Chicago-Kent Intellectual Property Journal Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Disney’s Limiting of the Public Domain Sydney Fenton | April 6th, 2022 Creation of Copyright and the Public Domain On May 31, 1790, the first copyright law was enacted under the new United States Constitution, modeled after Britain’s Statute of Anne.[1]

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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. These intersections between trademark and copyright law may stop Mickey from strolling into public use for the coming years.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

Do these creations belong to the artists or the public domain? The post How A Century-Old Insight of Photography Can Inform Legal Questions of AI-Generated Artwork (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Do creators who use generative AI maintain copyright in their creations?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The whole point of copyright preemption is that Congress sought to prevent states from infringing on the public domain and undermining key concepts of copyright law. Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The post Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms?

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Intepat

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Fair Use and Public Domain in Podcasting Fair use is a nuanced legal principle that allows limited use of copyrighted material for purposes such as commentary, criticism, or education, with courts evaluating factors like purpose, nature, amount, and market impact. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.

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Kashishipr

APRIL 20, 2022

A still-new form of IP that has gained recognition in the past two decades is trade secrets, which we shall be discussing here in this blog. The post Trade Secrets in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) appeared first on Blog | Kashish IPR | Intellectual Property Rights Law Firm. For more visit: [link].

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

Materials from my talk: The paper The video The image repository (all in the public domain per prevailing copyright law !) The post Why Generative AI is Doomed appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. In each case, it was clear that the technology would have revolutionary but uncertain impacts on society.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

1] This blog will briefly summarize a few of the notable copyright infringement cases Netflix has defended against in the United States. 2] While most Sherlock Holmes stories are now in the public domain, the estate alleged that some works and character elements regarding Sherlock Holmes are still protected by copyright. [3]

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JD Supra Law

MAY 14, 2024

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

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Greenspoon Marder LLP

JANUARY 8, 2024

Mickey Mouse has officially entered the public domain! By: Gavin M. Strube, Esq. 2024 has started off with big news in the intellectual property world.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In a blog post published last week and covered by Adi Robertson at The Verge yesterday , the firm is introducing what it calls “Can’t Be Evil” (CBE) licenses, a series of licenses that can be affixed to NFTs to clearly indicate what rights the NFT creator transfers to the buyer. The idea is fairly simple.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Secondly, because Article 14 of the DSM Directive / Article 32-quarter of the Italian Copyright Act is about the protectability of the reproduction of a public domain artwork, not a situation like that one at issue here, that is the actionability of the unauthorized reproduction of a public domain artwork.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

in Dastar (an UNPUBLISHED decision [below]), ultimately holding that the Lanham Act does not prohibit copying a work of authorship (here, one that was in the public domain). Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. 4th 26, 32 (2d Cir.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 26, 2022

In a 2017 blog post, Schneider described YouTube as a Wood Chipper on Steroids , complaining that when MP3s are uploaded to YouTube, they are converted into a different format and in the process, all metadata – Copyright Management Information – is lost.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Government Works for which copyright has expired; works in the public domain Understanding the extent to which materials are copyright protected can help you minimize the risk of infringement by well-intentioned employees. This blog post is also available as a PDF. Access it here.

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 28, 2021

It implies that while a specific technology may be protected in the main markets of a company, it may lie in the public domain in some other countries. In most countries, they typically last for a maximum of 20 years, after which they lie in the public domain and can be freely used by anyone. For more visit: [link].

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

in my Hubay blog post, “when I’m on vacation, I always carry a stack of blank written releases that I get strangers to sign before taking my photo.” NYP appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. As I joked (?) The complaint. –Shah v.

