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Copyright Law and BodyCam Video

JD Supra Law

I saw this question online and decided to answer it here on my blog. It raises some very interesting and timely questions about the scope and reach of copyright law in our modern age. Many people want to know, is police footage or vehicle cam video from law enforcement in the public domain. I would state "it depends.".

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Reflections on copyright law

Likelihood of Confusion

Republished by Blog Post Promoter. The post Reflections on copyright law appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. In a Den of Hydralisks. Originally posted 2011-07-22 18:09:03.

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X Corp. v. Bright Data is the Decision We’ve Been Waiting For (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

But it won on a different and, in many respects, much broader legal theory: conflict preemption with copyright law. A Brief Recap on Contract Preemption To appreciate the significance of this opinion, let’s revisit the law of copyright preemption. The Copyright Act includes an express preemption clause, 17 U.S.C. §

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

. — For the claims related to illegal selling of scraped data, the court dismissed those because they were preempted by copyright. I did a deep dive on this topic in December , but the general gist of it is that copyright law preempts state law claims if the state-law claims come within the general scope of copyright.

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Research Exceptions in Comparative Copyright Law

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Promoting research and access to its products has always been a core purpose of copyright law, often expressed in limitations and exceptions for research uses. Recent legal scholarship has examined the need for copyright exceptions for text and data mining (TDM) methodologies, and the doctrines recently enacted to achieve this purpose.

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How to Legally Use Images, Videos, and Other Content in Blog Posts

Copyright Alliance

With hundreds of millions of blog posts uploaded to the internet every year, it’s inevitable that some will violate copyright laws. The post How to Legally Use Images, Videos, and Other Content in Blog Posts appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

The blog questioned the judge’s decision to rely solely on a phonetic comparison of signs, and to apply an Australian precedent directly to an Indian judicial proceeding. The Afro-IP blog informed on a trade mark infringement case, which was decided by the High Court of South Africa. from Expertease Skills to iCollege.

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