Intepat

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Fair Use and Public Domain in Podcasting Fair use is a nuanced legal principle that allows limited use of copyrighted material for purposes such as commentary, criticism, or education, with courts evaluating factors like purpose, nature, amount, and market impact. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 4, 2024

10: Documents sufficient to identify the expressive, original, and human-authored content of each of Your Asserted Works. 11: Documents sufficient to identify the non-expressive, non-original, or non-human-authored content of each of Your Asserted Works. For example, discovery requests no. 10-12 read as follows: NO.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 7, 2022

The court documents show that the named sites didn’t host any video content since both rely on third-party hosting sites to supply content. The stream URLs listed in the court documents no longer function but when they did, they linked to video streamed live from Twitch’s servers. Cut-Price Pirates Like Free Streams.

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Intepat

APRIL 18, 2022

It includes commonly available information such as calendars, telephone directories, a list of tables in a public document, etc. Hence, creators should be well aware to document their work before going into the public domain. Certain works cannot be protected by copyright though they are original.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In this case, the nuance is expressed in the context of the balance between the ‘right of information’ of the participants to a public tender and the possible presence of ‘trade secrets’ in the bidding documentation. Based on this, the request for access to the documentation was denied by the contracting authority.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The additional 20 years could cost Canadian education millions of dollars and would delay works entering the public domain for an entire generation. Indeed, Canada long resisted extending the term of copyright given the absence of a strong economic or policy rationale for doing so.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Through the MPA, Columbia Pictures requested that certain sensitive documents should be sealed indefinitely. After contacting the court, it appears that this was an oversight so the records were made public shortly after. After the lawsuit ended, several movie studios asked the court to keep sensitive records under seal.

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Kashishipr

APRIL 20, 2022

The North American Free Trade Agreement defines a trade secret as “Information having commercial value, which is not in the public domain, and for which reasonable steps have been taken to maintain its secrecy.” A person in every company should be in charge of controlling the accessibility of critical documents. ?

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 28, 2021

An FTO analysis always starts with searching the patent literature and documents for granted or pending patents. It implies that while a specific technology may be protected in the main markets of a company, it may lie in the public domain in some other countries. Conducting FTO Analysis Based on Patent Literature Search.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 19, 2022

While details are scarce at this early stage, the language in the official documentation suggests that “illegal content” could be blocked as well. Breyer notes that, in 2020, the public domain library Project Gutenberg was blocked in its entirety in Italy because some content allegedly violated local laws.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

In the Authors Guild copyright infringement suit brought against OpenAI, there were documents that stated that OpenAI later deleted the Books1 and Books2 datasets. There has been quite some discussion on the Books1 and Books2 datasets ( here and here ). A Word is Characterised by the Company it Keeps.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

While that remains a question for now, a plausible explanation of how the IP address may have entered the public domain could lie in documents presented to the court as part of the most recent proceeding.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

APRIL 16, 2020

Does the absence of the insignia mean that the film is public domain? Nowadays, the publication of a film without copyright notice won't effect ownership, but in 1964, the penalty was draconian. If the copyright owner failed to include a copyright notice on "The Naked Kiss," then it would likely be in the public domain.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 23, 2024

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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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

My understanding is that all publicity photos taken back in the 1920s and 1930s were never copyrighted, therefore, in the public domain, especially if the photographer is unidentified. We contacted the USPTO for guidance as to why the FOA was reversed but the examining attorney directed us back to the documentation.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

Delhi High Court allows for placing additional documents on record before framing the issues. Regarding the objection of the defendants that the documents related to Defendant No. Regarding the objection of the defendants that the documents related to Defendant No. Case: Bennett Coleman and Co. ARG Outlier Media Pvt.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 4, 2023

I tried to get hold of NM-QTA policy document. There may be facts which are not in the public domain. Now, imagine the standard-setting in quantum space and the consequences when India loses out in this space) Does our NM-QTA understand this reality? I do not think so (or rather I am not sure about it). I may be mistaken.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 18, 2023

