IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

The law is an important part of protecting intellectual property and protecting creators’ rights to their original works. Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

District Court for the Northern District of California has knocked out the majority of their claims, refusing to accept the blanket allegation that “every output of the OpenAI Language Model is an infringing derivative work.”

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

First, the court dismissed plaintiffs’ claim against OpenAI for vicarious copyright infringement based on allegations that the outputs its users generate on ChatGPT are infringing. The court also dismissed claims for violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”).

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

DMCA Section 1202(b) Claims: Section 1202(b) of the DMCA prohibits anyone from (1) intentionally removing or altering any copyright management information (“CMI”), (2) distributing CMI knowing the CMI has been removed or altered or (3) distributing copies of works knowing that CMI has been removed or altered while “knowing, or.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

In the interests of full disclosure, readers should note that I wrote and submitted an amicus brief , on behalf of myself and four other intellectual property professors, in support of the copyright owner (Unicolors), in this case. Nonetheless, the 1909 Act required that the work be registered with the U.S.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

When people find out that I am an Intellectual Property attorney, I am often battered with questions about the topic. Unfortunately, Intellectual Property law has gotten so complicated that many people aren’t even sure which type of Intellectual Property (copyright, trademarks, or patents) protects their creative work.

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

When people find out that I am an Intellectual Property (IP) attorney, I am often battered with questions about the topic. Unfortunately, IP law has gotten so complicated that many people aren’t even sure which types of IP (copyright, trademarks, or patents) protects their creative work. That’s understandable.

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