3 Count: Notorious Markets 2022
Plagiarism Today
MAY 2, 2022
The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The post 3 Count: Notorious Markets 2022 appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Cyntec Company, Ltd. v. Chilisin Electronics Corp., Chilisin America Ltd. Nos. 2022-1873, (Fed. Cir. October 16, 2023)
Intellectual Property Law Blog
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Similarly, in the second case, Niazi Licensing Corporation v. Like the flawed calculations in Power Integrations and Niazi Licensing , the expert’s testimony here relied on data that failed to differentiate between infringing products and non-infringing products. Jude Medical S.C., 4th 1339, 1343–44 (Fed.
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Publishers Win Preliminary Injunction Against Maryland Law that Requires Licensing Digital Works to Libraries
IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
District Court for the District of Maryland when the court granted their request for a preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of the Maryland Act, which essentially calls for compulsory licensing of electronic literary works to libraries on “reasonable terms”. The law went into effect on January 1, 2022. Copyright Act.
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New IP Monetization Models Will Rely Less on Litigation in 2022
IP Watchdog
DECEMBER 21, 2021
From the perspective of the Intangible Investor, 2022 will be a year of new opportunities and transitional growth. In the decade since the America Invents Act (AIA) was enacted, patent licensing challenges have increased for many technology companies and independent inventors.
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AI and copyright in 2022
Kluwer Copyright Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
This post looks back at the key developments in AI and copyright in 2022, covering generative AI, text and data mining exceptions, the pastiche exception, deep fakes, voice cloning and infringement and enforcement of copyright using AI. Generative AI Computer-generated art reached a tipping point in 2022.
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The Battle Over the Future of D&D
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 9, 2023
Since the year 2000, much of what makes up the core of Dungeons & Dragons has been easily licensed for others to use. That’s because the Wizards of the Coast (WotC), the rightsholders, licensed the System Resource Document under the Open Gaming License (OGL). Though WotC has dabbled with other open licenses, OGL 1.0
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3 Count: Teaming Up
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Next up today, Central News Agency reports that, in Taiwan, prosecutors have indicted ultramarathon runner Kevin Lin over allegations he was involved in a “copyright trolling” operation that has filed some 937 lawsuits since August of 2022. The MLPC has been around since 1986 and handles licensing for more than 1,000 producers.
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Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing and Education, Part Two: The Massive Shift to Electronic Licensing
Michael Geist
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
The truth is that Canadian universities spend millions of dollars on licensing copyright materials. In fact, over the past decade, the emergence of site licenses that provide access to millions of works – books, journal articles, newspapers, and more – has led to huge increases in expenditures for access.
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Federal Circuit Weighs in on Temporal Rigidity of the Baye-Dole Act’s Licensing Provisions
Intellectual Property Law Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
United States , [1] the Federal Circuit rejected a strict temporal limitation on when the Government’s license rights in patents stemming from federally funded research is triggered under the Bayh-Dole Act. The funding agency obtains a license to “subject inventions,” which is defined as “any invention. . . 2022-2248 (Fed.
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Novartis signs Voluntary License Agreement with the Medicine Patent Pool for Nilotinib
IPilogue
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
In a landmark development , Novartis has signed a Voluntary Licensing Agreement with the Medicine Patent Pool (MPP) for its nilotinib drug, used in treating Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) in adults and children as young as a year old. In terms of revenue, nilotinib accounted for $2.1 billion for Novartis last year.
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Photo Licensing Service Qualifies for DMCA Online Safe Harbor–Steinmetz v. ShutterStock
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
In 2022, I’ve blogged just one other 512(c) case ( Davis v. The case involves ShutterStock, a photo licensing service. (We ShutterStock has a “contributor” program that allows anyone to upload photos into their licensing database in exchange for a fee if licensed. Pinterest ). Business Casual v.
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Creative Commons and NFTs – is CC licensing compatible with the new technologies?
Kluwer Copyright Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2022
On 9 September 2022, Creative Commons issued their new FAQs on NFTs. This article provides a brief overview of the use of Creative Commons licensing in relation to NFTs based on the Creative Commons’ FAQ page linked above. Creative Commons Licensing. Photo by Markus Winkler.
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3 Count: Marge’s Style
Plagiarism Today
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Currently, the FIFA World Cup 2022 is ongoing in Qatar. FIFA says that the company only acquired the rights to 28 matches, but that it has “repeatedly and illegally” pirated a large number of matches the license wasn’t valid for. However, the EBC claims that the agreement was to broadcast all the 2022 games.
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3 Count: Sealed with a Kiss
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 3, 2022
The lawsuit was filed by SoundExchange after an audit alleged that Music Choice, which relies on a statutory license for the music it uses, had underpaid the royalties it owes. 3: ‘Pooh,’ ‘Sun Also Rises’ among literary and film works with copyrights expiring in 2022. They are free of copyright.
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3 Count: Evidence Issues
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
3: China Commits to Crack Down on Copyright Infringement to Protect Intellectual Property for Beijing 2022 Winter Games. Finally today, The Global Times reports that China is aiming to crack down on intellectual property infringement ahead of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. As for Sachkov, he denies any and all wrongdoing.
