Intepat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This burgeoning genre is not only pushing the boundaries of artistic expression but also challenging the established norms of copyright ownership. This blog post embarks on a comprehensive journey to unravel the complex issue of copyright ownership in AI-generated art. Copyright laws are designed to safeguard the rights of creators.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

To settle that dispute, the parties worked out an “exclusive” license: the second-comer could sell the design on Amazon, and the registrant could keep selling it on eBay. The second comer/licensee assigned the exclusive license to a successor licensee, the defendant in this case. Can you see why this case is so confusing?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

Also, ignoring copyright licenses is at least arguably copyright infringement, and your fair use claim probably won’t get you out of the lawsuit at the motion to dismiss stage. The court also held that the coders did not have standing to seek damages, but they did have standing to pursue injunctive relief. Complaint at 2. Complaint at 31.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Sgromo , 2018 WL 3219403 (N.D. July 2, 2018). Sgromo then negotiated a license deal from a third-party, but that income was designated as coming to Eureka. On appeal now, the Federal Circuit has refused to hear the case — finding that a patent ownership dispute does not “arise under” the patent laws.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 26, 2021

The crux of the case turned on the meaning of the phrase, “exclusive ownership,” which the California legislature used in California’s copyright statute in 1872. The parties settled before trial and SiriusXM agreed to pay for past performances of pre-1972 recordings in exchange for a license to use those recordings until 2028.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 28, 2021

That White Rabbit first sought interest from the press during the 2018 “ ICO craze ” didn’t help either. White Rabbit’s content recognition combined with ownership verification and blockchain transactions turns this opportunity into reality.” We have seen a few of these services come and go over the years.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 13, 2023

While the industry group’s definition is broad enough to encompass all streaming services offering licensed content, a more specific description for the lion’s share of related piracy is carried out by people using YouTube-ripping tools. It is now the most prevalent form of online music copyright infringement.

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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

MAY 8, 2023

Jumping through these hoops to play a genuine cartridge on a genuine console not only felt ridiculous but probably amounted to a breach of license/copyright. At this point, it’s worth highlighting that Lockpick was first uploaded to GitHub on December 8, 2018, with Lockpick_RCN uploaded on March 4, 2019.

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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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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. The time periods for each license were separate, and some licenses were renewed multiple times, resulting in more than 1,000 separate license periods. 17 U.S.C. §

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

to license works from the Music Specialist catalog. Use of that song was in turn licensed to several popular television shows, including “So You Think You Can Dance.” In 2018, following his second prison stint, Nealy sued Warner Chappell for copyright infringement. And Warner Chappell found quite a few takers. 17 U.S.C. §

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

On the other side, the university argued that Rameshwari Photocopy Services was granted a license to operate a photocopy shop on its campus in order to allow students to photocopy for educational and research purposes. This way, people eligible to know certain information can access it, even if we didn’t know they need it” (Drabik, 2018).

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SpicyIP

JUNE 2, 2023

The Controversy around the Ownership Upon being commissioned by the film’s producer, R. Around 50 years later, Bhaskar Chattopadhyay novelised its original screenplay, which was published on 5th May 2018 by HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Remember the Fifth Circuit case from 2018 holding that a real restaurant’s name could infringe trademark rights in the name of a fictional restaurant from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, the Krusty Krab? It confirms both ownership of valid copyrights and copying by the defendants of original constituent elements of the works.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 8, 2022

The conference keynote speaker is Kris Ahrend , chief executive officer of the Mechanical Licensing Collective , according to Bill Rosenblatt , program chair and conference co-producer. It collects rights ownership information from music publishers and songwriters [and] it collects the streaming data from the services providers.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

After Marvel’s successor Disney released a new Muppet Babies reboot in 2018 without providing him credit or compensation, Scott filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement and breach of contract in the Central District of California. The case didn’t get very far as a result of a somewhat unusual set of circumstances.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a general rule, the publishers of these journals require the author to relinquish their copyright over the work by granting them an assignment of rights or an exclusive license. It is thus very much in line with the spirit of Title IV, arts. of the Directive. What’s next?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The allegations: Caldwell operated a virtual store on Armslist (he has since been convicted of dealing firearms without a license ). After some unspecified number of trades, the gun ends up in Legghette’s hands, even though he was barred from gun ownership due to prior convictions. The answer must be no.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

