Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Dear Rich: If a movie falls into the public domain, are all of the individual images in it also public domain? Yes, you are free to copy the individual frames or images from a public domain movie without permission. What if the image is of a movie star? What about movie stars?

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 24, 2022

The guide is an amazingly thorough overview of copyright, written in a way to be understood by lay people and it includes nearly all of the important information one needs to know in just 10 pages and 4,000 words. Copyright Office, which is part of the federal government, the work itself is in the public domain.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JUNE 19, 2021

Speaking of the public domain, the Public Domain Review has an informative essay (“ The Mark of the Beast ”) about the first anti-vaxxers Dear Rich: I wish to reproduce photographs from a website. If the photos are in the public domain and the website hasn’t substantially modified them, you are free to copy them.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The company’s failure to file for a new copyright after the movie ditched its original title ‘Night of the Flesh Eaters’ was the reason that Night of the Living Dead (NOLD) was quickly pushed into the public domain. NOLD inspired a whole genre of horror that has gained momentum with age. Night of the Copyright Claim.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Freedom of information is becoming a matter of survival for these countries even a matter of national security,” Anna Archivist writes. A reduced copyright term wouldn’t legalize Anna’s Archive, but it would elevate many more works to the public domain. This leads to the second proposal.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

Consider Alternative Sources – Finally, you may want to consider alternative sources such as Wikimedia Commons or the Internet Archive , which plays host to public domain and open-licensed media. While these carry their own risks, at least for most of the content, some effort was put into verifying their copyright status. .

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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

Transformer architecture introduced a concept called attention which allowed the algorithm to capture contextual information to understand which words influence others. This article focuses on the first set: information that is publicly available on the internet. We then use the information to teach our models.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. We know, however, that many laws limit free access and use of information goods, most prominently copyright law (and IP law generally). Guy Rub , The Ohio State University Michael E.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Following the successful launch of the Information Law Series Archive in September 2024, ten more volumes have been made freely available on the IViR website. The Information Law Series , established in 1991, is the worlds first and foremost academic book series in the field of information law and policy.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

Though the “firm” had a realistic-looking domain with all the information one my expect, the firm didn’t exist and the “lawyers” were actually AI-generated faces. Either seeking out public domain licensed images or stock photos from libraries he has legal access to. When he followed up, he never received a response.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

This disclosure guarantees that at the expiration of the patent, the invention will enter the public domain, facilitating its utilization and technological progress. This prevents inventors from withholding critical information while still benefiting from patent protection. Emcure Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. &

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Thus, here, given that the plaintiff has Copyright Registrations, the burden shifts to Defendants to come forward with “evidence that the work[s] [were] copied from the public domain.” Defendants argued that because information concerning the Second Holy Temple is in the public domain, Plaintiff’s copyrighted works are not original.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

With the exception of CC0, CC licences allow authors to keep their copyright whilst at the same time communicate which rights they reserve and which rights they waive for public benefit. The underlying work, in turn, could be licensed, including through the use of CC or released into the public domain, e.g., with CC0.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

These photos are in the public domain and free for anyone to copy. Pre-existing works might include your public domain photos, a foreword by a third party, or any previously registered or previously published works that are included in your book. Let's start with the things you can't do. The Creative Commons License.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Here's what Claudio and Federico have to say: Two Kats, hungry to hear the outcome of the two CJEU referrals, via the Public Domain Image Archive "In a long-awaited decision issued on 19 December 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") ruled on two joint cases ( C-119/22 and C-149/22 ).

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 30, 2021

Despite these copyright notices, Nirvana is now taking the position that the “Upper Hell” illustration is in the public domain and therefore free to use. public domain (subject to potential restoration, which I’ll discuss shortly). It argues that when the U.S. formalities placed foreign works in the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

Do these creations belong to the artists or the public domain? The post How A Century-Old Insight of Photography Can Inform Legal Questions of AI-Generated Artwork (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Do creators who use generative AI maintain copyright in their creations?

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 12, 2022

In the natural course of things, given the elaborate and drawn-out nature of interactions in the entertainment industry, the promise of confidentiality is implied in the interactions and thus, such sharing of information is indeed covered under confidentiality law. The requirement in confidentiality law is the novelty of information.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 20, 2024

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 data, research published under open access (OA) licenses, and datasets that fall within the public domain.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 4, 2024

This includes copyrighted news articles, which are often based on a variety of information gathered by its journalists. 12: Documents sufficient to show each and every written work that informed the preparation of each of Your Asserted Works, regardless of its length, format, or medium. For example, discovery requests no.

