Barry Sookman

MAY 8, 2022

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-04-30 [link] 2022-05-01. The Anti-Copyright Hyperbole Fails to Sway the Canadian Government – Hugh Stephens Blog [link] 2022-05-01. It is not unlawful for a government to use modern means of communication which delete communications and make them… [link] 2022-05-01.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 12, 2022

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed the Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring Act (CPDPA) into law on May 10, 2022, making Connecticut the most recent state to pass its own privacy law in the absence of comprehensive federal privacy legislation.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

California law will soon require businesses to treat their employees and business partners as consumers under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Previously, the CCPA excluded employee data; however, this exemption is set to expire on December 31, 2022. However, this exemption also is set to expire on December 31, 2022.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2022

Marques - CELEBRATING MARKS: How sustainability and technology will shape the future of brands - 20 to 23 September 2022 - Madrid, Spain The 2022 MARQUES Annual Conference will be held in Madrid from 20 to 23 September 2022. Registration is open and more details can be found here. Further information is available here.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 8, 2022

The Freelance Isn’t Free Act (the “Act”) if signed, would amend the New York Labor Law to establish rights for covered freelance workers such as the rights to receive a written contract, receive timely and full payment, and freedom from retaliation. Independent Contractors.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 29, 2023

1] However, this growth also brought an onslaught of new Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The issues pertaining to the rights of VTubers encompass rights to the design of the character, the privacy of the individual, licensing and taking inspiration from an existing character. 3] Section 17 of the Copyright Act, 1957. [4]

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43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2023

Changes to IP rules on their own in our world may have little effect on whether we go towards the good vision or the bad—cloud computing, network effects that cause convergence on a small number of intermediaries, and important tech that is protected by secrecy/real and personal property law/employment agreements.

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Intepat

JUNE 15, 2023

Introduction With the rise of the mobile application industry, India emerges as a highly profitable market, witnessing over twenty-eight billion downloads in 2022, accounting for 5% of the total global downloads. It thus becomes crucial for them to safeguard their creations through effective intellectual property laws.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. It’s not that half of federal judges have adopted one clear stance on copyright preemption of contracts and the other half have adopted another clear stance. But fair use isn’t a defense to a breach of contract claim.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. As artists, commentators, and parodists flock to this new medium, the headaches for intellectual property owners have multiplied.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. As artists, commentators, and parodists flock to this new medium, the headaches for intellectual property owners have multiplied.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The law goes into effect January 1, 2022 and amends the Freedom to Work Act (the Act), which restricts the use of non-compete agreements for low wage workers. The law does not apply to contracts covering confidential and proprietary information, protection of trade secrets, or inventions assignment agreements. Application. reportAd: {.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 28, 2022

The suit includes allegations of negligence, breach of implied contract, invasion of privacy, and violations of the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act. District Court for the District of Nevada (filed April 11, 2022). Shalviri seeks actual damages, statutory damages, and attorneys’ fees and costs.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 28, 2022

The suit includes allegations of negligence, breach of implied contract, invasion of privacy, and violations of the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act. District Court for the District of Nevada (filed April 11, 2022). Shalviri seeks actual damages, statutory damages, and attorneys’ fees and costs.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

ChatGPT was trained in early 2022, so it is aware of data, news, and information up to that time. Said another way, it is “unaware” of news or events post-early 2022 because such news and events were not available at the time when ChatGPT was created. early 2022). In August 2022, the U.S. See Thaler v.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As part of the new Fair Consumer Contracts Act , [ Gesetz für Faire Verbraucherverträge ; published in the Federal Gazette (Part I) no. 53/2021, p. 3433 et seq., full text publicly available ( in German ) Germany will soon require specific cancellation/termination mechanisms for consumer subscriptions. Read the full client alert.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The role of celebrity, women and consumer markets in the music industry’ looks at the role of intellectual property in the rise of a technology company. One place to start is to ask ourselves why there has been so little change from the basic terms and conditions of Melba’s early 1900 contracts to those of the present day.”

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

SB 699 It has long been a fundamental tenet of California law that “every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.” The two new laws are detailed below. Codified as Section 16600.5, Section 16600.5 In addition, Section 16600.1

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Trade secret law is credited with fostering innovation in the market and allowing entities to include a vast array of intellectual property rights under its umbrella. Also, there must be recourse to address any privacy concerns of data subjects. This is particularly true in the field of machine learning (“ ML ”).