It took eight months, but the ownership question of the photographs has been settled. However, it is not what I expected for the first case to be finally determined: Section 512(f) and an ownership dispute between former business partners. On June 4, 2018, Oppenheimer found his image on Prutton’s website. It seems like it did.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Binding nature The SPR should apply regardless of the copyright ownership of the publication, or of any contractual restriction in the publishing agreement. ALLEA requests the new European Commission to prioritise this in its legislative agenda.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

10] According to one of the biggest litigation funders, publicly traded Burford Capital—recently featured on 60 Minutes [11] —there was a 237% increase in overall litigation funding in the US between 2012 and 2018, a trend that, by all accounts, continues unabated. [12] Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

AUGUST 24, 2022

This may create a problem if the prospective licensee already has a license to the Affiliate’s patents through an earlier license from a related entity, or desires a license that extends to the patents held by related Affiliates. Enforcement of Judge Connolly’s Standing Order.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 26, 2021

” The crux of the case turned on the meaning of the phrase, “exclusive ownership,” which the California legislature used in California’s copyright statute in 1872. Sirius XM Radio, Inc. , They filed similar suits in Florida and New York contending that those states’ copyright laws required a similar result.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 27, 2022

Shosh and Yuval assert further that in January of 2018, they notified Paramount of their election to terminate those rights as of January of 2020. In other words, the termination period began May 18, 2018 and ends May 18, 2023 requiring a notice of termination effective January 2020 to be served in January 2018. 17 U.S.C. §

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 27, 2022

Shosh and Yuval assert further that in January of 2018, they notified Paramount of their election to terminate those rights as of January of 2020. In other words, the termination period began May 18, 2018 and ends May 18, 2023 requiring a notice of termination effective January 2020 to be served in January 2018. 17 U.S.C. §

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

January: The year kicked off in Tanzania with the news that the Parliamentary Standing Committee in Tanzania received a report from the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Sports addressing its efforts to review and improve the loopholes found in the Copyright Licensing and Rights to Benefit from Re-Sale Regulations, 2022.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 15, 2024

In the Ninth Circuits 2018 “Blurred Lines” decision , the court upheld a jury verdict for a song that was, at best, evocative of Marvin Gayes signature style in “ Got to Give It Up. ” But Williams v. Thats not to say these human-crafted social posts aren’t protectablethey are, just not by much.

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The IPKat

JUNE 18, 2024

In 2018, Sherman Nealy, a Miami based producer, sued Atlantic Records, Warner Chappell, and Artist Publishing Group in Florida federal court over the unauthorised interpolation of the 1984s track “ Jam the box ” in Flo Rida’s “ In the Ayer ,” which was released in July 2008 and managed to peak at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Respondent operates his business through two incorporated entities and claims ownership of the trademark via the permitted use by the two incorporated entities. Ajay Goyal vs Anil Verma & Anr on 31 January, 2024 (Delhi High Court) The Plaintiff is the proprietor of the mark ‘SUFIYANA’ and has a registered logo.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 31, 2022

He alleged that he used the CBC Casper and Casper names exclusively to promote his work to the public, and that, by 2017, he used the Casper mark in commerce in connection with distributing downloadable Casper CBC software and specifications under open-source licensing agreements in the United States.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 22, 2022

The legal framework covers a large number of regulations on the media including ownership, prohibitions on certain kinds of defamation. The primary source of law with respect to the media sector in the UAE is Federal No. 15 of 1980 Concerning Publications and Publishing. In 2006, the Cabinet Resolution No.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 26, 2021

” The crux of the case turned on the meaning of the phrase, “exclusive ownership,” which the California legislature used in California’s copyright statute in 1872. Sirius XM Radio, Inc. , They filed similar suits in Florida and New York contending that those states’ copyright laws required a similar result.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Algthough Logan published the photos on Wikimedia under a Creative Commons license, he alleged that Meta stripped the photos of all identifying information and falsely identified itself as the owner by displaying its “copyright tag on the bottom of each Facebook user page,” breaching the license. 3d 1137 (9th Cir. Corelogic, Inc.,

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

The acts which would constitute the acts of infringement are: If the owner of the copyrighted work has exclusive rights, and such work has been used by the other party without a license. It was in May 2018, when the plaintiffs received information regarding the misuse of their works which were being exploited and used by the defendants.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

Warner) to license certain works from the Music Specialist catalog, including “Jam the Box,” which was interpolated into Flo Rida’s hit song “In the Ayer,” which went on to sell millions of copies. Martinelli sued Hearst for copyright infringement in October 2021, contending he first discovered the online article in November 2018.

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