IP Watchdog

JANUARY 16, 2022

s patent for a method of converting a semi-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine to one with a fixed magazine. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Friday ruled that a California district court erred in its claim construction relating to Evolusion Concepts, Inc.’s

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 23, 2022

As Top Gun: Maverick passes Doctor Strange 2 to become the highest-grossing movie in the US this year, it’s attracted a copyright infringement claim by the heirs of the writer of the article that inspired the original 1986 Tom Cruise movie. By: AEON Law

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In 1981, Goldsmith licensed a photo that she took of the musician Prince to Vanity Fair magazine, with the intent that the magazine would have Warhol create a painting based on it. The case pits photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the estate of artist Andy Warhol.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2024

District Court for the Central District of California ruled on Friday that Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay, the widow and son, respectively, of Ehud Yonay, who authored a 1983 magazine article that inspired the renowned film, Top Gun, were not entitled to damages for copyright infringement related to the 2022 sequel to the film.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Shortly after the first video, a review of the UK film 28 Days Later, was published, users began to notice similarities between it and a 2003 article by Danny Boyle for the magazine Film Comment. Neither Boyle nor Film Comment magazine have said anything on the issue. To that end, it’s a pretty simple story.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The magazine was part of a faux press tour rollout , including a fake NPR Tiny Desk Concert and a fake Saturday Night Live performance. Drake and 21 Savage jointly promoted the fake magazine on their Instagram with the caption: “Me and my brother on newsstands tomorrow!!

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 26, 2022

Next up today, Matthew Humphries at PC Magazine reports that Google Drive users experienced an unusual bug where nearly empty files would be flagged for copyright infringement. With that defeat, the two sides began settlement negotiations and have now agreed to dismiss the lawsuit with prejudice, meaning that it cannot be refiled.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Vogue Magazine is suing 21 Savage and Drake after they created mock Vogue Magazines to market their new album. Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss the dispute on this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog. Listen to this podcast episode here. Watch this episode here:

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

On Tuesday, journalist Robert Kolker published an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled Who is the Bad Art Friend? What started as a relatively minor short story has grown into a major lawsuit with claims and counterclaims, a New York Times Magazine article and now an internet meme.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 28, 2022

She licensed the photo to Vanity Fair magazine for use as an artist reference. First off today, John Fritze at USA Today reports that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that pits photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the estate of artist Andy Warhol. The case deals with a photograph taken by Goldsmith in 1981 of the musician Prince.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 4, 2022

First off today, Michael Kan at PC Magazine reports that India is enacting a new policy that, if enforced, would require virtual private network (VPN) providers to collect, store and turn over user data. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 18, 2022

Originally published in USLaw Magazine - March 2022. This article explains how a recent headline-grabbing case over rights in the 1994 film “Pulp Fiction” is a harbinger of NFT-related litigation to come. By: Jones, Skelton & Hochuli, P.L.C.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 28, 2021

According to DB Corp, part of the problem can be found on WhatsApp where dedicated groups are sharing their newspapers and magazines without permission. The subscription allows users to browse publications in a browser but there is no option to permanently download the newspapers and magazines for offline reading.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 24, 2023

Advance Magazine Publisher’s Inc, the Karnataka High Court observed the importance of the consequences of a certain trademarked word and decided the validity of another organisation using it through the impact that the word created on the general public. Introduction In a significant judgement being M.M. Kariappa v.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 10, 2022

“This allowed the unmasking of a consolidated system of unauthorized sharing and dissemination, not only of newspapers and magazines published by the main Italian editorial groups, but also television schedules, TV series and other paid entertainment content, distributed via the internet by the major streaming platforms.”

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The New York Times Magazine's "Bad Art Friend" saga captured the imagination of the internet this week, detailing a juicy dispute in which a writer-turned-kidney donor accused a fellow author of cribbing details from her charitable journey for a fictionalized short story.

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IP.com

JULY 18, 2021

Acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese noted in a Harper’s Magazine essay earlier this year that “the art of cinema is being systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced to its lowest common. The post Art or IP? What Amazon’s Acquisition of MGM Teaches Us appeared first on IP.com - IP Innovation and Analytics.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

Finally today, Security Magazine reports that the Motion Picture Association (MPA) has launched a new initiative aimed at decreasing piracy through better cloud security. 3: Motion Picture Association Fights Piracy with Cloud Security. The new initiative is through the Trusted Partner Network (TPN).