The main monograph forms the first 32 pages of the 180-page document. The monograph does not cite a single document or study that shows that pre-grant oppositions have benefits or the actual benefits that Indians have had because of timely filing of oppositions against ‘evergreening type’ pharmaceutical patent applications.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Thus, here, given that the plaintiff has Copyright Registrations, the burden shifts to Defendants to come forward with “evidence that the work[s] [were] copied from the public domain.” Defendants argued that because information concerning the Second Holy Temple is in the public domain, Plaintiff’s copyrighted works are not original.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

When issuing a CC0 NFT, the artist declares the entirety of a project’s content to be in the public domain, allowing the public at large to use, modify or recreate the NFT artwork in compliance with the CC0 license for commercial purposes, without attributing it to the original artist.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Novelty means that the invention must be new or novel and must not have been anticipated by any published document in the world. In order to prove novelty, it must be proved that no other document in the world has any prior claim relating to the subject matter of the invention. a) Prior Publication [Section 29(1), the Act].

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

For instance, in accordance with this doctrine, the author would be entitled to copyright protection if someone collected different poems that were previously in the public domain and produced in a single document. With the information in the public domain, the Rural Telephone Service issued a phone book.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 10, 2023

Joint Motion to Strike In a joint motion to strike DataCamp’s answer and its counterclaims, this week the parties asked the court for a stay in proceedings to allow for the “completion of documents finalizing settlement” of the lawsuit. ” No surprise that DataCamp sees things rather differently.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Here is how an invention is defined in the Patent Act 1970: Section 2(1)(j) “invention” means a new product or process involving an inventive step and capable of industrial application; Section 2(1)(ja) “inventive step” means a feature of an invention that involves technical advance as compared to the existing knowledge or having (..)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Mendez case, which involved a group photographer documenting the group’s activities at the group’s request. Though the court doesn’t have cross words for the media defendants, this apparently is another example where media publishers treated publicly available photographs as public domain photographs.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

If an institution can prove in a documented manner that it checked availability through these channels and the result was negative, then it can presume in good faith that the item in question is OOC. This model addresses the legal public domain status of both physical and intangible AI creations and inventions.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here the final version is a clear improvement over the original Parliament text as it no longer suggests that model providers need to distinguish between copyright-protected and public domain training materials and then apply different transparency standards to both, which would be unworkable.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Italian Copyright Act ( Legge sul diritto d’autore ) distinguishes between i) photographic works ( opere fotografiche), ii) simple photographs ( fotografie semplici ) and iii) photographs of mere documentation ( fotografie di mera documentazione ). Photographs of mere documentation. Photographic works. . Simple photographs. .

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Intepat

APRIL 18, 2022

It includes commonly available information such as calendars, telephone directories, a list of tables in a public document, etc. Hence, creators should be well aware of documenting their work before entering the public domain. Specific works cannot be protected by copyright though they are original.

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Copyright Public Domain Registration Ownership 52

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

Prior art, the term mostly used during patent applications, is used to describe all information available in the public domain before the priority or filling date of the patent application. Academic researchers play an important role, as most of the time, they are concerned about publication, not patents.

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2024

The UPCKat trying to keep confidential information confidential in the UPC As part of our UPCKat reporting on the latest UPC developments, the IPKat brings readers a roundup of how the UPC is treating confidentiality and third party access to court documents. Timing Rule 262A.3

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Dear Rich IP Blog

AUGUST 27, 2023

You don't need permission for designs produced before 1928 as they are in the public domain. We suggest you use orphan works, provided you make (and document) your good-faith effort to locate the owners by searching copyright records. What will happen if you use chinaware designs without permission? Will the owner see your work?

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

Public domain resources as a starting point. There are several places where you can find public domain content that is free to use. Document right to use. When there is a document authorising authorization to use the earlier materials, it is challenging for a plaintiff to maintain an infringement claim.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 22, 2022

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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SpicyIP

AUGUST 28, 2022

The Narendera Publishing House case provided a more interesting view by regarding copyright as a “privilege” and user interests as the “ competing interest of enriching the public domain” The Rameshwari Photocopy judgment is interesting as it used differing descriptions for Section 52.

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2022

By performing a patent search, you can get an indication of what all information is available and accessible in the public domain concerning the proposed invention.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s blockchain patent application, which included a system used to improve the efficiency of certificate issuance and save users from repetitively filing the same document on multiple platforms, was one of the first known blockchain patent applications.

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