The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Heres what they write: The UKs AI and copyright consultation will data protection law render any commercial TDM exception ineffective? By way of brief overview of data protection law, under the UK GDPR personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 18, 2025

The 2023-24 IP India Annual Report was released on March 31, almost exactly a year after that financial year ended. While the Annual Reports bring forth critical statistics surrounding the filing, examination, and disposal of IP applications, they are rarely comprehensive in their qualitative evaluation of the data.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Copyright Office (the Copyright Office) published Part 2 of a three-part report on artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright issues in connection with AIs usage. On January 29, 2025, the U.S.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The United States Copyright Office has released the second in a series of reports relating to the implications of AI on copyright law and policy, firmly upholding the principle that copyright protection is reserved for human-created works while introducing slight nuance regarding the interplay of human authorship and generative AI.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Image from here IP Court watchers will be pleased to know that the Delhi High Court’s IP Division has published the 2023-24 edition of its Annual Report ! The second report (hereinafter referred to as ‘the report’) gives a summary of the number of cases disposed of, freshly instituted, and pending before the IPD.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Copyright Office issued part two of it's report on Artificial Intelligence ("AI") which addresses the topic of copyrightability as it relates to AI. On January 29, 2025, the U.S.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 28, 2025

Copyright Office released a report titled Identifying the Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Copyright Policy. In February 2025, the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

According to Bloomberg Law, the administrative patent judges (APJs) of the U.S.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The United States Copyright Office (USCO) has released its report on the copyrightability of outputs generated by artificial intelligence (AI) systems (the Report). This is the second of three reports the USCO plans to release on the intersection of copyright and artificial intelligence.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Law enforcement operations targeting pirate sites and services are often enthusiastically described as ‘large-scale’ or ‘major’ If reports emerging from authorities in Italy hold true, describing the international operation that culminated early this morning as massive, wouldn’t be an exaggeration.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 16, 2025

Trade Representative (USTR) issued its "2024 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy" on January 8th, directed to "prominent and illustrative examples of online and physical markets that reportedly engage in, facilitate, turn a blind eye to, or benefit from substantial piracy or counterfeiting," having the goal of "motivate[ing] appropriate (..)

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 23, 2025

On January 16, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Competition published four reports on pharmaceutical patent settlement agreements filed under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) for fiscal years 2018-2021. By: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The American Law Institute launched an initiative designed to provide guidance regarding the legal issues arising from the growing ubiquity of AI. Several industry organizations have recently published AI guidelines, including the Digital Medicine Society (DMS), in partnership with Google and the Mayo Clinic.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

” The plaintiffs brought a pre-enforcement challenge to the law, but the court denies a preliminary injunction. Either way, the deepfakes law is effectively a mandatory disclosure law, where any content is permitted so long as it displays the “parody” label, regardless of whether it would legally qualify as a parody or not.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

We are not in it for the money (hopefully), but mostly (hopefully) for the impact that we can make on our students and colleagues lives, as well as to contribute to the process of healthy law and policy-making. In copyright law terms, very often that data could correspond to individual human expression. One such theme is attribution.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2025

There have been multiple reports of overblocking, where the anti-piracy system blocked access to Google Drive , Cloudflare , and other legitimate sites and services. These amendments mandate all intermediary providers to report any knowledge of illegal activity, including minor copyright infringements.

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Barry Sookman

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The United States Copyright Office released its second report dealing with artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright. … The post Understanding the Copyrightability of AI: Insights from the U.S.

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The IPKat

APRIL 10, 2025

While the Chatham House rule did not expressly apply to the event, this report anonymises the views expressed. Alessandros Katpost on Lidl v Tesco here] The relevance of comparative advertising law has increased. It will take time to see how this develops in the case law. Formed of two panel sessions and a keynote from Prof.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

A relatively obscure Supreme Court case involving the Fair Credit Reporting Act might seem like an odd fit for the high-stakes world of copyright in the age of artificial intelligence. But as Cornell law professor James Grimmelmann told WIRED last week , “This theory of no standing is actually a potential earthquake far beyond AI.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2025

Introduction Customs law and trademark law operate at a crucial interface when it comes to protecting intellectual property rights (IPRs) and against counterfeiting. As against this, customs law governs the entry and exit of goods in and out of the country under the Customs Act, 1962.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

