IPilogue

JANUARY 17, 2022

While many were observing the new year, intellectual property scholars and the artistic community were celebrating Public Domain Day. The previously copyrighted works enter the public domain, free to use and copy. public domain. January 1 st marks the expiration of most jurisdictions’ copyright terms.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

This disclosure guarantees that at the expiration of the patent, the invention will enter the public domain, facilitating its utilization and technological progress. 2020), AstraZeneca filed an infringement suit regarding its medication Ticagrelor. In AstraZeneca AB & Anr. Emcure Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Patent Application 64

Patent Application Invention Patent Public Domain 64

JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

The Conan Doyle estate, heirs to the author of the works about the famed detective Sherlock Holmes, alleged that Netflix infringed on the character Sherlock Holmes in its portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the 2020 movie “Enola Holmes.” [2] 21, 2020), [link]. [3] 2, 2020), [link]. 6, 2020), [link]. [13] 17, 2020), [link]. [17]

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IPilogue

JANUARY 20, 2022

In 2020, visitor figures for the world’s top 100 art museums dropped by 77%. Many museums have made high-resolution images of their collections available online, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, whose online portal hit a record-high level of audience engagement in 2020. and the U.S. New York art attorney Amelia K.

Marketing 111

Marketing Marketing Public Domain Moral Rights 111

TorrentFreak

JULY 9, 2023

In 2020, the U.S. A TV company claimed the public domain footage as their own. Through a third-party partner with access to the Content ID system, the pair generated over $24 million in revenue from YouTube by falsely claiming ownership. The abuse didn’t go unnoticed and the repercussions were severe.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Since the 31st of January 2020 the United Kingdom is no longer part of the European Union (‘EU’). Aurora Soma is the proprietor of several EUTM’s, all registered before 2020 for the cosmetic goods it distributes. The top picture is in the public domain.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 3, 2022

The University of Cyprus, together with the Horizon 2020 project reCreating Europe , funded by the European Commission, is conveying the conference “Rethinking copyright flexibilities”. copyright and the public domain. copyright internal limits. copyright and fundamental/human rights. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Netflix eventually settled with Chooseco in late 2020 after unsuccessfully arguing on grounds related to trademark law and fair use allowances. . Photo retrieved from Tubefilter.

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Trademark Public Domain Television Fair Use 105

Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In 2020, Ken Thompson, a post-doctorate fellow and a co-author on a 2014 study published by Newmaster on forest plants, sounded the alarm and approached UG with concerns about Newmaster’s work. However, doubts about his work began to pile up. In short, the paper would not be retracted.

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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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IPilogue

JANUARY 23, 2023

The new changes are in line with Canada’s treaty obligations under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) , which came into force on July 1st, 2020. The amendments come by way of Bill C-19, the Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. In other words, the extension will not operate retroactively.

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Government Copyright Intellectual Property Law Public Domain 104

The IPKat

MAY 20, 2022

Mostert co-submitted an application for a troll emoji ( ) to the Unicode Consortium in early 2020. Emoji image is from Unicode, Unicode Character ‘TROLL’ (U + 1F9CC), and is in the public domain. Cats are well acquainted with the art of trolling already… Did you know that there is now an emoji for all of your IP needs?

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Social Media IP Public Domain Art 81

IPilogue

MAY 6, 2022

Dua Lipa’s 2020 pop hit “Levitating” is facing copyright infringement lawsuits as of March 2022. 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. Photo by Smorazanm ( Pixabay ).

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

Back in the day when OpenAI used to be open (pun intended), it published a paper in 2020 titled Language Models are Few-Shot Learners giving the details of the training dataset for GPT-3 (p.8 The data that goes into training the model and how training is done has an enormous implication on the copyright infringement question. 8 onwards).

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Copyright Copyright Infringement Public Domain Technology 82

TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

In its response to the FOIA request, Greater Manchester Police reveal that the number of people cautioned, fined and/or arrested for simply watching illegal streams in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 combined, was… zero.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 7, 2023

With no announcements from Sky or the Premier League, and the associated court orders not yet in the public domain, the scope of the Sky order remains unclear. An order covering the 2019/2020 season ran out on July 27, 2020 , but was quickly followed by a “sealed order” covering the 2020/2021 season.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2022

On 3rd January 2020, Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft filed an opposition against Pinball’s application for all of the goods and services applied for, claiming a likelihood of confusion with: 1. Pictures of marks are in the public domain. Class 21: Camping grills. Class 39: Rental of recreational vehicles. Its EUTM Registration No.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The application was published for opposition on 27th March 2020. On 26th June 2020, Whittaker’s opposed part of Little Hare Gin’s application. The relevant date of assessment was 11th March 2020, the date of filing of the Hare Gin Logos. Pictures of marks are in the public domain.

