The IPKat

JULY 22, 2021

Katfriend Dr Sabine Jacques , Associate Professor in IP, IT & Media law at the University of East Anglia and author of The Parody Exception in Copyright Law (OUP 2019), provides the follow review of The Copyright/Trademark Interface: How the Expansion of Trademark Protection is Stifling Cultural Creativity – by Martin Senftleben.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 5, 2022

Green Label, a company selling vacuum cleaner bags, initiated an invalidity action against the CD in 2019 before the Invalidity Division. Being consumables, the cleaner bags are promoted independently on the market and sold at various locations. picture on the right is by painter Kobayashi Kiyochika and is in the public domain

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The members of the European Copyright Society (ECS ) have recently sent a letter to Mr. Thierry Breton ( Commissioner for Internal Market , European Commission ) outlining their view of what should be the priorities for a f uture agenda in the field of copyright law. The letter is available here and its contents are reproduced below.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Apart from revolutionizing the creative markets, the ability to obtain new artworks with an increasing marginalization of human contribution has inevitably tested the fitness of copyright legislations all over the world to deal with the so-called “artificial intelligence” (‘AI’). In 2019, the U.S. Deepbrain AI , Veed.io ).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here the final version is a clear improvement over the original Parliament text as it no longer suggests that model providers need to distinguish between copyright-protected and public domain training materials and then apply different transparency standards to both, which would be unworkable.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In making this finding I draw an adverse inference from Defendant’s failure to initiate litigation against Plaintiff…by November 19, 2018, Defendant was using the DMCA Takedown Notices to suppress a market competitor rather than to enforce a legitimate good faith claim of copyright infringement. 2019 WL 13109708 (S.D.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In 2019, the EU’s Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) was adopted. Public domain material. The disparity represents a striking fragmentation of the Single Digital Market. Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Also in its amended opinion, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Google , the court placed newfound emphasis on the consideration of the “public benefits” the copying will likely produce as part of its analysis of the fourth fair use factor—the effect of the use on the market for the original. 2019.) Originals [Album].

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2024

Unveiling Merchant Privileges in the Shadows of Craftsmanship Developing nations like India require financial and technical support to market their products internationally and attain the sustainability of GI. It’s possible that India unintentionally made it harder for its Artisans to obtain GI protection for their agricultural goods.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

In February 2019, Tamita Brown, Glen S. Finally, the Second Circuit found that the fourth factor – the ‘effect on the potential market’ – favors fair use as well. Tales from the Public Domain , “documentaries are records of our culture. Photo by Geoff Gill via Pixabay. Chapman, and Jason T.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

And that, in turn, further restricts what should be in the public domain and gives companies power to create property rights where none are otherwise granted in the law. s Terms of Service (“ToS”) when it created a new account in 2019. Here, the court agreed, and dismissed Twitter’s breach-of-contract claims on that basis.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Inver claimed two non-use periods, seeking revocation of the UK clone from 9 th July 2019 or, alternatively, 17 th March 2021. For example, there was a lack of evidence in relation to the distribution of advertising and marketing evidence, and the only evidence of turnover submitted was comprised of seventeen invoices.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 13, 2024

In a 2016 report, Marci Goldberg of K-12 Market Advisors reported that “teachers spend an average of five hours per week creating materials and seven hours per week searching for materials.” Exceptions include materials in the public domain such as documents and materials the U.S. I am not alone. million dollars.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

2019 WL 3555509 (D. The whole point of copyright preemption is that Congress sought to prevent states from infringing on the public domain and undermining key concepts of copyright law. This observation is as true now as the day when the Ninth Circuit made it, in 2019. Robert Wood Johnson University Hosp., 634 F.Supp.2d

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

If the contract limits any action that copyright law restricts, meaning reproduction, distribution, adaptation, or public performance or display of works within the scope of copyright, it is preempted. In other words, what level of contractual control over public domain information is acceptable.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 24, 2022

They didn’t need permission to borrow from the public corpus or public domain. No faith in the free markets? But you’re right that there is some tension between free markets and IPR. Read page 45, WHO global report on traditional and complementary medicine 2019 (saying “T&CM is used by at least 80% (i.e.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Addressing Factor 4, it asserted there was little or no market harm, because “time-shifting merely enables a viewer to see … a work which he had been invited to witness in its entirety free of charge.” ( Id. Arguably little to no market harm, at least not until remote controls and commercial-skipping became popular.)

