Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 29, 2024
Richard Prince has agreed to pay two photographers whose work he used in his art. Here's what it means for fair use moving forward. The post Richard Prince and the Future of Fair Use appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Hugh Stephens Blog
JANUARY 31, 2024
Photo: Author A couple of recent cases in the US involving (mis)appropriation of copyrighted photographs indicate the tide may be changing with respect to the interpretation of what constitutes fair use, moving from a very liberal interpretation of “transformation” that has been used in recent years to justify unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted works by making … Continue reading "More Balanced Interpretation of US “Transformation” Fair Use Test gives Rightsholders Better Levera
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JD Supra Law
JANUARY 29, 2024
Intellectual Property - Generative AI – ongoing impacts - Since 2022, the popularity and availability of generative AI has continued to grow. It is estimated that 79% of internet users aged 13-17, and 31% of those aged 16 and above, use generative AI tools and services.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 29, 2024
Last Friday, we reported on two Freedom of Information Act requests directed at two regional police forces in the UK. In almost identical requests, which appear to have been filed by the same person, Wiltshire Police and West Yorkshire Police were asked eight questions relating to enforcement measures taken against suppliers, distributors, and consumers of illegal streaming services.
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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 31, 2024
Recently, pseudonymous author John Kucera has become the bane of literary magazine editors for his flagrant and ongoing plagiarism. The post The Bizarre Case of the Serial Lit Mag Plagiarist appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Erik K Pelton
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The following is an edited transcript of our video International Trademark Registration Basics Trademark rights are generally limited to the country in which they are registered, but there are international agreements that allow you to file a single application to obtain trademark protection in more than one country at once. This includes regional areas which give you trademark protection in all the countries that are member to the agreements that create them.
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TorrentFreak
JANUARY 29, 2024
Founded in 1996, the Internet Archive has built an unparalleled library of digital artifacts in less than three decades. Many people are familiar with the website archiving project “Wayback Machine” but the non-profit also has many other preservation projects underway. These meticulous archiving skills are a vital part of the digital history books, which are being ‘written’ as we speak.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 30, 2024
Internet Archive hits back in music label lawsuit, German police seize billions worth of bitcoin and Nightshade gets 250K downloads. The post 3 Count: 78 RPMs appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Erik K Pelton
JANUARY 31, 2024
Celebrating our 25th year with the “25” Series. Erik shares 25 Branding Tips in this video. The post 25 Branding Tips appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Celebrating our 25th year with the “25” Series. Erik shares 25 Branding Tips in this video.
JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
With the Super Bowl coming up, it is important for brands looking to capitalize on football-themed promotions to remember that the terms “Super Bowl” and “Super Sunday” are registered trademarks guarded by the National Football League (NFL) more closely than a shutdown corner on a wide receiver.
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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.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 30, 2024
Pirate sites were early adopters of cryptocurrency. The Pirate Bay, for example, started accepting bitcoin donations in 2013. At the time, a single bitcoin was worth roughly $120, just a fraction of today’s price of $43,000. If The Pirate Bay had kept all donations received it would have millions in bitcoin today. Movie2K was another pirate site that showed an early interest in bitcoin.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 29, 2024
Kat Von D wins tattoo trial, Richard Prince settles dispute with photographers and Ironmace gets win in Dark and Darker case. The post 3 Count: Substantially Unsimilar appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
This is one of the many pending “Pixel” cases. If you don’t recall, a “pixel” is a 1×1-pixel image file that is imperceptible to web visitors. A website adds code to its web page that summons the pixel from a third-party source. By delivering the pixel and related items like cookies, the third party can independently and automatically gather information about the web visitor.
IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The training of artificial intelligence models using copyrighted material continues to stir debate and prompt litigation. In the latest salvo, the New York Times Company sued Microsoft and OpenAI – the creator of ChatGPT – for infringement under the federal Copyright Act. As often is the case with claims like these, the merits will center on the fair-use doctrine, a well-recognized legal principle in copyright law that aims to balance the interests of copyright holders with the public benefit of
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 28, 2024
For several decades, Disney has managed to keep the earliest footage of its iconic mouse protected. Notably, the 1998 U.S. Copyright Term Extension Act, also dubbed the Mickey Mouse Protection Act , extended copyright protection to 95 years. When Walt Disney released “ Steamboat Willie ” in 1928, he couldn’t have envisioned how important this short film would become, or that its entrance into the U.S. public domain would spark headlines worldwide.
Plagiarism Today
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
ISP says music companies could sue file sharers directly, Copyright Office reviews music licensing systems and Meta creates Llama drama. The post 3 Count: Llama Drama appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
SpicyIP
JANUARY 30, 2024
Image from here Butter chicken is one of the most famous Indian dishes available all over India and outside. This culinary delight is now the subject of an intellectual property rights dispute before the Delhi High Court. The INR 2 crore (USD 240,000) squabble is between the Gujrals, founders of the restaurant chain Moti Mahal (and Moti Mahal Deluxe), and the grandson of another one of the founders – Daryaganj.
