The IPKat

AUGUST 3, 2022

These rights are often owned by different people, and are governed by contracts, so who owns what and how much they earn depends on the agreement between the parties. In 2020, Kelis revealed in an interview that she is not credited and does not receive any royalties from her two albums produced by The Neptunes.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Defendants allegedly copied key components of Trackman’s copyrighted software and falsely suggested, in promotions and advertisements, that defendants were authorized to use the well-known courses in their game. Although the court dismissed a contract claim, copyright and false advertising claims survived.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

sued Bright Data for trespass to chattels, breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract, violation of California Business and Professions Code Section 17200, and misappropriation. As I wrote back in December, scraping claims are almost always about unwanted copying and distribution of data. In November 2023, X corp.

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Blogging Contracts Cease and Desist Social Media 123

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Yet 2020 saw a slowdown in biosimilar activity with the lowest number of annual biosimilar approvals since 2016 and fewer product launches than 2019—as well as a decrease in district court litigation and post-grant proceedings. Below, we review these notable developments and more from 2020. Biosimilar Approvals and Launches in 2020.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

From a cold, legal perspective, a 2020 blocking application filed by publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society should’ve been straightforward. On one hand, unauthorized mass copying and distribution of movies, TV shows, and music is widely recognized as copyright infringement. Today, most run relatively smoothly.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 21, 2021

After the apparent demise of Area 51 but in advance of the settlement being finalized, it’s alleged that Tusa launched a close copy of Area 51 called SingularityMedia, which scooped up Area 51’s customers. In response, ACE contacted Tusa again and demanded that the new service was shut down. It later disappeared.

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Cease and Desist Settlement Copyright Infringement Copyright 145

TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This older copy is the one presented by Bungie as evidence. In 2020, someone using the name “Martin Zeniu” obtained a license to the Destiny 2 cheat software, agreeing to these terms. The purchased software was allegedly decompiled and reverse engineered, which is a breach of contract since it violates the Terms of Service.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 13, 2022

According to a 1999 report by Washington City Paper , she first found herself dealing with accusations of plagiarism, something she blamed on copy and paste errors. Because of that, she’s suing for a variety of causes including defamation, breach of contract and tortious interference.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 30, 2022

Contract not Copyright: Genius does not hold the copyright to the lyrics and so has no copyright infringement claim. But, Genius does require its users to agree to an extensive contractual agreement that includes a promise that the user will not commercially reproduce, copy, or distribute any portion of the Genius service. Genius sued.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Finally, in October 2020, Facebook nuked the Shared account (and the personal accounts of some of its employees) and blocked Shared’s ads. Fourth, Shared avers that Meta committed breach of contract (Claim 3) for failing to deliver the April 2018 payment on time in violation of the FAN payment term. Bonne chance.”).

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Desny could not get through to Wilder and subsequently stripped his script to the bare facts so that Wilder’s secretary could copy it in short-hand over the phone. The Court, however, held that Densy stated sufficient facts to establish the existence of an implied-in-fact contract between the parties.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2024

The speed and scale at which that happens is ultimately governed by two key factors; how easily the content can be obtained, copied, and distributed, and how popular the content is with consumers. Any content that can be digitized is immediately vulnerable to being pirated.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In the fall of 2020, hiQ Labs had its antitrust claims dismissed. In spring 2021, hiQ Labs had its motion to dismiss denied on LinkedIn’s misappropriation, breach of contract, and trespass to chattels claims. Breach of Contract. The CFAA is in part a criminal statute and breach of contract claims are not. The opinion.

Blogging 98

Blogging Contracts Litigation Law 98

TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The movie companies allege a breach of contract but note that due to the defendants’ alleged accounting deficiencies, they are unable to put an exact figure on the amount Hierl and his law firm failed to pay. Overall, Millennium believes that there is an enforceable contract and it’s owed $130,000 in collected settlements.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

However, that purchaser is entitled to carry out such a decompilation only to the extent necessary to effect that correction and in compliance, where appropriate, with the conditions laid down in the contract with the program’s rightsholder. Stay tuned as a comment on the judgment is coming soon in the blog. CDSM Directive implementation.

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Copyright Law Copyright Law Reporting 112

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

March, 13, 2023): on February 4, 2020, Bar-Z submitted a DMCA notification to Google Play and Apple that App Star’s applications needed to be taken down. While Bar-Z did interfere with App Star’s existing contracts and intended to do so, Bar-Z is protected by the defense of justification that it raised in its response.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

increase in international registration filings compared to 2020! DESIGN On Saturday, February 5, 2022, WIPO announced China's accession to the Hague System, making it the 68th contracting party to the 1999 Act and the 77th member of the Hague Union. The IPKat has once again compiled some of them for you. In 2021, there was a 14.4%

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IPilogue

AUGUST 16, 2022

In 2020, AirG was involved in a similar copyright infringement action, Lickerish, Ltd. The Court was not satisfied that any of this evidence confirmed that Pugliese was a US citizen in April 2015, when photos were created. Another Escape by AirG. v AirG Inc.

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Kashishipr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It was in October 2020 when SSPL came to know about NTC’s use of a similar label and trade dress for its set of soya bean edible oil products. In May 2007, the label mark ‘SOYA DROP’ was registered. Since then, it has been continuously used and has even acquired reputation and goodwill in the market. For more visit: [link].