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 13, 2022

Her lawsuit targets both The Atlantic and Don Peck, the publication’s former print magazine editor and current editor-at-large. Glass, a repeated fabulist, was fired for his ethical lapses and that placed pressure on Barrett, who left the magazine later that year. However, now Barrett is fighting back.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MARCH 2, 2024

My über-sharp friend Oliver Herzfeld, moving up in the world, has written an article in Forbes magazine on a recent Copyright Office policy statement that, as he puts it, “revises, and to a certain extent reverses, its prior position regarding the protection of compilations.” ” Oliver sums up the changes.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

I began writing for Managing IP magazine in 2007 and remember well the lead-up to the law. The discussion centered mostly on the change from a first-inventor-to-invent to a first-inventor-to-file system, which was seen as a way to harmonize the United States with the rest of the world, but which many feared would be detrimental to U.S.

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Patently-O

APRIL 3, 2022

As part of that process, VF obtained a license from Goldsmith, but only for the limited use “as an artist’s reference in connection with an article to be published in Vanity Fair Magazine.” The published article acknowledges Goldsmith. As part of that process, Warhol created a set of 16 Prince prints.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JUNE 1, 2023

Circuit has ruled that Time magazine’s Matthew Cooper and The New York Times’ Judith Miller have to. Another red hot AP story: The Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. The post DC Circuit: Press Not Shielded appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the June issue of Royaltie$ magazine, Oliver Herzfeld (of Beanstalk) and Richard Bergovoy (of the Licensing Law Blog) sure know how to grab your. Talk about “Dear John” letters! The post “Dear Licensor” appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

According to the allegations in the complaint, in 1983, author Ahud Yonay wrote a magazine story about the real-life exploits of two naval fighter pilots entitled, “Top Guns.” District Court for the Central District of California over the blockbuster film of the summer, Top Gun Maverick.

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Likelihood of Confusion

AUGUST 28, 2023

In 1989, when I was still a contributing editor to the ABA’s Student Lawyer magazine, I wrote an article describing, in somewhat purple hues, the experience of preparing for the. The post The New York bar exam — “The Endless Summer” appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 22, 2023

The Court held that because both Warhol’s art and the Petitioner’s photograph were used with magazine articles about Prince, the purpose and character of both works were the same. The 7-2 opinion came in a case involving Andy Warhol’s transformation of a photograph of Prince. By: Wiley Rein LLP

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The Trichordist

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Steve Harvey at Mix Magazine warns us of a major issue on the digital horizon: Music on hard drives disappearing into digital bricks.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 7, 2022

They claim that they exercised their copyright termination rights to the 1986 magazine article written by Ehud Yonay upon which the original Top Gun movie was based. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. The lawsuit was filed by Shosh and Yuval Yonay, the widow and son of Ehud Yonay.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

At the time Goldsmith was also licensing her original photograph to several magazines that were also writing articles about Prince’s life and music. For example, Goldsmith licensed her photographs of Prince to illustrate stories about Prince in magazines such as Newsweek, Vanity Fair, and People.” But those cases are not this case.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Copyright Office announce a joint study on non-fungible tokens; IBM files a copyright infringement suit against Micro Focus for its unauthorized use of IBM’s mainframe software; and the Seventh Circuit nixes a right of publicity claim under Illinois state law after finding that the sale of a magazine subscriber list did not involve the use of the plaintiff’s (..)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Hustler precedent, which involved jurisdiction in a state to which the magazine delivered tens of thousands of hard copies: Sending tens of thousands of magazines to a state is an affirmative act that displays the publisher’s specific intent to target that state with what the magazines contain… websites are different.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The case was brought by Visapress , which acts on behalf of several newspaper and magazine publishers, and the film industry association GEDIPE. Together, these channels reportedly have more than 10 million members who have access to a wide range of movies, TV shows, newspapers, and magazines.

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Nelligan Law

MARCH 25, 2024

So, when Prince’s untimely exit prompted a resurrection of the original article alongside a commemorative Conde Nast magazine featuring the full Prince Series, Goldsmith saw red—and not just any red, but a vibrant, copyright-infringement red. Last summer, in the case of ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, INC. GOLDSMITH ET AL.,

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 20, 2022

There was a study published in Management Science Magazine called “Valuation of New Trademarks” , which showed that filing of trademarks significantly predicts the following year’s returns for publicly traded companies.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JUNE 11, 2023

My über-sharp friend Oliver Herzfeld, moving up in the world, has written an article in Forbes magazine on a recent Copyright Office policy statement that, as he puts. First published August 8, 2012. The post Best of 2012: The borders of Terpsichore appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In 2010, artist Charles Thomspon compiled a list of 15 separate plagiarism allegations against Hirst and published them in the art magazine Jackdaw. However, that doesn’t mean that he’s been without his strong detractors. The stories were as varied as Hirst’s career. Hirst paid an undisclosed sum to settle the case.

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