News of the Week; February 12, 2020

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Downtown Music Publishing LLC v. Peloton Interactive, Inc.
2. “Pound Cake” Sampling Is Fair Use According to the Second Circuit
3. 2nd Circuit Appeals Court Upholds Drake Sampling Fair Use Victory, But Doesn’t Think It’s Useful For Anyone Else
4. Estate of James Oscar Smith v. Drake (USCA 2^nd Circuit, 2.3.20)
5. Transformative Editing as Fair Use Under Copyright
6. Google v. Oracle: Will Software Be Free?
7. Supreme Court Set to Hear Copywrite Arguments in “Google v. Oracle”
8. China and United States see eye to IP
9. Copyright Troll Lawsuit Over Duct Taped Banana Picture
10. Photo Of $120K Banana Art Leads To Copyright Fight
11. Seattle Kraken or Sockeyes: How Legal Implications May Influence Seattle’s Decision
12. Get Up, Stand Up, For Your Copyrights
13. Fashion designers to have more protection against copying
14. Can copyright protect your fabric design from copycats and competitors?
15. Making Waves: IPEC finds fabric design a work of artistic craftmanship
16. CJEU rules that the provision of e-books is an act of communication to the public
17. Caltech Ten-Figure Patent Verdict Showcases Impact of University Intellectual Property
18. Patenting Coronavirus Treatments
19. EU’s top court clarifies when a patent settlement agreement can infringe EU antitrust rules
20. You Mess With Me, You Mess With My Whole (Patent) Family
21. Express License of Patent Includes Implied License of Continuations
22. The six big ways the US and Europe differ on software patents
23. What will France’s PACTE law mean for patents?
24. Standard-essential patents in United Kingdom
25. The future of 5G patent licensing
26. Top Issues in 2020: 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing
27. Government Looking in the Mirror: How to Do Better in IP Protection and Commercialization
28. Tech tools to draft patent applications could revolutionise IP proceedings
29. BREXIT’s Projected Impact on Intellectual Property Rights
30. Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz Drops Case After Suing On Behalf Of The Wrong Party And Trying To Swap Plaintiffs 
31. Update on Allarco Litigation – Allarco’s Potential Exit Costs in the Federal Court (Howard Knopf)
32. Judicial Review: Impact of the Vavilov Judgment
33. The Speaker, the President, and the Case of (the) Ripped Up Speech (Jonathan Zittrain)
34. Ninth Circuit Rules that LinkedIn Cannot Block Data Scraping
35. Video Sharing Site Protected by CDA Immunity for Removal of Poster’s “Objectionable Material”
36. Can a Retweet Constitute Copyright Infringement? Uh….–Bell v. Chicago Cubs (Eric Goldman)
37. Two New Mass Copyright Lawsuits – Rambo: Last Blood & Angel Has Fallen
38. What Happens When a High-Tech Apparel Brand Shares the Same Name as the Company that Backed the Controversial Iowa Caucus App?
39. Downloading public court documents costs a dime a page—is that legal?
40. Google Maps gets new icon, tweaked UI for 15th bi
41. Electronic signatures – legally binding or not worth the paper they’re written on?
42. Facebook, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping them for faces to match
43. Google Says Clearview’s Site Scraping Is Wrong; Clearview Reminds Google It Scrapes Sites All The Time
44. Clearview AI and the Legal Challenges Facing Facial Recognition Databases
45. Clearview Looking To Expand Its Market To Problematic Countries Known For Human Rights Abuses
46. Ajunwa to Congress: Help stop employers’ AI-fueled bias
47. AI isn’t just coming to the world of dating—it’s already here
48. Artificial Intelligence at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
49. LAW’s Danielle Citron: How Campaigns Can Counter Deepfakes – Cybersecurity expert and MacArthur Fellow has devised an eight-point plan for political campaigns to protect against fabricated video and audio
50. Harvard Students Again Show ‘Anonymized’ Data Isn’t Really Anonymous
51. As The World Frets Over Social Media Tracking For Advertising, Young People Are Turning Fooling Sites Into Sport

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