INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- Federal Court of Appeal Deals Access Copyright Huge Blow As It Overturns York University Copyright Decision (Michael Geist)
- The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 48: Sam Trosow and Lisa Macklem on Copyright and Fair Dealing During a Pandemic (Michael Geist)
- Access Copyright v. York – The Next Chapter
- Federal Court of Appeal Finds That Tariffs Certified by the Copyright Board Are Not Mandatory, and Fair Dealing Guidelines Are Not a Shield
- Canadian Publishing Group Says France Has The Right Idea, Presses For Its Own Google Tax
- Digital books and ownership rights in the information age
- Too Late Blues for Guitar Maker’s Copyright Ownership Claims
- Photographer Prods Actress Ellen Barkin With Copyright Infringement Suit
- From Tiger King To Censorship King: Copyright Lobbyist Cheers On SLAPP Copyright Suit Featured In Tiger King
- UNESCO Suggests COVID-19 Is A Reason To Create… Eternal Copyright
- Fash-Shunned: Selena Gomez Sues Fashion App for $10 Million for Allegedly Using Her Name and Likeness Without Permission
- Supreme Court Says Georgia’s ‘Official Code’ Is Public Domain — Including Annotations
- Supreme Court rules Georgia can’t put the law behind a paywall
- Supreme Court holds that Georgia cannot copyright the annotations to its laws
- SCOTUS Rules No Copyright in Official Annotated State Code
- Supreme Court says state laws aren’t copyrightable
- Mr Worldwide’s Great American ‘Scream’ – Protection granted for Pitbull’s famous yell
- Don’t POKE a trademark unless you have sufficient evidence to invalidate it
- Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s an infringement of a reputable mark!
- Battle of the ‘McGregors’ – UFC Champion loses legal battle in the EUIPO ring
- Hugo Boss versus Hugo Boss: Lessons from Lycett’s Antics
- Cyprus corrects halloumi trade mark mishap
- Supreme Court Decides Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil Group, Inc.
- US Supreme Court Rejects Willfulness Requirement for Profit Awards in Trademark Infringement Cases
- Supreme Court Confirms Profits Remedy in Trademark Cases is Not Conditioned on Proof of Willfulness
- High Court Rules That ‘Willful’ Trademark Infringement No Longer Required for Award of Profits
- Supreme Court Holds Disgorgement of Profits Available Absent Willfulness, for 1125(a) Infringement
- U.S. Supreme Court Holds That Plaintiffs Need Not Prove “Willful” Conduct to Recover Profits in Trademark Infringement Suits
- Supreme Court: Willfulness Unnecessary for Disgorgement of Infringer’s Profits Award in Trademark Cases
- U.S. Supreme Court Rules Trademark Infringer’s Profits at Risk in All Cases
- Comic-Con Canceled — But Comic-Con Trademark Survives
- Open COVID Pledge and Free Licensing Opportunities: Issues to Consider Before Accepting
- Conversant v Apple: old tech, new tricks
- Lawyers question need for Patent Act amendments as companies share IP during COVID crisis
- Canadian Federal Court’s Notice of Experimental Testing is Inapplicable to Testing Conducted Prior to Litigation
- Federal Circuit Feels the Beating of a Heart: CardioNet v. InfoBionic
- Federal Circuit Revives Cardiac Monitoring Patent, Not Directed to an Abstract Idea
- Federal Circuit: A Patent That Performs Computation Is Not Abstract, Is Patentable
- Claims Directed to Improved Cardiac Monitoring Technology Are Patent Eligible Under 35 U.S.C. § 101
- US Patent Office: Supreme Court Made Us Reject More Patents, But We’ve Now Fixed That And Are Back To Approving Bad Patents
- Library of Congress Launches Open-Source Hip-Hop Sampling Tool: Producers will have access to the library’s vast audio collection, which dates back more than a hundred years
- Melody makers
- Disney Says If You Tweet #MayThe4th At It, You’re Agreeing To A Disney Terms Of Use (You’re Not)
- Jay-Z Claims Copyright On Audio Deepfake Of Him Reciting Hamlet
- Looking for Likes: Social Media Post Results in Unintended License to Share Photograph
- USPTO: AI Cannot Be Named as Inventor on Patent
- “But It’s a Photo of Me!”-Celebrities Face Legal Action for Unauthorized Use of Images on Social Media
- Trials of Mana demo taken down after crackers use it to enable piracy
- How Bohemia’s “almost accidental” mod support became a staple of the studio: Karel Mořický talks about the benefits and challenges of the Arma and DayZ studio’s community development efforts
Jon
Communications Law