Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

In November 2023, X corp. 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. That’s what copyright law is for. on all counts. citations omitted) X Corp. Bright Data at 21.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

As 2023 comes to an end, in line with our annual tradition, we take stock of the top IP developments that occurred this year. We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. A special thanks to Mr. G. Nataraj, Ms.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. We know, however, that many laws limit free access and use of information goods, most prominently copyright law (and IP law generally). Guy Rub , The Ohio State University Michael E.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2023

We have included all VPN providers we contacted that don’t keep extensive logs or block lawful torrent traffic on all of their servers. Note: The responses below were received in 2023. Update: April 2023: Mullvad was subject to a search warrant but the company reports that customer data wasn’t compromised.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

As 2023 commences, it’s time for companies to review and take stock of their intellectual property assets. This applies to companies that have never taken serious steps to protect intellectual property and companies that understand the value of intellectual property and take active steps to secure and protect those assets. .

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 24, 2024

Last year saw the introduction of Law 4996/2022, which brought significant changes to IP legislation in Greece, amending several provisions of the existing Copyright Law 2121/1993 as well as Law 4481/2017 on Collective Management. Law 4996/2022 was implemented into the Greek legislation EU Directive 2019/789.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Typically, in the case of scholarly publications, authors are publicly funded through payment under a standing contract with a university or research institute, or through project funding, including EU funding. Pre-existing Bulgarian provision The SPR is not an entirely novel concept to Bulgarian copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

However, those familiar with copyright law, immediately began to point out flaws in the plan. Spice DAO has announced that it is implementing a three-stage “redemption phase” that will see it attempt to pay back its members as much as possible and, likely, attempt to sell the book in the fourth quarter of 2023.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 7, 2023

According to the most recent order in Maria Schneider’s copyright lawsuit against YouTube, the long-running case is still scheduled for jury trial beginning Monday, June 12, 2023. Or at least what remains of it. ” Unique Events, Unique Challenges With its twists and turns, this lawsuit has presented constant challenges.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The parties then entered into a Design-Build Contract , which included financial terms, budgets, building plans, completion dates, etc. The Plaintiffs also claim that the contract granted Cardinal a limited, irrevocable, and nonexclusive license to use the drawings, specifications, calculations, etc. Continue reading

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Photo by Emily Wang on Unsplash The UK’s attempt to deal with generative AI, training data and copyright law has taken yet another turn. The mandate of the group was to identify, develop and codify good practice on the use of copyright, performance and database material in relation to AI, including data mining.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

He dismissed American’s claims for breach of user agreement, conditions of carriage (the rules governing air travel), and tortious interference with contract, ruling they were barred by the statute of limitations. American asserted that Skiplagged infringed its trademarked and copyrighted flight symbol when presenting search results.

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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. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. But fair use isn’t a defense to a breach of contract claim.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We are pleased to bring to you this book review of David Llewelyn, Gladys Tan, Estelle Moh Huixuan and Ng Hui Ming’s ‘Modern Law of Copyright in Singapore’, (SAL Academy Publishing, 2023) by Prashant Reddy T. Image from here Book Review: Modern Law of Copyright in Singapore By Prashant Reddy T.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The general consensus is that copyright law favors the publishers, but in a recent motion to dismiss, Elbakyan had other things on her mind too. “ Section 25 of the Contract Act is relied upon to contend an agreement without consideration is void.” The next hearing is scheduled for July 2023.

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The IPKat

MARCH 6, 2023

More Than Just A Game: London 2023 The Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London will be running their annual conference on the Metaverse, the role of IP law, contracts, and regulation in the video game and interactive entertainment centre, from April 19-21, at Lincoln’s Inn in London.

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CoCal IP Law Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Please join us on Monday, November 13, 2023 at Noon, where we will discuss the issue of master ownership and the legal copyright conflicts between record labels and artists. Taylor Swift may be the first to make this copyright issue truly public, leaving fans wondering who really owns Swift's music and why. She says she [.]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

Maritas, 2023 WL 2726030 (E.D. March 30, 2023) * * * BONUS 1: Edelmania Productions, LLC v. Jordan Service, 2023 WL 424238 (C.D. Patrick, 2023 WL 2478550 (E.D. 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.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Copyright Act provides an exclusive right “to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work” and defines “derivative work” in part as any work “ based upon one or more preexisting works.” This has been a long-standing question in copyright law. Nimmer & David Nimmer, 1 Nimmer on Copyrights §§ 3.01-3.03.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Events 24 February 2023: “What Does My Claim Cover?” Intended and Unintended Consequences of Amendments During Prosecution and Post-Grant Proceedings", in Munich, on 24 February 2023. The seminar will take place in Paris and online, on 16 and 17 March 2023 and entirely in English. Click here and here to know more.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 29, 2023

million copyright infringement damages award in hand, and suddenly cooperative defendants helping to unveil others involved in the circumvention of Bungie’s technological protection measures. By June 2022, Bungie had a $13.5

