Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

However, the important thing to know is that there was no doubt that Take-Two did copy the tattoos in question and there was no question of Alexander’s ownership of them. Instead, this case was litigated for over four years in regular federal court, at great expense to both sides. That board has a maximum total damages of $30,000.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Intel is urging Delaware's chief federal judge to make VLSI Technology reveal its ownership and sources of litigation funding, saying the disclosures provided so far in their dispute over the scope of a patent license are "plainly deficient."

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

In this video, we will also examine the legal strategies each project got right on trademark registration and copyright licensing. Your NFT drop will license your copyright-protected digital asset (i.e., What Rights Are Licensed To Purchasers Buying NFTS? When you buy the Bored Ape NFT, you receive a license to the image.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 31, 2023

Third-party litigation financing (TPLF) is an arrangement by which plaintiffs finance litigation costs through a non-party, typically a private firm that obtain funds from other investors. The commercial goal for a funder is a share of any damage award or licensing revenue generated as a result of the lawsuit.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. 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.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

billion damage award against defendant Intel Corporation because it found plaintiff VLSI Technology LLC had erred on its damages calculation, that one of the asserted patents was not infringed, and that Intel was wrongly barred from raising a defense that it had a newly acquired license to the asserted patents.

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IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

licensing, assignment, JVs, cooperation and co-development etc.) If a secret is stolen, or the ownership or its proper apportionment are disputed, or if a third party is trying to copy software containing AI algorithms, the right holders must not shy away from taking proper enforcement measures. But rights holders must be prepared.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Shah pointed to his copyright registrations as evidence of his ownership, but the court says the allegations in his complaint show that he was never entitled to register the copyrights (i.e., To be clear, joint copyright ownership of photos like these could be a policy disaster, so I don’t share the judge’s lament on that front).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

However, the appellate court seems to invalidate that six-factor test: “Determining he ownership of social-media accounts is indeed a relatively novel exercise, but that novelty does not warrant a new six-factor test.” The next step is to determine whether ownership ever transferred to another party.

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IPilogue

JUNE 14, 2022

Swift, in deciding to re-record her albums, ensured that her new (Taylor’s) versions gave her all three types of intellectual property right over her catalogue, guaranteeing full ownership.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In the context of certain questions that arose in the proceedings, Tanvi then brings up an interesting hypothetical i.e. what if the defendants had challenged the ownership of the copyright early on, instead of the attempt to amendment later on. Tanvi is a second-year student pursuing BA LLB at the National University of Juridical Sciences.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Jenks licensed the beat non-exclusively to Jordan White (a/k/a G-BABY GVVAAN), who incorporated it into a song called “ Oi! Despite UMG’s lack of ownership in the beat, UMG’s “content protection specialist” found the song Oi! online, matched the beat to Right Now, and assumed that Oi! infringed Right Now.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Who receives the credit and the licensing rights? McDonagh discusses the emergence of the author figure as the owner of a dramatic work by analysis of authorship and ownership of plays from the Elizabethan period up to the early twentieth century. The book addresses questions of whom is the author and first owner of a dramatic work?

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 26, 2021

The crux of the case turned on the meaning of the phrase, “exclusive ownership,” which the California legislature used in California’s copyright statute in 1872. The parties settled before trial and SiriusXM agreed to pay for past performances of pre-1972 recordings in exchange for a license to use those recordings until 2028.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Software products often have more than one author or developer, and layered copyright ownership. Without thorough due diligence, purchasers may be exposing themselves and their companies to costly litigation, unforeseen limitations on use of the software and, even, unexpected competition. READ THE ARTICLE IN THE LICENSING JOURNAL HERE.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit [1] reversed a lower court’s denial of Intel Corporation’s (“Intel’s”) motion for leave to amend its answer to assert a new license defense in a patent infringement suit brought by VLSI Technology LLC (“VLSI”). and Finjan Software, Inc. Finjan Software, Inc.,

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 17, 2024

VLSI Technology LLC has fully complied with its disclosure requirements for ownership and litigation funding, and Intel Corp.'s s claims otherwise in patent licensing litigation don't hold up, VLSI told a Delaware federal judge.

