Hugh Stephens Blog

JUNE 16, 2022

“Feds to modernize definition of a Canadian film and TV program” screamed the headline.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Review in the Senate last year led to a number of amendments, one of which dealt with the definition of Canadian content (Cancon). Canada’s Online Streaming Act, (Bill C-11) the draft legislation that will bring online streaming content under the purview of the Broadcasting Act, will continue its slow progress through Parliament in 2023.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The training of artificial intelligence models using copyrighted material continues to stir debate and prompt litigation. In the latest salvo, the New York Times Company sued Microsoft and OpenAI – the creator of ChatGPT – for infringement under the federal Copyright Act.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 6, 2022

That said, streamers did get some minor victories, as other royalty rates have been capped and the definition of “family plans” has reverted to an earlier definition that was more favorable to them. However, the court has now reaffirmed that rate, leaving it in effect.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

While there are far too many for any single list, here are 5 copyright stories that you should definitely watch in 2022. Several such cases are going on right now and, though we likely won’t see a definitive answer in 2022, it’s going to be a copyright story to watch. 1: The Copyright Small Claims Court.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The definition of AI in this panel corresponded with 8 component technologies, including planning/control, knowledge processing, speech, AI hardware, evolutionary computation, natural language processing, machine learning, and vision. Nicholas Pairolero, Research Economist, USPTO provided an informative landscape of AI in Biotech.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

Anything that isn’t clear is likely explained in the “Learn” section, which provides definitions for key terms. Though the assessment and enforcement features definitely need some fleshing out, the case tracking and evidence organization will likely be very useful to anyone who is dealing with multiple cases at the same time.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2024

According to the classical European definition, it is to respect the property … Continue reading "If AI Tramples Copyright During its Training and Development, Should AI’s Output Benefit from Copyright Protection? Should they? Let’s consider the essence of copyright. What is its raison d’être?

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Michael Geist

JUNE 29, 2024

The term is, more often than not politically loaded which has rendered int’l consensus impossible for the purposes of definition. I will attempt to navigate through some of the hazards that recent scholarship has pointed out.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In short, plagiarism is almost definitely on the rise, but it’s also much easier to detect. The reason is fairly simple: We don’t really know how much plagiarism exists now, and we definitely don’t know how much plagiarism existed before the internet. This is especially true for copy and paste plagiarism.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

and (2) Did the PTAB err in limiting its definition of the relevant art to medical leads specifically for sacral neuromodulation? Second, the PTAB was incorrect in limiting the definition of “the relevant art” to medical leads for sacral-nerve stimulation because the Medtronic patent claims are not so limited.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

But then the word ‘ACTION’ caught the eye, quickly followed by ‘Xtreme High-Definition IPTV streaming’ It transpires that Mapleton is no regular city. In common with most documents that mention IPTV on the Mapleton City Website, this one mentions ‘Xtreme High-Definition IPTV’ too.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Companies getting involved with NFTs should definitely think through these and other issues that will arise and work with knowledgeable counsel to get ahead of the issues to come. Even with these “basic” NFT license terms, there are many legal issues that may arise. It is likely some of the current licenses will lead to litigation.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 28, 2024

Though there is no specific definition of IoT, the concept focuses on how computers, sensors and objects interact with each other and collect information relating to their surroundings.”. By: Butler Snow LLP

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 3, 2022

Though the incident was a definite setback in her career, she was able to find other work and has been writing consistently for Reuters since January 2021. As for Finn, her career will definitely suffer a setback but, as we’ve seen before, others have recovered and gone on to do excellent work elsewhere.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 1, 2022

While the answers are definitely thin, Google has a long history of ducking these complicated issues. Though the tools have definitely become more powerful and some of the details have changed, the broad strokes are unchanged after more than 18 years. However, he added that such sites, generally, are demoted by their algorithms.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The version of the movie released is a high definition edition from Europe, which isn’t as high of quality as some had hoped. This film is expected to make its debut in the United States on HBO Max on October 21 and in theaters the next day.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 23, 2024

It further observed that TK is not defined in the Act and proceeded to rely on the definitions provided by WIPO and UNESCO (Para 10). The MHC, in one of the first judgments on TK, provided some clarity on the definition of TK by relying on the definitions by WIPO and UNESCO. The Court observed that the object of S.3(p)

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 12, 2024

The federal court’s decision to reject this position has now harmonized the definition of an article of manufacture across multiple statutes. By: ArentFox Schiff

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 4, 2022

However, since VPNs are commonly used as a way to ensure privacy while engaging in pirate activities, it could definitely have impacts there. The move is not directly copyright-related and actually is meant to better empower the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) to deal with cybersecurity and to unmask criminals.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 5, 2022

This will definitely be something to watch over the coming months and years. It’s impossible to know. However, it’s worth trying. This is a field where something has to change, and it’s nice to see a major player taking a different approach. It will be interesting to see if this approach pays off and in what ways.

