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Copyright in the Age of Bots

Plagiarism Today

If you’ve had any issues with copyright over the past few years, whether you are on YouTube, Facebook or even operating your own website, it’s probable that your issue didn’t start with a human, but with a bot. According to YouTube, their automated Content ID system handles over 98% of copyright issues on the site. Similar bots monitor Facebook and Instagram.

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Michelle’s Country Music Murals: An Update?

Hugh Stephens Blog

Some readers may recall two blogposts (Mural, Mural on the Wall and Were They Commissioned, One and All?) that I wrote a couple of years ago about muralist Michelle Loughery and her copyright dispute with the Merritt Walk of Stars Society. The disagreement was over who held the copyright to a series of murals that … Continue reading "Michelle’s Country Music Murals: An Update?

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NFT License Breakdown: Exploring Different Marketplaces and Associated License Issues

Intellectual Property Law Blog

At least three different types of marketplaces facilitate the sale and/or resale of NFTs. These include open marketplaces, curated marketplaces and proprietary marketplaces. Other variations do exist, however, and it is likely that other alternatives will be developed. In the attached article , we examine some of the differences between these types of marketplaces and business models, highlight some of the varying license terms of these marketplaces and discuss why IP owners who license their IP

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Anatomy of a podcast brand: Trick of the trade(mark)

Erik K Pelton

Tricks of the trade(mark)® is my podcast on branding and trademark topics. You can listen to episodes (be sure to subscribe!) here: Web. Apple iTunes. Spotify. The post Anatomy of a podcast brand: Trick of the trade(mark) appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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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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When Should You Run a Plagiarism Check of Your Work?

Plagiarism Today

As more and more schools and private companies begin using automated plagiarism detection tools, it’s becoming increasingly common for students, authors and journalists to run plagiarism detection software on their work. In fact, many schools are actually encouraging this behavior and giving students access to the same tools they use. The goal of this is to verify that the work is at least largely free of issues and that the author didn’t make any mistakes when penning their latest p

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ResearchGate Removes 200,000 ‘Infringing’ Files After Takedown Tidal Wave

TorrentFreak

One of the core pillars of academic research is sharing. By letting other researchers know what you do, ideas are criticized, improved upon, and extended. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy for academics to share their work. Most of the top publications are monetized by major publishers, which means that they are locked behind a paywall. To make their work easier to access, many researchers place copies of their work on their personal profiles, often hosted by their university.

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Monitoring for trademark infringements doesn’t need to be costly or expensive

Erik K Pelton

The following is a transcript of my video, How to Monitor for Infringements. In the past, I’ve talked about some of the ways to keep a trademark strong over time, and some of the things that brand owners must do with their trademarks even after they’re registered. One of those important tips is to monitor for infringements. I want to talk today about how you go about monitoring for infringements, and you’ll see that it doesn’t have to cost a lot of money and it’s an

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3 Count: Embedding Battle

Plagiarism Today

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Instagram Dodges Photogs’ Copyright Lawsuit Over Embedding Feature. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that a San Francisco court has dismissed a class action lawsuit against Instagram filed by a group of photographers that alleged Instagram committed widespread copyright infringement through the use of its embed function.

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Webinar on ‘Trade Secret and Access to Medicine’ by CUSAT and TWN [September22]

SpicyIP

We’re pleased to inform you that the DPIIT IPR Chair of the Inter University Centre for IPR Studies at the Cochin University of Science and Technology and the Third World Network are jointly organizing a free webinar on “Trade Secret and Access to Medicine ” on September 22, 2021. For further details, please see the announcement below: Trade Secret and Access to Medicine.

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Third Circuit Says Section 230 Doesn’t Apply to Publicity Rights Claims–Hepp v. Facebook

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The Third Circuit ruled today that Section 230 doesn’t preempt publicity rights claims because they qualify as “intellectual property” claims. This ruling directly conflicts with the Ninth Circuit’s rule, which says that all state IP claims are preempted by Section 230. This creates the foundation for a possible Supreme Court review of this issue.

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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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Several ‘SportsBay’ Pirate Streaming Sites Go Dark In Wake of US Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

Most pirate IPTV services online today operate by accessing official broadcasts and streams, capturing them with dedicated equipment, and then restreaming video to the public from dedicated servers. However, a US lawsuit filed late July shows that’s not the only way. DISH Sues ‘SportsBay’ Sites. In an interesting complaint filed in a Texas court, DISH claimed that four sites doing business as SportsBay.org, SportsBay.tv, Live-NBA.stream, and Freefeds.com were offering sports br

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Disney+ ‘Behind the Attraction’ Accused of Plagiarism

