Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Misinterpreting Licenses: Incorrectly assuming permission to use copyrighted material. Preventing Accidental Infringement: Respect Copyright: Avoid copying others’ work without permission. What Precautions Should You Take to Avoid Being Accused Updates to DMCA Agent Designation The post What Is Accidental Copyright Infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Though the Navy had purchased some 38 copies, it ended up installing it on more than 550,000 machines. With 635 unique users and a $35,000 licensing fee, that amount came to the final total of $154,400. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2021

According to the lawsuit, Johnston made 15 copies of a master tape of his recording and sent it to various record labels, including Roadrunner. He claims that this granted Nickelback access to the song and that they copied various elements from it, including tempo, song form, melodic structure and more. Finally today, Michael S.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 25, 2024

CCC has licensed this report from Outsell, Inc., Why This Topic As AI continues to revolutionize corporate operations, a new collective licensing solution from CCC ensures that both content creators and users can thrive. with the right to distribute it for marketing and market education purposes.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

According to Google, there were at least 50 instances of copying, some of which were “word-for-word”. Copy and Paste Roundup. In 2017, partially based upon that report, the European Union voted to renew the license for glyphosate. At this time, neither the CCI nor the European Commission has released any comment.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The claim is sprinkled with the most obvious reason: the Canadian media companies want a settlement that involves OpenAI paying licence fees for the inclusion of their content in its large language models and the lawsuit is designed to kickstart negotiations. The claims that are alleged will face some significant headwinds.

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Patently-O

MAY 21, 2024

by Dennis Crouch In a highly anticipated en banc decision, the Federal Circuit has overruled the longstanding Rosen-Durling test for assessing obviousness of design patents. Rejecting the argument that KSR did not implicate design patent obviousness, the court reasoned that 35 U.S.C. § GM Global Tech. Operations LLC , No. at 15 (Fed.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Introduction An artist’s ideas, be it for a renowned painting, sculpture, novel, technological design, jewelryor fashion are his own. However, many a times, we witness these designs being copied or recreated. A copyright protection is the ability of a designer to protect his original designs through the copyright laws.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 24, 2023

The Designs Act, 2000 (“the Act”), is a complete code in itself and protection under it is totally statutory in nature. It protects the visual design of objects that are not purely utilitarian. Designs are registered in different classes as per the Locarno Agreement. These classes are mainly function oriented.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Anderson filed the lawsuit against Roup saying that Roup had copied several exercise routines that Anderson had created. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The post 3 Count: Non-Routine Fitness appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

If the costume isn’t licensed, why is it not infringing regardless of the name change? First, design elements that are “physically or conceptually separate” from the article can be protected. Bringing us back to our Juice Demon, the elements that are copied include the striped suit and tie. Why did the company do this?

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

AimJunkies continues to argue that the development of cheat software is not an infringement of copyright, though Bungie made claims that code was copied for the purpose of creating the software. Dailly was one of the founding members of DMA Design, the studio that created the first Grand Theft Auto (GTA) games.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 8, 2022

The Designs Act is an act that protects one of the most significant Intellectual Property Rights of a person. Therefore, many acts govern several IPRs one of which includes the Designs Act,2000. Therefore, many acts govern several IPRs one of which includes the Designs Act,2000. The Designs Act, 2000 is one such act.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 27, 2024

As lawsuits mount against AI companies over copyright infringement – most recently with Dow Jones and NY Post suing Perplexity AI for “massive illegal copying,” Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella calls for more flexible copyright laws. ” This analogy fundamentally mischaracterizes how LLMs work.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The brands (hereafter Bellies) were licensed to Every Bite Counts Pty Ltd ("EBC"), including a range of Puffs products. EBC licensed the nine bright and colourful artistic works and used them on various food products including biscuits, puffs and fiddlesticks. baby, young, and fully-grown) to allude to natural progression.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Lawyers on both sides will rely on Ross some to argue that AI training constitutes infringement even when models don’t output copied material, others to distinguish generative LLMs trained on billions of works from Rosss narrow, headnote-specific dataset. And independent creation simply means you created it yourself, without copying.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 5, 2022

This means that others are free to copy, publish, distribute, create new works based upon it and otherwise make use of it without a license. It uses the art style and the meter of the original work, as well as the designs of characters from that book. That is, potentially, a big deal in many ways.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Annual Copyright License (ACL) from CCC helps minimize an organization’s infringement risk by providing a consistent set of global reuse rights across millions of publications from thousands of rightsholders that complements existing publisher agreements, subscriptions, and other content purchases.

