43(B)log

MAY 19, 2023

Wowwee sells a line of dolls called “My Avastars,” which plaintiffs allege were “copied directly from Roblox’s Classic Avatars.” Looking at the side by side pictures in the complaint, this is a bit hard to swallow, but the evidence of copying/references to Roblox clearly bleed over from the TM side.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2021

At issue is pirate sites that, according to publishers, use the Shopify platform to sell pirate ebook copies of textbooks. Finally today, Garth Corfield at The Register reports that a UK developer has lost his appeal to try and claim ownership of software he created while employed for the company MD5.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 19, 2022

claimed that they held 50% ownership in the work, given to them by a producer named Greg Mathieson who worked on the album. Atkinson sued Netflix and Dark Horse Comics, alleging that Umbrella Academy copies characters and elements from a 1996 comic book he created for Rogue Satellite Comics. However, a UK company named Stillwater Ltd.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 16, 2023

This paradigm, however, breaks down when copyright ownership is contested. In that circumstance, the takedown notice becomes a proxy battle for a larger and likely fact-dependent war over ownership, which the service in the middle isn’t in a good position to resolve. The hosting service honored the takedown notice.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 4, 2024

This question can be answered by examining the nature of digital workers’ contributions to the tasks assigned to them and the ownership of copyright under the contractual agreements that digital workers sign with platforms.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

On one hand, unauthorized mass copying and distribution of movies, TV shows, and music is widely recognized as copyright infringement. Based on the assertion that the assignment agreements relied upon by the publishers do not confer ownership of copyrights relating to the allegedly infringed works, Elbakyan declared them void.

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The IPKat

JUNE 27, 2022

Consequently, the definition of NFTs as “certificate of authenticity” or “certificate of ownership” is not accurate. Ripps has clearly downloaded the digital files of the original BAYC collection, copied and re-used them to create his own RR BAYC collection. Ripps’s collection has sold out in 15 days, producing a revenue of 1,023.03

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Nearly all copies of the film were destroyed, but an American copy survived, as Dracula was already public domain in the United States. As Halloween grows both more popular and more lucrative, battles over authorship and ownership are only going to become more common.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

However, the important thing to know is that there was no doubt that Take-Two did copy the tattoos in question and there was no question of Alexander’s ownership of them. Alexander had sought $2 for every copy of WWE 2K sold, an amount that would have equaled roughly $20 million.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The ownership of an NFT is recorded in the blockchain, and can be transferred by the owner, allowing NFTs to be sold and traded ”. Crucially, the ownership of an NFT does not equate to ownership of an underlying asset. CC have offered some more detailed explanations around the use of CC0 with NFTs.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 15, 2022

New copies were uploaded constantly and banned users reportedly returned using new names. These tools can also enable users to wrongfully claim ownership rights in others’ content or to take for themselves revenue that rightly belongs to others.” Vasallo refused these terms and chose to send standard DMCA notices instead.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Sheeran’s attorneys argued the elements that were allegedly copied, namely a chord progression and the harmonic rhythm, were both commonplace in music and not protectable by copyright. Townsend, along with Marvin Gaye, co-wrote the song Let’s Get it On , which the plaintiffs argue was infringed by Sheeran’s hit.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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Erik K Pelton

APRIL 10, 2023

Having a registration makes a much stronger claim, a much stronger threat or letter when you’re trying to get someone who might be copying it to stop and to take it down. It helps to deal with copycats and infringers. On its face, it appears somewhat simple to answer the questions and fill out the fields in the form.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

McDonagh discusses the emergence of the author figure as the owner of a dramatic work by analysis of authorship and ownership of plays from the Elizabethan period up to the early twentieth century. , explores what exactly is a play as copyright protects it and who owns it.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The next phase of blockchain technology is focussed on bringing such scarcity and uniqueness to the internet, allowing for the ownership and collection of unique digital assets. The concepts of ownership and licensing are relevant in this context. Licensing and ownership: What’s the catch? Image Sources : Gettyimages].

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Again, NFTs are just an ownership record and a link to content. ” Based on his reserved screenplay publication rights, there’s no question that Tarantino is permitted to sell copies of the “Pulp Fiction” screenplay. A used copy will set you back $1.09; for reasons unknown, a new copy is going for $113.03—In

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

The token goes onto the blockchain, indicating ownership rights and potentially royalty rights for future transfers of the NFT, but not the underlying digital asset. An NFT group called TheSpiceDAO bought a copy of the book “Dune” believing they had purchased more than just the book. See article below). What Are NFTs?

