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The Predictable Rise of Generative AI Spam

Plagiarism Today

A recent Newsguard report shines a light on the growth of AI spam news sites. Here's why Google has dropped the ball. The post The Predictable Rise of Generative AI Spam appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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AI-generated Content and Copyright Registration

Creative Law Center

If you use AI technology to create work, you can claim copyright protection for your contribution to that work. Here's how to file your application for copyright registration. The post AI-generated Content and Copyright Registration appeared first on Creative Law Center.

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Trademark Ins and Outs

Erik K Pelton

What’s hot and what’s not in the world of trademark protection? Erik shares his list in this video. The post Trademark Ins and Outs appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. What’s hot and what’s not in the world of trademark protection? Erik shares his list in this video.

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How Quickly are Judge Albright Patent Cases Going to Trial?

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Since being appointed to the bench in 2018, Judge Alan Albright in Waco Texas has had one of the busiest patent dockets in the nation, rivaling that of Delaware and the Eastern District of Texas. He quickly gained a reputation as providing a quick trial schedule and moving a case forward. Judge Albright has stated that he aims to get to trial within 24 months of a complaint being filed.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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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Copyright in Pride Flags

Plagiarism Today

June is pride month, and pride flags have long been crucial symbols during it. But how does copyright and trademark impact those flags? The post Copyright in Pride Flags appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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The Pirate Bay Reopens its Doors to New Members After Four Years

TorrentFreak

When The Pirate Bay launched nearly 20 years ago, its main goal was to become a bastion of free and uncensored information. The site categorically rejects takedown requests from copyright holders and allows anyone to upload almost anything. Since its early days, The Pirate Bay has always been free to use and open to the public at large. Those who wanted to share files only had to register an account, which was easy enough.

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Yita LLC v. MacNeil IP LLC 2022-1373, 2022-1374 (Fed. Cir. June 6, 2023)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

This decision addresses the PTAB’s secondary considerations analysis in an IPR Final Written Decision. Background Appellant Yita sought inter partes review of two patents sharing a specification, both of which are directed to the vehicle floor tray. In one IPR, the Board determined that claims of one patent (the ’186 patent) were not unpatentable for obviousness.

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3 Count: Declining Genius

Plagiarism Today

US Supreme Court declines to hear Genius case, DAZN wants tougher anti-piracy in Italy and The Pirate Bay reopens registrations. The post 3 Count: Declining Genius appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Authors Accuse OpenAI of Using Pirate Sites to Train ChatGPT

TorrentFreak

Generative AI models such as ChatGPT have captured the imagination of millions of people, offering a glimpse of what an AI-assisted future might look like. The new technology also brings up novel copyright questions. Several rightsholders are worried that their work is being used to train AI without any form of compensation, for example. How these and other copyright questions will be dealt with is not entirely clear.

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First patent revocation actions before the UPC have been filed

The IPKat

On 2 June 2023, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) received its first patent challenge of its existence. Here is a quick recap about the UPC, and a bit of info on these proceedings! What is the UPC? The UPC is a new patents court which came into force on 1 June 2023, made up of judges who are nationals of EU Member states that are participating in the UPC.

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IPO Diversity in Innovation Toolkit

Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.

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U.S. Copyright Office Generative AI Event: Three Key Takeaways

IP Watchdog

On Wednesday, June 28, the United States Copyright Office (USCO) hosted a virtual event exploring guidance for registration of works containing generative artificial intelligence (AI) content. The hour-long event included a recap of the USCO’s previously released policy guidance and the Zarya of the Dawn partial registration refusal, staff walking through numerous examples of how AI technologies are being used, and a Q&A session consisting of pre-planned and live audience discussion.

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3 Count: The Game of Life

Plagiarism Today

Appeals court uphold denial of attorney fees, alleged Movizland site operator arrested and Z-Library launches desktop client. The post 3 Count: The Game of Life appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Z-Library Releases Tor-Enabled Desktop Launcher to Improve ‘Accessibility’

TorrentFreak

Over the years, Z-Library established itself as a premier source of pirated books, serving an audience of millions of users. Up until a few months ago, this all happened relatively quietly but everything changed when the United States launched a criminal case against two of its alleged operators. Z-Library lost access to over 200 domain names late last year and, a few weeks ago, the authorities carried out a new domain seizure round.

