IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 19, 2025

Rahul Dhawan, her lawyer, argued that the disputed clip was part of Nayanthara’s ‘Personal Liberty’ as it was shot on her device and was already circulating in the public domain. He clarified that Dhanush’s production company, Wunderbar Films Private Limited, did not own the footage.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 26, 2022

Many digital file formats allow creators to embed additional data to provide details of ownership or any other relevant information. This metadata might include the name of the person who created the file but it can be much more comprehensive. ” Implications Moving Forward.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

According to a report by Markets and Markets, the cryptocurrency market is expected to grow from USD 1.6 According to a report by Business Insider, more than half of the 100 largest banks in the world have already invested in crypto and blockchain-based companies. billion in 2021 to USD 2.2

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IPilogue

MARCH 21, 2022

In September 2021, the IPilogue reported that India’s copyright office recognized the RAGHAV Painting App (“RAGHAV”), an artificial intelligence (“AI”) tool, as an author of the copyright-protected artistic work, Suryast. Sabrina Macklai is an IPilogue Senior Editor and a 2L JD Candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

They further claimed that any similarities that did exist were derivative of Irish folk songs such as Danny Boy (aka Londonderry Air ), which was in the public domain. Before turning to the differences in the expert witness reports, the district court examined the legal framework for a copyright infringement claim.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 17, 2023

The mapping of national legal sources of copyright flexibilities and their comparative analysis provided a detailed overview of the state of the art of copyright flexibilities in all the 27 Member States, organized in 27 national reports which illustrated national provisions using the same taxonomy applied to EU sources. Public domain.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

Yet, the very same automation poses challenges for the application of copyright law, increasing legal uncertainty, as demonstrated in this report vis-à-vis AI music outputs. The result is that questions of originality – as well as authorship and ownership – in these cases will prima facie be governed by the operation of legal presumptions.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

On November 3rd, 2018, Thaler filed a copyright application for A Recent Entrance to Paradise, designating himself as the claimant and the work’s author as “Creativity Machine,” saying that the copyright should be transferred from the AI to him due to his “ownership of the machine.”

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

On November 3rd, 2018, Thaler filed a copyright application for A Recent Entrance to Paradise, designating himself as the claimant and the work’s author as “Creativity Machine,” saying that the copyright should be transferred from the AI to him due to his “ownership of the machine.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As a software-implemented creation, it was not in the public domain and the company willing to exploit the work had to clear the right to reproduction. In addition, there remain some strong doubts as to how AI companies will operationalize the reporting obligation under the belated copyright provision. of the CDSM Directive.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The defendants contended that the programme contained information about the legendary playback singer Dr. P.B.Srinivas which was available in public domain and it is not any person’s created copyright or created literature to be infringed. The plaintiff successfully proved his copyright ownership. 2, was not filed on time.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 25, 2023

An article in the Hollywood Reporter earlier this week suggested that there’s finally been some movement between the parties with respect to generative AI, as studios recognize that copyright protection in AI-generated scripts is only possible for those works if they’re revised by human writers. Previously registered material.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 13, 2024

In a 2016 report, Marci Goldberg of K-12 Market Advisors reported that “teachers spend an average of five hours per week creating materials and seven hours per week searching for materials.” Exceptions include materials in the public domain such as documents and materials the U.S. I am not alone.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Court noted that redacting one’s name from a judgment acquitting them is counterproductive when there are other tarnishing publications in the public domain and that access to court judgments are integral to “open justice”, subject only to some exceptions. Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on the IP regime.

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SpicyIP

JULY 14, 2023

The long Battle of the Booksellers was about perpetual ownership. By voting to limit the period of copyright, the House of Lords created the Public Domain. The Statute of Anne in 1710 pushed the author center stage only to justify that the stage belonged to the bookseller. The influenced the American Copyright Statute of 1790.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 2, 2021

They further claimed that any similarities that did exist were derivative of Irish folk songs such as Danny Boy (aka Londonderry Air ), which was in the public domain. Before turning to the differences in the expert witness reports, the district court examined the legal framework for a copyright infringement claim.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

30, 2021): Plaintiff alleges that Defendants knew that Defendant Wagner did not own the copyright to the images that Plaintiff posted on its social media channels, because Wagner abandoned the copyrights when he executed the Stipulation of Settlement, which dedicated the intellectual property rights of the images to the public domain.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Hughes: increasing registrations for women at the © office compared to other metrics where women are disadvantaged—ownership of stock, real property, presence on corporate boards, patent ownership which then translates to being in a startup. Said: ownership records; interview a few repeat players. public domain.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 13, 2022

A German professor of music theory received Content ID Claims for recordings in the public domain uploaded by his YouTube channels.

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IP Whiteboard

APRIL 15, 2021

The Duchess of Sussex) was recently granted summary judgment in a privacy claim against Associated Newspapers Limited, over the publication of extracts from a hand-written letter to her father (see HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 273 (Ch) ). Background.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 3, 2025

Moreover, the identity of the author was not disclosed by the plaintiff, which the Court held is essential for claiming copyright ownership. It also ruled that customer lists in the logistics and freight forwarding business cannot be automatically deemed confidential as such information is available in the public domain.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 18, 2025

While the order itself was recently recalled and removed from the public domain (see the ITAT order below), these citations were reported to be instances of AI hallucinations occurrences where an AI model generates information that is incorrect, misleading, or entirely fabricated.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 12, 2022

4) Exclusivity—don’t work with another studio; some others say you can’t write articles/talk to reporters—not clear whether enforceable. Also consistent with lay intuitions about self-ownership. Payoffs: Facts as part of larger public domain that needs to grow and not shrink. Can leverage identity for profit.

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Barry Sookman

MAY 4, 2020

The goals of patent law are generally recognized as seeking to foster and reward invention; promote disclosure of inventions to stimulate further innovation and to permit the public to practice the invention once the patent expires; and to assure that ideas in the public domain remain there for the free use of the public.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 4, 2024

public domain officially welcomes the comic debuts of Popeye and Buck Rogers, alongside classic works by Faulkner, Hemingway, and landmark sound films from the year talkies took over. The public domain offers endless opportunities to breathe new life into timeless works—chainsaws optional. public domain.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Third, is Trump’s claim of ownership barred by 17 U.S.C. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. Based solely on the complaint that was filed, there are six major issues raised by the case: First, were the recorded interviews a copyright-eligible “work of authorship”?

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

That then plays off the rest of the title’s allusions to separating “subjects” from the “predicates” of copyright ownership, themselves words connoting the foundational elements of both “ any complete sentence ” and at times a court’s jurisdiction over infringement matters. ” H.R.

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