples inventorship and ownership. There result here is that Sywula is not suffering an ownership injury (or any other payment injury flowing from his failure to be named as an inventor). 3d 659 (Fed.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

On June 24, 2015, Ms. Dorland will need to show: (1) ownership of a valid copyright, and (2) copying of constituent elements of the work that are original. Dawn Dorland and Sonya Larson , both authors, first crossed paths sometime between 2005 and 2007 at GrubStreet—a creative writing centre in Boston.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Genesis of the Dispute According to this report on Mint (paywalled), the Lodha siblings (Abhishek and Abhinandan) parted ways in 2015. Abhinandan, on the other hand, transferred his ownership to the real estate group in return for Rs. 500 crores (disputed figure).

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Deemed a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker (SDNT), applicant was banned from doing business in the United States from 2008 to 2015. Although it did not resume use of the mark for seven years, it commenced TTAB litigation with ARSA in 2016 regarding ownership of the mark. In May 2015, applicant was removed from the SDNT list.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

CV 10-03738 AB, 2015 WL 5311085 (C.D. Chik, Lord of Your Domain, But Master of None: The Need to Harmonize and Recalibrate the Domain Name Regime of Ownership and Control, 16 I.J.L.T Satyam Infoway Ltd v Siffynet Solutions, 6 SCC 145 (2004). Akash Arora & Anr, 78 DLT 285 (1999). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences v.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

This restitution effort has been ongoing for decades; however, the legal significance of these cases became more popular with the release of the film Woman in Gold in 2015. The legal battle ultimately entailed a United States Supreme Court ruling and Austrian arbitration panel, granting Altmann rightful ownership of the painting.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

On November 3rd, 2018, Thaler filed a copyright application for A Recent Entrance to Paradise, designating himself as the claimant and the work’s author as “Creativity Machine,” saying that the copyright should be transferred from the AI to him due to his “ownership of the machine.”

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

On November 3rd, 2018, Thaler filed a copyright application for A Recent Entrance to Paradise, designating himself as the claimant and the work’s author as “Creativity Machine,” saying that the copyright should be transferred from the AI to him due to his “ownership of the machine.”

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The IPKat

JANUARY 27, 2023

In 2015, Mr. Jing co-founded Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd (ONI). Claiming ownership of all intellectual property devised made or created by student members “in the course of or incidentally to their studies” would be considered an overbroad term. As well, he contributed to the further development of the Nanoimager.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 13, 2021

On July 12, 2021, Justice Andrew Borrok ruled that the rightful owners of two artworks by the Viennese Expressionist Egon Schiele (the “Artworks”) are entitled to prejudgment interest following an art dealer’s refusal to turn over the Artworks in 2015. [3] 161799/2015 (N.Y. 161799/2015 (N.Y. ” [10].

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Washington’s anti-SLAPP statute was struck down by the Washington State Supreme Court in May 2015. Effective July 25, 2021, Washington has a new anti-SLAPP statute.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 2, 2024

The dispute has its roots in 2015 when trade mark applications were filed by estranged members of the Club (represented by another member, Mr Nigel Jacobs), some of whom were founding members and who had subsequently formed a new club under the same name. Instead, this provision refers to the motive or intention of the trademark applicant.

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