Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Wtf is a juice demon pic.twitter.com/OxYMWEuoCq — Eli Matthewson (@EliMatthewson) October 1, 2016. If the costume isn’t licensed, why is it not infringing regardless of the name change? In short, Juice Demon is Juice Demon because he can’t be Beetlejuice, not without a license. Why did the company do this?

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The IPKat

AUGUST 16, 2021

Over to Konstantin for the story and his take on the developments: "Some may associate businesses whose primary aim is to assert patents in litigation to obtain license revenue with the Eastern District of Texas or the Unwired Planet decision in the UK, and not think about cases further afield from Marshall, Texas or London. Cue our story.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

3] The Court found that the Warhol Foundation’s licensing of the Orange Prince to Conde Nast did not have a sufficiently different purpose as the Goldsmith photograph because both were “portraits of Prince used in magazines to illustrate stories about Prince.” [4] The effect upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. [8]

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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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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

VHT licenses real estate photos for marketing purposes and many of its photos appear on Zillow. Between that date and 2016, when Zillow removed the images, the court ruled the infringement was not innocent and that amounted to 2,312 images. As such, the judge has ordered Zillow to pay a total of $1.93

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2016, the defendant IJR published an article/listicle titled “15 Signs Your Daddy Was a Conservative.” In 2013, Philpot uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons, which is governed by the standard Creative Commons license requiring attribution. ” Market Effect. IJR argued that Philpot provided free licenses to the work.

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SpicyIP

JULY 25, 2023

In both disputes, Justice Vibhu Bakhru of the Delhi High Court (DHC) had ordered that the Competition Commission of India (CCI) can intervene in patent licensing disputes under Sections 3 and 4 of the Competition Act – first in 2016 ( Ericsson v. Taking guidance from earlier case law ( Ashoka Marketing Ltd.

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IIPRD

MAY 9, 2024

Hence, the concept of cross licensing agreement has originated with the intent to help various organizations in sharing patent licenses along with their rights and liabilities leading to their easier access to masses and reduction of monopolistic market tendencies.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 9, 2023

With pirate IPTV services first seeping and then exploding into the mainstream around 2016/17, the launch of streaming service DAZN provided hope of a viable alternative. DAZN’s marketing drilled that message home – and then some. We are basically saying pay-per-view sucks,” Denyer said. That deal will cost the company $2.7

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TorrentFreak

MAY 30, 2023

Operating from 2016 until 2018, the Flawless IPTV service copied subscription TV broadcasts from official (and unofficial) sources and then restreamed that content to tens of thousands of customers, at a dramatically cut down price. In common with licensed services, pirate IPTV providers have broadly two options for reaching the market.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 27, 2021

Back in 2016, the European Commission announced plans to amend EU copyright law to better meet emerging challenges on the Internet. One of the most controversial elements of the new Copyright Directive was Article 13 (now Article 17). ” Infringement Procedures Could Lead to Legal Action.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 12, 2022

In a complaint filed this month in an Indiana court, clothing and apparel company NuStar Enterprises LLC states that since September 2016, it has continually used the ‘Reloaded’ trademark in commerce. “Over the following months Mr. Carrasquillo’s agent sought to work out a licensing arrangement with NuStar.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Vanity Fair magazine had commissioned Warhol’s artwork in 1984 to accompany an article about the singer’s rise to fame based on Goldsmith’s photograph under a one-time-use “artist reference” license between Vanity Fair and Goldsmith’s agent. Hence, the Foundation’s use was non-transformative.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

At issue are two versions of the TOS from 2016 and 2019. The named plaintiff, Jackson, agreed to the 2016 TOS. The 2016 TOS provided an opt-out for the arbitration provision, but Jackson didn’t exercise it. She agrees the 2016 TOS applies. Amazon appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

This crucial development, which restores copyright as an access right (see Geiger, 2016 ; Efroni, 2010 ) provides a normative foundation to reinforce the societal bargain that creates incentives for authors, but also creates room for downstream creativity and innovation. licenses for specific uses). 7(1) and art.

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IIPRD

MARCH 21, 2024

Introduction Competition law and intellectual property rights (IPR) are like two different sides of the same coin, as they both work to ensure vibrancy in the market and promote consumer welfare. CCI, 2016, and Monsanto v. Yet, despite having a common point, they sometimes contradict each other’s jurisdiction.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The series was originally commissioned by Vanity Fair after it bought the license of the photo portrait from Goldsmith. Goldsmith said she was not aware of Warhol’s work until Tribute magazine featured the image, without crediting her, when Prince passed away in 2016.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. At the time Goldsmith was also licensing her original photograph to several magazines that were also writing articles about Prince’s life and music. Damle introductory statement, Tr.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