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Kashishipr

APRIL 20, 2022

The North American Free Trade Agreement defines a trade secret as “Information having commercial value, which is not in the public domain, and for which reasonable steps have been taken to maintain its secrecy.” Information Protected by a Trade Secret .

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 26, 2022

Many digital file formats allow creators to embed additional data to provide details of ownership or any other relevant information. The DMCA recognizes metadata (and other related marks) as Copyright Management Information (CMI) when “conveyed in connection with” a creative work. Copyright Management Information.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

While creating AR experiences, so-called markers provide information on the real-world element of reference to be overlapped with digital images. Markers are visual cues triggering the display of the virtual information; they are real-world objects or part of them. i) Public domain works. The cloud hosts databases.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 7, 2022

Seeking the court-ordered cooperation of Cloudflare, MPA/ACE requested information on a number of pirate streaming sites, including the personal details of their operators. ACE informed the court that the sites offered infringing copies of the movies Suicide Squad and Salt, plus TV shows Gold Rush and Deadliest Catch.

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2024

The UPCKat trying to keep confidential information confidential in the UPC As part of our UPCKat reporting on the latest UPC developments, the IPKat brings readers a roundup of how the UPC is treating confidentiality and third party access to court documents. Further guidance on protecting confidential information is set out in Rule 262A RoP.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The application, which sought discovery of information for use in a foreign proceeding ( 28 U.S. Earlier DMCA Subpoena Forced Cloudflare to Hand Over Information. Among other things, it contains IP addresses, email addresses, and login times related to the domains and user Shueisha is trying to track down.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Increasingly vocal rightsholders including the RIAA and MPA criticized WHOIS restrictions and piled on with other shortcomings; WHOIS proxy/shielding services that hide registrant information, for example, and the lack of an effective system to ensure the accuracy of collected data.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

Last Friday, we reported on two Freedom of Information Act requests directed at two regional police forces in the UK. A key component of an ongoing anti-piracy campaign in the UK includes sensitizing the public to the risk of being convicted for fraud offenses carrying prison sentences of up to 10 years. That was disappointing.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 1, 2023

. “Many Defendants do not provide any contact information such as a physical address, email address, or phone number, and conduct their transactions entirely pseudonymously. Defendants also use privacy protection services to hide their names and contact information from the public domain name WHOIS database.”

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SpicyIP

JULY 9, 2021

The only two types of intellectual property protection that protect information are patents and trade secrets. the Delhi High Court said that a patent is a property right, which the state grants to inventors in exchange of their covenant to share in detail with the public. Cipla Ltd. , In Altavion, Inc. Dr. Claudio de Simone v.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 25, 2022

This trade-secrecy decision includes a few interesting holdings: Published and Widely Distributed, but Still a Trade Secret : The fact that information was found in a prior publication “that has been cited over 1,200 times. ” Under California law, information that is “generally known” cannot be a trade secret.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 27, 2022

While the government is not making the change retroactive (meaning works currently in the public domain stay there), no one seriously expected that to happen. Page 328 of the bill features the shoehorned amendments to the Copyright Act, including an extension of the term of copyright.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

. “Defendants have cited two specific pieces of information regarding Columbia’s enforcement policies that, if revealed to the public, could compromise Columbia’s ability to protect its copyrighted works,” the MPA’s lawyers wrote at the time. Williams ordered the information to be kept under seal for ten years.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 19, 2023

However, routine content exchanges such as sharing published reports, articles and other information found on the Web, have copyright implications, which can expose companies to a greater risk of infringement. Much of the information in this post was drawn from content posted on the website of the U.S. It’s just business.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2025

In contrast to conventional disinformation, deepfake information is imbued with heightened realism, persuasiveness, plausibility and dissemination intent. [1] Naresh Trehan giving urology advice outside his expertise as a cardiothoracic surgeon. [7] 8] PERSONALITY AND PRIVACY: HOW INTRUSION TRAMPLES AN INDIVIDUALS RIGHT TO THEIR IDENTITY?

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2022

On Sunday he informed TorrentFreak that he’s also an independent film composer and producer, working with music production libraries, and distributing to the main music platforms. After filing his counternotice with YouTube, Bruno was informed that since he’d provided insufficient information, YouTube could not process it.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 11, 2022

Patents are there for 20 years where after the expiry they end up being in the public domain. The protection by the trade secrets is generally for those who are not in the domain of other IPs. There is no need for disclosing any information which for trade secret is not necessary.

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