We are excited to share Sheppard Mullin’s inaugural quarterly report on key Federal Circuit decisions. The Spring 2023 Quarterly Report provides summaries of most key patent law-related decisions from January 1, 2023 to March 31, 2023. Click here to read more.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

For example, music group IFPI complained that while Cloudflare discloses the hosting locations of pirate sites in response to abuse reports, it doesn’t voluntarily share the identity of these pirate customers with rightsholders. The company has a trusted reporter program, for example, which currently counts roughly 200 organizations.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 9, 2025

This latest edition features an interview with retiring longtime Wilson Sonsini IP partner Vern Norviel and articles on MedTech and pharma trends for 2025, the eligibility of life sciences companies for qualified small business stock, what life sciences companies need to know about brands, double-patenting jeopardy, and life sciences venture financings (..)

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the USPTO is changing its approach to auditing trademark applications; the production company behind Blade Runner 2049 sues Tesla for AI-aided copyright infringement;a former OpenAI staffer publishes an essay accusing his former employer of breaking copyright law; and Microsoft’s CEO asks countries to change their (..)

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 31, 2025

In a long-anticipated report from the U.S. At the other extreme, if content is entirely generated by AI, it cannot be protected by copyright.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Copyright Offices three-part report on copyright issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI) would be further delayed. This week, Director Shira Perlmutter indicated that the publication of part two of the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The most recent version of the report was published in 2022 and the EU is currently working on an updated edition. MPA Reports Piracy Threats As the driving force behind the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment ( ACE ), the largest and most active anti-piracy group, MPA is well aware of the global piracy threats. Like its U.S.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In an interesting development, the CIC recently rejected an RTI application concerning information on IPRS’ compliance with the Copyright Act, upholding privacy for private organizations and confidentiality of inquiry reports that have not been tabled in front of the Parliament. Kartikeya is a second-year law student of the LL.B.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 29, 2024

We reported the details of that subpoena in May this year; it covered around two dozen domains, several of which were generating tens of millions of visits every month. Popular domains targeted in Cloudflare subpoena (click to enlarge) Shueisha’s continuing investigation now appears to focus on a subset of the original list. .

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 21, 2022

1: Judge in Maryland Strikes Down Library e-Book Law. First off today, Hillel Italie at the Associated Press reports that a judge in Maryland has shot down a law that would have required publishers to make e-books available on “reasonable terms” to libraries in the state. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 23, 2025

Law enforcement agencies employ digital forensics to investigate hacking, data breaches, fraud, identity theft, and internet scams. Stage 4: Reporting & Presentation The last phase is the compilation of a formatted report with findings, documentation, logs, screenshots, and forensic tool outputs.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 13, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been touted as the answer to a multitude of business challenges. However, AI along with machine learning and large language models (LLMs) is still fraught with technical and regulatory challenges as the technology evolves.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that country music singer Dwight Yoakam has reached a settlement with Warner Music Group (WMG) that puts an end to their copyright termination battle. Copyright termination is a clause in the law that allows original creators to reclaim rights to their work after a set period of time.

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Likelihood of Confusion

APRIL 8, 2025

Republished by Blog Post PromoterIn far-off Hong Kong, the Motion Picture Association has created a Boy Scout merit badge on copyright: “Boy Scouts in Hong Kong now can earn merit badges for learning about the wonders of copyright law–at least the version described by the Motion Picture Association,” reports Declan McCullagh. […] (..)

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 27, 2022

First off today, Zuhaad Ali at The Games Post reports that video game maker Bungie has filed a lawsuit against an individual named Nicholas Minor over allegations that Minor pretended to be a Bungie representative to file false copyright notices against other YouTubers. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 19, 2025

The defense concluded that the case was without merits, thus not violating copyright laws. Thus, in such cases, copyright laws would favor the producer if the BTS Footage was created as part of the production process. He clarified that Dhanush’s production company, Wunderbar Films Private Limited, did not own the footage.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2024

In Greece right now there are hundreds of news articles (unrelated to the events of last week) reporting on a “landmark” and/or “historic” decision by a local court to send a pirate IPTV subscriber to prison for five months.

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