The IPKat

JANUARY 1, 2025

He kept readers informed about the latest developments in trade marks, designs, AI, and copyright law. EPO Case Law Updates Cohausz & Florack are offering two webinars about the case law of the European Patent Office, including procedural and substantive aspects of the recent decisions.

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IPilogue

JUNE 14, 2022

At the heart of Taylor’s decision was an often overlooked but significant legal distinction in the copyright law governing the music industry. All music can be subdivided into three categories of copyright: lyrical, compositional, and sound. Look What You Made Me Do.

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Music Contracts Licensing Ownership 119

Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

During litigation, the unredacted version may be used as evidence to support the ownership of the redacted portions in the registered mask work. The individual/entity must physically appear at the Copyright Office in Washington D.C. when the mask work is involved in litigation. source code) under copyright law.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 26, 2021

Calling it a “ball of confusion,” the Ninth Circuit recently considered a case involving the music of the Turtles, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, and whether royalties are owed under California copyright law for music dating prior to 1972. In a lawsuit that was originally filed in 2013 titled, Flo & Eddie, Inc.

Copyright Law 40

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

Some screenshots depicting the framing (the first image shows Google’s superimposed frame on the right; the second shows what happens if users click on the frame in the first image): If this issue sounds familiar, it’s because framing generated huge discussion in Internet Law circles… 20+ years ago. Why is this so hard???

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Copying Ownership Derivative Work Contracts 98

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

UMG owns the copyright to the “Right Now” sound recording, but not the beat. Despite UMG’s lack of ownership in the beat, UMG’s “content protection specialist” found the song Oi! Barrett Financial * 512(f) Once Again Ensnared in an Employment Ownership Dispute–Shande v. infringed Right Now.

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Fair Use Cease and Desist Ownership Licensing 105

CoCal IP Law Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Please join us on Monday, November 13, 2023 at Noon, where we will discuss the issue of master ownership and the legal copyright conflicts between record labels and artists. Taylor Swift may be the first to make this copyright issue truly public, leaving fans wondering who really owns Swift's music and why. She says she [.]

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Copyright Law Copyright Ownership Law 52

Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

The image of the Crypto Punk linked to the NFT placed on to the blockchain is copyright protected. The art inside the gallery is protected by COpyright law. Copyrights protect original works of authorship, such as the digital asset being offered with the NFT. The gallery name is a trademark.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that California Civil Code section 980(a)(2) , which grants “exclusive ownership” of a sound recording fixed before February 15, 1972, to its “author,” provides only an exclusive right of reproduction and distribution, and does not provide an exclusive right of public performance.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 3, 2023

.” The ‘Phony Infringement Notice Scheme’ DataCamp alleges that around October 2017, DISH began sending infringement notices to DataCamp after “concocting a scheme” with anti-piracy partner NagraStar and its law firm. Copyright Law. Copyright Office.”

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The IPKat

JULY 11, 2021

As Kat readers may recall, in the Cofemel decision, the Court of Justice declined to impose any requirements, beyond being qualified as a “work”, for the existence of copyright protection. SpicyIP featured a post on the copyright ownership in State Board Textbooks. Both Juve Patent and Foss Patents blogs commented on this move.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Other Posts Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? The defendant did not claim ownership of the “Levi’s” trademark and only denied selling such goods. Discussing the US decision in Hachette Book Group v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

at 1-2] At its heart, therefore, this case is a dispute about copyright ownership. Plaintiffs Nealy and MSI claim to own registered copyrights in eight musical works, either as works made for hire or by assignment; while the defendants rely on licenses from Butler, the composer and performer. 17 U.S.C. § at *13-*16. at *16-*19.

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Music Blogging Copyright Ownership 105

SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2021

Zee Entertainment Enterprises refused to grant an interim injunction in a case involving the telecasting of certain films by Zee Entertainment on their satellite channels and OTT platform in which the plaintiff claimed ownership of copyright. News from India. You can read our posts on the report here , here , here , here and here.

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CoCal IP Law Institute

APRIL 11, 2024

Please join us Monday, April 15, 2024 at noon where we will discuss Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 68 (Rule 68) and the "open question" of whether post-offer attorney’s fees are part of the recoverable "costs" for a defendant, in particular, in copyright cases. I think defendants should be able to use the Rule 68 [.]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

Construing these allegations as true and in Service’s favor, Service subjectively believed that he possessed an ownership interest and that he never approved the Comedy Dynamics deal. I’m pretty sure the drafters of 512(f) never contemplated that it would be invoked in disputes over ownership.

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IP Close Up

APRIL 23, 2024

The Beijing Internet Court (BIC) ruled late last year that an AI-generated image in an intellectual property dispute was a new artwork protected by Chinese Continue reading

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As a result, the legal issues rarely are litigated any more. * * *. Underlying this litigation is an epistemological question: what does a “canonical” version of a web page look like? A website can own the copyrights to the HTML code and the files that users download. WhenU concluded that trademarks was a dead-end.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

So, clearly, the Cleveland Indians knew of the roller derby team’s ownership of the IP and exactly how it was used. Instead, as with most of these situations, it’s more likely that the matter will settle, and likely for more than the Cleveland baseball team would have paid pre-litigation. That’s an interesting fact to say the least.