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 9, 2022

NBA star Zion Williamson has more to celebrate than his recently announced five-year maximum rookie contract extension with the New Orleans Pelicans , worth up to $239 million. ” The court ultimately granted Williamson summary judgment as to all of Ford and Prime Sports’s counterclaims on July 18, 2022.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 21, 2022

A recent decision from the 8 th Circuit affirming grant of a motion to dismiss a breach of contract action between a company and its financial advising firm. On April 4, 2022, the 8 th Circuit affirmed the district court. Be clear in the body of the agreement who the parties are to the contract.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 3, 2022

Any provision in a contract between an employer and an employee in conflict with the provisions of this section shall be void and unenforceable.” It is in writing; part of a contract of employment; based on reasonable consideration; reasonable in duration and geographical limitations; and not against public policy. Common Law.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2022

The court also noted that previous courts inquired into the particular privacy selections used, and the types of communications made, before deciding whether a party failed to exercise reasonable measures. 7, 2022) can be found here. Stay tuned. The court’s opinion in Tori Belle Cosmetics LLC v. C21-0066RSL (W.D.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

These defense-favorable outcomes may work in the short term; but they leave open the potential liability of the contracting vendors (which may drive them out of the industry, leaving the marketing agent with no one to outsource to) and as well as the marketing agent’s possible secondary liability exposure for the vendors’ activities.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 21, 2022

A recent decision by the Second Circuit reminds litigants that a party asserting a trade secret misappropriation claim under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), or New York law, must detail in a pleading “the “reasonable measures” employed to maintain the secrecy of the alleged trade secret. In Turret Labs USA, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 29, 2022

5th 844 (2022).). Lastly, the court held an employee can request the contract be rendered void even after the employer has initiated litigation and the employee’s compulsory claims would have otherwise been due. The Superior Court, 75 Cal. Takeaways From LGCY Power, LLC.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Lombardi (October 12, 2022) is a timely example of this principle. The 3rd Circuit’s recent decision in Matthews International Corp.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 26, 2022

On January 1, 2022, SB 672 took effect, clarifying ambiguities in the original Act and levying additional requirements on Illinois employers who seek to impose and enforce restrictive covenants. The scope of the activity restrictions.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

While creative industries claim their work has been not only stolen but specifically used to replace them, AI providers continue, remarkably, to insist that the millions of images ‘fed’ to the AI can be used without permission as part of the ”social contract” of the Internet.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, we review Big Molecule Watch’s top five biosimilar regulatory developments of the year: USPTO Outlines New Initiatives Regarding Drug Pricing. The post Year in Review: Top Biosimilars-Related Regulatory Developments of 2022 appeared first on Big Molecule Watch.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Despite the judiciary’s efforts to address the concerns under current intellectual property laws like copyright and trademark, the absence of relevant and specific provisions for the protection of personality rights has started to pose a serious threat. Puttaswamy v. The Plaintiff also referenced Vanna White v.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2023

Another targets The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a UK nonprofit known for scraping the platform to quantify the proliferation of hate speech, for breach of contract, intentional interference with contractual relations, inducing breach of contract, and civil violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

These contract law provisions, totally alien to the Irish legal tradition, are designed to apply in negotiations and contractual relationships between artists and commercial exploiters of their works, including social media platforms and streaming services.

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Throughout 2022, our dedicated Trade Secrets, Computer Fraud & Non-Compete practice group hosted a series of CLE webinars that addressed significant trade secret and restrictive covenant issues facing companies today. Overview of Non-Compete Legislation and Enforcement Issues from 2022. View the Recording.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

” In November 2022, two anonymous software programmers who own source code repositories publicly available through GitHub brought a class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California against GitHub and OpenAI ( DOE 1 et al v.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 13, 2022

As we transition into 2022, these skyrocketing numbers don’t seem to halt any time soon. Intellectual Property refers to the creations and inventions that are made by people using their intellect and talent. The NFT sale volume totalled $94.09 Legal Issues around NFT: IPR Issues: .

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Throughout 2022, our dedicated Trade Secrets, Computer Fraud & Non-Compete practice group hosted a series of CLE webinars that addressed significant trade secret and restrictive covenant issues facing companies today. Overview of Non-Compete Legislation and Enforcement Issues from 2022. View the Recording.

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