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Police Photo: Public Domain or Fair Use?

Dear Rich IP Blog

There are no privacy issues - no vehicle/person/property is identifiable. Is it public domain or fair use? Public domain? Other states like Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts (called "open copyright" states) have a policy that makes state documents presumptively public domain. May I use it?

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Ringgold and the FAIR Principles: How Ringgold Data and Metadata are Reusable

Velocity of Content

While the principles were not specifically designed to be applied to metadata schema, or not in isolation, this 4-part blog series will address each of the interlinked FAIR principles and, how Ringgold Data is FAIR Data for organization identification. The fourth post in our series explores how Ringgold data and metadata are Reusable.

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Use Frida's Paintings? (Yes!) Use Frida's Name? (Maybe)

Dear Rich IP Blog

More importantly, deceased figures cannot be defamed or have their privacy invaded (the two common basis for lawsuits involving the use of real people in fiction). Mexican copyright law placed Kahlo's works in the public domain 25 years after her death, so you don't need authorization to include a photo of her painting in your film.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In that case, Judge Easterbrook wrote, in finding that a “shrinkwrap” license was enforceable against the defendant: But are rights created by contract “equivalent to any of the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright”? Google changed its privacy policy to collect all “public” data (viz.,

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Second, zooming out further, the case revolves around a topic covered on this blog routinely: data scraping. In other words, what level of contractual control over public domain information is acceptable. Google (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Whither a Signal-Based Broadcast Treaty?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. No amendment offered in public session. Measures A prohibition on circumvention of TPMs could extend protection to materials in the public domain or prevent the exercise of exceptions. Copyright: WIPO.

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Safeguarding Personal Names

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Need for Protection of Personal Names through IPR Celebrities commonly demand a licensing fee for the utilization of their name, image, or other distinctive attributes in advertising or merchandising endeavours. This unauthorized usage may also give rise to breaches of confidence or violations of privacy.