IPilogue

JUNE 14, 2022

Swift, in deciding to re-record her albums, ensured that her new (Taylor’s) versions gave her all three types of intellectual property right over her catalogue, guaranteeing full ownership. All music can be subdivided into three categories of copyright: lyrical, compositional, and sound.

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JIPL Online

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

1] It’s not uncommon to hear artists complain about record label contracts once they see the impact their deals have on the control of their own music. [2]. Artists’ Frustrations with Transfer of Ownership in Record Agreements. BACKGROUND. 9] Kanye West also recently went public about his fight to regain the rights to his masters. [10]

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Music Contracts Ownership Copyright Law 98

Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Your trademark identifies your company as the source of goods and services related to your NFTs and digital assets (the pictures linked to your NFT smart contracts). They require both chain of tile and a contract setting forth the seller and buyers’ essential contract terms. NFTs are no different.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. Each of these cases is unique, fact dependent, and likely, if fully litigated on the merits, to shed light on different aspects of copyright law.

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 22, 2022

This exception allows a buyer to enforce non-compete agreements against a seller if the seller is an “owner of a business entity selling or otherwise disposing of all of his or her ownership interests in the business entity.”. 1) The sale of business exception applies even when the transferor holds ownership in the transferee.

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Ownership Business Contracts Law 98

Patently-O

AUGUST 2, 2021

UM did not file any paperwork with the PTO attempting to claim ownership and UM is not a party to the present litigation. Lets look at the contract. This argument between Islam and UM was internal. Omni later sued Apple for infringement, but the iPhone giant argued that Omni lacked standing since UM was the real patent owner.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

However, the appellate court seems to invalidate that six-factor test: “Determining he ownership of social-media accounts is indeed a relatively novel exercise, but that novelty does not warrant a new six-factor test.” The next step is to determine whether ownership ever transferred to another party.

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Social Media Ownership Designs Design 105

The IPKat

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Belgian litigation, initiated in July 2021, concerns a dispute between the musicians of the Belgian National Orchestra (ONB) and the ONB itself. The Royal Decree acts as such a statute for the purposes of regulating the ownership and remuneration due for related rights. As such, it would be contrary to EU copyright directives.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2022

However, new ownership creates new incentives, which leads to anticipated changes in copyright litigation. However, new ownership creates new incentives, which leads to anticipated changes in copyright litigation. At a gut level, it makes sense that litigation will increase. Consider the case of Stevie Nicks.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

These questions are being addressed (in mostly unsatisfactory ways) in litigation involving hiQ and BrandTotal. Penal Code § 502); (5) intentional interference with Meta’s contracts with its users; and (6) violation of the “unlawful,” “unfair,” and “fraudulent” prongs of the UCL. The parties have vigorously litigated this case.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 8, 2025

The court also rejects Viral DRM’s standing to bring a 1202 CMI claim because the contract trail was too confusing for the court. This is a copyright ownership dispute that spilled over to Spotify, who received takedown notices. Barrett Financial * 512(f) Once Again Ensnared in an Employment Ownership DisputeShande v.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In the context of certain questions that arose in the proceedings, Tanvi then brings up an interesting hypothetical i.e. what if the defendants had challenged the ownership of the copyright early on, instead of the attempt to amendment later on. Tanvi is a second-year student pursuing BA LLB at the National University of Juridical Sciences.

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Copyright Ownership Publishing Copyright Infringement 98

IPilogue

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches contracts, international IP, patents, copyright, and courses on Biblical Law. For example, the rise of patent trolls, who litigate cheaply-bought patents, use the IP system as a legal weapon. Moreover, damage demands in litigation cases involving IP are rising.

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Intellectual Property IP Patent Troll Technology 111

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

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. Five years into this litigation, let’s take stock of all of the things we still don’t know: Is hiQ still an operational business?

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Cease and Desist Contracts Privacy Business 116

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

Breach of Contract : Plaintiffs only alleged a contract claim, based on breach of a non-compete, against the one defendant who had signed the non-compete. If this litigation continues and defendants wish to repeat this argument, they should support their assertion that they own the Facebook page with authority. TELECOMM. &

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Social Media Contracts Ownership Business 98

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

The plaintiffs lost al of the framing cases then, but here we are in 2024, still litigating framing cases. Worse, it’s not clear the users have a “possessory interest” in those bits due to the possibility that copyright and contract law that may limit what users can do with those bits. What are we even talking about?

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Copying Ownership Derivative Work Contracts 98

The IP Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

The Court, however, held that Densy stated sufficient facts to establish the existence of an implied-in-fact contract between the parties. There the Court quoted Justice Traynor’s dissenting opinion in Stanley : The policy that precludes protection of an abstract idea by copyright does not prevent its protection by contract.

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Contracts Law Artwork Copyright 96

TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The movie companies allege a breach of contract but note that due to the defendants’ alleged accounting deficiencies, they are unable to put an exact figure on the amount Hierl and his law firm failed to pay. Overall, Millennium believes that there is an enforceable contract and it’s owed $130,000 in collected settlements.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Shah pointed to his copyright registrations as evidence of his ownership, but the court says the allegations in his complaint show that he was never entitled to register the copyrights (i.e., To be clear, joint copyright ownership of photos like these could be a policy disaster, so I don’t share the judge’s lament on that front).

