TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Defendants also use privacy protection services to hide their names and contact information from the public domain name WHOIS database.” . “Many Defendants do not provide any contact information such as a physical address, email address, or phone number, and conduct their transactions entirely pseudonymously.

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Public Domain Copyright Infringement Privacy Reporting 124

TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

Whether similar disclosures will appear in the days and weeks ahead is unknown but thanks to GMP’s ability to accurately retrieve information, at least some facts have entered the public domain. If West Midlands Police or Leicestershire Police receive similar requests, their record retrieval skills shouldn’t disappoint.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 3, 2021

When legislation is enacted, this is unlikely to bode well for either the right to privacy, or judicial transparency. In Justice Kaul’s concurring opinion, he considers that the RTBF can be brought under the umbrella of the right to privacy. The Puttaswamy judgment does not lay down any laws pertaining to the RTBF.

Privacy 105

Privacy Public Domain Law Litigation 105

Dear Rich IP Blog

JULY 27, 2023

More importantly, deceased figures cannot be defamed or have their privacy invaded (the two common basis for lawsuits involving the use of real people in fiction). Mexican copyright law placed Kahlo's works in the public domain 25 years after her death, so you don't need authorization to include a photo of her painting in your film.

Public Domain 52

Public Domain Artwork Privacy Copyright Law 52

The IPKat

MAY 29, 2023

The second edition offers revised, or wholly rewritten chapters to the overlaps discussed in the first edition so as to reflect recent developments, as well as to include new chapters (the overlap between privacy and copyright law; privacy and secrecy; trademarks certification marks and collective marks; and IP and traditional knowledge).

Intellectual Property 90

Intellectual Property Editing Privacy Moral Rights 90

Velocity of Content

JANUARY 23, 2024

Meta)data are released with a clear and accessible data usage license Ringgold IDs are effectively in the public domain, e.g., in JATS and PubMed data, although are not released under a specific license attached to the data. This enables interactions between systems and use cases across the scholarly research workflow. 

Licensing 98

Licensing Public Domain Privacy Designs 98

The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

An inventor must secure a patent application within a very short period of time to prevent the work from falling into the public domain. In the US, privacy laws are generally driven by state law, but there may be applicable federal law depending on the nature of the information collected. A special note about customer data.

IP 98

IP Intellectual Property Social Media Cease and Desist 98

SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Supreme Court of India , which dealt with issues of confidentiality, privacy (prior consent) of litigants and witnesses, restrictions on access to proceedings of trials and the preservation of the larger public interest due to the sensitivity of the proceedings. These are based on the principles set forth in Swapnil Tripathi v.

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Copyright Government Law Editing 136

IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 15, 2023

Perpetual ownership: Patent and copyright both have a limited period of protection, after which the traditional knowledge falls into the public domain. In those cases, courts typically grant relief to communities under the banner of cultural privacy if there has been an unauthorised disclosure of their traditional knowledge.

Ownership 98

Ownership Privacy Public Domain Copyright 98

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

This unauthorized usage may also give rise to breaches of confidence or violations of privacy. While economic interests can be quantified and compensated monetarily, non-economic concerns such as privacy violations, damage to reputation, and mental distress may not be entirely redressed through financial means.

Intellectual Property 98

Intellectual Property Registration Trademark Personality Rights 98

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

No amendment offered in public session. Delete Article 11(3) (three-step test) or apply only to additional exceptions: (3) Contracting Parties shall confine any additional limitations of or exceptions to …” Add: “, taking account of the legitimate interests of third parties ” No amendment offered in public session.

Public Domain 69

Public Domain Contracts Copyright Licensing 69

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.

IP 143

IP Intellectual Property Copyright Trademark 143

SpicyIP

AUGUST 28, 2022

The Narendera Publishing House case provided a more interesting view by regarding copyright as a “privilege” and user interests as the “ competing interest of enriching the public domain” The Rameshwari Photocopy judgment is interesting as it used differing descriptions for Section 52. create works and make them available).

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IP Copyright Fair Use Public Domain 138

43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2023

One lesson: Threats to privacy are threats to communities and practices that sustain creativity. public interest opposed in those cases and in Kirtsaeng. It’s easier to identify superior moral claim in race/gender discrimination than in the public domain. The “clean air and water” of culture are at risk.

Public Domain 52

Public Domain Contracts IP Privacy 52

Patently-O

AUGUST 22, 2022

And, once a patent expires (or is refused or forfeited by public use), the balance allows “free access to copy whatever the federal patent and copyright laws leave in the public domain.” And, in addition the court noted that trade secrets protect a “most fundamental human right, that of privacy.”

Patent Law 91

Patent Law Law Patent Invention 91

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The Court found that the registered trademarks of the plaintiff are in the public domain. The defendants are in a similar business and were alleged using deceptively identical marks like LOUIS PHILLIPE and LORIS PHILIPPE. The defendants also abandoned their defence in the suit.

Journalism 52

Journalism Trademark Registering Trademarks Business 52

SpicyIP

JULY 17, 2023

The court, however, dismissed the application holding that the impugned film was based on information in the public domain and clarified that the publicity and privacy rights are not heritable and died with the late actor.