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Guest Post by Kevin Ahlstrom: Closing the Gender Innovation Gap with Guided Inventor Sessions

Patently-O

(Guest Post by Kevin Ahlstrom, Associate General Counsel, Patents, Meta. This post is part of a series by the Diversity Pilots Initiative , which advances inclusive innovation through rigorous research. The first blog in the series is here and resources from the first conference of the initiative are available here. – Jason) Guided invention sessions not only increase idea submission rates but also transform individuals’ perception of themselves as inventors.

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Patent Experts Sound Off on New Bills to Fix Eligibility and the PTAB

IP Watchdog

Last week was a big one for the potential future of the U.S. patent system. The deadline for comments on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on “Discretionary Institution Practices, Petition Word-Count Limits, and Settlement Practices for America Invents Act Trial Proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board [PTAB]” was Tuesday, June 20.

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Yet Another NFT Plagiarism Scandal

Plagiarism Today

Even after the NFT market crash, the crypto community still faces issues of plagiarism and copyright infringement. The post Yet Another NFT Plagiarism Scandal appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Publishers Carpet-Bomb IPFS Gateway Operators With DMCA Notices

TorrentFreak

IPFS is a decentralized network that makes it possible to efficiently distribute high volumes of data between peers while avoiding downtime associated with regular hosting outages. The IPFS project describes the system as a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity’s knowledge by making the web upgradeable, resilient, and more open.

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What is in the Final Rejections: Eligibility

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch Though there have been some improvements, initial office actions regularly require a fair amount clean-up and fine-tuning. This process often includes rectifying typographical errors and clarifying loose claim language. It’s also common for the examiner to misconstrue aspects of the invention. However, by the time the final rejection stage is reached, these issues are usually addressed, and the lines of difference are more clearly drawn.

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Full Federal Circuit to Review Challenge to Test for Design Patent Obviousness

IP Watchdog

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has granted a rare en banc review of its January, 2023, decision in LKQ Corporation v. GM Global Technology Operations, which affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) ruling that LKQ failed to show by a preponderance of the evidence that GM’s design patent was anticipated or would have been obvious.

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3 Count: Bad Boys

Plagiarism Today

Columbia Pictures to prevent Bad Boys copyright termination, Pakistan moves to adopt new laws and Nicki Minaj sued over I Lied. The post 3 Count: Bad Boys appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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French Govt. Wants to Inject Domain Blocking Lists Directly Into Web Browsers

TorrentFreak

For responsible adults with decades of experience from which to draw their own conclusions, the idea that adults we have never met have the power to govern our online activities is a borderline insult. Of course, governments have a responsibility to protect all, so for every person who gets upset at politicians poking around in their private business, theory suggests there should be others who stand to benefit from whatever intervention is currently under discussion.

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Uh-Oh, the Ninth Circuit Is Messing Again With Its Roommates Ruling–Vargas v. Facebook

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The Roommates.com case plays a critical role in the Ninth Circuit’s Section 230 jurisprudence. The (unnecessarily confusing) majority opinion suggested several exclusions to Section 230’s immunity, including these statements: “If you don’t encourage illegal content, or design your website to require users to input illegal content , you will be immune.

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Senators’ Patent Reform Bills Offer a Strong Way Forward for the U.S. Patent System

IP Watchdog

Last week, Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) launched the long-awaited legislative campaign to revive the faltering U.S. innovation system, jointly introducing one bill to restore patent eligibility and another to boost patent reliability at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). As the chair and ranking member of the Senate subcommittee on Intellectual Property, they are well-positioned to move these bipartisan bills forward.

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3 Count: Summertime Sadness

Plagiarism Today

Lana Del Rey settles Summertime Sadness case, Russia may stop blocking pirate websites, and a comedian sues over UK sitcom. The post 3 Count: Summertime Sadness appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Sharing Your Credit Card With a Shady Pirate IPTV Service Isn’t a Brilliant Idea

TorrentFreak

In recent years, many people have canceled their expensive cable subscriptions, opting to use cheaper Internet TV instead. While there are plenty of legal streaming options available, there’s also a broad offer of IPTV services that are specifically set up to deliver content without permission from rightsholders. These pirate IPTV services are often accessed through relatively cheap subscriptions.

