Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 28, 2025
The new DeepSeek AI models has taken the tech world by storm. Here's why they matter and how they might change copyright and authorship. The post How DeepSeek May Change AI, Copyright and Plagiarism appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 29, 2025
For a long time, pirate site blocking was regarded as a topic most U.S. politicians would rather avoid. This lingering remnant of the SOPA debacle drove copyright holders to focus on the introduction of blocking efforts in other countries instead, mostly successfully. Those challenging times are now more than a decade old and momentum is shifting. Today, Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) introduced the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA), which paves the way for blocking injunctions targetin
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Erik K Pelton
JANUARY 28, 2025
The following is an edited transcript of my video What is the Supplemental Register of Trademarks? The main register of trademarks at the USPTO is called the Principal Register. The secondary register is called the Supplemental Register , and it is an important resource or tool in the trademark world where weaker trademark registrations can reside. The secondary register is for some types of marks that are not able to obtain status on the principal register: generally descriptive marks or marks
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 29, 2025
The U.S. Copyright Office has released Part 2 of its multi-part artificial intelligence (AI) report, this one focusing on copyrightability of works made by or using AI. Part 1 of the report was published in July 2024 and addressed digital replicas created by AI. Among the Copyright Offices recommendations was the need for passage of a federal law that would create a new form of property right for a persons digital replica to disincentivize the creation of realistic but false depictions of indivi
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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
JANUARY 28, 2025
Appeals Court affirms a judgment against the US Navy, more parties join OpenAI battle in India, and Elton John is against the AI proposal. The post 3 Count: Naval Battle appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 31, 2025
Earlier this week, various rightsholder groups submitted their recommendations for the 2025 Special 301 Report. This annual overview, compiled by the U.S. Trade Representative, highlights countries that fail to live up to U.S. copyright protection standards. Various groups stressed the importance of copyright protection when it comes to new AI technologies.
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IP Law 360
JANUARY 31, 2025
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Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 27, 2025
A PhD student interviewed a cartel hitman in an interview that was never meant to be released. She filed with the CCB when it was. The post CCB Awards $1,500 for Infringed PhD Thesis Interview appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 27, 2025
Shorter theatrical windows and improved access to movies via streaming, aimed to address one of the reasons some people prefer to pirate movies rather than pay. While no silver bullet, making movies available legally is crucial in the fight against piracy. Yet, for many years, avoiding the most obvious response to unauthorized distribution meant that the ‘recently released’ movie market was dominated by not only illicit, but mostly inferior products.
IP and Legal Filings
JANUARY 27, 2025
Overview of AI and IP Artificial intelligence is a rapidly evolving piece of technology, which has massive impacts on all industries and economies around the globe. AI, a simulation of human intelligence by a computer system designed to perform tasks typically done by human beings, has in just a few short years evolved beyond what was previously believed possible, and has manifested itself in even creating new works of Intellectual Property, such as art, literature, music, etc.
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IP Watchdog
JANUARY 26, 2025
The U.S. court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Friday, January 24, affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Boards (PTABs) decisions for Intel in three inter partes reviews (IPRs), on appeal following previous remands back to the Board in December 2021. In its 2021 decision, the CAFC found in part that Intel satisfied Article III standing requirements for appealing from the PTAB but remanded the case on a number of issues.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 30, 2025
USCO says some AI works may be registered, new site blocking legislation proposed in the US and Eminem publisher sues Ford dealer. The post 3 Count: UnafFORDable appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 26, 2025
Nearly a decade ago, the US Navy was sued for mass copyright infringement and accused of causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. The lawsuit was filed by the German company Bitmanagement. It’s not a typical piracy case in the sense that software was downloaded from shady sources. Instead, it deals with unauthorized installations. It all started in 2008 when the US Navy began testing Bitmanagement’s 3D virtual reality application ‘BS Contact Geo’ After some tes
IP Law 360
JANUARY 31, 2025
A case about broadband subsidies will give the U.S. Supreme Court the chance to revive a long-dormant separation of powers principle that attorneys say could upend regulations in numerous industries and trigger a power shift that would make last term's shakeup of federal agency authority pale in comparison. And a majority of the court already appears to support its resurrection.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 26, 2025
On January 25, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision in Steuben Foods, Inc. v. Shibuya Hoppman Corp., reversing-in-part the District of Delaware's post-trial rulings of judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) of noninfringement in favor of Shibuya. The Federal Circuit reversed noninfringement findings made under the reverse doctrine of equivalents (RDOE), declining to declare the doctrine subsumed by the 1952 Patent Act, but finding that Steuben Foods
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 29, 2025
House of Lords deals a blow to AI reform, LLM removed after a copyright claim and a Brazilian soccer streamer moves to YouTube. The post 3 Count: House of Lords appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 28, 2025
Lawsuits filed to address infringement can also play a key role as part of a wider deterrent messaging campaign. In the online arena inhabited by millions of pirates, dual-purpose lawsuits are especially common. Even for Nintendo, suing every infringer isn’t just impractical. Negative exposure in the media has direct implications for image and branding.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 27, 2025
On December 19, 2024, FDA formally announced the end of the tirzepatide shortage in a Declaratory Order issued to Eli Lilly & Co. (Lilly). Lilly is tirzepatides patentholder and the manufacturer of the two branded versions of tirzepatide, Mounjaro (for diabetes) and Zepbound (for weight loss and, announced on December 20, sleep apnea).
