Plagiarism Today
MARCH 18, 2024
Andy Warhol foundation settles with Lynn Goldsmith, publishers answer appeal in Internet Archive case and Richard Liebowitz disbarred. The post 3 Count: Finally Over appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Hugh Stephens Blog
MARCH 17, 2024
Image: Shutterstock My curiosity was piqued by the email that popped up in my inbox. “DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice”. Should I open it or ignore it? I took the plunge. Immediately my sphincter puckered, and a frisson went down my spine as I read it was from one Alicia Weber, Trademark Attorney, with Nationwide Legal … Continue reading "DMCA Copyright Infringement?
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TorrentFreak
MARCH 20, 2024
Late 2019, Internet provider Cox Communications lost its legal battle against a group of major record labels, including Sony and Universal. Following a two-week trial, a Virginia jury held Cox liable for its pirating subscribers. The ISP failed to disconnect repeat infringers and was ordered to pay $1 billion in damages. That wasn’t the end of it.
Erik K Pelton
MARCH 20, 2024
Erik shares insights on how lawyers can benefit from content creation in this episode. The post 10 Reasons Why Lawyers Should Create Content appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Erik shares insights on how lawyers can benefit from content creation in this episode.
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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?
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 19, 2024
Photo Stealers, a 12-year project to out photo thieves, is being sued for $100 million and was briefly closed by an angry photographer. The post The Fight to Save the Photo Stealers Website appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
U.S. Department of Commerce
MARCH 21, 2024
Women in STEM: Representation Matters March 21, 2024 KCPullen@doc.gov Thu, 03/21/2024 - 15:36 ICT Supply Chain Manufacturing Laurie Locascio, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (Photo taken in 2001). Post by Laurie E. Locascio Growing up as a scientist, I did not see role models who looked like me.
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Erik K Pelton
MARCH 18, 2024
The following is an edited transcript of my video Key Trademark Terminology. I find it fascinating when I’m in somebody else’s place of business and I’ll hear words that might have a meaning to me, but I know that they’re using them in a way that’s specific to their work and their industry. At the dentist office or at the auto shop, they’re using vocabulary terms to talk about their work that don’t resonate with me because I don’t know anything abo
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 18, 2024
The National Science Foundation and the US National Institutes for Health are very different. But why is one seeing so much more plagiarism? The post The NSF vs. the NIH on Plagiarism appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Barry Sookman
MARCH 17, 2024
Two recent decisions regarding copyright and generative artificial intelligence (AI) handed down by Chinese courts are notable. In one, a court found that output created using Stable Diffusion could be subject to copyright. In the other, a court found that output generated by a generative AI system could infringe the reproduction and adaptation right under Chinese copyright law.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 22, 2024
The Motion Picture Association’s interest in file-hosting platform DoodStream first came to light in a submission to the USTR in October 2022. The MPA described DoodStream as a video hosting service offering free storage and premium services including priority encoding and an ad-free experience. Videos uploaded to the platform were embedded on many other streaming sites, the MPA reported, and as a result, traffic was booming.
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43(B)log
MARCH 21, 2024
In re Amazon Prime Video Litig., 2024 WL 1138906, No. 2:22-cv-00401-RSM (W.D. Wash. Mar. 15, 2024) This putative class action alleged that Amazon overcharged and “[d]eceived consumers by misrepresenting that it was selling them Digital Content when, in fact, it was really only licensing it to them[.]” Plaintiffs brought claims under California, New York, and Washington consumer protection law, and common law claims for unjust enrichment.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 20, 2024
The release of Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection has been mired by many issues, including allegations of plagiarizing a modder. The post Modder Says Star Wars Game Developer of Plagiarized His Work appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Law 360
MARCH 22, 2024
A California federal judge has kept alive a visual effects company's patent infringement claims alleging The Walt Disney Co. unlawfully used its technology to create iconic Marvel film characters, such as Thanos and the Hulk, but once again tossed its claims of copyright infringement.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 20, 2024
Over the past year, new artificial intelligence tools and services have been surfacing everywhere. The same can be said for AI-related lawsuits and complaints, which have been piling up by the dozen. In the UK, music industry group BPI has enetered the mix, targeting AI-generated voice models and cover tracks. This technology, which partly relies on copyrighted recordings, has been controversial for a while.
Velocity of Content
MARCH 20, 2024
Using publicly available data for research or projects may be attractive because it can be more easily accessible than proprietary or private materials. However, the public availability of certain datasets or research doesn’t make the content free from restrictions. There are several factors that should be taken into consideration even when using public data: Nature of the Data Publicly available data can include a wide range of information, such as government datasets, publicly shared research
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 19, 2024
FTC and DOJ push for right to repair exemptions, AI voice cloning site targeted in the UK and YouTuber liable for fake DMCA notices. The post 3 Count: Right to Repair appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MARCH 19, 2024
You may recall the 2022 Buffalo mass-shooting , which was committed by a murderer responding to the “ Great Replacement Theory.” (And yet, many people in the public eye keep referencing and evangelizing the theory despite its direct and repeated role in killing people). The victims sued social media companies for allegedly radicalizing the shooter by exposing him to third-party content.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 19, 2024
“The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.” The quote above comes from the late Jack Valenti , who was the Motion Picture Association’s boss in 1982, when he warned the House of Representatives of the looming video recorder threat. With the benefit of hindsight, the VCR wasn’t all that scary for Hollywood.