3 Count: Happiest Marshmello
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 21, 2022
1: US Senators Introduce SMART Copyright Act of 2022. Dubbed the Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies (SMART) Copyright Act of 2022, the act aims to encourage the use of “standard technical measures” by creating a system that the U.S. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.
3 Count: Ford’s Tough
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 5, 2023
The notices in question span a time period between September 2021 and November 2022. According to the lawsuit, AirPro violated the terms of Ford’s license agreement for their diagnostic software by transferring long-term licenses between different scanning tools.
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3 Count: Happy New Year
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 3, 2023
The CUSMA required all countries to adopt copyright terms equal to that of the United States by the end of 2022. Finally today, Rhea Nayyar at Hyperallergic reports that, in the United States, January 1st marks “Public Domain Day” where all the works that had their copyright expire in 2022 officially lapse into the public domain.
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3 Count: Lover Lawsuit
Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 25, 2022
According to the UFC, they attempted to reach out to the producers and strike a licensing deal for the clips. Now, according to an announcement by Denuvo at GamesCom 2022, Denvuo is coming to the Nintendo Switch console in a bid to prevent the emulation of Steam games on computers. 3: Notorious DRM Company Takes Aim At Switch Piracy.
2H 2022 Quick Links, Part 3 (Copyrights and More)
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JANUARY 3, 2023
2022 WL 16555584 (S.D.N.Y. 31, 2022): When an individual’s decision to disseminate an Instagram post is the “very thing the article [is] reporting on,” the use of the Instagram post and its copyrighted material in the reporting has been deemed sufficiently transformative to support a fair use defense. 2022 WL 17430309 (9th Cir.
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How "gaslighting" became the 2022 dictionary word of the year
The IPKat
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Merriam-Webster, the dictionary people, recently selected it as the 2022 "word of the year". How true this is can be seen in that, in 2022, there was an increase of 1740% in "lookups" (presumably on the dictionary's website). International license. If you used the word "gaslighting" recently, you are not alone.
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2H 2022 Quick Links, Part 1 (Marketing, Privacy)
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2022
30, 2022): Tofurky prevails on the merits of its argument that that [sic] the speech it not inherently misleading. 2022 WL 17248983 (9th Cir. Parker, 2022 WL 17403220 (D.D.C. In re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation, 2022 WL 17869218 (N.D. What If Holdings, 2022 WL 17869275 (N.D. 2022 WL 3012528 (C.D.
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The Sweet Sound of Victory? BHC Clarifies that Organisations not Registered as Copyright Societies Can also Issue Licenses
SpicyIP
JANUARY 30, 2024
Trade Wings Hotels Limited , the Single Bench (SB) held that organizations such as Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) and Novex Communications can grant licenses for the musical works owned by them, even if they are not officially registered as copyright societies under Section 33(1) of the Copyright Act, 1957. The SB was adjudicating w.r.t.
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Rojadirecta & Site Operator Hit With $33m Piracy Damages Judgment
TorrentFreak
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Supreme Court Confirms Joint Liability In 2022, Mediapro’s persistence paid off. Believed to be the most significant award ever handed down in a Spanish case of its kind, the figure is said to represent how much it would’ve cost to obtain a license to show the content legally. million euros (US$16.3m) of the total award.
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3 Count: Maverick Lawsuit
Plagiarism Today
JUNE 7, 2022
They offered unlicensed streaming boxes to bars, restaurants and home users and charged a subscription fee to access content that he had not licensed. In February 2022, the USCO Review Board issued an open letter that further affirmed the organization’s intent to deny registration of AI-created works. million) in revenue.
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IP Look-Ahead for 2022: Fewer Big Patent Wins, More Efficient Monetization
IP Close Up
JANUARY 11, 2022
In the decade since the adoption of the America Invents Act (AIA) patent licensing has become more arduous for many technology companies and independent inventors. Continue reading.
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Bombay High Court Grants (the First?) Section 32 License to Translate a Literary Work in Marathi
SpicyIP
MARCH 27, 2023
But IP nerds will specifically remember that eleven years ago, in March 2012, India’s first compulsory license was granted by the Indian Patent Office against Bayer’s Nexavar. One year later, in March 2013 the compulsory license order was upheld by the IPAB in a landmark ruling by the then Chairperson, Justice Prabha Sridevan.
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The Ethical and Legal Challenges of GitHub Copilot
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 19, 2022
@github copilot, with "public code" blocked, emits large chunks of my copyrighted code, with no attribution, no LGPL license. pic.twitter.com/sqpOThi8nf — Tim Davis (@DocSparse) October 16, 2022. — Alex Graveley (@alexgraveley) October 16, 2022. My code on left, github on right. Similar, but different.
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3 Count: Royalty Raise
Plagiarism Today
JULY 6, 2022
headline rate for the 2018-2022 period. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Copyright Royalty Board Confirms Streaming Royalty Raise for Publishers and Songwriters. The number had leapt from 11.4%
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3 Count: Switched Switch
Plagiarism Today
JUNE 8, 2022
According to the lawsuit, MPL released a game named World War in March 2022. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Winzo claims that the game was a near copy of a game from their platform, including the name.