It is unlikely that these features will appear on a licensed mainstream service but that doesn’t stop subscribers from desiring them. for a ‘lifetime’ license. Aside from living up to the significant functional claims in its marketing, the big questions revolve around legality.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 19, 2023

Corporates could be seen spending numerous resources so as to create a position in the market and to stand out from the crowd. Modi claimed that Revlon is seeing “record consumer off take growth after COVID included disruptions” However, due to heavy competition in the cosmetic market the company has filed for bankruptcy.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In states like Goa and Sikkim, gambling is allowed to varying degrees, with licenses granted for activities like slot machines and casinos. Second, the taxation and licensing costs for gambling are often high, potentially driving people toward illegal websites. Sikkim has permitted online gambling within the state’s boundaries.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

In 2016, Congress enacted the Consumer Review Fairness Act (CRFA), which bans businesses from trying to contractually restrict their customers’ reviews. Tennessee and Kentucky sued it over its marketing practices, such as allegedly overclaiming buyers’ eligibility for tax credits. Today’s opinion is such a piggyback.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

In 1984, Vanity Fair sought to license the photograph for an “artist reference” in a story about the musician. Goldsmith agreed to license a one-time use of the photograph with full attribution. AWF licensed the “Orange Prince” to Condé Nast for an article about Prince.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2022

Vanity Fair contacted Lynn Goldsmith’s licensing agency in search of a photograph of that performer to serve as an artist reference. The agency granted Vanity Fair a license to use a Goldsmith photograph of Prince for this purpose on a one-time-only basis. Besides, Goldsmith had chosen not to license that photograph to others.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Specifically, when a derivative work is created pursuant to a statutory exception, then the derivative work is prepared “lawfully,” even though the artist who created the derivative did not get a license or other permission from the owner of the copyright in the underlying work. Goldsmith herself had been entirely unaware of the licensed use.)

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IPilogue

AUGUST 3, 2021

Though mass-marketed in a $2 million promotional campaign , Earthbound failed replicate its Japanese success in North America. Nintendo owns the game’s brand and composed its music, but licensed the first two Earthbound series soundtracks to Sony for album releases in Japan in 1989 and 1994. History of Earthbound.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

A series of recent amendments to copyright law, including in the EU Copyright and the Digital Single Market Directive (Art. For example, David Westergaard et al analyzed 15 million full-text articles in English from 1823-2016 and compared the findings to results obtained from 16.5 3 and 4) and in Singapore’s new Copyright Act (Art.

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Patently-O

JULY 7, 2022

Parties that participate in these standards development organizations (SDOs) generally agree to license patents that are essential to the implementation of those standards (standards-essential patents or SEPs) to manufacturers of standardized products on terms that are fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory (FRAND). The Litigation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

She played the game virtually every day from 2016-19–over 10,000 hours worth–and spent over $9,000 on in-game transactions. Forge of Empires appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. This lawsuit involves the freemium videogame “ Forge of Empires.” March 28, 2022).

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Introduction In the quickly developing scenery of the recent business the startups stand as the indications of modernization which brings the new concepts and fresh products or the amenities to the market. Moreover, the IPR eases the market development and establishes a solid brand identity.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

But when the case returned to the district court after the initial ruling on the temporary restraining order, hiQ’s antitrust arguments were dismissed for failure to properly identify the relevant market in which LinkedIn has a monopoly. The court dismissed the market division argument on the grounds that it was time barred.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

x] In fact, on the contrary, memes can operate as a source of marketing and a way to garner interest in creative works in a funny, generationally relevant way. xi] There are countless articles and marketing studies directing corporations on how to market via memes to reach the maximum level of engagement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Rather, the quoted language came from an SDNY decision ( Tommy Hilfiger Licensing, Inc. 2016), aff’d , 674 F. 2016)) traded on the goodwill of Louis Vuitton; it is what made them attractive products. The post Hot Take on the Wavy Baby Decision (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As of this writing, there is no explicit regulation governing the NFT market or the way NFTs should be produced, acquired, gathered, coined, etc. 11 of 2008, dated April 21, 2008, regarding Electronic Information and Transactions, as amended by Law No 19 of 2016, dated November 25, 2016.• Image source: iStock]. data retention.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The case now before the Supreme Court arose when Sherman Nealy’s collaborator licensed their co-created songs without Nealy’s permission (while Nealy was incarcerated). Nealy sued many years later in 2018 upon learning of the unauthorized licenses in 2016.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Alkutkar joined Bumble in 2016. Your marketing and engineering teams are going to resent doing mandatory clickthroughs of amendments, so I imagine many of you will keep relying on email notice of amendments because they are so much simpler. Bumble appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Bumble, Inc.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 14, 2023

Kat Von D’s Motion In its previous ruling on the parties’ motions for summary judgment , the court found triable issues of fact with respect to both the first fair use factor (purpose and character of the use) and the fourth (effect of the use upon the potential market).

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