TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

When copies of games are obtained illegally, technological measures prevent playback on Switch consoles. “The use of emulators, which circumvent these technological measures, allow people such as Defendant to play pirated Nintendo Switch games — including leaked games — on PCs, Macs, and Android devices,” the complaint states.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

In a world where the divide between high-income and low-income nations grows every day, the report argues that bridging this gap requires economies to boost innovation and development by building, diversifying and applying knowledge embodied in technology. This leads to concentration, where a few countries dominate specific sectors.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 8, 2025

The United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) published its annual Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets a few hours ago. Perhaps it will result in another ‘positive development’, which the USTR can highlight in next year’s version of the notorious markets report. The full overview also includes offline markets.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Over the past two years, dozens of lawsuits were filed against technology companies. However, the RIAA’s latest ‘notorious markets’ submission to the U.S. RIAA’s 2024 Piracy Threats The RIAA’s latest submission for the USTR’s notorious markets list starts with stream-rippers.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

After all, the supposed benefit of the technology is that it exists fully decentralized and doesn’t require trust to work on a technical level. As such, Cent is a name that is well known both by those invested in the NFT market and those that are merely observing. Bottom Line.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

The mainstream reputation of NFTs was hopelessly trashed and, as the regular crypto market began to falter, the NFT market was especially hard hit. It just requires a complete rethinking of the technology and its application. That said, blockchain technology has already been created and may address some of these cases.

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IPilogue

MARCH 16, 2025

By 'Damola Adediji Policy researchers and government studies worldwide have continued to express deep concerns surrounding Big Tech firms and their extensive collection of personal digital data, which affects how markets operate and compete. Eben , Fourcade and Kluttz ). Network effects result from how the number of users in a network (e.g.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

” Market effect: “Townsquare’s article reporting on the original Jordan video similarly contained that original video as part of an embedded post from X, including additional text and images from the X post, and there is thus little to no risk of market usurpation.”

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 22, 2025

While technical standards are intended to be implemented on a wide scale in the mass consumer market, many standardized technologies are protected by patents (known as standard essential patents or SEPs). Technical standards are industry norms that enable interoperability, promote safety, and create economies of scale.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Piracy vs. privacy Cloudflare warns the EU against copyright holders’ broad generalizations that only focus on the downsides of technology. Those fail to recognize the value of innovative technologies that aim to increase privacy and security for the broader public.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Bridgers appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Giannella “Shitty Media Men” List Operator Doesn’t Qualify for Section 230 (Yet)–Elliott v. Donegan The post CA Anti-SLAPP Law Applies to #MeToo Instagram Post–Nelson v.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The controversy surrounding AI and copyright extends beyond the courtroom to the art market, where AI-generated works are increasingly contested. The ruling in Thomson Reuters v.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 22, 2025

To determine whether the use constitutes fair use or not is determined based on a number of factors like if they primarily include the purpose and character of the use, the nature of the copyrighted work, the amount used, and the effect on the market for the original work. Another important factor is market effect. Google, Inc.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Opportunities Making Digital Markets Work for People – Fairness, Efficiency and Consumer Welfare in Dialogue The Centre for Business Law at Lund University (ACLU) has launched a call for papers on the the theme of digital markets, ahead of a symposium that will be held in Lund in February 2025. For further information, click here.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

A Glimmer of Hope That the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) Won’t Turn Into a Troll Factory Comments on the Copyright Office’s Copyright Claims Board Rulemaking A Summary of the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) [Excerpt from my Internet Law casebook] The post A 27-Month Check-In on the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology (..)

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Court’s analysis reveals a misunderstanding of how technological innovation intersects with copyright law. Analysis of Legal Defenses The Merger Doctrine The Court’s dismissal of the merger doctrine was a missed opportunity to address an issue intertwined with legal and technological colors.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

And so we have a market failure. There are empirical questions about how widespread that market failure really is (i.e. how many welfare-enhancing works would fail to be created under a free market?), and there are also a range of policy tools to address such a market failure of which copyright is only one. I am doubtful.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 26, 2025

At this moment, the bill emerges in a world where governments grapple throughout the world to provide a balance in unleashing innovation in the financial technologies sector with the imperatives of financial stability and security. The Ripple case has reflected how hard it is to apply the Howey Test in using it for cryptocurrency assets.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

KMC appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. 15, 2024) The post When a Copyright Owner Gets Only a $1,000 Judgment in Federal Court, They’re the Real Losers–McDermott v.