3 Count: Quad 9
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Next up today, Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly reports that the copyright infringement lawsuit against the Internet Archive may have hit yet another delay as the defendants have asked for a three-month extension on discovery, pushing the final deadline back to April 2022. The post 3 Count: Quad 9 appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
3 Count: USCO Chimes In
Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 17, 2022
The Copyright (Amendment) Act 2022 was passed and given royal ascent earlier this year. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The post 3 Count: USCO Chimes In appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
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Crypto Group Buys Dune Book, Confuses it for Buying the Rights
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 18, 2022
Support derivative projects from the community pic.twitter.com/g4QnF6YZBp — Spice DAO ( , ) (@TheSpiceDAO) January 15, 2022. — Michael Engard (@Kaelri) January 16, 2022. Back in November, Safe Creative announced a new product that makes it easy for users to append copyright and licensing information to an NFT.
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When a Copyright Owner Gets Only a $1,000 Judgment in Federal Court, They’re the Real Losers–McDermott v. KMC
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
NOVEMBER 16, 2024
McDermott kept the copyright to those photo and granted NY Post a license. It’s a small operation, with a 2022 budget of under $1M/year. McDermott had not actually licensed the photo to anyone else to set a baseline license fee. The New York Post story.
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What Winnie-the-Pooh Lapsing into the Public Domain Really Means
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 5, 2022
On January 1, 2022, works that were first published in the year 1926 lapsed into the public domain. This means that others are free to copy, publish, distribute, create new works based upon it and otherwise make use of it without a license. However, the name that’s received the lion’s share of the attention has been A.A.
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Licensor Beware: Copyright Protections in Peril
IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Companies rely on copyright protections to shield their software, data sets, and other works that are licensed to their customers; however, a reframing of what constitutes a “transformative use,” and the extent a license can restrict such fair uses, may whittle away all avenues of protections.
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Supreme Court Finds Warhol’s Commercial Licensing of “Orange Prince” to Vanity Fair Is Not Fair Use and Infringes Goldsmith’s Famed Rock Photo
Intellectual Property Law Blog
JUNE 5, 2023
3] The Court found that the Warhol Foundation’s licensing of the Orange Prince to Conde Nast did not have a sufficiently different purpose as the Goldsmith photograph because both were “portraits of Prince used in magazines to illustrate stories about Prince.” [4] 13] AWF’s use was commercial because AWF licensed the artwork for a fee. [14]
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Photojournalist, Christopher Sadowski Focuses New Lawsuit On Pest Control Company for Alleged Copyright Infringement
Indiana Intellectual Property Law
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
As a self-employed photographer, Sadowski owns the rights to his work and licenses his photographs under terms that retain his copyright. The current suit states that in 2022, Sadowski created a photograph titled 112120rat5CS, which was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office in December 2022. Continue reading
Can We Reexamine the Role of Blockchain in Copyright Now?
Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 2, 2022
Support derivative projects from the community pic.twitter.com/g4QnF6YZBp — Spice DAO (@the_spice_club) January 15, 2022. In countries where there is no government recordation of copyright, blockchain offers a decentralized and transparent process to record copyright ownership, transfers and licenses.
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Bracing for Impact 2022: AI for the Future of Health – Q&A
IPilogue
DECEMBER 5, 2022
He proposed a model where patients license their data to the hospital, rather than assigning ownership to the hospital directly. Dykeman expressed concerns about how much of the development of AI for health is under the research designation, and the challenges that that may introduce down the road. From the audience, Prof.
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Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs: Historical Perspective and Infringement Analysis
Velocity of Content
JANUARY 7, 2025
The answer to this conundrum may simply lie in the time-tested solution that has proven successful during earlier periods of technological advancement: licensing. 2 Licensing enables copyright owners and users to come together in a mutually beneficial manner, helping the market function more efficiently and responsibly.
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Q1 Patent Litigation Declined 36% Despite Increased Patent Grants and Lack of Uncontentious Licensing in Tech
IP Close Up
AUGUST 9, 2023
Patent litigation declined significantly in the first quarter of 2023 over the same period in 2022, despite increases in issued patents, the difficulty of Continue reading
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Bayh Dole-esque Guidelines Notified by Dept of Biotechnology
SpicyIP
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
The thrust of the Guidelines appear to be coming from the 2022 Report on Commercializing Intellectual Property from Public Funded Research (Attached as Annexure A to the Guidelines) published by the DBT and authored by a 9 member committee chaired by Prof Raghavan Varadarajan, (IISc). Discussion meeting with PMO 16th August, 2022 4.
Google Accuses Regulators of Plagiarism
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 4, 2023
In October 2022, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) fined Google some 13.38 In 2017, partially based upon that report, the European Union voted to renew the license for glyphosate. Though the controversy is ongoing, the license was recently extended to the end of this year pending the publication of additional conclusions. .
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