Indiana Intellectual Property Law

OCTOBER 16, 2023

However, January 1 st of each year marks the expiration of another year of historical copyrights, and 2023 ushered works from the year 1927 into the public domain , making them eligible for extensive use without pe rmission or royalties.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 9, 2023

Every year on January 1, new works enter the public domain. In 2023, all literary works, musical compositions, and movies first published or released in 1927 entered the public domain in the United States. Earlier works were already in the public domain. By: AEON Law

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Grande Communications Networks, LLC, 2023 WL 1422808 (W.D. Jan 31, 2023). 11, 2023): Time and again we have declared that “prevailing defendants in copyright cases are presumptively entitled (and strongly so) to recover attorney fees.” Hoffmann Air Conditioning and Heating, LLC, 2023 WL 2681994 (E.D. March 29, 2023).

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Garrigues Blog

JULY 15, 2024

Original works of art are protected by copyright until they come into the public domain. This entry in the public domain makes the rights expire in some way, and they become assets freely available for use by the public at large, although the author’s moral paternity and integrity rights have to be respected at all times.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 28, 2024

public domain would spark headlines worldwide. Free Mickey On January 1, many people celebrated the public domain event by uploading “Steamboat Willie” to YouTube and elsewhere. From a copyright angle, a public domain Mickey Mouse is highly intriguing, but it seems that pirates can’t be bothered by it.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 18, 2025

The key challenges to circumvention were as follows: Encryption of game data: In the supported device list for MAME 0.258 and the sample of all arcade games released between 1979 and 2023, at least 1,072 games (29%) had some kind of protection against copying.

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IPilogue

MARCH 27, 2023

Every year on January 1, works protected under copyright law enter into the public domain due to their copyright protection expiring. This extension is why Mickey Mouse’s copyright protection is set to expire at the end of 2023. The post Mickey Mouse to Enter Public Domain in 2024 appeared first on IPOsgoode.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

21, 2023) (Hector Gonzalez), the District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment regarding the validity of its copyright. Defendants argued that because information concerning the Second Holy Temple is in the public domain, Plaintiff’s copyrighted works are not original.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Goldsmith in the days following the Supreme Courts 2023 landmark fair use decision. A copy of something in the public domain can’t support a copyright unless it contains a distinguishable variation that reflects independent creativity. A case with potentially limited impact.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2025

This brings us to the discussion of their personality rights, which confer upon an individual the exclusive right to govern how their persona is depicted in the public domain, particularly for commercial purposes. 2] Rajat Sharma v M/s Independent News Service Pvt Ltd, Delhi High Court, [2024][link] 16 January 2025. [3] 10] Ibid. [11]

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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. An inventor must secure a patent application within a very short period of time to prevent the work from falling into the public domain. Intellectual property is a company asset, just like inventory.

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The IPKat

APRIL 2, 2024

Andrew Lykiardopoulos KC and Henry Edwards of 8 New Square presented the highlights of the 2023 patent cases in the form of a Christmas menu, including culinary delicacies such as Turkey with Apixaban Sauce and Caviar by Ocado. Over to Ada : "Before the starters, the chefs served hors d'oeuvres consisting of some outcomes from 2023.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

The article was rejected for copyright protection in 2023, and the argument was that the absence of human authorship disqualified the work from the right. Forming Exclusive Rights A sui generis intellectual property system based on AI-generated works might provide some degree of protection and also be a bridge to the public domain.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

Information Accessible, Reasonably Priced During the weekend, we learned that the eight questions covering the five-year period 2019-2023, rejected by Wiltshire Police and West Yorkshire Police for being too costly to answer, were also sent to Greater Manchester Police (GMP).

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2025

However, no details are present in the public domain. 43275/2023) with respect to the treatment of SMA for a 24-year-old petitioner has been pending before the Kerala HC. Another similar petition (Seba P.A v Union of India – WP(C) No. The Courts order on February 23, 2024, had directed the Union government to release Rs.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In an August 2023 joint submission to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Hollywood, the recording industry, TV companies, the gaming industry and publishers left little doubt that patience had run out. Anyone can make a request, via the system, for certain non-public domain registration data.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 9, 2023

2023 WL 6381821, No. 28, 2023) Cap Export alleged that Zinus fraudulently obtained a patent after Zinus used the public domain bed-in-a-box sets of a non-party as the basis for its patent application. Cap Export, LLC v. Zinus, Inc., 2:21-cv-07148-JWH-MRWx (C.D.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

Image from here Recently, on 6th March 2023, in Bennett Coleman & Co. The rejection rested on the remark that “ Even if the said documents were available in public domain at the time of filing of the suit, the need for filing the aforesaid documents arose only on account of the stand taken by the defendants in the written statement.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our societys welfare will probably be better served by leaving AIGW in the public domain. Consider, for example, the following AI-generated image of Pope Francis that went viral in 2023. And so I think we are probably better off leaving those works in the public domain. Its a fun picture!