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The IPKat

MAY 17, 2023

The Court held that in the absence of directly comparable source code in a software copyright infringement and misuse case, records of conversations, meetings, timelines, and e-mails can be used to show ownership of copyright, highlighting the importance of keeping a record of this information. The agenda can be found here.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

For instance, a seller could offer to turn the token into an actual transfer of copyright ownership of the original work. At this stage, it is however, hard to say whether a transfer of rights through NFTs would comply with the legal formalities required to transfer ownership under the copyright law.

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Non-Fungible Tokens Copyright Ownership Social Media 52

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2022

For instance, a seller could offer to turn the token into an actual transfer of copyright ownership of the original work. At this stage, it is however, hard to say whether a transfer of rights through NFTs would comply with the legal formalities required to transfer ownership under the copyright law.

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Non-Fungible Tokens Copyright Ownership Social Media 52

SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In the backdrop of these considerations, it is crucially necessitating, that every athlete possesses a litigative or compensational recourse of copyright preservation, for preventing other adversaries from exploiting or claiming rights to, or watering down the uniqueness of their celebratory move. Concluding Remarks.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

And unlike the vast majority of songwriters and performing artists who have relinquished ownership rights to musical publishers and record labels, Barlow & Bear decided to release “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” themselves, which means keeping more of the earnings. In the Supreme Court’s opinion in Petrella v.

Music 109

Music Derivative Work Fair Use Cease and Desist 109

LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

You may not get everything you think you’re entitled to get, and you may even be unknowingly exposing yourself and your company to costly litigation and unexpected competitors. Generally, the issues we will highlight for you pertain to: Copyright ownership. Copyright Ownership. Use of open source code.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

AUGUST 22, 2022

Practice area: Trademark and copyright. Law school and year of graduation: Emory University School of Law, 2014. Cheng: Before joining Fish as a trademark and copyright associate, I was an associate at Kenyon & Kenyon in New York, where I worked on patent litigation for about a year and a half. Vivian Cheng: 6.5

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Litigation Copyright Law Business Trademark 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

It took eight months, but the ownership question of the photographs has been settled. However, it is not what I expected for the first case to be finally determined: Section 512(f) and an ownership dispute between former business partners. The Board looked to previous outcomes of litigants to make sure there was no windfall.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

The new lawsuit raises a host of complicated legal issues that, while exciting for copyright nerds like me, are often a nightmare to litigate. Key among them is the extent to which pre-1978 works first published abroad without proper copyright notice are still protected under U.S. copyright law. and Germany.

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Traverse Legal Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

Litigation : If necessary, pursue legal action to protect your rights. Here are some ways to harness its potential: Digital Watermarking : Add invisible marks to digital content to prove ownership in case of unauthorized use. Blockchain : Use blockchain technology to establish immutable records of ownership and timestamp creations.

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Intepat

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Retroactive and Prospective Assignment Agreement A prospective transfer of intellectual property rights (IPRs) is dependent on the occurrence of future events and is most commonly used in copyright law. Indian Scenario The Indian IP law does not explicitly recognize nor bar the existence of nunc pro tunc assignment agreements.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Before turning to the differences in the expert witness reports, the district court examined the legal framework for a copyright infringement claim. The basic elements that a plaintiff must prove are: “(1) ownership of a valid copyright; and (2) copying of constituent elements of the work that are original.”

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

These rights provide exclusive ownership and control over intangible assets, allowing creators to protect their innovations from unauthorised use, reproduction, or distribution. Firstly, intellectual property rights grant startups exclusive ownership over their innovative ideas and inventions.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2023

During litigation, the unredacted version may be used as evidence to support the ownership of the redacted portions in the registered mask work. The individual/entity must physically appear at the Copyright Office in Washington D.C. when the mask work is involved in litigation. source code) under copyright law.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

There the Court quoted Justice Traynor’s dissenting opinion in Stanley : The policy that precludes protection of an abstract idea by copyright does not prevent its protection by contract. Even though an idea is not property subject to exclusive ownership, its disclosure may be of substantial benefit to the person to whom it is disclosed.

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Contracts Law Artwork Copyright 96

SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The decisions in the first category , i.e., Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Topicality/Impact) reflect those that we thought were important from a topical point of view and were covered by the media in some way owing to the importance of parties litigating or the issue being considered or for impact on industry and innovation/creativity ecosystem etc.

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IP Intellectual Property Copyright Trademark 143

LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Using Copyright Law to Fight Fakes. Copyright law also provides an avenue of protection for brand owners. The advantage of employing an online copyright search for brand images is that a copyright registration is not required. Ownership in copyrights vests upon creation of the work. [7]

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Copyright Lately

JULY 17, 2022

Unfortunately for Tammy, in 1984, one year before Jay created his elaborate estate plan, he assigned his song copyrights to “Jay Livingston Music,” a music publishing company owned by Travilyn. Copyright Termination and “Estate-Bumping” It’s not just Tammy.

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