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 1, 2022

The decision has already been discussed by a number of commentators. For instance, see the posts by João Pedro Quintais , Eleonora Rosati and Christophe Geiger and Natasha Mangal.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The plaintiff was granted, through an agreement, an exclusive non-transferable, non-assignable license for selling, supplying, and distributing the defendant’s brands in domestic and international markets. The Joint Parliamentary Committee Report on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 was tabled in the Parliament on December 16, 2021.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 16, 2024

In light of criticism following the announcement of the political deal – and renewed warnings that the AI Act risks will hamper innovation in the European market – there may still be room for debate over the final terms of the AI Act before ratification. [13] 10] See European Parliament’s draft, Article 28(b)(4)(c). [11]

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

Introductory remarks The Greek legislator transposed Directive (EU) 2019/790 (CDSMD) with considerable delay, enacting L. 3 in fine ) and is, thus, unable to place other elements of the public domain, such as information and news, out of the reach of the PPR (see, Christina Angelopoulos, Comparative National implementation Report, p.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 23, 2023

It further expanded its domain as a manufacturer by establishing a market for its self-made products such as kindle for e-book services, audiobook and ‘cloud computing’ web storage services. Patent are valid for the duration of 20 years before coming into public domain) Patent infringement can occur in two ways.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

By now, Article 15 of Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSM Directive) needs no wordy introductions. Put briefly, the provision requires Member States to introduce a related (or neighbouring) right for press publishers, applicable to online uses of their publications.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Freedom to operate searches provides you with important information about how much business opportunity there is for your firm in the industry, in addition to letting you know whether there would be any difficulties entering your chosen market. Picture Credit: gettyimage]. Is Software Patentable? In the case of Ferid Allani v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 20, 2022

Accordingly, the proposed right is intended to incorporate the entire catalogue of copyright exceptions, the Swedish freie Benutzung provision in section 4, uses of unprotected content (for example which are in the public domain) and licensed uses (Ds 2021:30, pp.

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IIPRD

JULY 4, 2021

’ Another example of this may be a case wherein the year 2019, Marc Jacobs was sued by Nirvana, a clothing company, for violation of her mark. Therefore, emojis can easily be used by producers or marketing companies to satisfy the requirement “use in commerce” and thus trademarks can be secured without many obstacles.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

By defining purpose only as licensing image of Prince—use in a well-structured conventionalized market—the majority gets to be dismissive of the dissent; it doesn’t matter how much Warhol contributed b/c he created a substantially similar image which is now competing with her photograph. It participates in the same conventionalized market.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 14, 2023

2004) 18(3) (3) Higher Education Journal of South Africa, Lesley le Grange [ii] Stanislav Ksenofontov, Norman Backhaus, and Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, There are New Species: Indigenous Knowledge of Biodiversity Change in Arctic Yakutia, 42(1) Polar Geography, 34, 35 (2019). 61 (2010). [iv] vi] United Nations University, 2015, pp.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

Press publishers are dependent on platforms like Google and Facebook for referential traffic on their website making it difficult for them to negotiate with giant platforms especially the ones with the dominant market position. Many academics have stated that IP is not the correct tool to achieve the redistribution of market share.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Act I When the Committee charged with conducting Canada’s 2019 Copyright Act Review turned its mind to AI, its primary concern was with “help[ing] Canada’s promising future in artificial intelligence become reality” ( Report 2019 ). The training process can involve reproductions of the training data…. data —reside).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Niklas Jansson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons On 30 December 2022, the Italian Supreme Court ( Corte di Cassazione ) issued an order that intervened again on the interpretation of the quotation exception under Article 70 of the Italian Copyright Act ( l. 633/1941 , l.aut.). 102-nonies (2) l.aut.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Brunetti (2019) and strike down this trademark registration law as an unconstitutional regulation of speech protected by the First Amendment. Tam ” (2018), and my guest post on Eric Goldman’s Technology and Marketing Law Blog written after the Federal Circuit’s decision in In re Elster.) Tam (2017) and Iancu v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lawsuit involves sound recordings of 19 interviews that then-President Trump voluntarily gave to Woodward between December 2019 and August 2020, plus one interview from 2016 (when Trump was still a candidate). If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. 3:23-cv-02333 (N.D.

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