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A National Right of Publicity: the Federal Anti-Impersonation Right (FAIR)

Patently-O

Trademarks and trade secrets followed a different path – developing under state common law before later later gaining federal protections; with trade secrets moving federal most recently via the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) of 2016. And, that person’s brand is their name, image, and likeness.

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Understanding Copyright, Trademark and Halloween Costumes

Plagiarism Today

Wtf is a juice demon pic.twitter.com/OxYMWEuoCq — Eli Matthewson (@EliMatthewson) October 1, 2016. To answer that and other questions about Halloween costumes, we have to step back and look at how copyright and trademark law apply to costumes. However, commercial use of costumes still raises legal questions.

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Top Trademark Trends of 2022

Erik K Pelton

which will determine the scope of the Lanham Act as applied to trademark infringement that occurs outside the US. The Court has also agreed to hear a patent case this term, and it will rule on a copyright fair-use case brought by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts that was heard this fall. 2016: [link].

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Free Certificate Course in Application of Intellectual Property Rights for Startups and Entrepreneurship [November 22- 23]

SpicyIP

Certificate Course in Application of Intellectual Property Rights for Startups and Entrepreneurship [November 22- 23] Course in Brief Dates : 22nd – 23rd November, 2023 Time : Day 1: 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM IST; Day 2: 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM IST Venue : Centre for Technology and Law, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar Duration : 1.5

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New Tools, Old Rules: Is The Music Industry Ready To Take On AI?

Copyright Lately

She would create a dataset of sound files consisting of Drake acapella vocals (stripped from the music tracks using a vocal separator) and run the data through software used to train the voice model. ” VMG Salsoul, LLC v. Ciccone , 824 F.3d 3d 871, 888 (9th Cir. At least until the computers start touring, that is.

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Hot Take on the Wavy Baby Decision (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MSCHF has frequently targeted major brands. 2016), aff’d , 674 F. 2016)) traded on the goodwill of Louis Vuitton; it is what made them attractive products. At this point the Second Circuit baldly states “MSCHF used Vans’ trademarks—particularly its red and white logo—to brand its own products.”

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023

SpicyIP

The judgement was passed collectively in an appeal against 4 orders (two impugning the 2016 Ericsson v. Controller General of Patents and Designs (passed on September 15), the Court clarified that the 2016 CRI Guidelines’ requirement of assessing the CRI in conjunction with novel hardware has now been removed from the 2017 CRI Guidelines.

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