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TorrentFreak

MAY 9, 2024

After almost a decade of fine-tuning, including amendments to copyright law, the administration of Australia’s pirate site-blocking system looks organized and reliable. More recently, however, the time between application and blocking injunction has contracted.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2023

Genius sued Google for breach of contract over music transcriptions. The petition states that the Court must clarify whether the Copyright Act’s preemption clause permits a plaintiff to use “state-law contract remedies to enforce a promise not to copy and use its content.” Next up, we have Genius v.

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Barry Sookman

MAY 21, 2023

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2023-05-13 [link] 2023-05-14 What Gives You Hope Keeps You Fighting [link] 2023-05-14 Contracting for tech under the AI provisions of CPPA, AIDA and Law 25 [link] 2023-05-14 Here to Stay: Ontario Court of Appeal upholds referral to arbitration and clarifies stay analysis | McCarthy Tétrau… [link] 2023-05-14 (..)

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Trade Marks Chijioke Okorie provided an overview of the key developments in trade mark law across the African continent as part of the “Africa IP Highlights” series for 2023. The overview covers the case law, legislative reforms, and public debates about current issues in copyright law.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

AI and Copyright: More Developments – Human Prompts are Not ‘Direct Instructions’ After the Thaler case, the US Copyright Office passed another interesting order on AI-generated works, this time refusing the registration due to the work’s failure to meet the de-minimis threshold. Shatrughan Kumar AKA Khesari Lal Yadav and Ors.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

that allows a contracting party to limit the rights of a broadcasting organization from another contracting party when that contracting party provides fewer rights. See Love 2023. See Hugenholtz 2023 Delete Article 6. But the present draft clearly reaches such content. [2] No amendment offered in public session.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

As we enter a new year, we would like to take this opportunity to pass on our best wishes for 2023 to all of our readers, as well as reflect on developments in copyright over the past year. This begs the question of how EU law can and should meet this challenge. Copyright law and football matches: impossible to match?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The purpose of copyright, at its very basic level, finds its normative implementation in the interplay between access to protected works and the protection of the moral and material interest of creators (see Geiger, 2017 ). The purpose of copyright, its social and innovation function, is thereby seriously undermined.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 2, 2023

Bungie listed six causes of action including copyright infringement, trafficking in circumvention devices contrary to the DMCA, trademark violations, and unfair competition. In February 2023, after reaching settlements with three defendants, a California court rejected Bungie’s request for a $2.2m

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 26, 2024

” So, with no indication that a contract has been awarded, much less a supplier having committed to delivering everything in four months, Piracy Shield 2.0 Showing that AGCOM’s public attitude to VPNs has changed in recent months begins in October 2023. Copyright Law or Something Else? may not even exist.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

As 2023 commences, it’s time for companies to review and take stock of their intellectual property assets. This applies to companies that have never taken serious steps to protect intellectual property and companies that understand the value of intellectual property and take active steps to secure and protect those assets.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

Since then, Meta has been technically liable for copyright infringement whenever its users upload content reproducing Italian songs, in accordance with the new regime of direct liability as per Art. 102- septies of the Italian Copyright Law). 9 of the Law no. 17 of the CDSM Directive (implemented in Italy through Art.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

2023 WL 3449131 at *1 (N.D. May 11, 2023). But I think this might have more to do with the way the lawyers pleaded this issue rather than the quality of the potential breach of contract claim here. GitHub, Inc. At first, I was shocked by this conclusion since it seems obviously wrong.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As it is discussed at greater length elsewhere ( here ), TDM is an example of an area in which legislative intervention has been broadly justified by reference to the need of freeing up certain copyright-covered spaces to facilitate research and increase innovation and competitiveness.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Ginsburg’s lecture took place on 3 May 2023. Manges Lecture at Columbia Law School titled “The Author as Risk-Sharer”. This examined the problem of authors’ remuneration: authors’ contracts tend to result in disproportionately low revenues relative to the returns of investors and intermediaries. A summary is offered below.

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