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SpicyIP

JULY 9, 2021

Trade secrets are not limited by the number of years unlike patent protection which lasts for 20 years and upon expiration thrusts the invention into public domain. The protection of information as trade secrets doesn’t provide a statutory right as there is no governmental intervention in the form of a legislation.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 23, 2024

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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IPilogue

MAY 6, 2022

The team likely would not succeed in advancing a public domain defence , which states that the copyright protection for a work has expired or it failed to meet the protection for copyright protection. The easier defence would be to show the songs are not substantially similar through her own expert analysis of each song’s composition.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 8, 2021

Public Domain work. You’re blogging on your own, posting once a day; podcasting a weekly news wrap-up on Fridays – and things are looking up. So, say you’re a newly minted blog site owner/operator. Image Attribution: John Tenniel (1865). Imagine yourself just sitting down to building your own little media empire.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 23, 2023

According to firms that specialize in intellectual property law , the extended term of protection will not apply to works that already entered the public domain before the amendments come into force. Works with copyright set to expire on or before December 30, 2022 will not be privy to the extended protection term.

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Kashishipr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Therefore, a business company or organization should consider whether it is suitable to sign a non-disclosure agreement to safeguard and not misuse any piece of info it considers confidential, valuable, and not belonging to the public domain. appeared first on Blog | Kashish IPR | Intellectual Property Rights Law Firm.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The estate argued that the film depicted a version of Holmes that was not yet in the public domain, illustrating how IP infringement issues can arise when films are based on works still under copyright protection.

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 11, 2024

Ensuring copyright compliance becomes an additional task for teachers, and despite all that the public domain, OER, and the Creative Commons License have to offer, it’s not enough. This is part 2/3 of a blog series inspired by the webcast Why High-Quality Content Matters in K-12 Instruction.

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Patently-O

APRIL 17, 2024

In Dastar , the defendant had copied footage from an old television series that had entered the public domain, made minor edits, and sold the resulting videos as its own product without attribution to the original creators. 1125(a)(1)(B) (Section 43 of the Lanham Act).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As I’ve blogged many, many times on this blog (see list below), 512(f) has been a complete failure. A few plaintiffs have won default judgments (including one I blog below). Some other 512(f) cases I’ve not previously blogged: * Paul Rudolph Foundation v. Diebold from 2004, which led to a $125k damages award.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Patents last for a period of 20 years after which they are available in the public domain and can be freely used by others. The post Patents And Freedom To Operate appeared first on Biswajit Sarkar Blog.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 22, 2022

He has the right of communicating the work in the public domain. If the work has been broadcasted and communicated in the public domain without the consent and permission of the performer. The post Performer’s Rights under Copyright Law appeared first on Biswajit Sarkar Blog.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The simple answer: public domain came to the rescue. When 1974 (28 years after 1946) came around, NTA failed to file for renewal, which meant It’s a Wonderful Life entered the public domain. This resulted in the production company producing the film at a pretty significant loss.

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2022

By performing a patent search, you can get an indication of what all information is available and accessible in the public domain concerning the proposed invention. The post Patent Search and its Types in India appeared first on Blog | Kashish IPR | Intellectual Property Rights Law Firm. For more visit: [link].

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IP Tech Blog

MAY 18, 2023

Judge Gilstrap reasoned that filtering out “ideas, facts, processes, public domain material, merger material, and scenes a faire ” from the copyrighted work would permit a “comparison of the ‘golden nugget’ or ‘core’ of protectable elements” to determine whether there was infringement.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It has valuable information about the public domain status and copyright ownership. Further, one can view the application details such as type of work, publication status, etc. The post Copyright Search appeared first on Biswajit Sarkar Blog. The database acts as a source of all Copyright records.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

Man’s ideas are both public and private in their essence. The owners’ and people’s ideas and works are generated with uniqueness and creativity, and they are released into the public domain. The post “Copyright Infringement” appeared first on Biswajit Sarkar Blog.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As stated in the previous blog on Patentability in India, Novelty is one of the essential criteria required for a patent to be granted in India. Novelty means that the invention must be new or novel and must not have been anticipated by any published document in the world.

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IPilogue

JULY 20, 2022

The decision effectively makes the mark “Think Different” fall in the public domain and is closely preceded by chatter about Apple’s unethical trademark practices. The court noted, however, that Apple’s evidence either does not show genuine use or falls outside the scope of the five years. What’s next?

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