Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

But its website markets ads, merchandise, and ad-free experiences to all comers. If marketing ads, merchandise, and ad-free experiences to all visitors can create jurisdiction over a website with respect to an unrelated libel claim, we can imagine few claims against a website that would fall beyond the reach of “claim-specific” jurisdiction.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 18, 2025

Opportunities Call for submissions to WIPO Magazine on Music and IP. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is seeking submissions for a special issue of the WIPO Magazine. Events Geographical Indications Conference Safeguarding our Heritage, Cultivating our Future and photography exhibition. More information here.

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WIPO Magazine

JUNE 18, 2022

Find out how Villgro Africa, a Nairobi-based business incubator and early-stage investor focusing on health and life sciences, is working to transform Africa’s innovation landscape and helping startups take their ideas to market.

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LexBlog IP

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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JD Supra Law

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. By: Weintraub Tobin

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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.” at 1290 (Gorsuch, J., concurring).

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The Hollywood group sees copyright infringement as one of Telegram’s growth drivers and it urged the US Trade Representative to put the service on the annual list of notorious piracy markets. The case was brought by Visapress , which acts on behalf of several newspaper and magazine publishers, and the film industry association GEDIPE.

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Intepat

MARCH 25, 2025

Several luxury brands, including Tom Ford, Chanel, and Dior, annually invest millions into developing and marketing their signature perfumes. Dupe perfumes are often marketed as affordable alternatives to their premium counterparts, offering similar fragrances without the hefty price tag. billion in 2025.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 28, 2022

Under the Copyright Act, 1957, if an article is written by an author in the course of employment for a newspaper, a magazine or similar periodical under a contract of employment, the proprietor of the newspaper is deemed the owner of the copyright in that article, unless otherwise agreed.

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IAM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Saturday Opinion: Recent signs point toward more patent licensing negotiations between Chinese tech companies. That’s good news for the country’s IP system.

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IAM Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Greg Case has been bullish about the sector for a while and if he is right it could finally mean the birth of the asset class so many have been waiting for.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Goldsmith said she was not aware of Warhol’s work until Tribute magazine featured the image, without crediting her, when Prince passed away in 2016. In fact, nearly all creations by Andy Warhol are derivatives of existing images—celebrity photos, advertisements, magazine illustrations, etc.—to

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IAM Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

Two newly launched licensing platforms say the moment has arrived to deploy the rapidly developing technology, but not everyone is convinced.

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WIPO Magazine

MARCH 14, 2021

Audrey Yap, President of Licensing Executive International outlines why it is important for SMEs to embrace intellectual property.

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WIPO Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Eleonora Rosati, author of Copyright in the Digital Single Market, offers a taster of her article-by-article commentary of the the EU Digital Single Market Directive, which seeks to make EU copyright fit for the digital single market.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

India’s National Innovation Foundation and Honeybee Network recognized her innovation which was later featured in several prominent media outlets – Outlook magazine in 2005 followed by a Discovery Channel feature and an NDTV story. Patents or external awards/recognition do not always result in marketable products.

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IAM Magazine

MAY 30, 2022

IAM speaks to IPwe founder about the new patterns of patent deal-making made possible by developing technologies.

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WIPO Magazine

MARCH 14, 2021

The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) offers insights from its recent studies which shows the SMEs that own IP rights have a 68 percent higher revenue per employee than those that do not own any IP rights.

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IAM Magazine

MARCH 3, 2022

Survey of deals forms part of wider IAM Q1 2022 Special Report on patent transactions now available to subscribers.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 29, 2024

Introducing Article 14 of the Copyright in Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) , the EU legislator made it mandatory across the 27 Member States to ensure that faithful reproductions of visual artworks belonging to the public domain remain free to circulate and be used across the Union.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2024

They include the Japan Satellite Broadcasting Association, Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, Japan Video Software Association, Japan Magazine Publishers Association, Association of Japanese Animations, plus several others involved in the videogame, software, and content protection legal sectors.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The Copyright Act defines adaptation as (i) “in relation to a literary … work, any abridgement of the work or any version of the work in which the story or action is conveyed wholly or mainly by means of pictures in a form suitable for reproduction in a book, or in a newspaper, magazine or similar periodical.”