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2023

In 2020, the RIAA infuriated many players in the open source community by targeting YouTube-ripping tool youtube-dl. ‘Clearly Not Clearly Illegal’ Also, Uberspace couldn’t find any claims from YouTube itself that their content has effective copy protection. After all, we have a hosting contract to fulfill!’

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Music Fair Use Copyright Law Law 145

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The social contract of copyright, which main purpose is to realize a broader collective concern, the access of citizens to science and culture ( Geiger, 2013 ), lies in the approximation of the interests of rightholders and users. From this constitutional dimension of copyright emerged the notion of ‘user rights’ ( Geiger, 2020 ).

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The filing literally says “ the full particulars of when, from where, and exactly how, the Works were accessed, scraped, and/or copied is within the knowledge of OpenAI and not the News Media Companies.” This comes directly from scientists at ChatGPT, who published on the issue in 2020. This isn’t me speculating.

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Settlement Copyright Licensing Copyright Infringement 84

The TTABlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

of the mark in a Contracting State other than that of origin of the mark and such registration. of the mark in a Contracting State other than that of origin of the mark and such registration. See Lacteos , 2020 TTAB LEXIS 13, at *12-13. The Article 8 claim was founded on Empresa's pending application for the mark shown below.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 23, 2021

The digital universe is so large that it is said that big data is doubling in size every two years, and by the end of 2020, it is expected to reach 44 zettabytes. It is a popular saying that “if it is worth copying, it is worth protecting.” Where does IP come from in the Said Scenario?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. Anthony, 2020 WL 11206863 (N.D. Signal 23 Television v. Prior Posts on Section 512(f).

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 25, 2023

The studio is asking the court to declare that a copyright termination notice served by Gallo and Israel in 2020 is invalid because transfers of works made for hire aren’t subject to termination under section 203(a) of the Copyright Act. In the meantime, here’s a copy of Columbia Pictures’ complaint, hot off the presses.

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Copyright Copying Social Media Business 76

IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Influence of AI, AI tools may be applied to copy logos and packages pretty closely, so the buyer will hardly be able to distinguish the original thing from the fake one. Smart contracts automatically execute IP-related agreements, such as licensing or distribution deals, ensuring compliance without the need for manual intervention.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Christopher Buccafusco (& Rebecca Tushnet), Base Rate Neglect in Copying-in-Fact Comes out of an excellent Buccafusco paper about the failures of copying in fact, which led me to think about base rate neglect in cases where plaintiff’s expert claims that it’s not possible that these similarities arose in the absence of copying.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights 2020, here. The plaintiff applied for an injunction against the defendant for copyright infringement and breach of contract. Since he used the company resources to produce the drawings, the architectural drawings became commissioned works by the Company under a contract of service.

Copyright 89

Copyright IP Ownership Copyright Infringement 89

LexBlog IP

MARCH 31, 2022

Desny could not get through to Wilder and subsequently stripped his script to the bare facts so that Wilder’s secretary could copy it in short-hand over the phone. The Court, however, held that Densy stated sufficient facts to establish the existence of an implied-in-fact contract between the parties.

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Contracts Artwork Law Ownership 52

LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

billion in sales in 2021 alone, the non-fungible token (“NFT”) has recently undergone a dramatic rise in prominence in the cryptoverse, similar to the “crypto summer” of 2017-18 or the “DeFi summer” of 2020. With an astounding $17.7 This metadata may be “on-chain” or “off-chain.”

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IP Spotlight

APRIL 1, 2020

(Note: This post was updated June 30, 2020 to reflect the new extension dates that the USPTO published on that date.). Extensions available through June 30, 2020. On March 31, 2020, and updated on April 28, 2020, the USPTO issued notices indicating that it will waive certain patent and trademark filing deadlines under the CARES Act.

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This year’s series included: 2020 Year in Review: What You Need to Know about the Recent Cases and Developments in Trade Secrets, Non-Competes, and Computer Fraud Law. 2020 Year in Review: What You Need to Know about the Recent Cases and Developments in Trade Secrets, Non-Competes, and Computer Fraud Law. View the Recording.

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Confidentiality Law Contracts Business 69

JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

pic.twitter.com/fhkLfOssfm — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) May 25, 2020. Whoever owns the sound recording rights controls the “master,” or the original recording from which every other copy is made. There seemed nothing particularly odd about Swift’s tweet – except that the band didn’t exist.

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Copyright Law Copyright Law Music 45

LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2021

Companies may therefore continue to negotiate their own individual contracts addressing the compulsory elements of Article 28(3) and (4) of the GDPR. Instead, the controller retains the choice as to whether the processor must delete or return the personal data, until following termination of the contract (clause 10(d)). Background.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 28, 2022

The trial jury found West guilty of reverse passing off under the Lanham Act but not for trade dress infringement, trade dress counterfeiting, trade secret misappropriation, or tortious interference with a contract between OTR and Genie. Instead, it held that OTR’s trade dress was invalid and fraudulently obtained.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Emma Perot, Publicity Rights, Celebrity Contracts, and Social Norms: Industry Practices in the US and UK Fenty v Topshop: Misrepresentation/passing off theories were successful for Rihanna in UK. Influence of law, desire to contract, social norms. Desire to contract: contracts clearly define scope of rights.

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