Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

According to the study, only one in 25 even attempts to transfer copyright ownership with the purchase of the NFT and even that may be ineffective. The “vast majority” of NFT projects did not attempt to convey any ownership of intellectual property rights. This is especially true now that the NFT market has shrunk so profoundly.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 6, 2023

The proposal is subject to a 60-day public comment period commencing when the Federal Register publishes the proposed rule. Under the rule, existing noncompete clauses must be rescinded no later than 180 days after the final rule is published. labor markets. FTC Chairperson, Lina M. ” [4].

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 25, 2022

On February 4, 2022, the Treasury Department published its Study on the Facilitation of Money Laundering and Terror Finance Through the Trade in Works of Art (the “Report”). [1] Yet the Report also discussed how the art market remains susceptible to money laundering and describes how market participants can minimize this risk.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Challenged claim: DealMaker’s customers do not retain ownership over their own data. Defendants offered examples of contracts that, they argued, had a fee structure of 8-10%. DealMaker noted that Issuance’s own terms include a provision that allows Issuance to license its data.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2022

Contract Formation. Reminder: a second click is best practice because it reduces risk of contract formation failure, like what happens here). The court doesn’t specify what contract terms gap-fill in the TOS’s absence, but those default rules won’t be as favorable to Roblox as their TOS. Section 230.

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The IPKat

JULY 18, 2021

Subsequently, the Committee Report on the Economics of Music Streaming has been published, calling for "a complete reset" of music streaming and the need for significant change within the music industry. Some of the key regulatory recommendations are discussed in this post. Plot twist!

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SpicyIP

MARCH 28, 2022

Tensions between news publishers and digital platforms providing search and news aggregation services have been growing globally for years. For instance, the EU has adopted a neighbouring right for press publishers under copyright regulations. News and Views: Copyright Hues and Authors’ Dues. Aparajita Lath.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 21, 2021

Keeping this in mind, we should delve into the market-based approach of the same. Tech-driven companies have a total dependency on the IP and as per some estimates; around 80% of the market value comes from these intangible assets. This whooping market value comes when the same estimates speak that only 5% of patents generate income.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 13, 2022

Tokenization of IP In a nutshell, "tokenization" means using a smart contract (i.e., The process of creating a digital asset with a smart contract is called "minting". The result is that the smart contract allows you to represent any IP, e.g., trademarks, designs, patents or copyrights, with a token. a MIT license ).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Two weeks ago, former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward and his publisher, Simon & Schuster (and its parent company Paramount Global, formerly known as Viacom-CBS), in U.S. The audiobook is also published on CD, and transcripts were published in paperback and ebook formats.)

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CopyrightsWorld

MARCH 30, 2021

If you ask any professional working on digital marketing what is the most valuable online asset for a business, you’ll get pretty the same answer. The second one is to get ownership of their copyright, know their rights under the copyright laws and how to protect them. Which ones? And what are the top 3 the most valuable professionals?

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Intepat

JUNE 13, 2024

This rampant unauthorized copying, known as design piracy, undermines the economic value of industries by diluting the uniqueness of original designs and reducing the market advantage of legitimate creators. The infringer must pay up to INR 25,000 for each instance of piracy, recoverable as a contract debt.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The NFT art market, that is NFTs which specifically link an artwork or a digital file (a song, for example), have already gone mainstream and, of course, artists and projects owners have asked lawyers to prepare IP licenses to protect their IP. A16Z has published a document containing guiding rules on the licenses as well as their text.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

This examined the problem of authors’ remuneration: authors’ contracts tend to result in disproportionately low revenues relative to the returns of investors and intermediaries. Importantly, the parties may not contract out of this right to readjustment. Reversion of rights That said, some balance is offered in the U.S.

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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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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

NFTs revolutionised the concept of ownership and digital art. NFTs have sparked several discussions raising questions on how this would affect IP Rights and what ownership of artwork, especially digital copies of artwork entails. However, the buyer of the NFT now had ownership over one unique copy of the same GIF.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The embedding of “smart contracts” in NFT sales allows for the automatic distribution of royalties – roughly 10% – anytime a change of ownership is requested on the blockchain. The study also found that the market continued to grow after the implementation of the resale right in 2006. Not all Canadian galleries oppose ARRs.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2022

Recently, it was announced that Bob Dylan sold his entire songwriting catalog to Universal Music Publishing Group, just a week after the world learned that Stevie Nicks sold a majority stake (80%) of her own catalog to Primary Wave Music. Will the new owners of these music catalogs view third-party use in the same way as their owners?

