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Police Photo: Public Domain or Fair Use?

Dear Rich IP Blog

There are no privacy issues - no vehicle/person/property is identifiable. Is it public domain or fair use? Public domain? Other states like Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts (called "open copyright" states) have a policy that makes state documents presumptively public domain. May I use it?

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Key Points from the USPTO’s New Guidance on AI Use

IP Intelligence

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, in Intellectual Property (IP) practices involving documents filed at the USPTO. Data breaches and data leaks of AI tools could further cause disclosure risks. may result in a breach of export laws.

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Ringgold and the FAIR Principles: How Ringgold Data and Metadata are Reusable

Velocity of Content

Meta)data are richly described with a plurality of accurate and relevant attributes Ringgold Data is fully tagged and labelled, including descriptive elements, and documentation. Variability in data is clearly marked both within the data itself and all documentation with clear vocabularies.

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The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver that Can Block ‘Unlawful’ Traffic

TorrentFreak

The project overview makes it clear that DNS4EU is meant to protect the privacy of end-users and keep them secure. For example, the DSN resolver is not allowed to monetize user data and has to comply with applicable privacy regulations including the GDPR. Many of the proposed DNS4EU features aim to protect EU citizens.

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Traditional Knowledge and Trade Secrets

IP and Legal Filings

Even a WIPO guide on recording traditional knowledge talks about empowering communities to write their own traditional knowledge, and provide limited access to the recorded documents in order to preserve secret traditional knowledge. With protecting their TK as trade secrets, the community at aim as perpetual ownership.

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Unfashionably Late: Seventh Circuit Rejects Misappropriation Claim Premised On Prototype Created Eleven Years Prior

LexBlog IP

Indeed, eleven years had passed since Chester worked on the actuator prototype, and it was undisputed that he never saw or took any documents with him when he left Koso. As such, the Court found the lack of evidence, coupled with the eleven-year gap, “renders the inferences that REXA asks us to draw exceptionally unreasonable.”

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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance. to various entities dealing with the same.