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Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As more and more projects in these fields adopt open-source licensing, the legal complexities tied to these licenses are becoming increasingly relevant, with dual licensing being a case in point. Second, altering the license could alienate a project’s community, leading to forks or abandonment.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 25, 2022

In 2013 and 2015, it granted exclusive licenses to stream those works to Starz, a premium subscription channel. The time periods for each license were separate, and some licenses were renewed multiple times, resulting in more than 1,000 separate license periods. 17 U.S.C. §

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

To my knowledge, the only litigated case that resulted in a 512(f) win was Online Policy Group v. To settle that dispute, the parties worked out an “exclusive” license: the second-comer could sell the design on Amazon, and the registrant could keep selling it on eBay. Diebold from 2004, which led to a $125k damages award.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 24, 2021

T he Golden Bunny trade mark litigation continues to hop along. Turning to the survey evidence, the Federal Court of Justice considered that it constituted sufficient proof of Lindt's ownership of an unregistered trade mark based on acquired recognition. International license.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 25, 2022

For example, the rise of patent trolls, who litigate cheaply-bought patents, use the IP system as a legal weapon. Moreover, damage demands in litigation cases involving IP are rising. Individuals and companies commonly engage in the strategic purchasing of critical blocking patent portfolios.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

After over four years of litigation and five COVID-related continuances, it’s finally time for the main event. As the parties wait in their respective corners for the opening bell to ring, here’s what you need to know: Alexander Has Already Established Ownership and Copying. Implied License and Fair Use Are the Key Remaining Defenses.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

to license works from the Music Specialist catalog. Use of that song was in turn licensed to several popular television shows, including “So You Think You Can Dance.” Nealy alleged that he held the copyrights to Music Specialist’s songs and that Warner Chappell’s licensing activities infringed his rights. 17 U.S.C. § at *13-*16.

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Kashishipr

MARCH 2, 2022

A trademark registration certificate that you receive after getting your proposed trademark approved from a country’s Trademark Office is just the first step in the journey of your trademark ownership. You may see your trademark rights getting diluted and possibly canceled through litigation.

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Kashishipr

APRIL 13, 2022

Therefore, an NFT can refer to a digital art piece or can be linked to a physical product for proving the authenticity or ownership of the said product. What will the future trademark licensing deals in the Metaverse look like? These are non-fungible, implying that they are unique and can never be replaced by something.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that California Civil Code section 980(a)(2) , which grants “exclusive ownership” of a sound recording fixed before February 15, 1972, to its “author,” provides only an exclusive right of reproduction and distribution, and does not provide an exclusive right of public performance. (See

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

By applying a CC BY license to the AAM and depositing it in a repository without an embargo, they will meet funder’s requirements while allowing the journal to further use the work for commercial gains. The second requirement is to apply a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY), to the author accepted manuscript (AAM).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As a result, the legal issues rarely are litigated any more. * * *. Underlying this litigation is an epistemological question: what does a “canonical” version of a web page look like? We need to know more about this license. WhenU concluded that trademarks was a dead-end. ” Wait, what? Trespass to Chattels.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2022

This knocks out the pre-litigation negotiation requirement, the TOS’s protective provisions, the TOS’s disclosures, the TOS’s licenses (which nukes Roblox’s defense to a conversion claim), and more. As a result, the TOS fails. ” Implications.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These litigations might have convinced the European legislator to deal with the issue in the proposal for a regulation laying down harmonized rules on Artificial Intelligence (‘ Artificial Intelligence Act’ or ‘AIA’), recently introducing a provision to address the issue of transparency with regard to the works used in the machine learning process.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

It took eight months, but the ownership question of the photographs has been settled. However, it is not what I expected for the first case to be finally determined: Section 512(f) and an ownership dispute between former business partners. It seems like it did. So, they started the CCB process. I then offered $500.00. 4 & Ex.

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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Increased Costs: Navigating a dense patent landscape often requires businesses to engage in complex licensing negotiations with multiple patent holders. Litigation Risks: Patent thickets increase the likelihood of litigation, as companies may find themselves embroiled in costly legal battles over patent infringement.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As more and more projects in these fields adopt open-source licensing, the legal complexities tied to these licenses are becoming increasingly relevant, with dual licensing being a case in point. Second, altering the license could alienate a project’s community, leading to forks or abandonment.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

If so, you should consider the caveats and points highlighted in this brief article before finalizing your license or purchase. You may not get everything you think you’re entitled to get, and you may even be unknowingly exposing yourself and your company to costly litigation and unexpected competitors. Copyright Ownership.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

The plaintiffs lost al of the framing cases then, but here we are in 2024, still litigating framing cases. ” Domain names are also intangible, as are the records documenting domain name ownership, yet the court held they were capable of being converted. Why are we revisiting this crusty old topic? ” That’s true.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

So, clearly, the Cleveland Indians knew of the roller derby team’s ownership of the IP and exactly how it was used. This was announced without acquiring the IP from the roller derby team and without securing any sort of coexistence agreement or license. That’s an interesting fact to say the least.

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