Understanding How Generative AI Can Affect Your Business' Data Privacy And Ownership Is Crucial
JD Supra Law
MAY 13, 2024
“In assessing a generative AI product, it is critical to understand issues of data ownership and privacy.
Social Media, Creative Theft, and Copyright: What Every Independent Artist Needs to Know
Intepat
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Registering a song’s copyright provides proof of ownership, an invaluable tool in resolving disputes or dealing with unauthorized use. With the ease of sharing online, independent artists must take proactive steps to assert their ownership and protect their creations from unauthorized use.
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Social Media, Creative Theft, and Copyright: What Every Independent Artist Needs to Know
Intepat
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Registering a song’s copyright provides proof of ownership, an invaluable tool in resolving disputes or dealing with unauthorized use. With the ease of sharing online, independent artists must take proactive steps to assert their ownership and protect their creations from unauthorized use.
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COPYRIGHT IN METAVERSE
Intepat
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Issues of ownership, counterfeit goods, and infringements are rising concerns, threatening the sustainability of creativity in the metaverse. Copyright and Ownership in the Metaverse In the metaverse, copyright applies to digital creations such as virtual art, music, designs, and even entire virtual worlds.
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Data Privacy in the Age of Intellectual Property
IIPRD
JANUARY 24, 2024
This literature will delve into the issues that surround the sensitive issue of how companies maintain privacy while also trying to foster innovation. While the security of personal data is the main focus of data privacy, intellectual property also includes innovations like inventions, literary and creative works, and trademarks.
Bracing for Impact 2022: AI for the Future of Health – Q&A
IPilogue
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Synthetic data as a workaround for privacy issues. As a potential means for government to provide easy access to data, Dr. Gaon proposed using synthetic data to facilitate access to data and solve privacy problems, citing a government-led project in Israel. David Vaver put forth concerns about IP ownership. Conclusion.
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“Well frens, it happened to me;” Actor’s Stolen NFTs Highlight Uncertainties for NFT Artwork
JD Supra Law
JUNE 10, 2022
Let’s break down that mouthful: NFTs are a blockchain technology that creates indisputable ownership records that the art world has embraced as a way to buy and sell digital artwork. By: Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider Bored Apes” are a specific line of NFTs depicting original characters based on – you guessed it – bored.
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Understanding the Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Rule
LexBlog IP
JULY 25, 2023
Understanding the Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Rule by Josh Slovin The New Beneficial Ownership Reporting Rule: A Step towards Greater Transparency in US Businesses Privately-owned companies in the United States have long enjoyed a great degree of privacy about their internal affairs, particularly as to the identities of their owners.
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The Contested Meaning of Web3 & Why it Matters for (IP) Lawyers
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JANUARY 26, 2022
“Web3 cannot and should not be reduced to blockchain when the real shift is towards user ownership of digital assets… This definitional shift focuses attention on what assets can be legally owned and the meaning of ownership “rights,” more generally, in the emerging digital spaces of web3.”. . user ownership of digital assets)?
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Who Owns a Disputed Social Media Account? – JLM v. Gutman
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
AUGUST 5, 2022
This is a case focusing on ownership of social media accounts. See “ Social Media Ownership Disputes Part II: Bridal Wear Company Takes Back Control of Instagram Account from Ex-Employee ” and “ Another Confused Entry in the Social Media Account Ownership Jurisprudence–JLM v. (See We blogged this case twice before.
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Greece Prosecutes Owner of American VPN Service Over Fraudulent User Transactions
TorrentFreak
JULY 7, 2022
Amidst growing concerns surrounding online privacy and security, VPN services have become increasingly popular in recent years. Van Pelt has always been transparent about the ownership of the VPN company because he wants people to trust the service. This can create serious problems. Despite the legal trouble, that won’t change.
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Courts Still Have No Clue How to Determine Who Owns Social Media Accounts–JLM v. Gutman
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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Texas LLC Formation: 4 Privacy Considerations for Entrepreneurs
LexBlog IP
JANUARY 16, 2024
However, at a time when personal privacy is cherished more than ever, privacy is a crucial consideration when starting a business entity. While establishing a business requires some public disclosure, several strategies can be used to preserve privacy and maintain anonymity. 1] [link]
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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JUNE 17, 2023
According to the complaint, these separate entities are just one big data-sharing family, leveraging their combined resources in non-standard ways such as Microsoft sharing hardware and cloud infrastructure resources in exchange for an ownership interest in OpenAI. Complaint at 31. But not so, says the court.
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Ownership, Licensing, and Fair Use of Copyright for Webinars
Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
JUNE 23, 2022
Although privacy invasion has been the main topic of discussion in this virtual context, there is another issue at hand: copyright infringement. Ownership of copyright in the lectures presented by the speakers. The post Ownership, Licensing, and Fair Use of Copyright for Webinars appeared first on Biswajit Sarkar Blog.
