Understanding How Generative AI Can Affect Your Business' Data Privacy And Ownership Is Crucial
JD Supra Law
MAY 13, 2024
“In assessing a generative AI product, it is critical to understand issues of data ownership and privacy.
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ChatUSG: What Companies Doing Business with the Government Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence
Intellectual Property Law Blog
MAY 2, 2023
Some of these issues are specific to doing business with the government and others are broader issues that all companies face when using AI, and generative AI (GAI) in particular. This rapid increase in the use of AI creates a number of legal issues, some of which are addressed below. Both the U.S. Copyright Office and the U.S.
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Data Privacy in the Age of Intellectual Property
IIPRD
JANUARY 24, 2024
Introduction In a world ruled by machines using lots of data, rules about keeping personal information safe and rights to own ideas create difficult problems for businesses everywhere. This literature will delve into the issues that surround the sensitive issue of how companies maintain privacy while also trying to foster innovation.
Who Owns a Disputed Social Media Account? – JLM v. Gutman
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
AUGUST 5, 2022
This is a case focusing on ownership of social media accounts. See “ Social Media Ownership Disputes Part II: Bridal Wear Company Takes Back Control of Instagram Account from Ex-Employee ” and “ Another Confused Entry in the Social Media Account Ownership Jurisprudence–JLM v. (See We blogged this case twice before.
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Understanding the Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Rule
LexBlog IP
JULY 25, 2023
Understanding the Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Rule by Josh Slovin The New Beneficial Ownership Reporting Rule: A Step towards Greater Transparency in US Businesses Privately-owned companies in the United States have long enjoyed a great degree of privacy about their internal affairs, particularly as to the identities of their owners.
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Greece Prosecutes Owner of American VPN Service Over Fraudulent User Transactions
TorrentFreak
JULY 7, 2022
Amidst growing concerns surrounding online privacy and security, VPN services have become increasingly popular in recent years. Van Pelt has always been transparent about the ownership of the VPN company because he wants people to trust the service. This can create serious problems. Despite the legal trouble, that won’t change.
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The Contested Meaning of Web3 & Why it Matters for (IP) Lawyers
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JANUARY 26, 2022
“Web3 cannot and should not be reduced to blockchain when the real shift is towards user ownership of digital assets… This definitional shift focuses attention on what assets can be legally owned and the meaning of ownership “rights,” more generally, in the emerging digital spaces of web3.”. . user ownership of digital assets)?
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Texas LLC Formation: 4 Privacy Considerations for Entrepreneurs
LexBlog IP
JANUARY 16, 2024
The first thing many founders/entrepreneurs think of when starting a new business is, “I need an LLC.” ” The establishment of a Limited Liability Company (LLC) in Texas can be a strategic maneuver for entrepreneurs and businesses aiming to leverage the benefits of limited liability and operational adaptability.
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Powering the Future: Insights on Energy Innovation from a Semester at Alectra (IP Intensive Reflection)
IPilogue
JANUARY 16, 2023
As I quickly learned, businesses that haven’t traditionally dealt with IP rights are facing a rising tide of related challenges as they seek to capitalize on new opportunities. University IP policies vary, but they all grapple with similar legal issues such as disclosure, use, ownership, commercialization, and revenue sharing.
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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JUNE 17, 2023
According to the complaint, these separate entities are just one big data-sharing family, leveraging their combined resources in non-standard ways such as Microsoft sharing hardware and cloud infrastructure resources in exchange for an ownership interest in OpenAI. Complaint at 31. But not so, says the court.
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Copyright case: Sumrall v. LeSEA, Inc., USA
Kluwer Copyright Blog
AUGUST 6, 2024
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago has affirmed the dismissal of claims for copyright ownership brought by a trust asserting the rights of a son of the late evangelical pastor Dr. Lester Sumrall, finding those claims were barred by the Copyright Act’s three-year statute of limitations. LeSEA, Inc., 23-2833 (7th Cir.
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Reviewing SAAS Agreements in the Age of AI
JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Businesses are understandably looking to realize competitive advantages from leveraging these new AI technologies, but adding AI to a tech stack can present serious risks related to bias, data ownership, privacy, accuracy and cybersecurity.
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Ownership, Licensing, and Fair Use of Copyright for Webinars
Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
JUNE 23, 2022
Although privacy invasion has been the main topic of discussion in this virtual context, there is another issue at hand: copyright infringement. Ownership of copyright in the lectures presented by the speakers. The post Ownership, Licensing, and Fair Use of Copyright for Webinars appeared first on Biswajit Sarkar Blog.
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Personality Rights In India : A Statutory And Judicial Analysis
IP and Legal Filings
APRIL 19, 2023
Introduction Personality rights refer to a person’s ability to safeguard his or her identity in the context of a property or privacy right. Celebrities value these rights since their names, images, or even voices may be inappropriately used in commercials by various businesses to increase sales. Puttaswamy v.