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DHC IPD Roster Revision: Benches of Justice Prathiba M. Singh and Justice C. Hari Shankar to Function as the DHC IPD 

SpicyIP

Image from here Delhi High Court’s Intellectual Property Division sees the return of Justice Prathiba M. Singh to the roster who will now take charge of the division, along with Justice C. Hari Shankar. In a notification dated June 26, 2023 ( pdf ), it is stated that the new roster will be operational from July 3, 2023, and the matters which will be heard by the IPD will be assigned by the Judge In-Charge (Original Side), Justice Yogesh Khanna.

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Class Action Suit Against OpenAI Underscores Valuable Property Right Consumers Hold in Their Personal Data

IP Watchdog

On June 28, a group of 16 individuals filed a class action complaint in the Northern District of California against generative artificial intelligence (GAI) developer OpenAI on several alleged violations of federal and state law on privacy, unfair business practices and computer fraud. The class action lawsuit’s discussion on property interests in consumer data underscores the intellectual property issues that have arisen since the advent of generative AI platforms like ChatGPT, which scrapes pe

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Professor Plagiarizes Students, School Mishandles Investigation

Plagiarism Today

In Australia, Charles Darwin University is admitting to mistakes in an investigation of a PhD supervisor accused of plagiarism. The post Professor Plagiarizes Students, School Mishandles Investigation appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Six-Month Sentence For Sharing Pirated eBooks & Paywalled News Articles

TorrentFreak

Following a piracy crackdown in Denmark and the closure of the largest torrent sites as part of a joint Rights Alliance and police operation, content-hungry pirates dispersed to find new homes. With DanishBits and NordicBits consigned to history, many ended up at Asgaard, a relatively young private members site happy to take on new members. Opening up under these circumstances was a bold but risky move.

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Fourth Circuit Holds a Trade Secret’s Value Must Not Merely Be Commercial, but Must Come From Its Secrecy

JD Supra Law

At a Glance - The Fourth Circuit’s decision in Synopsys, Inc. v. Risk Based Sec., Inc., No. 22-1812, 2023 WL 4009505 (4th Cir. June 15, 2023), highlights that trade-secret plaintiffs must prove that their secret information is not just commercially valuable, but that it's commercially valuable because it is secret.

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The Implications of Upcycled Products for Brand and Trademark Owners

IP Watchdog

Upcycling, a recent fashion trend, poses issues and concerns for brand owners that are similar to counterfeiting but with some added complexity. As a result, upcycled products have prompted brand owners to take legal action to protect their brands and consequently their customers. Below, we (1) explain what upcycling is, (2) discuss potential legal issues arising from upcycled products, (3) summarize recent cases involving upcycled products, and (4) propose successful brand protection measures.

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Why I Oppose the California Journalism Protection Act (the Short Version)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

I recently wrote a lengthy blog post explaining the many problems with the California Journalism Protection Act (JCPA), AB 886. I submitted a letter of opposition to the Senate Judiciary Committee with just some quotable lowlights. My letter: __ CJPA is bad policy: CJPA is unlikely to create or sustain any journalism at all. Instead, it will simply enrich the journalism operators’ stockholders, even if they don’t spend any payments on journalism at all.

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Major Labels Need an Anti-Piracy Sleuth to Probe Pirate Apps

TorrentFreak

On the surface there’s a world of difference between the crisp-suited executives of international corporations and the internet-dwelling swashbucklers intent on reappropriating their copyrighted content as swiftly as possible. In reality, the closer one gets to the piracy front lines, the more difficult it is to tell the factions apart. They use similar tools and obfuscation techniques, need to innovate to stay ahead of the game, and even participate in the same discussions.

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A summary look at the Portuguese transposition of the CDSM Directive

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Museu do Azulejo by G.P. The belated Portuguese transposition of the CDSM Directive was finally published in the Portuguese Official Journal (Diário da República) on the 19th of June 2023. The approved Decree-Law 47/2023 to a large extent corresponds to a legislative project ( Project 52/XV ), which, in turn, was a variation of a previous project ( Project 114/XIV ) that failed due to a political crisis that led to early elections in the country.

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Recent Evidence Raises Questions on Efforts to Silence Dissent at the Federal Circuit

IP Watchdog

As the readers of this blog know, the Special Committee of the Judicial Council of the Federal Circuit is investigating a complaint identified against Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman. The Complaint alleges that Judge Newman “is unable to discharge all the duties of office by reason of mental or physical disability.” As a result, the Complaint essentially alleges, Judge Newman has authored too few majority (including unanimous per curiam) opinions compared to her colleagues, ignoring altoget

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