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Copyright case: Sumrall v. LeSEA, Inc., USA
Kluwer Copyright Blog
AUGUST 6, 2024
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago has affirmed the dismissal of claims for copyright ownership brought by a trust asserting the rights of a son of the late evangelical pastor Dr. Lester Sumrall, finding those claims were barred by the Copyright Act’s three-year statute of limitations. LeSEA, Inc., 23-2833 (7th Cir.
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Reviewing SAAS Agreements in the Age of AI
JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Businesses are understandably looking to realize competitive advantages from leveraging these new AI technologies, but adding AI to a tech stack can present serious risks related to bias, data ownership, privacy, accuracy and cybersecurity.
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Personality Rights In India : A Statutory And Judicial Analysis
IP and Legal Filings
APRIL 19, 2023
Introduction Personality rights refer to a person’s ability to safeguard his or her identity in the context of a property or privacy right. Second, the right to privacy, which protects individuals from having their identities disclosed to the public without their consent. Puttaswamy v.
Powering the Future: Insights on Energy Innovation from a Semester at Alectra (IP Intensive Reflection)
IPilogue
JANUARY 16, 2023
University IP policies vary, but they all grapple with similar legal issues such as disclosure, use, ownership, commercialization, and revenue sharing. Current privacy legislation dictates that corporations must obtain valid consent from the individual to collect, use or disclose their personal information.
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Ironic Advocacy at Its Best: The Bay Apologizes to Hadiya Roderique for Copyright Infringement Mistake
IPilogue
JULY 28, 2021
An entity’s unauthorized use of a photographer’s image engages many legal issues: invasion of privacy , defamation , and violation of the right of publicity , to name a few. Roderique said she would like to see a financial donation as this “mistake” happens too often to IBPOC creation. The Legal Side.
Traditional Knowledge and Trade Secrets
IP and Legal Filings
JUNE 15, 2023
Collective ownership: In case TK is protected under trade secrets there is no requirement of specific right holder and the community is deemed to have collective personality. Perpetual ownership: Patent and copyright both have a limited period of protection, after which the traditional knowledge falls into the public domain.
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Who Owns Social Media Accounts?–In re Bang Energy Drinks
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MAY 30, 2023
Accordingly, the court preliminarily enjoins the Owocs from posting to the accounts until ownership is definitively adjudicated. You can see how social media account ownership issues are intractable when companies embrace “cults of personality” around a charismatic entrepreneur. So the accounts remain in limbo for now.
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Departing Employees Rename Their Former Employers’ Facebook Account. That May Be a Problem–La Baguette v. Tito & Tita
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MARCH 10, 2022
In a footnote, the court acknowledges the law is “evolving” with respect to employer ownership of social media accounts: The law on the ownership of a social media pages created by employees for employers is evolving rapidly and varies between jurisdictions. Maryland enacted a social media privacy law in 2021. DLB-21-401 (D.
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Africa IP highlights 2022 #1: Copyright matters
The IPKat
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Amongst other things, the Act also establishes a National Rights Registry (NRR ) , which is the central repository collating details pertaining to the ownership of various copyright works. The NRR allows copyright holders to register and view/download copyright certificates digitally.
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Navigating the Patent Maze: Challenges and Controversies in Emerging Technologies
IP and Legal Filings
DECEMBER 19, 2024
This would make it socially responsible to introduce technological break-throughs into services for the benefit of society, protecting intellectual property on one hand but allowing different voices that will shape the metaverse on the other, stipulating guidelines on data ownership and requiring consent by users.
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Kat Von D, Think Before You Ink
IPilogue
OCTOBER 1, 2022
More generally, the case raises an interesting consideration towards balancing the rights of copyright owners and the right of tattoo owners’ to privacy and bodily autonomy. . Further Reading. For more information on The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc.
Once Again, LinkedIn Can’t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scraping–hiQ v. LinkedIn
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MAY 2, 2022
The court remains skeptical of LinkedIn’s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles. With that said, the Ninth Circuit did some serious hand-waving on the privacy issues. Eric’s Comments.
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John Doe Order Issued Against “Taarak Mehta” Infringers: Revisiting the Rights Vested in Fictional Characters
SpicyIP
AUGUST 26, 2024
Simply Life India (2023) (“Anil Kapoor”) (in paragraph 53), wherein the Court, had ruled in favour of safeguarding the distinct personality rights of celebrities, including the rights of endorsement and privacy, against widespread online exploitation and unauthorised commercial use.
Do You Need an LLC to Trademark?
LexBlog IP
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
” However, the better answer is it depends on some consideration about ownership and cost. The two benefits of LLC ownership are: (1) “domicile” privacy; and (2) no need to reassign the trademark recordation. However, if you sign a trademark application by yourself, then that privacy is lost. Conclusion.
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Manu Bhaker’s Olympics Victory: Do Brands Violate Publicity Rights by Putting out Congratulatory Posts?
SpicyIP
AUGUST 2, 2024
Currently, Bhaker is managed by iOS Sports & Entertainment, who released a statement calling such unauthorized advertising as “moment marketing free of cost,” and issued a legal notice to the above brands to take such commercials down, contending that such advertisements violated their ownership of Bhaker’s personality rights.