Plagiarism Today

In July 2019, YouTuber James St. Onge published a video to his YouTube Channel Art of Engineering explaining the inner workings of the Disney’s Tower of Terror thrill ride. As part of that video, he created several engineering drawings that illustrated both the layout and the various systems that the attraction uses to pull off its effects. In July 2021, Disney debuted a new series entitled Behind the Attraction , which among its initial episodes, featured their own episode about the attra

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Looming Leahy Bill Would End Fintiv Practice at PTAB

IP Watchdog

IPWatchdog has obtained a draft summary of the “Restoring the America Invents Act” bill that Senate IP Subcommittee Chair, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), is purportedly expected to introduce shortly. Several other outlets have reported that either Leahy himself or sources on the Hill confirmed such a bill is in the works and will address discretionary denial practice at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) under the PTAB’s precedential Apple Inc. v.

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U.S. Court Rules Artificial Intelligence Cannot be an Inventor (Again)

IPilogue

Photo by Possessed Photography ( Unsplash ). Sabrina Macklai is an IPilogue Senior Editor and a 2L JD Candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. . Emily Prieur is an IPilogue Writer and a 3L JD Candidate at Queen’s University Faculty of Law. . Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. It influences the ways we socialize, work, and carry out our daily lives.

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RLSLOG: Pirate Release Blog Pioneer Throws in the Towel After 15 Years

TorrentFreak

Founded in 2006, RLSLOG.net was one of the pioneers of the ‘release blog’ format. When it first launched, visitors were able to read about the latest pirate releases, who had placed them online and, importantly, what the files were called. Unlike so-called ‘pre databases’ that displayed only raw information, new releases on RLSLOG were presented in an article format with comments on the quality, source (such as DVDSCR or the now largely defunct Telecine), runtime, IMDB rating and for

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3 Count: Falling Down

Plagiarism Today

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: XXXTentacion and Lil Peep Sued for Copyright Infringement Over ‘Falling Down’ First off today, Trent Fitzgerald at XXL reports that musicians XXXTentacion and Lil Peep are being sued by a singer-songwriter named Jaden Hoff, for alleged copyright infringement in the duo’s posthumous song Falling Down.

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Pride in Patent Ownership Act

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch. A bipartisan pair of Senators have proposed the “ Pride in Patent Ownership Act.” The premise is that if you own a patent, you should be proud to own the patent — and actually record your ownership interest. The bill pushes this pride by requiring patent owners to record their ownership with the kicker that those who fail to record lose their right to punitive damages for any infringement that occurs prior to recordation.

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My Declaration Identifying Emoji Co. GmbH as a Possible Trademark Troll

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

There are dozens of federal lawsuits captioned “ Emoji Company GmbH v. The Individuals, Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships, and Unincorporated Associations Identified on Schedule A Hereto. ” Last month, in one of them, I filed a declaration stating that “Emojico appears to be running a trademark trolling operation.” My declaration lays out how I reached my conclusion.

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U.S. Copyright Holders Want Tougher Anti-Piracy Measures in China

TorrentFreak

The American copyright industry generates billions of dollars in annual revenue and is generally seen as one of the primary export products. Whether it’s movies, music, software or other goods, US companies are among the market leaders. US companies also have a clear presence in China which, with more than a billion potential consumers, is a massive market.

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3 Count: Swimsuit Edition

Plagiarism Today

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: ‘ Sports Illustrated’ Model Sues Twitter for $10 million, Accusing its Algorithm of Contributing to Copyright infringement. First off today, Kevin Shalvey at Business Insider reports that “Sports Illustrated” swimsuit model Genevieve Morton has filed a lawsuit against Twitter alleging that the site was slow to remove infringing material and that an AI photo editing tool created unlawful der

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Seven Veteran Inventors Named to National Inventors Hall of Fame

IP Watchdog

The 2022 class of inductees into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF), announced earlier this week, includes the inventors of the foundational technology for messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA)-based vaccines, the Super Soaker, and Laserphaco cataract surgery. In all, 29 inductees will be honored at the Annual National Inventors Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on May 5 of next year.

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Instagram Defeats Copyright Claim Over Its Embedding Feature–Hunley v. Instagram

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

“In-line linking” uses the Internet’s magic to let a web page incorporate a file, such as a photo or video, into a page’s display without actually hosting it. In 2007, in Perfect 10 v. Amazon , the Ninth Circuit ruled that direct liability applied, if at all, to the server hosting the file (the “server” test), not the third-party website in-line linking the file (an “incorporation” test).

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Movie Companies Demand Over $10m in Piracy Damages from LiquidVPN

TorrentFreak

A few years ago piracy-related lawsuits were pretty straightforward. Copyright holders would either sue alleged file-sharers or the operators of pirate sites. In recent months, we have seen a new breed of lawsuits filed on behalf of the makers of movies such as “Hunter Killer,” “Automata,” “Survivor,” and “I Feel Pretty.”. These lawsuits target VPN providers, which are generally seen as third-party intermediaries.