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IIPRD

MARCH 13, 2025

All the creations of the human minds such as designs, inventions, artistic works, names, symbols, etc. For example, if you write a novel, copyright protects it from being copied or sold by others without your permission. For example, the Tata Nanos rear-engine design and lightweight body structure is patented by Tata Motors.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In the verdict form the jury stated that Defendants had not proven fair use, the Plaintiff (Alexander) should receive $3,750 USD for actual losses from the Defendant’s use of the tattoo designs, and did not answer as to profits can be attributed to the Plaintiff for use of the tattoos. Take-Two licensed Randy Orton’s likeness from WWE.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 10, 2025

If the AI learning process does not result in (non-incidental) copies of works used during AI training, then we do not need to discuss copyright exceptions, and we cannot talk about remuneration of right holders at all. some training datasets contain only hyperlinks to content stored online rather than copies of content).

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Copyright also helps in protecting the narrative contents and preventing it from being copied. Licensing of their games are also controlled under Copyright only. It also protects the graphics, visuals and soundtracks to ensure that game developers have control over these elements.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 11, 2022

600,000 ‘Infringing’ Copies. This is based on the installed copies and the price both parties would have reached in a ‘fictitious’ negotiation. ” 579 ‘Infringing’ Copies. For one, it is unclear how many copies the U.S. Unfortunately, most of the legal paperwork is sealed.

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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia upheld the TTAB's decision [ TTABlogged here ] affirming a refusal to register certain features of Timberland's boot design on the ground that the proposed mark for "footwear, namely, lace-up boots" lacked acquired distinctiveness. TBL Licensing, LLC v. Vidal , Civil Case No.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Can the existing UK Age-Appropriate Design Code tell us anything about what AB 2273 might look like in practice? That could include things like driver’s licenses or other government-issued documents that contain substantial additional sensitive personal information beyond the person’s age. Two key differences.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

3, 2021) The parties compete in the market for custom landscape design services. “[I]n He did allege sadness, distress, and “profound grief” from Natorp’s copying of images of a particular landscape job, but the Lanham Act doesn’t cover psychological, emotional harm. McCleese v. Natorp’s, Inc., 2021 WL 2270511, No. 1:20-cv-118 (S.D.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2022

Background: Keys and Tokens Are Not Licenses. Importantly, Microsoft stresses that it does not sell software; it offers licenses that enable people to use its software, under a set of strict terms and conditions. Microsoft says that it develops software and distributes digital downloads using its own site and those of other vendors.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 27, 2022

Even a mark that has been on the International Registry for 40 years does not assure registration of a subsequent national designation. On 12 January 2022, the Lithuanian Supreme Court upheld the rejection of the Lithuanian designation of Chanel SARL’s two-dimensional trademark (see below) in Class 3 for perfumery products.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 15, 2022

There’s no suggestion that the keys sold by Buka were obtained illegally, but licensing can be extremely complicated. The claim that regions need to be switched suggests that the game isn’t available in Russia by design, most likely linked to sanctions and licensing. There are other options, of course.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 5, 2021

The ruling was clear that there is a difference between fair dealing and copying for other purposes and we will continue to ensure that rightsholders are compensated when their works are used for the latter.”. On the contrary, it leaves copyright licensing in the education sector alive and well.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

Also, ignoring copyright licenses is at least arguably copyright infringement, and your fair use claim probably won’t get you out of the lawsuit at the motion to dismiss stage. The court also held that the coders did not have standing to seek damages, but they did have standing to pursue injunctive relief. Complaint at 2.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

While at this stage the particulars of Getty’s claim are unavailable, their press release states that Stability AI “unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright and the associated metadata owned or represented by Getty Images”. What is AI image generation software?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

[A surprising ruling from Judge Bibas (sitting as a district court judge by designation) in the Thompson Reuters v. Here, I would argue that factor 2 is critical because it provides the necessary breathing room for copying of fact-like materials that somehow clear the copyrightability bar. I sent the following comments to a reporter.]

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 21, 2022

Both of these are photographers who accuse the counterparty of using their work without a license. According to the claim, the defendants allegedly used copyright-infringing fairy wing designs in several photos that were shared on social media. The wings designs are sold through Fancy Fairy Wings & Things Store and at $6.99

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In Canada, under section 64(2) of the Copyright Act , it is not an infringement of copyright to reproduce the design of a “useful article”, so long as more than 50 copies are made. In Pyrrha Design Inc. where original jewellery designs are automatically protected under copyright law as sculptural or pictorial works.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2022

Over the past decades, the Software Alliance ( BSA ) has helped major software companies including Adobe, Autodesk, IBM, and Microsoft, to fight against under-licensed businesses. On 15 of the 20 computers, they found unlicensed copies of Autodesk Maya, which is used for movie and animation special effects.

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