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IPilogue

JUNE 13, 2022

Artists in the digital space have always been vulnerable to the unauthorized distribution, copying, and sale of their work. Listing someone else’s artwork on an NFT marketplace is as simple as saving a copy of the work from an artist’s website or social media platform and uploading it onto a marketplace where it is minted into an NFT.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

However, that doesn’t mean that other people can’t copy the associated files, which are often widely available. It’s a thought-provoking piece of art that shows that ownership can be a trivial concept, especially in the digital realm. Making a personal copy is probably a good start. The NFT Bay.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 26, 2023

Instagram was one of the recipients but, instead of taking immediate action, the platform asked for proof of ownership. The company responded to this correspondence with relevant ownership documents but, apparently, Instagram still wasn’t convinced. Whether Instagram plans to challenge the injunction is unknown.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

According to the complaint, when Apple learned of the app, it liked the idea—so much so, in fact, that it copied it. These screenshots (from the complaint) show the alleged copying: I trust the differences are immediately apparent. Copyright Owner Claims Ownership Over Depicting Emoji Symbols in Multiple Colors–Cub Club v.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Highlighting the difficulties in identifying the operators of imposter sites and establishing direct connections to sites already blocked by injunctions, the Judge found that the issue of ownership was irrelevant. ” Clone and Imposter Sites Punished For Copying. .” ” Clone and Imposter Sites Punished For Copying.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

In a framing case, the plaintiffs’ web servers aren’t the affected chattel because the plaintiffs’ web servers delivered the web pages directly to users’ devices, after which the framer (Google) superimposed its frame on the web pages once the copies were in users’ RAM. ” Even this correction is suboptimal.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2023

For example, there were no copies of the 1,403 original copyrighted works to compare against the alleged pirate copies, and it’s unclear if the infringers were actually Grande subscribers, instead of unauthorized network users. The court later stated that it already ruled on ownership but Grande believes that was an error.

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IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

If a secret is stolen, or the ownership or its proper apportionment are disputed, or if a third party is trying to copy software containing AI algorithms, the right holders must not shy away from taking proper enforcement measures. This will help avoid surprises from the application of unfamiliar Chinese laws and regulations.

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

An assignment is, in spirit, a transfer of ownership, even if it is partial. No one has the right to copy, reproduce, sell, or publish an original work without the permission of the creator. It means that only the owner of the copyright can transfer the ownership of the copyright to a third party.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In all cases, whether on physical cartridges or supplied as digital downloads, Switch games contain security measures designed to prevent copying or being run on unauthorized devices. Nintendo says 100% of the copies available were necessarily pirated copies and every user who obtained a copy did so without paying for the game.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

On the occasion of the opening of a new store in NY, the well-known clothing brand created a collection of NFTs based on digital copies of works of famous artists such as Miró, Tàpies and Barceló, incorporating various outfits of the collection available at the store, to be displayed in the Decentraland Metaverse, at the coordinates 16.78

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 20, 2023

The basic facts don’t appear to be in dispute; Nintendo informed 1fichier that it had found pirated copies of its games on the service, but 1fichier refused to take them down. Nintendo has been locked in a legal battle with French file-hosting service 1fichier for the past five years. Why Would 1fichier Deliberately Expose Itself?

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Dear Rich IP Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

These photos are in the public domain and free for anyone to copy. You can't claim copyright solely based on your ownership of a photo. Instead, you permit users to freely copy your text and as a quid pro quo for the free use, the Creative Commons license requires a specific attribution.

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 17, 2021

There are open auctions, limited auctions, various flavors of ownership for the NFT, and sales of both digital and non-digital assets. Was that ownership transferred, and if so, to whom? What kind of private key do you have attached to that ownership? What kind of private key do you have attached to that ownership?

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Before the digital era, copyright protected tangible art or works, allowing authors to easily regulate usage, copies, and earnings. Secure Distribution is a means of distributing digital content using encrypted codes which prohibit copying and limits the number of devices a product can be accessed from.

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The IPKat

MARCH 5, 2024

Jane Wessel's book , Owning Performance | Performing Ownership: Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British Stage , is a distinguished contribution to this scholarly pantheon. One needs to look no further than Mark Rose, Authors and Owners , or Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 15, 2024

Such a person can use it to serve their purpose in a limited manner for a particular period without having sole ownership of the property. It includes reproduction, the preparation of derivative works, distributing copies by sale or rental, and public performance or display.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 20, 2023

But Doe does not actually own any of the copyrights to which he claims ownership in these notices,” Shopify writes. — A copy of Shopify’s complaint, filed at the U.S. Shopify says that it’s not feasible for the company to investigate the validity of all takedown notices in detail.

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