IP Law 360
MARCH 18, 2024
Trade secrets cases are having a moment in the spotlight, thanks to some gargantuan damages awards over the past five years and more flexibility for plaintiffs to argue for what they think they are owed.
The Illusion of More
MARCH 18, 2024
Publishers File Brief in Response to Internet Archive Appeal On Friday, the publishers in Hachette, et al. v. Internet Archive filed their response brief opposing the archive’s appeal of its loss in district court. IA maintains that its practice of “Controlled Digital Lending” is not copyright infringement under the doctrine of fair use despite the […] The post Copyright News to Watch appeared first on The Illusion of More.
The IPKat
MARCH 17, 2024
In the latest dispute between European and Australian wine producers , a single judge of the Federal Court of Australia has found that a Tasmanian wine producer had not passed off its "New Certan" wine as being connected or associated with the Bordeaux wine estate, Vieux Château Certan (VCC). Sniffing out new wine in old bottles. Image from Alexas_Fotos via Pixabay The French wine producer brought a claim alleging contraventions of ss 18 & 29(1)(g)-(h) of the Australian Consumer Law and the
TorrentFreak
MARCH 19, 2024
In 2007, Netflix shifted from distributing optical media via the mail to streaming content online. Apple released the first iPhone in the same year, but neither were quite ready to start squeezing the modern equivalent of the silver screen onto a 320×480 LCD panel. From a standing start alongside these innovative products in 2007, within a year SeriesYonkis would establish itself as one of Spain’s most-visited sites.
IP Law 360
MARCH 20, 2024
The works of sculptors, like those of other artists, are protected by the fair use doctrine in U.S. copyright law, while photographers also have copyright protection for their work when others try to use it for their own profit. The intersection of those rights complicates a rare copyright infringement suit against the NFL and the Detroit Lions over a statue of Hall of Fame player Barry Sanders, experts say.
Cogency Global
MARCH 21, 2024
What this is : When a corporation or limited liability company is involved in a transaction, the opinion letter usually makes a representation as to the “existence” or “good standing” of the company, which is why due diligence checklists usually require a Good Standing Certificate from the company’s home state and any state where it is registered to do business.
Nelligan Law
MARCH 18, 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes In general, complicated cases involving several parties or complex legal issues will take longer to resolve than cases against only one defendant where liability is clear. The length of time will also depend on the willingness of both parties to settle a case and the availability of court dates for trial. There is a rule requiring plaintiffs to set their matters down for trial within five years of commencing an action against a defendant.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 16, 2024
In recent months, we have reported on the rollout of Italy’s blocking regime and the Piracy Shield system which operates under the auspices of telecoms regulator AGCOM. AGCOM issues the relevant site IP address blocking orders and, from the get-go, it countered critics by stating that the system was “working perfectly”. High marks aside, Internet providers and network specialists painted a different picture.
IP Law 360
MARCH 20, 2024
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IP and Legal Filings
MARCH 21, 2024
INTRODUCTION As per Gordon and Hines (2002), it is evident that tax policies can influence both the quantity and the geographical choices of foreign direct investment (FDI) because elevated tax rates diminish post-tax returns, consequently diminishing motivations to allocate investment capital. The influence of variations in taxes on the choices regarding the location of foreign direct investment (FDI) may not be as significant as structural factors such as proximity to end markets, the competit
IP Watchdog
MARCH 18, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, March 18, denied a petition filed by patent owner Jodi A. Schwendimann asking the Court to review a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) that affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) determination that Schwendimann’s patents were obvious. The petition specifically asked the Court to review the CAFC’s holding that Schwendimann’s argument that “justification for selection of a primary reference is a necessary step to guard ag
TorrentFreak
MARCH 18, 2024
Unless they already have links to existing platforms or can somehow benefit from traffic previously destined for a popular preexisting domain, most new pirate sites aren’t overnight success stories. In a saturated market where most innovation takes place behind the scenes, if it happens at all, the next big thing may struggle to make any kind of serious impression.
IP Law 360
MARCH 19, 2024
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday backed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that found many claims in a Sisvel patent on improving the efficiency of LTE wireless networks for cellphones were invalid as obvious.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 21, 2024
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a Patent Trial & Appeal Board decision after concluding that the patent owner’s proposed construction would require the parties to construe the construction. CoolIT Systems, Inc. v. Katherine Vidal, Director of the United States Patent & Trademark Office, Case No. 22-1221 (Fed.
IIPRD
MARCH 21, 2024
Introduction Competition law and intellectual property rights (IPR) are like two different sides of the same coin, as they both work to ensure vibrancy in the market and promote consumer welfare. Yet, despite having a common point, they sometimes contradict each other’s jurisdiction. In the legal world, competition law and IPR law are often represented by a term, i.e., “friends in disagreement.” [1] Ideally, both of these laws are specific laws made to ensure their specific functions in their re
Christopher Roser
MARCH 19, 2024
In this post I will look at how the tractor maker Fendt handles variability in its plant in Marktoberdorf, Germany. In my view, Fendt is one of the benchmark plants in the world in handling variability. In my previous post I looked at reasons why you may (or may not) leave one part empty on. Read more The post Variable Takt at Fendt in Marktoberdorf—Part 1 first appeared on AllAboutLean.com.
IP Law 360
MARCH 19, 2024
France's competition regulator said Wednesday that it has hit Google with a €250 million ($271 million) fine for using content from news agencies without alerting them or paying them.
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