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ChatUSG: What Companies Doing Business with the Government Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence
Intellectual Property Law Blog
MAY 2, 2023
Data Privacy : Systems should be developed with built-in protections from abusive data practices for individuals and the ability for individuals to have agency over how their data is used. The “generative” aspect of GAI implies that something new is being created. Both the U.S. Copyright Office and the U.S.
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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Nepal
IP and Legal Filings
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The Nepal Privacy Act was passed in September 2018. The Privacy Act, which implemented the constitutional right to privacy, had a big influence on how personal information was used legally. And a public proof of ownership for the NFT can be provided via blockchain technology. Image source:Freepic].
Evolution of Personality Rights in India
IP and Legal Filings
AUGUST 26, 2024
Personality Rights: Every individual has the right and ownership over the use of the information related to their identity, and this right even increases when the use is commercial. Earlier, particularly in defamation cases, the English law gave lesser significance to the idea of privacy to defend reputation. Topps Chewing Gum Inc. [2]
A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2021
SpicyIP
JANUARY 2, 2022
An interim order issued by a single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court recognised the right to be forgotten (RTBF) as a subset of the fundamental right to privacy. The Kerala High Court had recognised a petitioner’s right to privacy and reputation while seeking the removal of their name from judgments published on IndianKanoon.
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Putin Outlaws Anonymity: Identity Verification For Online Services, VPN Bypass Advice a Crime
TorrentFreak
AUGUST 1, 2023
No Anonymity, No Privacy Starting December, Russian online platforms will be required by law to verify the identities of new users before providing access to services. Registering on Russian internet platforms using foreign email systems such as Gmail or Apple will soon be prohibited.
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Can Facebook Stop Data Snarfers?–Meta v. BrandTotal
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JUNE 9, 2022
Any legal policy that encourages data snarfing must simultaneously contend with the potentially anti-competitive and anti-social effects of preventing legitimate players from snarfing, along with the potentially massive privacy and security risks that data snarfers create.
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Schoolroom Scuffle to Copyright Kerfuffle: Of Logos and Lawsuits
BYU Copyright Blog
APRIL 24, 2023
For privacy reasons, her real name has not been disclosed.SW John's wrongfully used the copyrighted logo without permission, claiming ownership and profiting from its use without compensating SW. SW was set to begin her senior year in the 2021-2022 school year before being dismissed from St. In essence, the lawsuit alleges that St.
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Piracy Giant Zoro.to Now Points to MPA/ACE ‘Seized Domain’ Nameservers
TorrentFreak
JULY 13, 2023
Tonic says that maintaining that type of database would reveal registrant information, something that many of its customers consider “invasive of their privacy.” ” This means that we cannot confirm that the Zoro.to
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New Mandatory U.S. Corporate Transparency Law asks ? Who's the BOSS?
LexBlog IP
DECEMBER 11, 2023
registered legal entity is legally required to report identity and beneficial ownership details to the Beneficial Ownership Secure System “BOSS” when the new CTA laws take effect from 1 January 2024. This blog article helps you understand whether your local U.S. or foreign U.S.
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Infographic | Intellectual Property behind tattoos
Olartemoure Blog
JULY 17, 2024
COMMISSIONED TATTOOS AND OWNERSHIP When commissioning a tattoo, clients pay for the service, not the copyright. Public interest defenses, such as freedom of expression and privacy rights, can also play a significant role in tattoo-related IP disputes. This distinction can lead to disputes over the use of the design.
Ping® October 2021 Changes Coming to Non-Compete Agreements in Illinois
LexBlog IP
OCTOBER 1, 2021
The law also does not address covenants for independent contractors, and expressly carves out restrictions on a person purchasing or selling the goodwill or an ownership interest in a business. text: ‘Privacy’, }. }. }); }); Mandatory Review. __ATA.initDynamicSlot({. text: ‘Advertisements’, }, creative: {.
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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Indonesia
IP and Legal Filings
OCTOBER 28, 2022
NFT creation, investment, sale, and ownership interest exists in Indonesia and elsewhere in the world. privacy policy; and. Introduction. Non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) continue to be popular. A digital asset that is held on a blockchain, such as music, art, in-game items, or films, is referred to as an NFT. data retention.
SpicyIP Weekly Review (June 28 – July 4)
SpicyIP
JULY 5, 2021
Copyright Ownership in State Board Textbooks: Impediments to Accessibility. Some of these could survive the death of the celebrity, however, the right to privacy was not among them. Thematic Highlight. Image from here.
Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on Traditional Knowledge: Idealistic Expectations or Unworkable Ideas?
SpicyIP
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
It also fails to recognize that the incentive that formal IP protection provides in terms of ownership and commercial exploitation need not necessarily be the driving factor of innovation within traditional or indigenous communities. This, then brings up the issue of cultural privacy. An Uncritical Approach.
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