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Again, NFTs are just an ownership record and a link to content. But the less-shiny reality is that this is primarily a contract dispute—a fight about whether the publication rights Quentin Tarantino reserved in his agreement with Miramax include the right to sell digital screenplay scans. NFTs Are Not Copyrightable.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The social contract of copyright, which main purpose is to realize a broader collective concern, the access of citizens to science and culture ( Geiger, 2013 ), lies in the approximation of the interests of rightholders and users. The post was first published on the COMMUNIA blog.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A report by Citibank published in March, 2020 observes that the Metaverse economy could be a thirteen trillion dollar total addressable market by the year 2030. But needless to say, the Metaverse brings into picture several aspects of the law such as Copyright law , Contract law, Tort law and Criminal law. Contract Law .

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 16, 2022

Crabtree claims that Kirkman talked him into giving up co-ownership rights in “Invincible” by asking him to sign a document in 2005 that Kirkman represented would make it easier to market the work to licensees but which wouldn’t affect any of Crabtree’s rights. The Requirements for Copyright Joint Authorship and Co-Ownership.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

Given the rapid growth of Non-Fungible Token (NFT) market, it was just a matter of time until a court recognised the labyrinth of intellectual property difficulties that surrounded the distribution and sale of NFT digital works. In China’s first copyright infringement case including NFT digital work, a court recently decided.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

Given the rapid growth of Non-Fungible Token (NFT) market, it was just a matter of time until a court recognised the labyrinth of intellectual property difficulties that surrounded the distribution and sale of NFT digital works. In China’s first copyright infringement case including NFT digital work, a court recently decided.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

‘Influencer marketing,’ albeit a new word, has emerged as one of the most effective strategies to create money across all industries. However, in order to have legal proof of ownership, it is always advisable to register for copyright registration. Obtain legal ownership verification. Build your market reputation.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As a follow-up to a previous post about the concept of portability and its emergence in personal data protection and consumer law, this second part focusses on portability rights and IP in two forthcoming instruments of “data economy law”: the Digital Markets Act and the proposal for a Data Act. Portability & the Digital Markets Act.

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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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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

common ownership are reciprocal. And it’s not really joint ownership in the real property sense b/c there is always a way out of joint ownership—severance to turn it into tenancy in common, which limits the costs that holdout joint owners can impose on each other. Benefits: it’s about copyright, not contract, law.

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43(B)log

JUNE 16, 2022

Defendants NGT and NGE advertised an ability to help customers terminate their timeshare contract or ownership; other defendants were part of the exit process. 439 people with timeshare contracts with Diamond hired one of the defendant companies. One defendant was a law firm. The mailer went to 315 of them, in 42 states.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

But socially valuable innovations can be difficult to marketize/commodify. Restrict derivative right to adaptations/forms of representations that change medium, not works in same primary market. Hughes: if publisher can’t get sequel rights, then it will insist on getting the film rights and impoverish authors.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It’s not possible to “trespass” an intangible asset; any legal protection for the asset comes from contract law (but the plaintiffs gave a license) or IP law, such as copyright law, which the plaintiffs aren’t invoking. Implied-in-Law Contract/Unjust Enrichment. physical property), not intangibles.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As a result, AR may be attractive not only to potential users of the cultural heritage-related services, but also for market operators with commercial interests. However, as mentioned, AR can also be developed by third parties, and in particular by market operators that have no initial connection with bodies managing cultural heritage.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Neal Town Stephenson, an American science fiction author, first used the term “metaverse” in his 1992 book “Snow Crash,” which was published 30 years ago. Users are expressing their annoyance at the frauds that have already taken over the NFT market. What is the Metaverse?

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. 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. Case 3- Thomson Reuters Enterprise Center GMBH and West Publishing Corp.

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SpicyIP

MAY 18, 2022

A list of trademarks applied for in the EU for ‘ downloadable virtual goods’ and ‘online virtual services’ was recently published by The IPKat here. If not for these efforts, the virtual goods market has the potential to be very competitive.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

As previously reported on this blog , non-fungible tokens (or “NFTs”) recently emerged as one of the hottest new items on the art market—artists, auction houses, museums, sports organizations and others have jumped at the chance to create and sell their own versions of these unique tokens. Copyright Claims: Roc-A-Fella Records Inc.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

Wagging Tails is now seeking an injunction to prevent Coakley from publishing materials—including a planned tell-all film—recounting his accusations. The case involves an interesting interplay between copyright law, entertainment contracts and the First Amendment.

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