Personality Rights 97

Personality Rights Copyright Patent Copyright Infringement 97

JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

addition of written or pictorial elements) of a work not in the public domain and/or where the creator is still alive. The legal concerns aside, the use of AR and VR in museums arguably benefits the public. For the most part, liability may be avoidable: museums could defend any copyright (e.g.,

Moral Rights 52

Moral Rights Art Fair Use Derivative Work 52

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

An inventor must secure a patent application within a very short period of time to prevent the work from falling into the public domain. In the US, privacy laws are generally driven by state law, but there may be applicable federal law depending on the nature of the information collected. A special note about customer data.

IP 52

IP Intellectual Property Social Media Cease and Desist 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Nowhere in this so-called balance was any mention made of the public side of the copyright balance—the public’s interest in the creation and dissemination of works, for example, or users’ rights to make fair and lawful uses of protected works, or the importance of the public domain (in which facts and information—i.e.

Copyright 75

Copyright Government Copyright Law Reporting 75

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

His defense is that the work he used was free for all; after his victory, that work remains in the public domain for others to build upon. A successful defendant, by contrast, recovers nothing he didn’t already have. The best he can hope for is to break even—to recover his attorney’s fees.

IP 98

IP Advertising Advertising Copyright 98

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

In other words, what level of contractual control over public domain information is acceptable. However, this is not the focus of the Second Circuit’s approach. The relevant question should be whether or not certain contractual limitations over information goods are socially desirable. For example, specific statutes can tackle it.

Blogging 98

Blogging Contracts Copyright Law Copyright 98

IP Intelligence

JULY 19, 2024

Practitioners Remain Responsible for AI Compliance: Information submitted to publicly accessible AI tools could trigger an inadvertent public disclosure and materially affect patentability. Data breaches and data leaks of AI tools could further cause disclosure risks. may result in a breach of export laws. persons may be deemed an export.” [2]

Inventor 52

Inventor Confidentiality Social Media Public Domain 52

LexBlog IP

AUGUST 22, 2022

REXA serves as an important reminder that trade secret claimants must identify with specificity the elements that distinguish the alleged trade secret from general knowledge in the field or public domain.

Patent Application 52

Patent Application Public Domain Designs Design 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Google changed its privacy policy to collect all “public” data (viz., The whole point of copyright preemption is that Congress sought to prevent states from infringing on the public domain and undermining key concepts of copyright law. Just in the last year, OpenAI released ChatGPT. StabilityAI exploded.

Blogging 98

Blogging Copyright Contracts Cease and Desist 98

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 20, 2022

Accordingly, the proposed right is intended to incorporate the entire catalogue of copyright exceptions, the Swedish freie Benutzung provision in section 4, uses of unprotected content (for example which are in the public domain) and licensed uses (Ds 2021:30, pp. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

Copyright 59

Copyright Intellectual Property Law Public Domain Copyright Law 59

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Designed to be freely available licensed or public domain; we occasionally use fair use images where no free image is available, such as when a famous work has been destroyed. Cloudflare, Alissa Starzak: Tech measures used by platforms do not work for infrastructure providers and could have profound impacts on privacy and security.

Copyright 45

Copyright Fair Use Music Licensing 45

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance. It also provides a cost-effective way to accelerate such processes.

Technology 52

Technology Patent IP Invention 52

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance. It also provides a cost-effective way to accelerate such processes.

Technology 52

Technology Patent IP Invention 52

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance. It also provides a cost-effective way to accelerate such processes.

Technology 52

Technology Patent IP Invention 52

LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The third paragraph of the NDA further stated that its confidentiality obligations did not apply to information that was in “or hereafter comes into[] the public domain, otherwise than by reason of breach of” the NDA.

Confidentiality 52

Confidentiality Contracts Public Domain Designs 52

LexBlog IP

APRIL 11, 2023

However, the good news is eventually this plant will become part of the public domain and accessible to everyone. This means that, for a limited time, only the Department of Agriculture can grow and sell this exciting new fruit. media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {.thegem-vc-text.thegem-custom-6435b7e7c408e9747{display:

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Editing Patent Patent Application Social Media 52

43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The excerpts were neither derogatory nor an invasion of Monbo’s privacy, and this use of a right of publicity suit “could substantially interfere with the utilization of a work in ways explicitly permitted by the Copyright Act, such as for uses that would qualify as fair use under 17 U.S.C. § The similarities in setting, theme, etc.

Fair Use 52

Fair Use Trademark Copyright Editing 52

IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

However, I intend to take broad examples of how social transformation has had an enormous impact on law and how this has affected the public. The two topics are LGBTQ Rights and the Right to privacy. 9] The establishment of LGBTQ Rights in 2014 led up to the formation of the Right to Privacy.

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Privacy Law Government Social Media 96

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. The Duke of Sussex, a.k.a.

Privacy 40

Privacy Copyright Publishing Law 40

The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2022

Possible topics include but are not limited to: (i) Intellectual property, including live streaming, clones, reskinning, modding and/or fan participations, etc.; (ii)

Intellectual Property 119

Intellectual Property IP Registration Copyright 119

SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Reality Check : The Privacy Bait-and-Switch : Initially conceptualized as protection against “embarrassment” or “reputational injury,” personality rights have morphed into a property-like right to control and profit from one’s likeness.

Privacy 105

Privacy Personality Rights Public Domain Ownership 105