IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

District Court for the District of Maryland when the court granted their request for a preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of the Maryland Act, which essentially calls for compulsory licensing of electronic literary works to libraries on “reasonable terms”. The law went into effect on January 1, 2022. Copyright Act.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 26, 2023

Recently filed litigation against Microsoft Corporation, GitHub, Inc., and various OpenAI entities ("Defendants") highlights new challenges that generative artificial intelligence ("AI") presents and risks associated with open source software ("OSS") license compliance. By: Jones Day

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Moderna was one such company that was granted a compulsory license. Easy for Moderna to now push for ‘licensing and not abrogating patents’. As reported , these patents have been licensed to both Moderna and BioNTech. Such relaxations were specifically aimed at speeding up the process of vaccine production.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Patent licensing and technology transfer is a cornerstone of modern economies, where the efficiencies of collaboration and division of labor do not require firms to be vertically integrated. This short article focuses on how risk – in the economic and legal sense – changes over time, and what this implies for patent licensing dynamics.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Litigation over standard-essential patents, or SEPs, can be a cyclical phenomenon, where litigation follows a generational change in technology. We saw it with 3G and 4G technology, where each generational change led to a flurry of litigation focused on smartphones. Originally published in Law360 August 2023.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

In addition, there are concerns that many stock photography sites provide limited licenses to users and many unwittingly overstep them. A variety of services work to find copied images , and many engage in speculative invoicing and litigation as part of their strategy. Reasons to Calm Down (Some).

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Patently-O

MARCH 18, 2024

The Federal Circuit has issued an interesting nonprecedential order in In re VLSI Technology LLC , denying VLSI’s petition for a writ of mandamus that sought to reverse a district court order allowing Intel to amend its answer to assert a declaratory judgment counterclaim regarding a patent license defense.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Katfriends Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Oliver Fairhurst from Lewis Silkin report on recent litigation in the UK against the developers of AI generation software. This litigation has arisen amongst a flurry of recent interest in AI generated works. What is AI image generation software?

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

Kewalramani), the Central District of California denied Defendant Netflix’s attempts to compel Plaintiff GoTV Streaming to provide documents and further information as to the source of the litigation funding that GoTV received in conjunction with the patent litigation.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 1, 2024

On July 12, 2024, the Delhi High Court (DHC) issued two orders in a matter involving a dispute between Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) and Al-Hamd Tradenation concerning interim injunctions and compulsory licensing (CL). PPL had informed Al-Hamd through the restaurant that a license was required for the use of these recordings.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 3, 2022

The decision was heavily swayed by the fact that Bell is a “serial litigant” that has filed dozens of similar lawsuits over the course of a decade. Oracle sued NEC last year, claiming that NEC used Oracle software in a way that exceeded their license. No details have been released about the terms of the settlement.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 25, 2024

Template from Nokia’s timeless “hands” commercial (see here ) In a major development, all the patent disputes (including the 5G SEP dispute) between Oppo and Nokia stand settled as both parties enter into a cross-licensing agreement.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia has inked a multiyear patent-licensing deal with hardware manufacturer HP Inc. over its video technologies, pouring cold water on litigation between the pair in all jurisdictions, it announced Tuesday.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

told the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that threats made by ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions “to file IPR petitions and a declaratory judgment action unless granted a free license to three valuable patents,” among other allegations, “runs directly counter to the purpose and goals of the post-grant administrative challenge system.”

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

Next up today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that all the lawsuits filed against Pandora by comedians have been consolidated into a single lawsuit, in a bid to streamline and simplify the litigation process. For a time, Malibu Media was one of the most prolific copyright litigants in the world.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

They claimed that the workout company was using popular songs in their workout classes without obtaining sync licensed. That lawsuit was settled in February 2020 but, according to Muggerud, Peloton has still not properly secured licenses for Cypress Hill songs, including ones he helped write and performed on.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 23, 2023

The European Union is reportedly considering sweeping new regulations for the licensing and litigation of standard essential patents (SEPs), which make fair-minded observers wonder whether any sane adults are in charge at the European Commission (EC).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

