TorrentFreak

AUGUST 16, 2024

A company name, banking details, and details of monthly payments made for streams, were obtained by an anti-piracy group as part of a much larger haul, which eventually entered the public domain.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Opposing the claimants’ arguments, Ravensburger challenged the cross-border application of Italian law, alleging that the claims conflict with article 14 of Copyright Directive in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive since they attempt to unlawfully impose property assertions on public domain works. 633/1941, l.

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Garrigues Blog

JULY 15, 2024

Original works of art are protected by copyright until they come into the public domain. This entry in the public domain makes the rights expire in some way, and they become assets freely available for use by the public at large, although the author’s moral paternity and integrity rights have to be respected at all times.

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IPilogue

JULY 20, 2022

In 2016-2017, Apple and Swatch, locked horns regarding their “Think Different” and “Tick Different” marks. Then in 2017, Apple sued Swatch for trademark infringement against its mark “ Tick Different ”, an action it lost in 2019 before the Federal Administrative Court in Switzerland. Background. What’s next?

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Background On 31 January 2017, Joaquim Jósé Esteves Lopes Granja (“Granja”) applied to register PORTWO GIN as an EU trade mark for “Spirits [beverages]”. The application was published for opposition on 6 February 2017. 2017/1001 (which the GC later said must be understood to refer to Article 8(4a) of Regulation No.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 26, 2022

In a 2017 blog post, Schneider described YouTube as a Wood Chipper on Steroids , complaining that when MP3s are uploaded to YouTube, they are converted into a different format and in the process, all metadata – Copyright Management Information – is lost. One is of particular interest. Photographer’s CMI Erased.

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IPilogue

MAY 6, 2022

Members of the reggae band Artikal Sound System allege that the song is substantially similar to its 2017 song “Live Your Life”. The team likely would not succeed in advancing a public domain defence , which states that the copyright protection for a work has expired or it failed to meet the protection for copyright protection.

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43(B)log

JUNE 17, 2022

3, 2022) This is a lawsuit about an allegedly fake review of Beyond Blond’s video on Amazon allegedly written by Heldman on September 10, 2017. However, statements that the videos were “low quality [public domain]” were mere opinions. CV 20-5581 DSF (GJSx) (C.D.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 19, 2022

Breyer notes that, in 2020, the public domain library Project Gutenberg was blocked in its entirety in Italy because some content allegedly violated local laws. .” This type of collateral damage is not just hypothetical. Borderless Backbone. That blocking won’t always stop at borders is also well known.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 16, 2023

” [1] Applicant United Trademark Holdings, Inc. (“UTH”) applied to register the mark RAPUNZEL for dolls and toys in Class 28 in November 2017.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Apart from that, the plaintiff had also been using the mark since the year 2014 while the defendant’s use of the mark commenced only in the year 2017. The first was that both the logos had made use of the font ITC Edwardian Script which is a font openly made available in the public domain.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 20, 2023

AI can explore data or information that is accessible in public domain or copyright of other person and can investigate or work upon that information but only to that extent which the software program permits. [3] Saudi Arabia has allowed citizenship to an AI humanoid robot, Sophia in 2017.

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Patently-O

MAY 20, 2024

All four patents claim priority to the same 1997 application, and therefore normally would have expired on the same date in 2017, 20 years from that priority date. Petition Cellect Petition Appendix The facts are as follows: Cellect owns four patents that claim technology related to image sensors in portable devices like cell phones and PDAs.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

His defense is that the work he used was free for all; after his victory, that work remains in the public domain for others to build upon. In 2017, Defendants’ executive assistant sent emails to Steven Sikes from SoFi seeking to schedule a meeting between Mr. Sikes and Mr. Plashkes.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

Slater agreed to contribute 25% of future revenues from the images to charity in a 2017 settlement with PETA, but a court ruled against PETA in 2018, setting the precedent that only humans, not animals, may register for copyright and launch copyright claims. So, whats the Future of Copyright for Artificial Intelligence-Created Works?

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

Slater agreed to contribute 25% of future revenues from the images to charity in a 2017 settlement with PETA, but a court ruled against PETA in 2018, setting the precedent that only humans, not animals, may register for copyright and launch copyright claims. So, whats the Future of Copyright for Artificial Intelligence-Created Works?