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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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Government Copyright Public Domain Publishing 120

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

It also states that: No patents or any other form of intellectual property protection shall be granted or applied for by any person, within India or abroad, on any traditional knowledge or aggregation thereof, on any traditional knowledge obtained or derived from India, whether in the custody of the knowledge society or in public domain.

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Intellectual Property Due Diligence Public Domain Government 121

Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This decreased reliance and, in some cases, total abandonment of traditional copying is shown in examples from several universities across the country: Mount Saint Vincent University has not sold print course packs for the last 10+ years, except for occasional material that is in the public domain. between 2002 and 2021.

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Higher Education Copyright Copying Journalism 60

IPilogue

JULY 20, 2022

In 2018 , the Cancellation Division of the EUIPO revoked Apple’s rights in its “ Think Different” marks, a decision that was upheld by the Board of Appeal in November 2020. The decision effectively makes the mark “Think Different” fall in the public domain and is closely preceded by chatter about Apple’s unethical trademark practices.

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Trademark Intellectual Property Public Domain IP 81

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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Ownership Moral Rights Public Domain Intellectual Property 90

SpicyIP

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Indian Patent Office (IPO) in its Annual Report for the year 2020-2021 , states: ‘… a total of 52764 patent applications were published under section 11A and 583 pre-grant oppositions were filed under section 25(1) of the Patents Act, 1970, which is about 1.1% Looking at the IPO’s Data on Pre-Grant Oppositions.

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Patent Application Reporting Public Domain Patent 141

Patently-O

AUGUST 22, 2022

And, once a patent expires (or is refused or forfeited by public use), the balance allows “free access to copy whatever the federal patent and copyright laws leave in the public domain.” ” Compco Corp. Day–Brite Lighting, Inc. , 234 (1964). ” In re Jackson , 972 F.3d 3d 25 (2d Cir.

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Patent Law Law Patent Invention 91

TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Late 2020, Senator Thom Tillis released a discussion draft of the “Digital Copyright Act” (DCA), which aims to be a successor to the current DMCA. The public domain needs to stay in the hands of the public, intellectual property needs to be let out into the world and remixed,” Fitzgerald adds.

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Copyright Fair Use Copyright Infringement Public Domain 117

IP Tech Blog

MAY 18, 2023

In a case that could have some lasting impact, the Federal Circuit recently affirmed a 2020 ruling by Judge Rodney Gilstrap in the Eastern District of Texas dismissing claims that a competitor infringed non-literal elements of the plaintiff’s software.

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Copyright Public Domain Copying Litigation 57

CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

” On May 27, 2020, Thaler filed a second appeal, arguing that AI artworks should be copyrightable because it would “advance the fundamental aims of copyright law, including the constitutional foundation for copyright protection.” Because it was not made by a human, this viral monkey selfie from 2011 is in the public domain.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

” On May 27, 2020, Thaler filed a second appeal, arguing that AI artworks should be copyrightable because it would “advance the fundamental aims of copyright law, including the constitutional foundation for copyright protection.” Because it was not made by a human, this viral monkey selfie from 2011 is in the public domain.

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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. For instance, authorship would be ascribed to whoever conceived the inputs or the AI that generated the output.

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Copyright Intellectual Property Copyright Law Artwork 52

SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Access to these court proceedings can also be construed as a part of Section 4 of the RTI Act, 2005 since the judiciary can be deemed as a ‘public authority’. On the other hand, a hurried and unplanned introduction is likely to put the Court smack dab in the heart of the fake news and misinformation quagmire.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Most prominently, through its 2020 report, IBM stated that several patents granted to them in 2017 also comprised of blockchain patents. Several individuals have been held for falsifying copyright ownership over a work that exists in the public domain. However, this can be prevented with stringent IP laws in place.

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Intellectual Property Non-Fungible Tokens Copyfraud Contracts 94

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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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2023

In a case that could have some lasting impact, the Federal Circuit recently affirmed a 2020 ruling by Judge Rodney Gilstrap in the Eastern District of Texas dismissing claims that a competitor infringed non-literal elements of the plaintiff’s software.

Copyright 52

Copyright Public Domain Copying Litigation 52

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. Interestingly, this has been described as a method to reduce the burden on patent applicants since this information is already available in the public domain.

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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?

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

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). IA’s Open Library project includes millions of public domain books that users can download and read without restriction.

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