The IP Law Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The holding in the Supreme Court case, Jack Daniels Properties v VIP Products , the case of the infringing Bad Spaniels dog toy, limits the applicability of the Rogers test. A recent case in the Ninth Circuit, Punchbowl Inc v. AJ Press , addressed the interplay between the decision in Jack Daniels and the Rogers test. The Rogers test comes from the 1989 Second Circuit case Rogers v.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 31, 2024
Late 2022, several of the world’s largest music companies including Warner Bros. and Sony Music prevailed in their lawsuit against Internet provider Grande Communications. The record labels accused the Astound-owned ISP of not doing enough following complaints about pirating subscribers. Specifically, the labels alleged that the company failed to terminate repeat infringers.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 31, 2024
George Carlin estate sues podcasters over AI comedy special, Jimi Hendrix bandmates to sue over royalties and USCO looks at AI royalties. The post 3 Count: Carlin’s Ghost appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
SpicyIP
JANUARY 30, 2024
In a significant order, delivered on 24 January 2024 by the Bombay High Court in Novex Communications Pvt Ltd. v. Trade Wings Hotels Limited , the Single Bench (SB) held that organizations such as Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) and Novex Communications can grant licenses for the musical works owned by them, even if they are not officially registered as copyright societies under Section 33(1) of the Copyright Act, 1957.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 29, 2024
On Thursday, final judgments were issued in a pair of copyright infringement cases that arose from a now infamous 2014/2015 project New Portraits, where appropriations artist Richard Prince displayed Instagram photos and user comments as a purported commentary on social media and art. The two nearly identical final judgments were entered in favor of the photographer plaintiffs’ claims that Prince and the exhibiting galleries willfully infringed on their photographs, and the court dismissed all t
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 31, 2024
Each year around the end of January, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) publishes its annual review of so-called ‘notorious markets’ known for their connections to intellectual property crime. In common with previous years, the 2023 edition published Tuesday highlights “prominent and illustrative” examples of mainly online sites and services that either engage directly in piracy, facilitate it, or simply turn a blind eye to infringement while en
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 30, 2024
In Norway, one prominent minster has resigned and another is fighting for their position following a pair of predictable plagiarism scandals. The post The Norway Plagiarism Scandal appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
SpicyIP
JANUARY 30, 2024
Image from here [ This post has been co-authored with SpicyIP Intern Pranav Aggarwal. Pranav is a second-year student pursuing B.A.LL.B.(Hons) at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. His previous post can be accessed here. ] On August 2, 2023, the extremely problematic Jan Vishwas Act, 2023 was passed by the Parliament. As highlighted by Aparajita, here and here , the amendments introduced by the Jan Vishwas Act, 2023 dilute the obligation to submit the working statement and introduc
IP Law 360
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is going for an early win in Virginia federal court where Danish drugmaker H. Lundbeck A/S is seeking to extend the life of a patent for a PTSD drug by three months, calling the case straightforward.
TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Two decades ago, when the RIAA tried to obtain the identities of Verizon customers via the convenient DMCA subpoena process, significant pushback led to defeat for the record labels. The case made it clear that subpoenas obtained under section 512(h) of the DMCA only apply to ISPs that directly store, cache, or provide links to infringing material. An RIAA lawsuit against Charter failed for similar reasons.
Plagiarism Today
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
In the latest plagiarism scandal involving Harvard, the school's chief diversity offer faces allegations of plagiarism in two separate works. The post Harvard’s Chief Diversity Officer Accused of Plagiarism appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Copyright Alliance
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
In January, there was big copyright news coming out from the courts, including two final judgments entered by a court involving concessions of willful copyright infringement and forfeiture of the […] The post January 2024 Roundup of Copyright News appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 30, 2024
In a pending case, the Federal Circuit is primed to provide much-needed clarity on the economic prong of the domestic industry requirement at the United States International Trade Commission (ITC). In ruling, the court will likely resolve a long-running dispute between individual commissioners regarding how to apply the so-called “mere importer” test when determining whether the domestic industry requirement is met.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 30, 2024
Over the past decade and a half, hundreds of thousands of alleged BitTorrent pirates were taken to court for sharing mostly video content without permission from rightsholders. While this activity is still ongoing, at least to a degree, not all courts have welcomed this type of lawsuit. On several occasions, courts dismissed piracy claims after ruling that “an IP address is not a person” In 2014, for example, Florida federal court Judge Ursula Ungaro dismissed a lawsuit ruling that I
Nelligan Law
JANUARY 31, 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes In Koshman v Controlex Corporation , 2023 ONSC 7045 , Nelligan Law played a pivotal role in successfully representing engineer Martin Koshman against his former employer, Controlex Corporation, in a wrongful dismissal action. The Court, recognizing the gravity of the situation, awarded Mr. Koshman 24 months’ notice ($471,461.68), $50,000 in aggravated damages, $50,000 in punitive damages, along with $192,112.19 in legal costs.
SpicyIP
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Image from here On January 3, 2023 the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) published the Draft Patent (2nd Amendment) Rules, 2024 inviting public comments on the Proposed Rules. As discussed here , these hastily drafted Rules, full of typos and ambiguity, seem to enforce the amendments introduced by the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2023 and proposes to set up a new mechanism to hear complaints against offences under Sections 120, 122 and 123 of the Pa
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 30, 2024
Speakers at IPWatchdog’s PTAB Masters 2024 program this week predicted there will be little movement on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking anytime soon, but some pinned their hopes for change at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to the pending Promoting and Respecting Economically Vital American Innovation Leadership (PREVAIL) Act.
TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
In a matter of weeks, the controversial Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren PPV boxing event will turn three years old and still be remembered for all that went wrong. After the H3 Podcast aired a short clip of the event on YouTube, featuring a fight that lasted just 119 seconds, Triller filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against creators Ethan and Hila Klein.
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