IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 20, 2023

Introduction Any literally or artistic work that is original and creative i.e.; not copied from anywhere by the owner is protected under Copyright Act, 1957. Issues There are many issues in granting ownership to AI. It isn’t practical to allow ownership to the AI. Hence, ownership is not granted to the AI.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

It is a common practice to make copies of deteriorating or far away cultural heritage. As of 2022, it is not even a new idea to use digital methods to copy heritage, considering that the mass digitisation of cultural heritage, especially books, started more than two decades ago. Photo by awsloley via Pixabay.

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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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Intepat

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This doctrine is mainly pertinent to the physical copies of copyrighted works, such as books, CDs, and DVDs. Digital content can easily be copied which raises the question of whether this doctrine ought to apply to digital works as well. However, the applicability of this doctrine in the digital era is still a matter of contention.

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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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Intepat

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Issues of ownership, counterfeit goods, and infringements are rising concerns, threatening the sustainability of creativity in the metaverse. Copyright and Ownership in the Metaverse In the metaverse, copyright applies to digital creations such as virtual art, music, designs, and even entire virtual worlds.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Second, how is DistroKid supposed to sort through the ownership and license rights here? The court sides with DistroKid: volitional conduct is not shown merely by alleging that a system copied, reformatted, or distributed copyrighted material, even if the system’s functions can be broken down into three separate events.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Registering a song’s copyright provides proof of ownership, an invaluable tool in resolving disputes or dealing with unauthorized use. With the ease of sharing online, independent artists must take proactive steps to assert their ownership and protect their creations from unauthorized use.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Registering a song’s copyright provides proof of ownership, an invaluable tool in resolving disputes or dealing with unauthorized use. With the ease of sharing online, independent artists must take proactive steps to assert their ownership and protect their creations from unauthorized use.

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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 26, 2025

Under common ownership, any official position on site-blocking measures hasn’t been raised in public for years. A copy of a court order and a list of sites is now enough for Google to take voluntary action, in Europe, Brazil , India, Australia and beyond.

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Corsearch

JANUARY 9, 2025

For many small or local businesses, common law trademarks offer a practical way to establish ownership and prevent others from copying their brand within their area. The more visible it is, the easier it is to prove ownership. This signals to others that you take ownership seriously. When is a common law trademark enough?

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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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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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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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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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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 16, 2021

In 2019, Artem Stoliarov, a Russian DJ whose stage name is Arty, filed a lawsuit before the US District Court for the Central District of California, alleging that Marshmello’s song ‘ Happier ’ copied the synthesizer melody from his 2014 remix of OneRepublic’s ‘I Lived’ (OneRepublic is an American pop rock band). From remixes to remasters.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Image by Tumisu via Pixabay Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are altering society’s notion of digital ‘ownership’ and redefining the common perspective on distribution of original works to consumers by introducing scarcity to the digital realm.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In addition to the ‘collectible’ aspect, NFTs can also be used as proof of ownership or access. Pirates can still copy the content and share it elsewhere, NFTs can’t prevent that. The NFT simply creates a chain of alleged ownership of the particular copy.”

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In fact, if a competitor merely copies a distinctive design like Louis Vuitton’s handbag pattern to make consumers believe that a particular product is coming from them, this gives a potential for confusion. This leaves trade dress protection focused only on visual uniqueness rather than the practical features.

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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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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

Similar to owning physical copies of a book they can do whatever they wish with their copies under the fair use doctrine but the relationship of consumers and Kindle is not one of buyer and seller, but licensee and licenser. In 2009 , users woke up to find their purchased copy of 1984 had disappeared from their library.

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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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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

The first sale doctrine restricts the rights holder’s exclusive right to distribute a copyrighted work to the public, where the distribution right to control secondary sales is ‘exhausted’ upon completion of the first lawful sale of a copy of the work by the rights holder or with their consent.

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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

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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