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The TTABlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As to incongruity, “it must be shown that in combination the descriptiveness of the individual words has been diminished, that the combination creates a term so incongruous or unusual as to possess no definitive meaning or significance other than that of an identifying mark for the goods.” In re What Do You Meme, LLC , Serial No.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 29, 2022

With a Definitive Court Verdict: This case can only be filed by the educational institution that awarded the degree or by the person plagiarized. Prior to When it has “Legal Effects” : According to experts in the country, this would have to take place before the Minister of Education has signed the order awarding the degree.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

According to the court, ACT would be unlikely to prove copyrightability in the phrasing of a every definition but that, in aggregate, they deserved protection. The district court awarded a win to ACT, this prompted WIN to appeal to the 6th Circout Court of Appeals, which has affirmed that decision.

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The IPKat

APRIL 18, 2024

The description of the patent provided a definition of gathered that the Board of Appeal viewed as broader than the industry norm. Included in this definition were materials that were "convoluted, folded, or otherwise compressed or constricted".

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Considering issues with interpretation of some of the key design notions, authors of the legal review also proposed to codify certain interpretations of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), such as the definition of the informed user. Modernised definitions (Art. 3 Regulation, Art.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As such, there are a myriad of questions about that space, even with a seemingly definitive ruling. For example, even though the US Copyright Office has ruled that AI art can’t be protected by copyright , the divide between human created and computer created art isn’t a bright line, but a spectrum.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Unfortunately that logical example fails to help here due to a confusing clash of definitions in the study. The definition of ‘Fraudulent Piracy Site’ on page 10 of the study is followed by another definition of the same term on page 18.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 25, 2023

. “The law is full of definitions and categorizations of different providers of online ‘intermediary services,’ including ‘caching, mere conduit, hosting, online platforms, very large online platforms, and very large online search engines.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Firstly , it noted that the Respondent fell within the definition of ‘person interested’ under s. While the wording of the definition does not include competitors or manufacturers, the Court gave an expansive interpretation to it by placing reliance on Dr. Aloys Wobben and Anr. 2(1)(t) of the Act. 2(1)(t) gets considerably widened.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 28, 2022

If you’re a student, budding journalist or just someone taking up writing, you definitely do not want to become known as a plagiarist. In schools, plagiarism carries with it severe penalties, including potential expulsion. Outside the classroom, being marked as a plagiarist, especially in a public way, is a permanent stain on one’s career.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 27, 2021

If there was a promise of exclusivity, then there definitely could be an issue, especially for Garcia. With the second case, the real question is what license did Luca obtain when purchasing the track? Though Luca admits to buying it, we don’t know what the terms of that purchase were.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 1, 2024

While the decision today doesn’t definitively resolve the future of the Florida and Texas laws, a majority bloc of justices–led by Justice Kagan–articulated some important principles that represent a major victory for the First Amendment freedoms of social media services.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 5, 2021

Though there are definitely limitations on that given the nature of Strine’s contract and employment law more broadly, the message to the public has to be clear: Plagiarism will not be tolerated.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 16, 2022

This story is definitely attention grabbing. However, they likely won’t provide much help against such sites that are based outside the United States. Still, it might be an avenue that some schools and instructors may want to explore. Bottom Line.

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Cogency Global

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

When drafted and filed correctly, these filings perfect a lender’s security interest in the fixtures and establish priority among other secured creditors and subsequent buyers of the real estate.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 14, 2024

The question before the Federal Circuit was whether submissions made by K-fee in European opposition (considered "EPO prosecution" by the US courts) narrowed the ordinary meaning of the term barcode and/or were evidence of K-fee disclaiming certain subject matter from the definition.

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