Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Hendley, 2021 FC 498 [ Winkler ], the Federal Court (the “Court”) addressed an unusual issue of copyright protection in a nonfictional work containing descriptions of events with questionable historical accuracy. In its decision, the Court reiterated that copyright protection does not extend to facts.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights. This personal intellectual creation is lacking if the photographs in question are “mere reproductions of other photographs” in which an original has been merely reproduced (copied) as closely as possible. 3, second sentence UrhG.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Between spooky skeletons and sleigh bells ringing, there are new IP events and conferences coming up in early November. The two-day online event will take place on 5 and 6 November 2021, from 1:00pm to 5:30pm, CET. Find more information about the event and how to register here. Here comes this week’s miscellany roundup.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Additionally, the Covid-19 epidemic has sped up the process of digitization and renewed debate over online copyright. Through the Internet Protocol, the growing idea of intellectual property has successfully adapted the law over time to the online community. They need to be accepted by the law. Introduction.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Such uses are often methods of social commentary regarding the user’s own life, or more broadly, current events; they also often utilize copyrightable material. [i] ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Emily Xiang is an IPilogue Writer, the President of the Intellectual Property Society of Osgoode (IPSO), and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . For fifty years, the Copyright Society of the USA (CSUSA) has invited numerous esteemed figures to present the annual Donald C. Brace Memorial Lecture.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

” So, while writers have a compulsion to use what they know from life to create their works of imagined lives, they will draw not only on events central and personal to themselves but on many things intersecting or tangential to the writer’s own life. They have to look and see, that’s all. Then they have to write.”

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The IPKat

AUGUST 6, 2023

To mark this milestone, we organized an event in London in June 2023 [Katreports here , here , here and here ] and Kats Hayleigh and Eleonora put together a collection of chapters authored by current and past IPKat Team Members, as well as some eminent Katfriends. The book, titled Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law.

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Greenspoon Marder LLP

JANUARY 15, 2019

The proliferation of three-dimensional (3D) printing has led to unique challenges and novel issues in the context of intellectual property law and, in particular, patent law. Due to the protracted nature of the legal system, modern innovation and technological advancements always seem to outpace the law.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In a lawsuit filed at an Illinois district court last week, the companies target attorney Michael Hierl of Illinois, and Hughes Sokol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd, a Chicago law firm of which Hierl is a shareholder. The complaint can be found here ( pdf ) From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 12, 2023

Finding a differentiator in a field that is becoming more and more competitive, where the distinctions between original ideas and copies are frequently blurred, is crucial. Intellectual property might be the solution. References Intellectual Property Law | Color Trademarks: What Protection Can They Have?,

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

scene in the past, things seemed to come to a head in November 2020 when Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Tournament Organizers (TOs) of the Big House, an upcoming streamed Melee tournament, and subsequently forced them to cancel the event. While Nintendo has waffled on its support for the Smash Bros. Super Smash Bros.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Formula One can be perceived as an epicentre of inventions and innovations, making intellectual property indispensable in the sport. Hence, the traveling chaos of F1 is a world filled with patents, trademarks, copyrights, and Trade Secrets. The other teams can hence copy McLaren, causing the team a disadvantage.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Welcome to the fourth and final trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. The rapporteur is very well-known to all copyright enthusiasts – Mr Axel Voss. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Claims under copyright law. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 12, 2021

Cotter, Nominal Damages—and Nominal Damages Workarounds—in Intellectual Property Law TransUnion v. Patry says Copyright Act doesn’t permit nominal damages, but he’s not sure that’s right. Are there any circumstances in which the award should be nominal or zero damages as a matter of law?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. NASA uploaded a video of this historic event onto YouTube. It was taken down after one hour, as it was subject to a copyright notice by a news channel relying on the US DMCA. 3 million), Copyright Match (ca.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

For example, the copyright subsisting in a specific single item (a book, say) would be exhausted once that specific copy of the book is sold in the UK by the rights holder. For example, China and the USA have an international regime for copyright and patents. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This post is based on the chapter “The Football Game as a Copyright Work” in Natalie Helberger, Joost Poort, Martin Senftleben, Mireille van Eechoud, Stef van Gompel (eds.). Intellectual Property and Sports: Essays in Honour of P. Bernt Hugenholtz, Kluwer Law International, 2021. Image by Keith Johnston via Pixabay.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 20, 2022

As promised in an earlier contribution , I will provide a more reasoned exploration of the Swedish proposal to Article 17 DSM Directive in view of the fact that the Ministry of Justice did not opt for the copy-paste implementation technique. 1. Hors d’oeuvre: deconstructed Article 17 served on traditional copyright law principles.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

Said another way, it is “unaware” of news or events post-early 2022 because such news and events were not available at the time when ChatGPT was created. It has limited knowledge of world and events after 2021 and may also occasionally produce harmful instructions or biased content.” law for the time being.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In February 2021, the High Court granted Ms Markle summary judgment on her claim for misuse of private information, and also on the central issues of her copyright claim. Ms Markle’s copyright claim. that Ms Markle’s copyright was outweighed by the Mail’s right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the ECHR. The appeal.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Parts 2 to 4 will address exploitation rights, related rights, exceptions and limitations, copyright contract law and enforcement. Germany has always had an extensive judicial practice in copyright law. The case law of that copyright law senate of the BGH from 2015 to 2019 is summarised below.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2022

As one participant noted , “It is the UK’s single biggest environmental mass participation event and sees volunteers from across the country make more than one million miles of British outdoor spaces cleaner and greener.” It is also inconsistent, at least directionally, with the copyright trends on political questions.

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