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 29, 2025
Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a per curiam ruling in Huang v. Amazon.com, Inc. affirming the Northern District of Californias dismissal of patent infringement claims broadly seeking damages for the smartphone industrys use of semiconductor technologies. The Federal Circuit agreed that pro se appellant Xiaohua Huang did not provide fair notice to Amazon and other defendants by properly specifying which accused products infringed the asserted claims, and that
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 29, 2025
OpenAI is accusing DeepSeek of misusing their AI models to train their own. The response has been a combination of skepticism and mockery. The post The Schadenfreude of OpenAI Attacking DeepSeek appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 29, 2025
Simply directing artificial intelligence platforms to make art, music, videos and other creative works is not enough for users of AI systems to be considered authors entitled to copyright protection, the U.S. Copyright Office said Wednesday in a report that's part of a broader agency initiative to explore legal issues raised by the revolutionary technology.
Copyright Lately
JANUARY 26, 2025
After a two-week trial, a California jury found that Apple TV+s Servant didnt infringe the copyright in Francesca Gregorinis The Truth About Emanuel because the defendants lacked sufficient access to her film. Its no I see dead people, but as far as copyright infringement jury trials go, its a pretty good twist ending for M. Night Shyamalan, Apple, and the nine other defendants in Gregorini v.
The IPKat
JANUARY 28, 2025
In Plant-e v Bioo the UPC provided its first decision addressing the doctrine of equivalents in patent infringement proceedings ( UPC_CFI_239/2023 ). The Local Division of the Hague set out a novel four-part test for assessing equivalence drawn from various national jurisdictions. The test appears relatively patentee-friendly, with the Local Division finding infringement of the claims despite the alleged infringement lacking explicit features of the invention as defined by the claims.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 30, 2025
A proposed bill aims to bring site blocking to the United States. But, 13 years after SOPA/PIPA, how is this bill different? The post Site Blocking Returns: Is it the New SOPA/PIPA? appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 27, 2025
The NFL Players Association and DraftKings Inc. asked a New York federal judge Tuesday to pause a lawsuit that accused the betting platform of failing to follow through on a licensing agreement related to nonfungible tokens while they iron out details of a settlement.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 27, 2025
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) handed Apple a win when it confirmed today in a precedential opinion that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offices (USPTOs) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has jurisdiction over expired patents brought before it in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings. While the CAFC has previously ruled in appeals from the PTAB involving expired patents, it has not squarely addressed the subject until now.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 28, 2025
Development of AI continues to progress at a rapid pace. This includes work on large language models (LLMs), which are typically trained on broad datasets of texts. These technologies promise unparalleled progress which could benefit society as a whole. Yet despite widely recognized potential, areas of significant concern remain. That many LLMs were trained on datasets containing copyrighted content is now widely known.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 27, 2025
M. Night Shyamalan and Apple win Servant lawsuit, Paul McCartney hits back at AI policy and two men arrested over fake anime images. The post 3 Count: What a Twist appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 28, 2025
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office employees whose telework is protected in a collective bargaining agreement don't have to work in person, the agency has confirmed, but the federal government has told agencies to review how to change those agreements.
Patently-O
JANUARY 28, 2025
by Dennis Crouch Last week, I wrote about the twin challenges facing the USPTO: a return-to-office mandate and a hiring freeze that could significantly impact patent operations. Today's joint memorandum from OMB and OPM provides a rapid timeline for implementing these changes, with agencies required to submit detailed implementation plans by February 7th, 2025.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 31, 2025
Last September, Apple removed popular music streaming app Musi from its App Store, affecting millions of users. Apple’s action didn’t come as a complete surprise. Music industry groups had been trying to take Musi down for months, branding it a ‘parasitic’ app that skirts the rules. IFPI took the lead, calling on other music industry players and YouTube to complain to Apple as well.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 31, 2025
Synopsis:On January 14, 2025, the USPTO unveiled a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy, which outlines responsible implementation of AI within the agency and more generally across the intellectual property (IP) landscape.
IP Law 360
JANUARY 30, 2025
Jack Daniel's won the latest round last week in its long-running legal battle against the maker of a squeaky, poop-themed dog toy that mimics the whiskey maker's famous bottles, with an Arizona federal judge ruling that VIP Products' parody tarnishes Jack Daniel's brand by associating it with feces.
Copyright Alliance
JANUARY 30, 2025
On January 23, 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) hosted an Anti-Piracy Symposium at its headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The symposium highlighted piracy issues and trends affecting […] The post Summary of USPTO Anti-Piracy Symposium appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 29, 2025
Founded in 2018, TorrentGalaxy has grown to become a leading player in the torrent ecosystem. The site was launched by former members of ExtraTorrent, a popular torrent site that had just shut down. The founders of TorrentGalaxy aimed to provide a home for ExtraTorrent ‘refugees’ but, over time, it evolved into one of the leading torrent sites.
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