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2024

This rule covers lending digital copies of copyrighted works, while works in the public domain can be freely digitized. The books which were in public domain were allowed to be read and downloaded by the patron. [3] 1156 (2023). [2] Internet Archive, 542 F.Supp. 2] Campbell v. Acuff Rose Music, Inc., 3d 87 (2d Cir.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 1, 2023

New Lawsuit, New Determination Filed at a Washington court early August 2023, a new complaint alleging copyright infringement, breaches of the DMCA, and civil RICO violations, among others, targeted up to 50 developers, marketers, customer support staff, and sellers of Destiny 2 cheating software offered by Ring-1. .

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 4, 2024

On December 8, 2023, provisional agreement was reached between the European Union (EU) Parliament and the EU Council on the basic content of the new AI Regulation (the “AI Act”) to be implemented as legislation in the EU. The text is still not publicly available as it is subject to certain further refinement over the coming weeks.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

See Love 2023. No amendment offered in public session. No amendment offered in public session. No amendment offered in public session. Requires “exclusive right of authorizing the retransmission to the public” instead of a signal based protection. See Hugenholtz 2023 Delete Article 6.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This article originally appeared in the Scholarly Kitchen Back in March of 2023, when there were only a handful of cases alleging copyright infringement for training purposes by AI companies, I predicted that we would soon have some guidance from the court in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Center GMBH and West Publishing Corp.

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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. While that timed out on July 27, 2021, blocking continued during the 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 seasons under the authority of the High Court.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Though the court doesn’t have cross words for the media defendants, this apparently is another example where media publishers treated publicly available photographs as public domain photographs. 2023 WL 266511 (N.D. Case Citation : Shah v. NYP Holdings, Inc., The complaint. –Shah v.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

For instance, in accordance with this doctrine, the author would be entitled to copyright protection if someone collected different poems that were previously in the public domain and produced in a single document. With the information in the public domain, the Rural Telephone Service issued a phone book. 4] 499 U.S.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Looking at the gaps and problems that this creates, the essay then answers its opening question in the negative, and instead suggests that such works are left to the public domain. The essay is available here.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 19, 2025

Rahul Dhawan, her lawyer, argued that the disputed clip was part of Nayanthara’s ‘Personal Liberty’ as it was shot on her device and was already circulating in the public domain. In 2023, Vignesh’s manager had requested the title name, which Kumaran had declined.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

21, 2023) (Hector Gonzalez), the District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment regarding the validity of its copyright. Defendants argued that because information concerning the Second Holy Temple is in the public domain, Plaintiff’s copyrighted works are not original.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 4, 2023

We are talking about 1 billion investment in R&D in 2023. There may be facts which are not in the public domain. If yes, what can be done to bridge the gap? How can we emerge as a leader in the quantum space? My take is that India is a late entrant in the quantum space. The quantum game is not over yet.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In late 2023, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales issued its judgment in THJ v Sheridan [2023] EWCA Civ 1354. IPKat copyright event on 14 March: you can attend in person. The judgment in THJ v Sheridan appears to have already had a tangible impact, including on the art and cultural heritage sector.

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SpicyIP

MAY 15, 2023

Deadline for the Applications: 11:59pm IST, 23rd June, 2023. Other Posts World of Possibilities: Single Judge Bench of Delhi High Court Allows Use of Celebrity Information Available in Public Domain Delhi High Court specifies some contours of publicity rights in India! on 1 May, 2023 (Delhi High Court Order No.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 18, 2023

Such oppositions also result in IPO refusing applications (on patentability grounds) even when the Opponent has not appeared, e.g. the IPO’s Jan 2023 decision for 3596/CHE/2012 where Ms. Assistant Controller of Patents on 12/Jan/2023 (after the release of the Monograph). Also, not all ‘fronted oppositions’ are “fake”.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

Case: Biomoneta Research Vs Controller General of Patents Designs on 13 March 2023 (Delhi High Court) The matter pertained to an appeal against the order of the controller rejecting a patent application for ‘Air Decontamination Assembly’. on 6 March, 2023 (Delhi High Court) In this case, the plaintiff, Bennett Coleman & Co.

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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. An inventor must secure a patent application within a very short period of time to prevent the work from falling into the public domain. Intellectual property is a company asset, just like inventory.

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SpicyIP

JULY 17, 2023

And Ors on 3 July, 2023 (Calcutta High Court) In a dispute concerning allegations of infringement and passing off, the Calcutta High Court has passed an interim injunction order holding that the defendant has prima facie infringed the plaintiff’s unregistered “USCO” mark. And Anr vs Twin Parts Pvt. Competition Commission of India & Ors.

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