Erik K Pelton
OCTOBER 17, 2023
What can Ted Lasso teach us about trademarks? Erik explains in this podcast. The post 5 Trademark Lessons from Ted Lasso appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. What can Ted Lasso teach us about trademarks? Erik explains in this podcast.
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Obituary piracy sites have long been a thing, but now YouTube channels are getting on the act. What is obituary piracy, and how can stop it? The post Copyright and The Bizarre World of Obituary Piracy appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
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Hugh Stephens Blog
OCTOBER 15, 2023
Warning: this blog post has a long opening sentence, so take a deep breath.
Intellectual Property Law Blog
OCTOBER 17, 2023
This case addresses whether attorney’s fees are warranted due to an inequitable conduct and conflict of interest defense. Background UCANN filed suit in the District of Colorado in July 2018, accusing Pure Hemp of infringing the ’911 patent, entitled “ Cannabis Extracts and Methods of Preparing and Using the Same.” The parties stipulated to the dismissal of this case in 2021.
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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?
TorrentFreak
OCTOBER 20, 2023
The DMCA takedown process gives copyright holders the option to remove infringing content from the web. It’s a powerful, widely-used tool that takes millions of URLs and links offline every day. This often happens for a good reason, but some takedown efforts are questionable. Takedown Abuse Shopify was targeted by a series of problematic DMCA requests earlier this month.
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 18, 2023
The Twilight Zone is a Halloween favorite, but what is its copyright history? Let's look at two episodes in a different copyright dimension. The post Copyright and the Twilight Zone appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
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Patently-O
OCTOBER 16, 2023
by Dennis Crouch Impact of Sonos on Patent Prosecution : The recent Sonos v. Google decision threatens to grind to a halt, or at least significantly restrict, a once-common patent prosecution strategy – keeping continuation applications pending for years to obtain new claims that cover marketplace developments. Sonos Inc. v. Google LLC , 20-06754 WHA, 2023 WL 6542320 (N.D.
TorrentFreak
OCTOBER 14, 2023
Last year, a Texas federal jury found Grande Communications liable for willful contributory copyright infringement and ordered the ISP to pay $47 million in damages to a group of record labels. The ISP was held liable for infringing 1,403 copyrighted songs, as it failed to terminate persistent pirates’ internet access. District Court Judge David Ezra confirmed the judgment in January.
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 19, 2023
A French professor is accused of plagiarism in a journal review article. However, he's blaming his ghostwriter for the issue. The post Professor Blames Ghostwriter for Review Plagiarism appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Erik K Pelton
OCTOBER 16, 2023
The following is an edited transcript of our video Trademark Refusal: Genericness. Once you apply for a trademark at the USPTO, there are numerous grounds on which your mark can be refused registration, one of which is a claim that your mark is generic. Generic words typically refer specifically to a particular good or service, or a class of goods or services.
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JD Supra Law
OCTOBER 20, 2023
In recent years there has been a great demand for information about job listings, company reviews and employment data. Recruiters, consultants, analysts and employment-related service providers, amongst others, are aggressively scraping job-posting sites to extract that type of information. Recall, for example, the long-running, landmark hiQ scraping litigation over the scraping of public LinkedIn data.
TorrentFreak
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Private torrent sites, or private trackers as they are commonly known, have a special place in the piracy ecosystem. These sites tend to be more community-oriented than public torrent and streaming sites, which most people simply visit with a hit-and-run mentality. Troubles Many private trackers have come and gone over the years. The Romanian-based tracker FileList.io is one of the bigger ones to survive, although it came close to shutting down a few years ago when Romanian authorities seized it
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Music publishers sue AI company Anthropic, Authors sue Meta and Microsoft over AI training, and Vietnam targets pirate sites. The post 3 Count: More AI Lawsuits appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Velocity of Content
OCTOBER 19, 2023
On this day in 1976, President Gerald Ford signed the “new” US Copyright Act. The culmination of a decades-long effort, and well before the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Copyright Term Extension Act were passed in 1998, the 1976 Copyright Act ushered in a new era of copyright law in the United States. The 1976 Act was the first major revision of US copyright law since the 1909 Act , which was passed during the era of Mark Twain, ragtime, player pianos, and early silent films.
Cogency Global
OCTOBER 19, 2023
What this is : Much variation exists between the states when it comes to registering foreign series LLCs as a foreign company. What this means : When planning to use a series LLC structure in the domestic state, it’s important to consider where else the company and the individual series cells may wish to operate as not all states have statutes allowing for series LLCs to qualify to do business.
TorrentFreak
OCTOBER 19, 2023
When Italy’s pirate IPTV blocking system eventually gets off the ground, it’s possible that up to hundreds of thousands of TVs, computers, mobile phones, and tablets will at some point return a blank screen; a disappointing alternative to the pirated football streams usually on display. Given the scale of the media coverage over the last couple of years, that’s unlikely to surprise many of the 25% of Italians addicted to piracy-configured devices, known locally as ‘pezzot
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Google agrees to pay German news publishers, VNG wins movie case on appeal and ACE shuts down two major piracy websites. The post 3 Count: Google News News appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Velocity of Content
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Marketplace has had a flurry of exciting new enhancements over the past year based on market needs and feedback from both publishers and customers. Let’s dive into what’s new and improved in the user-friendly ecommerce tool that makes it easy to get copyright permission, order content and article reprints, and manage all transactional purchases in one place.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Kiwi Farms, operated by Joshua Moon, is best known for coordinating cyberattacks on individuals , especially people with disabilities. Few people would lament the site’s demise, but to date it has avoided legal exposure ( 1 , 2 ) and survived multiple deplatformings (e.g., CloudFlare’s block ). But if you really want Kiwi Farms gone, have you considered using copyright law for its censorial power?