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Copyright Fair Use Licensing Ownership 124

IIPRD

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In today’s world, there has been considerable growth in remote jobs, gig-economy work and artificial intelligence tools which introduce new complexities with the ownership of worker creations. With the increasing prevalence of AI tools and hybrid work models, the traditional understanding of ownership and IP becomes obscure. [2]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Part of any assessment of the suitability of a datacenter location should be the legal implications that may arise from locating servers in a particular jurisdiction, including the possibility that local courts could extend their jurisdiction over the datacenter’s customers and become a venue for litigation against the customers.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

The first litigations regarding data scraping for training of generative AI systems are starting now. The idea that there is no ownership to unprotected, non-personal, publicly available data coincides with some recent EU Member States rulings. LinkedIn Corp.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 10, 2022

Where an individual or an entity attempts to infringe upon your IP assets or contests your ownership, he can offer valuable guidance and support throughout the evidence gathering and litigation process. Blockchain technology allows for a guarded and secured chain of evidence for IP ownership. The Use of Smart Contracts.

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Nelligan Law

MARCH 6, 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes Introduction One of the joys of home ownership is being able to modify and alter the structure, layout, and furnishings within your home. The most important factor in if you can sue your contractor is the contract you have to complete the renovation with the contractor. What are damages?

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Law Contracts Litigation Ownership 52

Trading Secrets

JANUARY 19, 2023

The rule would require employers to rescind existing noncompete clauses with workers and actively inform their employees that the contracts are no longer in effect. Litigation to enjoin the rule could be filed after the final version of the rule is issued, but before it takes effect, during the 180-day notice period.

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Ownership Contracts Business Litigation 59

The IPKat

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

They are seeking to establish that they have an ownership stake in both the copyrights and performers’ property rights in the tracks which the band recorded between 1966 and 1970, and that they are owed unpaid royalties from Sony as a result. This New York action has been stayed pending resolution of the English litigation.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

NFTs are an attempt to enforce decentralization, ownership tracking, and value storage, while also making the lawful owner’s claim to the original work visible in the event of duplication. It aims to act as valid proof of ownership and grants the creator “digital bragging rights” through traceable proof of ownership.

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Non-Fungible Tokens Ownership Contracts Copyright 52

CopyrightsWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This article is part of our series showcasing well-known copyright ownership cases from the music and film industries, technology, and more. This week’s post looks at three well-known copyright infringement cases involving tech giants battling each other over ownership rights. Apple vs. Microsoft. However, Windows 2.0

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This case concerns major players in the world of professional polo, their efforts to produce and clone genetically superior horses, and the ownership disputes that have arisen from those efforts.” 19, 2022) Judge Cannon has done some other stuff, too. Plaintiffs raise allegedly awesome polo ponies.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 12, 2024

Comparing a partnership firm to a corporate entity or an ownership firm reveals a number of benefits. Its result is that a partner will not be able to sustain a lawsuit about a right that was granted to him or obtained below a contract whenever he joined as a partner. Most of the time, a partnership document would be sufficient.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2023

The rule would require employers to rescind existing noncompete clauses with workers and actively inform their employees that the contracts are no longer in effect. Litigation to enjoin the rule could be filed after the final version of the rule is issued, but before it takes effect, during the 180-day notice period.

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Ownership Contracts Business Litigation 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Winning a research grant creates obligations for both parties but considering the old issue of copyright ownership in academia, it would be better if a convenient solution could be found.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Inc. 20, 2021) In this timeshare exit false advertising litigation, the court excludes Wyndham’s expert. Wyndham claims that TET and Sussman falsely advertised and induced timeshare owners to breach their contracts with Wyndham by ceasing payments. Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 30, 2022

And a claim for breach of contract (whether a restrictive covenant or NDA) also may present issues of fact when it comes to the elements of whether that contract was breached and what damages result, which again are issues that only a jury can decide. A case that I recently litigated illustrates how this can work.

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Contracts Invention Ownership Law 52

LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Several months prior to trial, in September 2020, Intel filed a motion to stay the litigation due to a new license defense the company wished to assert. Intel argued it had acquired a license to VLSI’s patents (including the two patents asserted in the litigation) due to a change of control of Finjan, Inc.,

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Licensing Contracts Litigation Technology 52

43(B)log

MARCH 4, 2022

The law on the ownership of a social media pages created by employees for employers is evolving rapidly and varies between jurisdictions. If this litigation continues and defendants wish to repeat this argument, they should support their assertion that they own the Facebook page with authority.”

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The Papa Texas affiliate was owned by Mr. Perales, and he began actively promoting his ownership of CiCis and Papa John’s franchises shortly thereafter. 4] In addition to its federal and state trade secrets claims, CiCi Enterprises alleged a breach of contract.

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