Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Simply put, the move digital course management systems has spelled the end of paper course packs and the increased the value of digital licensing models. For example, a 2021 study in The Canadian Journal of Higher Education analyzed 3,391 course syllabi used between 2015 and 2020 from 34 Canadian universities. between 2002 and 2021.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Plus, it doesn’t apply to licenses, which have become the primary means for distributing and monetizing e-books. This all changed in June 2020, when four of the largest book publishers (Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House) filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Internet Archive (IA).

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Books3 was first published on The Eye in late 2020 and was eventually removed when the Rights Alliance sent a formal takedown notice. There are other book datasets as well, which are too large to have been created from public domain content. And then there are datasets that use copyrighted music , images, and video as well.

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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. Anthony, 2020 WL 11206863 (N.D.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

A first-of-its-kind decision in 2020 proclaimed the copyright of the article generated by Tencent’s Dreamwriter software, the majority opinion was decided on the basis that the software operates under human direction. Sources should be disclosed by the programmers of the training data and obtain suitable licenses where needed.

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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] Therefore, AI may not equipped for generating an original work. Hence, ownership is not granted to the AI.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Even after the 2020 amendment and consequent dilution of the Form 27, the dismal number of filings indicates the general ignorance of the patentees towards this obligation. Without these details, it is essentially diluting the possibility of compulsory licenses as well. UoI and this co-authored report by Prof.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

This all changed in June 2020, when four of the largest book publishers (Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House) filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against Internet Archive (IA). It also includes 3.6 million additional books protected by valid copyrights.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 16, 2023

Flexibilities have been classified on the basis of a blended taxonomy, centred around categories of uses, purposes/goals and rights/interests balanced against copyright, coupled with horizontal, catch-all categories such as “public domain” and “external copyright flexibilities”. private study, e-lending).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 14, 2023

The initial pre-print version was drafted with the collaboration of academics from different universities and led to an international conference in 2020 in Geneva. Facilitate effective collective licensing of rights, including where possible, through extended collective licensing systems. This post summarizes these findings.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2023

It is to be made sufficiently clear that the aforementioned creations ought to be original and independent, rather than a slightly altered version of the creation already in the public domain, to instill looking into the prospects of copyrightability. GSPR (2021) 131 Zhaoxia Deng, Illegal To Play? 22 (2021) Joanna E. & Tech.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

Scenario (1): Public Domain. The public domain is arguably the “cheapest” source of data. The main problem with this category is that to enter the public domain underlying works are on average at least 70 years old, and often much older. Scenario (2): Open Licenses.

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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. a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license”), and there is no allegation that it was corrupted, changed, or deleted. Kraft , 974 F.3d see Kaplan Decl.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

In 2020 the District Court agreed with the defendants that the use of the song in the documentary was fair use and hence granted the motion to dismiss. Tales from the Public Domain , “documentaries are records of our culture. As pointed out by Keith Aoki, James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins in Bound by Law?

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 13, 2023

Licensing and Sale Issues: Segmenting and dividing portions of a patent for sale is a problem that can be avoided. When multiple inventions are claimed in a single patent, excluding claims that are irrelevant to the specific sale or license is unorthodox and uncertain, at best. of attorneys.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This is not the first time the UKIPO has engaged with a public call for views on the topic of AI and IP. In a 2020 consultation , the government sought to broadly understand the implications of AI for IP. Responses from the earlier call for views have raised the need to improve licensing mechanisms for TDM purposes. Background.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 10, 2023

This decision can impact your intellectual property and licensing flexibility. The second reason is related to the licensing of your patented invention. It’s important to retain flexibility when licensing your invention. The second reason is related to the licensing of your patented invention. licensing benefits).

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2024

An indication becomes generic when it returns to the public domain and is no longer protected in its country of origin or has ceased to be used there. It’s interesting to note that the Act restricts the use of GI marks to licensed users exclusively.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Union of India and Others [2019 SCC OnLine Del 11867 : (2020) 81 PTC 489] its was rightfully observed in para 10 that : “In today’s digital world, when most inventions are based on computer programs, it would be retrograde to take a view that all such inventions would not be patentable. In the case of Ferid Allani v.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 23, 2023

Patent are valid for the duration of 20 years before coming into public domain) Patent infringement can occur in two ways. Often, the third-party sellers engage in selling, distributing and importing of patented product through Amazon channels without consent of the holder or license to sell that particular product. [2]

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 13, 2022

On December 22, 2020, Senator Thom Tillis released the first discussion draft of the Digital Copyright Act of 2021 (“DCA” or the “Act”): an amendment to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). A German professor of music theory received Content ID Claims for recordings in the public domain uploaded by his YouTube channels.

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Patently-O

APRIL 6, 2023

WPL established that an earlier version of the SAS System, “SAS 76,” was in the public domain. WPL demonstrated that the SAS Language should be filtered because it is open and free for public use. Newman , 959 F.3d 3d 1288 (11th Cir.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 21, 2021

xxi] Therefore, the Court held that this placed the annotations in the public domain, and thus not eligible for copyright protection. xxvii] As a result, States might be free to manipulate the arrangements they have with private parties to circumvent the government edicts doctrine and prevent unfettered public access.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In the 1960s, the LOVE image gained global popularity through display on commercial products, paintings, and outdoor sculptures, all published without notice and thus in the public domain. That was the essence of McKenzies complaint: Defendants deceive[ ] the general public and the relevant market that they have a copyright to LOVEi.e.,

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Sears/Compco said there was a right to copy things in the public domain; how did that go away? Do you still point out that Congress endorsed Rogers in 2020? What you’re seeing is cross-licensing/branding. But somehow there’s a big change between Sears/Compco and Taco Cabana.

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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. complaint filed Jan.

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