Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Matthew McDermott is a freelance photographer. The New York Post hired him to take photos of NYC police commissioner Keechant Sewell , paying him a day rate of $470. McDermott kept the copyright to those photo and granted NY Post a license. The New York Post story. The article included multiple photos of Sewell, including the photo in question , and the Post apparently liked the image so much that they used a portion of the photo as the background for the newspaper cover that day (see screenshot

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Poster for the “Horn OK Please” event. Image from here. [ The post is co-authored by Deepali Vashist and Praharsh Gour. Deepali is a third-year law student at NLSIU Bangalore. Her passion lies in understanding the intersections of AI regulation and intellectual property rights. Her previous post can be accessed here. ] In an interesting turn of events, the Bombay High Court on 12 th November 2024, granted an quia timet interim injunction against the Sports Authority of India (SAI ),

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Under U.S. copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances”. This legal requirement remained largely unenforced for nearly two decades but a series of copyright infringement liability lawsuits, with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, have shaken up the industry. RIAA Labels vs. Altice These piracy liability lawsuits have targeted large and small Internet providers across the United States.

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Likelihood of Confusion

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Originally posted 2016-04-28 12:51:40. Republished by Blog Post PromoterJohn Welch reports, at the TTABlog, about what you’d think would be a no-brainer: The Board affirmed a refusal to register the configuration shown below, for “electric skillets,” finding that Preston’s proof of acquired distinctiveness under Section 2(f) was inadequate.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

by Dennis Crouch The USPTO has two traditional functions: (1) quality examination to ensure applications satisfy the demanding statutory requirements of patentability; and (2) timely and efficient processing of those applications. Recent data suggests the Office is struggling with the second of these mandates, as reflected in a sharp uptick in Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) awards.

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