He claims that third party “contributors” uploaded his copyrighted photos to ShutterStock as part of ShutterStock’s licensing program. Specifically, McGucken claims that a total of 337 images were uploaded, of which 165 were downloaded and that led to 938 licenses. Otherwise, this case appears to be economically irrational.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Just a day after our update on the Lenacapavir patent oppositions ( here ), Gilead has signed “Royalty-Free Voluntary Licensing Agreements” (VLAs) ( pdf ) with generic manufacturers aimed at boosting HIV prevention in “high-incidence, resource-limited countries.” It did so to six pharmaceutical manufacturers—Dr. For instance, clause 2.5

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 1, 2024

By: WilmerHale

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

github copilot, with "public code" blocked, emits large chunks of my copyrighted code, with no attribution, no LGPL license. However, the Copilot version did not come with the LGPL license, a requirement of using code under that license, nor was there any indication that it was copied. My code on left, github on right.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

However, that prompted the Public Citizen Litigation Group to step in. According to NetEase, Tencent, through its QQ Music streaming platform, has violated a contract with them by streaming music in provinces where QQ has no license to do so. The post 3 Count: AI Challenges appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 25, 2022

Next up today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that a group of movie studios have won a key victory in their ongoing litigation against the pirate site PrimeWire with a court ordering that the site’s domains be seized. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Implied License – Second, Take-Two could have argued that, by placing the tattoo on Randy Orton, that Alexander granted an implied license for it to be used as part of his image, including on TV, film and video games. Instead, this case was litigated for over four years in regular federal court, at great expense to both sides.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2024

A spate of recent lawsuits is shining light on how some generative AI (GenAI) companies are using copyrighted materials, without permission, as a core part of their products. Among the most recent examples is the New York Times Company’s’ lawsuit against OpenAI, which alleges a variety of copyright-related claims.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

That owner, Tofig Kurbanov, is a Russian national that attempted to litigate the case early on but, when told to hand over server logs as evidence, went silent. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

If ever there were a theory of fair use invented for litigation, this is it,” they write. . “Fair use cannot be perverted into forfeiting a sound recording’s protection under copyright law just because the recording is copied, distributed, and performed in something other than its cleanest sound.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Finally today, Jim Waterson at The Guardian reports that the band KLF has threatened a documentary filmmaker with possible litigation over the lack of cleared samples of their music. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Next up today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that Voltage Holdings, a company best known for strongly litigating against piracy of films it holds the rights to, has begun sending out threatening letters to suspected UK pirates, seeking settlement fees for alleged illegal downloads.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

They filed the lawsuit against the site and its alleged operators, but they have taken ever-increasing steps to avoid the litigation. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The post 3 Count: Difficult Questions appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

If the case stands on appeal, Twitter will write a check to CCDH to compensate it for the litigation harms Twitter has imposed on it. Anti-SLAPP laws are a crucial bulwark against such abuses, especially by billionaires who embrace Pyrrhic litigation with the goal of draining their opponents’ bank accounts. We need more of that.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Next up today, Kyle Orland at Ars Technica reports that a serial cheater at the video game Destiny 2 has tried a novel new tactic to avoid litigation. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

Each of these cases is unique, fact dependent, and likely, if fully litigated on the merits, to shed light on different aspects of copyright law. In other words, in the UK, there is a copyright exception for non-commercial research, everything else requires in a license, and there is little if any ambiguity.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Licensed ‘Copyright Cockroaches’ Early June 2022, news outlets in Taiwan reported that former ultramarathon runner, entrepreneur, political critic, and law graduate Kevin Lin was a suspect in a “copyright cockroach” case. In May 2021, licenses were obtained from Vie Vision Pictures Co.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It exclusively licensed the right to depict the K-700 in its videogames, including the right to enforce the exclusive license in court. ” Explicitly misleading: Saber argued that videogame players expect that game manufacturers have licensed any actual vehicles depicted in the simulation (boo). ” Implications.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

If the costume isn’t licensed, why is it not infringing regardless of the name change? In short, Juice Demon is Juice Demon because he can’t be Beetlejuice, not without a license. It’s honestly remarkable that there haven’t been more legal issues in this space, especially considering the lucrative market for licensed costumes.

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