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Bombay HC Clarifies the Contours of Copyright Infringement and Confidentiality Law

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Image of folder tag with text “confidential” Image from here. Saregama India Ltd & Anr deliberated upon the intersection of copyright infringement and confidentiality law and held that ideas cannot be copyrighted but can be protected through the application of confidentiality law. Background.

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A Baffling Judgment from the Delhi High Court in a Trade Secrets Case

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Image by storyset on Freepik Recently, the Delhi High Court (DHC) issued an interim injunction in a lawsuit concerning trade secrets and confidential information. The first, is if there is a contract between both parties that contains a specific obligation to protect confidential information. 1 who then shared it with defendant no.

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OpenAI Wants New York Times to Show How Original Its Copyrighted Articles Are

TorrentFreak

. “[T]he Times cannot pursue a claim for infringement over any part of a copyrighted work that is not original to the Times, as would be the case if the Times copied another’s work or elements in the public domain,” OpenAI writes. This also includes other disputed requests.

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Unsealed Court Records Unveil Columbia Pictures’ ‘Timeless’ Anti-Piracy Secrets

TorrentFreak

Columbia’s policy not to send takedown requests for copied movie trailers, despite the fact that these are often copied without permission. “This confidential information reflects broad policy decisions Columbia has made regarding its copyright enforcement priorities and remains true today.

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HIT NETFLIX CONTENT AND THE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT THAT FOLLOWS

JIPL Online

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] 18] Netflix admitted it had access to and copied the memoir. [19] 5] Netflix and the estate quickly settled. [6].

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A Cautionary Tale on Including an Expiration Date in NDAs

LexBlog IP

further stresses the importance of carefully crafting the terms and conditions in a non-disclosure agreement (“NDA”), and ensuring there is no ambiguity as to when the NDA’s confidentiality protections expire. Emerson Electric Co. The Inclusion of Expiration Dates in NDAs.

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A 512(f) Plaintiff Wins at Trial! ??–Alper Automotive v. Day to Day Imports

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The Lenz case got a lot of press, but it ended with a confidential settlement. This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. Signal 23 Television v. Prior Posts on Section 512(f).