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McKinsey Operations

MARCH 8, 2023

While still nascent, generative AI has the potential to help fashion businesses become more productive, get to market faster, and serve customers better. The time to explore the technology is now.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 5, 2024

On 27 December 2023, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft alleging copyright infringement in connection with OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT technology. The next wave of AI-related lawsuits will likely target companies and products that are.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 22, 2025

Patent Assignees and the Top 10 Fastest Growing Technologies of 2024, providing a snapshot of the worlds most innovative companies and rapidly advancing tech sectors by analyzing U.S. patent grants totals over the last calendar year. Although U.S. patents.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 26, 2025

Over the past few years, AI technology has progressed at a rapid pace. Similarly, the court saw no clear evidence for market harm either. The music companies argued that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted lyrics could negatively affect the emerging AI licensing market, where lyrics are officially licensed to AI companies.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Though Ross has the burden to establish the fair use defense, the copyright owner should bear the burden to show that it had a non-hypothetical licensing market for training AI systems that Ross’ activities allegedly undercut. Ross Copyright Ruling appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The Defendant, Ross Intelligence Inc (Ross), is a new competitor to Westlaw, which has created a legal-research search engine which uses AI technology (although it is worth noting that we are not talking about so-called "generative" AI (GAI), and this claim predates the recent explosion of ChatGPT and other GAI tools).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 7, 2025

Binello appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Schedule A Defendants If TOS Formation Fails, Bad Legal Outcomes Are Likely to FollowDoe v. Roblox The post Roblox Faces Potentially Unlimited Copyright LiabilityRobinson v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The post Call for Papers/Participation: the revived Internet Law Works-in-Progress Conference, SCU, March 8, 2025 appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. We look forward to seeing you in Santa Clara! Regards, Eric.

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Barry Sookman

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The key is to protect the public from material risks of harm, but without over regulating technological progress and innovation. The first, an article by Florian Mueller OpenAIs Sora latest major AI technology to be withheld from EU, UK markets at least for now and presumably due to overregulation.…

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This includes Universal Music Group ( UMG ), which sees both the good and bad aspects of this rapidly developing technology. According to Grant, UMG broadly embraces AI technology and has already obtained several patents in this area. At the same time, it also presents new challenges. Good AI Luckily it’s not all doom and gloom.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 7, 2025

A world increasingly defined by convergent technology – digital-physical hybrid goods and services – is providing the very framework through which businesses operate, innovate, and connect with their consumers. Global Enforcement: The key is working with local legal resources within crucial markets for protection of the brand.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

” While countries like China focus on the “first to file” rule, India gives more importance to those who first use a trademark in the market. Because the big company has more resources for marketing and advertising, it overwhelms the smaller business’s brand identity. Intex Technologies (India) Ltd.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2025

The court also notes that money damages could compensate for any market harms. ” The court concludes: “By seeking a preliminary injunction, Publishers are essentially asking the Court to define the contours of a licensing market for AI training where the threshold question of fair use remains unsettled.”

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The role of KM is evolving, with new tools and approaches that support KM professionals as enablers of upskilling and adapting to new technological advancements that help organizations stay competitive in an increasingly data-driven world. As a few speakers noted, KM isnt a technology problem its a human one.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Such a doctrine is the cornerstone for secondary markets such as libraries, used bookstores, and places for selling used CDs and DVDs. The case involved the organization called ReDigi, an online market where users can resell digital music files they have bought legally. Section 109 of 17 U.S.C., ReDigi Inc.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 21, 2024

The energy industry is experiencing massive transformation as incentives grow to invest in green technologies. By: Vinson & Elkins LLP

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Thus, a defense that has the Fair Use Principle at its bedrock, in order to be an acceptable defense, must prove the existence of these factors in its favor, namely, the purpose and character of Use, the nature of copyrighted work, the amount and substantiality of the portion used and the effect of Use upon potential markets. [1]

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Investors and companies are pouring cash into the space, and particularly into generative AI (GAI), to seize their share of the market which McKinsey reports could add up to $4.4 trillion annually to the global economy. Some companies are investing tens or hundreds of millions of dollars or more into GAI.

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