TorrentFreak
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Kiwi Farms is an online forum with a reputation for mocking and harassing people, actions that have been linked to several tragic deaths. In response to the barrage of negative news, several third-party providers including DreamHost, DDoS-Guard and Cloudflare have all banned the site. These voluntary curation actions are just the tip of the iceberg.
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Record labels appeal decision in case against Vimeo, French court orders massive piracy damages and bars sued over unlicensed music. The post 3 Count: Lip Dub appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Music publishing companies Universal Music, ABKCO and Concord filed suit on Wednesday, October 18, in a Tennessee district court against generative artificial intelligence (AI) company, Anthropic, alleging “widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics.” Anthropic’s core product is the AI ChatBot, Claude, which can be used to generate song lyrics to popular songs owned by the publishers or to generate “original” song lyrics in response to “requests to write a song about a certain topi
JD Supra Law
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Congress has taken its first swing at generative AI. On October 12, 2023, a bipartisan group of senators (Senators Blackburn, Coons, Klobuchar, and Tillis) announced a draft federal bill aimed at establishing guard rails around the creation and use of digital replicas of faces, names, and voices. The Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act (referred to as the “NO FAKES Act”) addresses a concern most can agree on: preventing one party from co-opting another’s identity.
TorrentFreak
OCTOBER 18, 2023
With millions of monthly visits, FileList is one of the largest private torrent trackers. The site has been around for sixteen years and weathered many storms, including a crackdown by Romanian law enforcement which seized its domain name in 2020. Last weekend, the journey appeared close to an end when the site’s main operator, EboLLa, decided that he would rather spend time on other parts of his life.
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Anime director Kunihiko Ikuhara has filed a defamation lawsuit against a woman who accused him of plagiarism. Here's why he did it. The post Kunihiko Ikuhara Files Defamation Case Against Plagiarism Accuser appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Christopher Roser
OCTOBER 17, 2023
This post in my series on the Toyota KPI dashboard looks at productivity. After safety and quality, this is the third-most-important KPI group on the Toyota dashboard. The cost is least important. This section of the dashboard measures different KPIs on the productive output of the system. Let’s have a look. Introduction Productivity can be. Read more The post The Toyota KPI Dashboard—Productivity first appeared on AllAboutLean.com.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
OCTOBER 16, 2023
[Sorry it’s take me this long to get this blog post off my desk. I hope it was worth the wait.] We’ve seen a flood of terrible Internet laws in the past few years, including the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC). The AADC would require many businesses to sort their online visitors into adults and children–necessarily requiring age authentication–so that children can receive heightened statutory protections.
TorrentFreak
OCTOBER 16, 2023
The Italian government, lawmakers, telecoms regulator AGCOM, broadcasters, and football leagues invested considerable resources to get new law over the finishing line in July. While one aspect of the law focuses on blocking access to pirate services , another ramps up punishments for those caught supplying illegal streams and customers who buy subscriptions to watch them.
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Telecoms file an amicus brief for Grande Communications, government sells Omi in a Hellcat's cars and GTA5 mod to scrub protected vehicles. The post 3 Count: Copyright Car Show appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
The Illusion of More
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Below are the responses I submitted to selected questions in the U.S. Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry and request for comments on artificial intelligence. 8.1. In light of the Supreme Court’s recent decisions in Google v. Oracle America and Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, how should the “purpose and character” of the use of copyrighted […] The post Comments to the Copyright Office on Artificial Intelligence appeared first on The Illusion of More.
IP and Legal Filings
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Introduction Incorporating a novel focus on the digital market environment, the Competition Amendment Act, 2023 stands out as one of the most momentous changes made to the Competition Act of 2002 in the last two decades. The act makeseffort to modernize the competition framework centre around the evolving nature of contemporary corporate practices. Since 2018, some alterations were put into place which was overseen by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs’ Competition Law Review Committee.
TorrentFreak
OCTOBER 15, 2023
Following a request by the Office of the United States Trade Representative for stakeholders to identify so-called ‘notorious markets’ involved in large-scale infringement, submissions are now publicly available. After reporting on submissions by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) ( 1 ) and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) ( 2 ) this week, today we present a roundup of three key submissions, all of which target the pirate IPTV / live sports streaming ecosystem.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2023
The New York City Department of Sanitation runs an internal message board for employees. An as-yet-unidentified employee posted a message to the board regarding a civil-service test cheating scandal. The pseudonymous message claimed that the plaintiff leaked the answers to the test. The plaintiff claims the message defamed him and sued, among others, the Sanitation Department.
Olartemoure Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2023
If you own IP in Colombia or abroad and are seeking financing and cash for your projects or company, this article is for you. Intellectual property (IP) is an increasingly important asset for businesses in today’s knowledge-based economy. IP assets, such as patents, trademarks, and copyrights, can be used to generate revenue, enhance brand value, and protect against competition.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 16, 2023
In Sur-Replies filed late last week in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings, Urban Intel, Inc. told the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that threats made by ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions “to file IPR petitions and a declaratory judgment action unless granted a free license to three valuable patents,” among other allegations, “runs directly counter to the purpose and goals of the post-grant administrative challenge system.
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