Departing Employees Rename Their Former Employers’ Facebook Account. That May Be a Problem–La Baguette v. Tito & Tita
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MARCH 10, 2022
As alleged in the complaint, plaintiffs operated a bakery known as “La Baguette,” and hired defendants to manage aspects of the business. Defendants also managed the social media presence of the “La Baguette” business, which primarily consisted of a Facebook page. It had approximately 4,000 followers.
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Laws & Regulations Governing Businesses in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)
LexBlog IP
AUGUST 15, 2023
This article provides an in-depth analysis of the key laws and regulations that govern businesses operating within the DIFC, creating an optimal environment for financial services and related industries to thrive. This new framework accommodates the evolving needs of businesses and promotes entrepreneurial growth. Dubai Law No.
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Who Owns Social Media Accounts?–In re Bang Energy Drinks
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MAY 30, 2023
The categorization of social media accounts into “business” and “personal” accounts was a hot issue a decade ago, when states across the country passed laws to protect employees from invasive employer demands to access or control their personal social media accounts. The court doesn’t endorse this test.
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Once Again, LinkedIn Can’t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scraping–hiQ v. LinkedIn
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MAY 2, 2022
It also sidesteps the dispute regarding whether hiQ is still in business. The court remains skeptical of LinkedIn’s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles. Eric’s Comments.
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Navigating the Patent Maze: Challenges and Controversies in Emerging Technologies
IP and Legal Filings
DECEMBER 19, 2024
This would make it socially responsible to introduce technological break-throughs into services for the benefit of society, protecting intellectual property on one hand but allowing different voices that will shape the metaverse on the other, stipulating guidelines on data ownership and requiring consent by users.
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Buyer Beware: Delaware Declines to Enforce Sale of Business Non-Compete
LexBlog IP
JANUARY 19, 2023
However, for years (and even under the FTC’s overreaching proposed rule), non-competes in the sale of business context have generally received less scrutiny. The Delaware Chancery Court threw the deal world a curveball when it recently declined to enforce a sale of business non-compete.
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 23 – December 29)
SpicyIP
DECEMBER 29, 2024
Read this Tidbit by Kaustubh Chakrabarti on the Delhi HC ruling that the Regional Director under the Companies Act has no jurisdiction to decide ownership of a trademark. The defendants are in a similar business and were alleged using deceptively identical marks like LOUIS PHILLIPE and LORIS PHILIPPE.
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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Indonesia
IP and Legal Filings
OCTOBER 28, 2022
NFT creation, investment, sale, and ownership interest exists in Indonesia and elsewhere in the world. Most significantly, “the development of blockchain technology” has been accepted as a legal business activity by the Indonesian standard industrial business categorization code, which was published in 2020.
Do You Need an LLC to Trademark?
LexBlog IP
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
” However, the better answer is it depends on some consideration about ownership and cost. ” Why Don’t I Need A Business to File a Trademark? This is a convenient way to separate your personal and business assets and liabilities. Clients often ask me whether they need an LLC to trademark.
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Putin Outlaws Anonymity: Identity Verification For Online Services, VPN Bypass Advice a Crime
TorrentFreak
AUGUST 1, 2023
By rendering its corner of the internet a hostile environment where free speech is a thing of the past, it raises the prospect of internet entrepreneurs walking in lockstep with the government, choosing another line of business, or leaving Russia altogether. Citizens, meanwhile, will need identification to enjoy whatever remains.
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Can Facebook Stop Data Snarfers?–Meta v. BrandTotal
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JUNE 9, 2022
I refer to “data snarfers” as businesses that aggregate (via scraping or APIs) lots of sensitive online personal information to offer analytics, business/competitive intelligence, and similar services. Academic researchers can also fit this paradigm. ” Click on the image to see the animation.
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Generative AI Is Changing How We Do Business and How We Practice Law
IP Tech Blog
JULY 18, 2023
Other considerations for legal professionals abound, privacy being salient among them. Other industries, however, are far from a share and share alike attitude towards AI, and AI has posed challenging questions regarding intellectual property ownership across the creative fields of visual art, music, and writing.
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (June 28 – July 4)
SpicyIP
JULY 5, 2021
Copyright Ownership in State Board Textbooks: Impediments to Accessibility. granted an ad interim injunction in favour of the plaintiff, which is the owner and registered proprietor of the trademark TATA and is engaged in the business of e-commerce through its platform tatacliq.com., Thematic Highlight. Image from here. June 30, 2021].
A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2021
SpicyIP
JANUARY 2, 2022
An interim order issued by a single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court recognised the right to be forgotten (RTBF) as a subset of the fundamental right to privacy. The Kerala High Court had recognised a petitioner’s right to privacy and reputation while seeking the removal of their name from judgments published on IndianKanoon.
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Ping® October 2021 Changes Coming to Non-Compete Agreements in Illinois
LexBlog IP
OCTOBER 1, 2021
For the first time, Illinois will have statutory requirements for mandatory review periods, definitions of adequate consideration and legitimate business interests, as well as specific salary minimums for employees subject to restrictive covenants. text: ‘Privacy’, }. }. }); }); __ATA.initDynamicSlot({. Application.