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Kashishipr

JULY 20, 2022

Although this may sound quite encouraging and motivating for those with original ideas, many famous brands out there are accused and widely recognized for being copycats in the market and, unfortunately, making a lot of money. The stories feature on Instagram is the same as that of its rival and competitor in the market, Snapchat.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Goldsein also sent marketing materials incorporating RCI images to various vendors, including in a PowerPoint presentation. The court noted, that, “[o]n the one hand, the global market for fine jewelry is perhaps enormous.” But “the market for name-brand, artistically produced luxury jewels is surely a discrete subset of that industry.”

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 20, 2025

(read order here) , Judge Hellerstein dismissed copyright infringement claims brought by videographer Delray Richardson over the embedding of YouTube-hosted videos in articles published by XXL Magazine.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

2H 2015 Quick Links, Part 7 (Marketing, Advertising, E-Commerce). Online Magazine Gets Section 230 Protection For Third Party Article–AdvanFort v. Amazon appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Global Tel*Link. Second Circuit Enforces Terms Hyperlinked In Confirmation Email–Starkey v. G Adventures.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 25, 2022

art market, the Report concluded that there was no immediate need to impose new regulations on the art market to combat money laundering and terrorism finance. Yet the Report also discussed how the art market remains susceptible to money laundering and describes how market participants can minimize this risk. Background.

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Garrigues Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

There was such interest in these new technologies that the term metaverse became a top trend in the textile industry that year and one year later Vogue magazine dubbed 2022 as the year of fashion NFTs. This technology is also particularly relevant in the vintage or second-hand clothing markets.

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IPilogue

JUNE 30, 2022

Additionally, the defendants were also found to be publishing a magazine with the same name and offering for sale various merchandise using content from the movie, including its title, in the same logo script. Regarding confusion, the court held that the internet has created an additional market for “Sholay”.

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Externally, businesses are deploying AI-powered chatbots for customer service, using AI to personalize marketing campaigns, and even developing AI-assisted product design. Internally, companies are leveraging AI for tasks such as automated report generation, data analysis, and employee training programs.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

” In his complaint, Fyk says he published WTF (“Where’s The Fun”) Magazine that achieved success on Facebook, including 25M followers and hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue each month. US appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Interestingly, a study done in the UK by WIPO entitled “ The Economic Implications of the Artist’s Resale Right ” demonstrated that the resale right had no negative impact of the price of artworks or the competitiveness of markets. The study also found that the market continued to grow after the implementation of the resale right in 2006.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

3] The Court found that the Warhol Foundation’s licensing of the Orange Prince to Conde Nast did not have a sufficiently different purpose as the Goldsmith photograph because both were “portraits of Prince used in magazines to illustrate stories about Prince.” [4] The effect upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. [8]

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The defendant, Alexandra Wenman, is also a spiritual author and holistic therapist, as well as a past editor of and writer for ‘Prediction Magazine’, one of the longest-running mind, spirit and body magazines available at the time.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Judging from the Rusty Krab’s marketing efforts and social media promotion as detailed in Viacom’s complaint, the pop-up was far more focused on providing the backdrop for Instagram-worthy selfies than it was on producing edible food. Rusty Krab Restaurant (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 26, 2023

The court concluded that JSC’s unique designs acquired secondary meaning in the eyes of consumers in the furniture market, particularly because of Trendily’s copying, and possessed protectable trade dress. JSC designs high-end furniture hand-crafted by woodworkers in Indonesia. Trade dress is not intrinsically protectable.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Android-based set-top devices have saturated the market in recent years, and it’s not uncommon for households to have several; downstairs, upstairs, and probably at least one in a drawer. For devices that enter the local market without certification, Anatel regularly reports various actions to remove them.

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