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

From July 2017 to April 2018, the Art Gallery of Ontario (the “AGO”) staged an exhibition titled “ ReBlink ,” which urged visitors to “[t]ake a second look… with a modern lens:”. addition of written or pictorial elements) of a work not in the public domain and/or where the creator is still alive.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

In 2017 the documentary titled “Burlesque: Heart of the Glitter Tribe” was released on Netflix, Amazon, and Apple. Tales from the Public Domain , “documentaries are records of our culture. The song “Fish Sticks n’ Tater Tots” was composed by the plaintiffs in 2011. Dr. Seuss Enters., 3d 497, 512, S.D.N.Y. Google, Inc.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 5, 2023

holding that the character of Zorro had fallen in the public domain. In 2017, the Italian Supreme Court rendered a first judgment, holding that Zorro would be still protected by copyright, as the 70-year post mortem auctoris term available under Italian law should also apply to foreign (in this case: American) authors.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Given this inconsistency, in 2017, the scope of the Italian patent box was narrowed by excluding the income generated by the use of trademarks (Article 56 of Decree-Law no. The kitten looking for the return of trade secrets is CC0 Public Domain from [link] The first picture is "Cat in a box", by Greg Mote from Glendora, CA, USA - CC 2.0.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. Most number of patents for blockchains were filed in the year 2017. to various entities dealing with the same.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. Most number of patents for blockchains were filed in the year 2017. to various entities dealing with the same.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. Most number of patents for blockchains were filed in the year 2017. to various entities dealing with the same.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

This came to a head in 2017 when the filmmaker Rick Allen sued the State of North Carolina over alleged illegal copying of footage he shot of Blackbeard’s sunken ship. 5: The Public Domain Expands. Finally, with the new year comes new works that lapse into the public domain.

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2024

General guidance on confidentiality: the Fujifilm v Kodak decision, LD Düsseldorf, UPC_CFI_355/2023, 27 March 2024 In these proceedings, the defence to infringement was based on a prior use argument deriving from an acquisition in 2017. The interest of integrity of proceedings usually only plays a role during the course of the proceedings.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 8, 2022

Registration would allow rights holders that want the extension to get it, while ensuring that many other works enter the public domain at the international standard of life plus 50 years. Given Canada’s larger population, the Canadian cost is undoubtedly far higher. additional editions of the title. additional editions of the title.

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IP Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2023

Under this heightened standard, it seems likely that the output of the investments in creating care pathways, and other similarly situated stakeholders, would be considered by the Copyright Office to be public domain. Rearden LLC v. Walt Disney Co. , 3d 963, 968 (N.D. 2018) (citing Design Data Corp. Unigate Enter. , Drosnin , 136 F.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In 2017, WI granted WPI an automatically renewable, exclusive license to use and exploit the content of all of WI’s materials, including the Modigliani material. But WPI’s allegations still went to contested ownership of the information contained in the Modigliani Material, rather than the Modigliani Material as a physical product.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

30, 2021): Plaintiff alleges that Defendants knew that Defendant Wagner did not own the copyright to the images that Plaintiff posted on its social media channels, because Wagner abandoned the copyrights when he executed the Stipulation of Settlement, which dedicated the intellectual property rights of the images to the public domain.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

We have an artwork, displayed in a museum and which is in the public domain. However, no fees shall be paid for certain specific uses, such as in the case of personal use, use for study purposes or public entities’ use with the aim of enhancing the assets themselves. This is exactly the case here. Second, Art.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 24, 2023

Under this heightened standard, it seems likely that the output of the investments in creating care pathways, and other similarly situated stakeholders, would be considered by the Copyright Office to be public domain. ’” Rearden LLC v. Walt Disney Co. , 3d 963, 968 (N.D. 2018) (citing Design Data Corp. Unigate Enter. ,

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The lower court considered that, while the mark was not technically necessary (which would have led to the invalidity of the trade mark regardless of acquired distinctiveness), the trade mark was part of the public domain and Nestlé failed to prove that the trademark had acquired distinctiveness. Generic license.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In 2017, the Warhol Foundation sued Goldsmith and her agency for a declaratory judgment that the Prince Series works are non-infringing or, in the alternative, that they constitute a fair use of the Prince Photograph. Goldsmith , 11 F.4th 4th at 46 (internal citations and quotation marks omitted). Bridgeman Art Libr., Corel Corp. ,

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Background On 7th March 2017, UNIVERS AGRO LTD applied to register AGATE as an EU trade mark for “Automobile tires [tyres]” in Class 12. It registered on 21st June 2017. Although Shadong’s evidence only showed use of AGATE between 2014 and 2017, the GC emphasised that duration of use is only one factor (paragraph 46).

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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2023

35/2017); content in the public domain; content covered by an exception. 5 (3) Barnier Directive; Art. 4 (5) D.Lgs. It is still unclear whether blocking content created through the collaboration among SIAE’s members and other Italian or foreign collecting societies’ members was the appropriate solution for Meta.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

This sum is in addition to the $2 billion of public funds already invested since 2017, when Canada became the first country in the world to launch a national AI strategy. Image by Andreas Grönberg from Pixabay In Canada, the Federal Government has just announced a $2.4 data —reside).

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

2017), raised an interesting example of “copyright estoppel” or, as the Ninth Circuit called it in the “Jersey Boys” lawsuit I recently discussed, the “Asserted Truths Doctrine.” “The Conjuring” (2013). The lawsuit, Brittle v. Warner Bros. The Ghostly Trio. stock features of cartoon ghosts in general.?

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