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Generative AI Is Changing How We Do Business and How We Practice Law
LexBlog IP
JULY 18, 2023
Other considerations for legal professionals abound, privacy being salient among them. Other industries, however, are far from a share and share alike attitude towards AI, and AI has posed challenging questions regarding intellectual property ownership across the creative fields of visual art, music, and writing.
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Evolution of Personality Rights in India
IP and Legal Filings
AUGUST 26, 2024
Personality Rights: Every individual has the right and ownership over the use of the information related to their identity, and this right even increases when the use is commercial. Earlier, particularly in defamation cases, the English law gave lesser significance to the idea of privacy to defend reputation. Topps Chewing Gum Inc. [2]
ChatUSG: What Companies Doing Business with the Government Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence
LexBlog IP
MAY 2, 2023
Some of these issues are specific to doing business with the government and others are broader issues that all companies face when using AI, and generative AI (GAI) in particular. This rapid increase in the use of AI creates a number of legal issues, some of which are addressed below. Both the U.S. Copyright Office and the U.S.
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Advent of AI Voice Generation and Threat to Personality Rights
IP and Legal Filings
MAY 17, 2024
In this technologically advanced age, success or failure of a business depends heavily on the marketing strategies that have been adopted. Daler Mehendi, a known singer and the plaintiff in the present case, had a registered trademark over the letters “DM” and established a business called “D.M. Entertainment Pvt.
SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 3 – March 9)
SpicyIP
MARCH 9, 2025
The relevant sections allow the plaintiff to file a suit before a Court within whose jurisdiction he resides, carries on business or works for gain. PPL, claiming ownership over public performance rights via assignments from music labels, alleged infringement after its representatives discovered unlicensed use of its repertoire.
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Georgios Efstratiadis, CopyrightsWorld: “every creation of any type and format comes with copyright”
CopyrightsWorld
APRIL 4, 2022
Ownership, in general, is something that will concern us a lot in this new era. NFTs will make a difference on the ownership and tracking part, but the deepfake issue is far from solved. According to international copyright law, you will need strong and early third-party proof of ownership to become the actual beneficiary.
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Multi-Level Marketing Company Sufficiently Alleges Reasonable Efforts Despite Posting Trade Secret Materials to Thousands
LexBlog IP
MARCH 15, 2022
Plaintiff, Tori Belle Cosmetics LLC (“Belle Cosmetics”), sells its cosmetics and false eyelashes through a network of salespeople, allowing each salesperson to earn a portion of any revenue generated by any salespeople they recruit to join their sales network, i.e., a multi-level marketing business.
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What Even Is Ad Tech?
LexBlog IP
JULY 26, 2022
I recently joined BakerHostetler’s Chicago office in the Digital Assets and Data Management Practice Group after spending almost eight years at Publicis Groupe, where I led a team of attorneys supporting business units focused on media, data and advertising technology (“ad tech”).
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Which VPN Providers Really Take Privacy Seriously in 2023?
TorrentFreak
JULY 23, 2023
All claim to be the best, but some are more privacy-conscious than others. The VPN review business is flourishing as well. When it comes to privacy and anonymity, an outsider can’t offer any guarantees. Many of these questions relate to privacy and security, and the various companies answer them here in their own words.
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The Interaction of Intellectual Property with Data Privacy in the Realm of Artificial Intelligence
Intepat
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
While AI-generated prompts streamline our daily lives, they also pose significant privacy risks. Challenges emerge when AI systems not only retain data but also process and potentially share it with third parties without consent, placing data privacy at the forefront of AI governance. Rajagopal v. State of Tamil Nadu.
IP as Collateral
IIPRD
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Advances in science and technology, as well as business innovations have transformed the economy, making way for new industries and modern ways of doing business. As a result of new technologies, and a rapid increase in innovation and creativity, intellectual capital has emerged as valuable assets for businesses.
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Healthcare Res. Mgmt. Grp., LLC v. Econatura All Healthy World, LLC – A Cautionary Tale: Meticulous or Careless Strategy Required to Prove Your Trade Secret Claim
LexBlog IP
JANUARY 3, 2022
In applying this standard, the district court did not criticize HRMG’s ability to demonstrate its ownership of a protectable trade secret or that some defendants had acquired that trade secret. (quotation marks, citation, and alteration omitted). The FUTSA largely tracks the same standard. [1]. at *40, 42, 43, 50.] FOOTNOTES. [1]
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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?
Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
MAY 7, 2021
The International Business Machine (IBM) company was granted almost 4000 patents in 2017 for AI related advancements which included blockchains. It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain.
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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?
Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
MAY 7, 2021
The International Business Machine (IBM) company was granted almost 4000 patents in 2017 for AI related advancements which included blockchains. It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain.
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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?
Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
MAY 7, 2021
The International Business Machine (IBM) company was granted almost 4000 patents in 2017 for AI related advancements which included blockchains. It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain.
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