Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In today’s era, where the whole world has turned to virtual means, blockchain as a technology is gathering everyone’s attention and showing accelerating growth in its market. In recent times, globally more and more patent applications are being filed for blockchain technology. However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. The flexibility of contracts makes them a prime candidate for restricting uses that copyright law leaves unprohibited. That still leaves a rather broad space for contract law to effectively limit the use of information.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

This raises an obvious corollary: at most, Shah has a non-exclusive license to those photos, so what are the terms of those licenses and could Shah potentially infringe the owners’ copyrights by posting them? NYP appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. This case covers similar ground as the uncited Hubay v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 14, 2023

use of indigenous content, model contracts and/or national laws on limitations and exceptions). National policymakers should ensure that such L&Es are given a mandatory character, in the sense that technological protection measures (“TPMs”) or unilateral contractual clauses (e.g. version with further considerations (e.g.,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In this post, we offer an overview of the project to date, stratified across CREATe’s core research themes : Creative Industries , the Public Domain , and Competition and Markets. Now, further initiatives are needed to support the tailoring of a copyright regime, in contract and statute, to encourage the use of reversion provisions.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

A collaboration between the AGO and Toronto-based digital artist Alex Mayhew, ReBlink sought to exploit cutting-edge technology to provide AGO visitors an opportunity to experience its Canadian and European Collections in an entirely new way. There are clear advantages to the use of these technologies in the museum context.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

With today’s technology, it is very simple to copy and share the original works of other people. Public domain resources as a starting point. There are several places where you can find public domain content that is free to use. How to prevent copyright infringement. Do not copy anything.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

emphasis added to highlight the differences] On the face of it, indeed both the former and current “assignment and licenses” provisions appear to merely speak to the fact that copyright can be transferred as you would a movable property. If the right to something depends on a contract, or a statute explicitly creating it (e.g.,

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2022

Marques - CELEBRATING MARKS: How sustainability and technology will shape the future of brands - 20 to 23 September 2022 - Madrid, Spain The 2022 MARQUES Annual Conference will be held in Madrid from 20 to 23 September 2022. The website of the event contains information about the programme and registration.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 18, 2022

According to the application for interim measures, the IPZS urgently needed to award the contract, but it had reason to fear that a company, Centro Grafico DG s.p.a. hereinafter 'Centro Grafico’), would claim that the product subject to the tender would infringe two of its Italian and European patents on the technology at stake.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

To settle that dispute, the parties worked out an “exclusive” license: the second-comer could sell the design on Amazon, and the registrant could keep selling it on eBay. The second comer/licensee assigned the exclusive license to a successor licensee, the defendant in this case. assertions. MGA Entertainment.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

However, the plaintiff was unaware of the competitor’s bid until the competitor entered into a design-build contract with the customer, which occurred two and a half years after the competing companies signed the NDA. The plaintiff then sued the competitor and the customer in the U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 27, 2022

In order to protect the same the laws should in tandem with the pace of technology. Duration for copyright is 60 years counted from the year after the date of publication. The underlying work can only be assigned or licensed in writing by the right holder or agent authorized by him. INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 16, 2023

Flexibilities have been classified on the basis of a blended taxonomy, centred around categories of uses, purposes/goals and rights/interests balanced against copyright, coupled with horizontal, catch-all categories such as “public domain” and “external copyright flexibilities”. private study, e-lending).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Specifically, when a derivative work is created pursuant to a statutory exception, then the derivative work is prepared “lawfully,” even though the artist who created the derivative did not get a license or other permission from the owner of the copyright in the underlying work. Goldsmith herself had been entirely unaware of the licensed use.)

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

And be sure to confirm that all domain names and social media accounts are registered to the company; you would be surprised at how often a domain name or social media account is registered to an individual company employee and not the company itself. Such inventions may be protectable under federal patent laws.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 9, 2023

Case : Microsoft Technology Licensing Ltd. An Injunction cannot force an artist to continue with contract for personal service even though mutual trust between the parties has been lost, rules Delhi High Court. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes’ enters public domain. Annapurna Films Pvt.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Concerned about the effect the book would have on Twain’s reputation, publisher Harper & Brothers and his daughter Clara Clemens filed a lawsuit to stop further publication of “Jap Herron.” In 1999, Cinema Secrets licensed the right to sell a Michael Myers Halloween mask from the film’s copyright owner.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

This judgment concerned the classification of payments under end-user license agreements (EULA). In this judgment, the Delhi High Court delved into the interpretation of section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 with respect to disputes involving trademark licensing agreements. CIT [Supreme Court].

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

And be sure to confirm that all domain names and social media accounts are registered to the company; you would be surprised at how often a domain name or social media account is registered to an individual company employee and not the company itself. Such inventions may be protectable under federal patent laws.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The EU copyright framework needs to be ameliorated in this regard and the articles 18 sq of the CSDM directive (the so-called “copyright contract law” rules) cannot be the final word on this issue. In this regard, a clear reflection on the preservation and legal protection of the public domain against undue appropriations seems necessary.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Non-Fungible Tokens or NFTs is the latest trend that has taken the world of art and technology by storm. In essence, NFT transactions operate on the same technology as cryptocurrency, i.e., the blockchain. Since anything qualifies as an NFT, many have started to sell old memes or other materials already existing in the public domain.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Sears/Compco said there was a right to copy things in the public domain; how did that go away? Jeremy Sheff: Not just judges trained this way now but how lawyers are trained, the materials they have, and the way they are trained to use those materials technologies. What you’re seeing is cross-licensing/branding.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Fifth, assuming Trump owns a valid copyright, did he grant an implied license to Woodward to publish transcripts of the interviews and/or the record­ings themselves? The bottom line: even if he gets past the implied license problem, Trump still has to survive several other substantive and procedural hurdles to recovery.

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