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3 Count: Weeknd Blues

Plagiarism Today

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: The Weeknd Sued for Copyright Infringement Over ‘Call Out My Name’. First off today, Justin Curto at Vulture reports that The Weeknd has been hit with a copyright lawsuit over his song Call Out My Name. The lawsuit was filed by two musicians, Suniel Fox and Henry Strange, against both The Weeknd and his producer.

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USPTO Moves Ahead with Changes to Patent Bar Registration

IP Watchdog

Following a Request for Comments in March 2021, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) yesterday published a Federal Register Notice updating the General Requirements Bulletin (GRB) for admission to the registration exam to practice in patent cases before the Office. The Notice indicates that the USPTO considered all comments and based on the “overwhelming” support for the proposals is moving forward with implementing the changes.

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The U.K. National AI Strategy Begins with Consultations on Copyright, Patent, and Data Protection Regime

JD Supra Law

The U.K. released a National AI Strategy with a ten-year plan to make Britain a global AI superpower in our new age of artificial intelligence. The Strategy intends to “signal to the world [the U.K.’s] intention to build the most pro-innovation regulatory environment in the world; to drive prosperity across the UK and ensure everyone can benefit from AI; and to apply AI to help solve global challenges like climate change.”.

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Prominent DDL Piracy Site Snahp.it Shuts Down Citing Security Concerns

TorrentFreak

At the turn of the century when server bandwidth was at a premium, peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing stepped in to solve the problem. Rather than a small number of individuals having to foot the bill, sharers picked up their own parts of the traffic tab by sharing content with their peers. In the mid-2000s, server bandwidth became much more affordable and as the years progressed, storing media for direct delivery to end-users became a much more viable option.

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Creator Spotlight with Composer/Musician Ernie Mansfield

Copyright Alliance

This week we would like to introduce you to Composer and Musician Ernie Mansfield. What was the inspiration behind becoming a creator? What do you enjoy most about the creative process? […]. The post Creator Spotlight with Composer/Musician Ernie Mansfield appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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Patent Law at the Supreme Court September 2021

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch. So far, the Supreme Court has not granted certiorari in any patent cases for its 2021-2022 Term. Still, there are a couple dozen cases pending that may offers some interest. On September 27, 2021, the court is meeting privately for what is known as the “long conference” to decide the fate of the petitions for writ of certiorari that have piled-up over the summer.

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CVC Files Opposition to ToolGen Substantive Motion No. 1

JD Supra Law

On July 15th, Junior Party the University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") filed its Opposition to Senior Party ToolGen's Substantive Motion No. 1 for benefit of priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/837,481, filed June 20, 2013 ("P3" or "ToolGen P3"), or alternatively, International Application No.

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DMCA Takedown Errors Can Make it Harder to Find Movies Legally

TorrentFreak

The purpose of search engines is to help people find what they are looking for. Today’s web would be pretty much unusable without them. This urge to search also comes with a downside, as not everything on the web is posted with permission. Pirate sites are a prime example. Removing Pirate Sites from Search. A few years ago this led to rather bizarre situations where some content on pirate sites ended up higher in search results than the legal alternatives.

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Fed. Circ. Eases Serving Of Patent Suits On Foreign Cos.

IP Law 360

A recent Federal Circuit decision likely provides a route for judges and plaintiffs in patent cases to circumvent an international treaty that creates hurdles when serving complaints on foreign defendants, potentially speeding up some proceedings by many months, attorneys say.

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Licensing of Trademarks

Kashishipr

A trademark is an important business asset that offers protection to a brand. Businesses own valuable trademarks, which, once registered, can be licensed out. The rights that flow from a trademark can be licensed to others to receive royalties for commercialization. Licensing your trademark can be a beneficial business strategy that can not only strengthen the brand but also allow for expansion into new markets.

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Moving Innovation Forward: What Comes After Brainstorming?

IP.com

A successful structured ideation session can feel like a major accomplishment. So, it’s no surprise some teams lose momentum after a great ideation session. However, coming up with good ideas. The post Moving Innovation Forward: What Comes After Brainstorming? appeared first on IP.com - IP Innovation and Analytics.

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Virgin Media Subscribers Told to Pay “Thousands of Pounds” to Settle Piracy Lawsuits

TorrentFreak

Last week TorrentFreak broke the news that Voltage Holdings LLC, a company well known for tracking down pirates worldwide, has obtained a High Court order compelling Virgin Media to hand over subscriber data. As a result, some of the ISP’s subscribers have begun receiving letters accusing them of pirating the movie ‘Ava’ with the advice that if the matter goes to court, they could be found liable for copyright infringement.