INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- Federal Court trusts technology to prove infringement
- Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-streamed?: Police in Beverly Hills have been playing music while being filmed, seemingly in an effort to trigger Instagram’s copyright filters.
- Latest Anti-Accountability Move By Cops Involves Playing Music While Being Recorded In Hopes Of Triggering Copyright Takedowns
- Celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D sued for inking Miles Davis design? Tats crazy!
- Desire v. Manna Textiles (USCA, 9th Circuit): Holds only one statutory damages award available where defendant supplied infringing work to other defendants, even when those other defendants exploited infringing work.
- Carlini v. Paramount Pictures Corp. (USDC, California): Court action brought alleging film “What Men Want” infringed plaintiff’s screenplay, finding access was insufficient and works were not substantially similar.
- Be careful what you scrape from the HiQ v. LinkedIn decision
- Sherlock Holmes and the copyright infringement claim
- Protect your moves – A mix of Intellectual Property and Dance
- Snippet Taxes Not Only Violate The Berne Convention, But Also Betray The Deepest Roots Of Newspaper Culture
- Why Is Congress Pushing For Locking Up More Culture?
- SCOTUS Update – Google v. Oracle
- Music – Royalty Rates for Digital Transmissions
- Copyright year in review 2020
- The growing role of domains in IP
- What to Do when “Everything Sucks”
- Utah Theme Park Sues Taylor Swift Over Album Title After Exploiting It
- Taylor Swift sued by Utah Theme Park for trademark infringement.
- Pearl Jamm changes name to Legal Jam…to avoid legal jam
- SDNY Magistrate Judge Recommends that Rubik’s Cube Design is Not Functional
- Hanes Pop Warner’s Way: Trademark Dispute Over Pop Warner Mark
- How to Register a Common Shape as Your Trademark
- Trademarks in 2020: notable cases and developments
- Trade Secret Management in the United States: Top Ten Mistakes to Avoid
- December 2020 COVID-19 Relief Bill Finally Closes the Streaming Loophole
- Third Circuit Finds Pocky Trade Dress Functional, Not Protectable
- There’s No Sugarcoating It: Pocky’s Cookie Design Trade Dress Is Functional
- The Doctrine of File Wrapper Estoppel in Canada: The Court of Appeal Hands Down its Decision
- Evidence Supports Prior Art’s Public Accessibility but Not the Board’s Adoption of an Unpresented Theory of Anticipation
- Federal Circuit Clarifies Part of Patent Term Extension Equation
- Federal Circuit Says Automated Systems Are Not Abstract when Tied to Improvements
- The “Skinny Label” – The Federal Circuit Has Second Thoughts
- No Patent Eligibility Reward for Customer Loyalty Program Computer System
- How to patent over-the-air (OTA) automotive technology
- Federal Circuit Agrees to Reconsider Ruling in GSK v. Teva Drug Patent Case
- When Fixing One Problem Creates Another: How Patent Infringement Arises Out of Product Repairs
- Key Insights for Obtaining FinTech Patents
- Patents in 2020 – The year in review
- Conservative MP Files Amendment Calling on the Government to Withdraw Bill C-10 (Michael Geist)
- Why The Secrecy on Bill C-10?: How the Liberals Abandoned Their Commitment to Consultation, and Transparency in Pushing Their Broadcast Reform Bill (Michael Geist)
- Big Game, Ad Claims: Reflecting on Super Bowl Advertising Tactics
- 25 Years Later: A Celebration Of The Declaration Of The Independence Of Cyberspace
- Google, Facebook tell SCOTUS it should be harder for you to sue them
- Senators Warner, Hirono, And Klobuchar Demand The End Of The Internet Economy
- Platform mergers and antitrust: This paper sets out a framework for addressing competition concerns arising from acquisitions in big platform ecosystems.
- The Definitive Guide to Clickwrap
- We’re Living Our Lives On The Internet, And We Can’t Be Free If It Isn’t.
- Now It’s The Democrats Turn To Destroy The Open Internet: Mark Warner’s 230 Reform Bill Is A Dumpster Fire Of Cluelessness
- Senators Propose Substantial Revisions to Section 230’s Protections for Online Providers
- Proposed Sec. 230 rewrite could have wide-ranging consequences
- The Many Reasons To Celebrate Section 230
- Section 230 Lets Tech Fix Content Moderation Issues. Congress Should Respect That
- How To Think About Online Ads And Section 230
- How Section 230 Makes My Life Better (A Celebration of Its 25 Year Anniversary) (Eric Goldman)
- Content Moderation Case Study: Twitch Allows Users To Enable Emote-Only Chats (2016)
- Content Moderation Case Study: Twitter Attempts To Tackle COVID-related Vaccine Misinformation (2020)
- Universal Music Yanks Catalog From Triller, Slams Service For Withholding Artist Payments
- Texas Dept. Of Public Safety Issues Amber Alert For Victim Of Horror Doll Chucky
- 25 years ago today, the internet declared its independence — for better and for worse
- Protecting AI Innovations Through Trade Secrets and Patent Protection
- The Collision of AI’s Machine Learning and Manipulation: Deepfake Litigation Risks to Companies from a Product Liability, Privacy, and Cyber Standpoint
- Turf wars: confidentiality of live (sports) data
- Shadow of War publisher Warner Bros. has patented the series’ Nemesis system
- Super Nintendo World apparently took scenery from a Mario fangame
- G.I. Bro is a Go: Copyright Dispute Over Call of Duty Poster Survives Summary Judgement
- Activision Blizzard sued over Call of Duty character
- Warner Bros finally secures patent for Shadow of Mordor’s Nemesis system
- CD Projekt Red’s internal systems “compromised” following ransomware attack
- CD Projekt Red gets ‘cyberpunk’d’ – another ransomware attack
- Cyberpunk 2077 developer hit with ransomware attack
- Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt hit by ‘targeted cyber attack’
- MP proposes bill to make console scalping illegal amid PS5 and Xbox Series shortages
- Terraria developer cancels Google Stadia port after YouTube account ban
- Epic Games’ ability to go to war with Apple stems from its financial freedom, says CEO
- Epic’s new tool promises high-fidelity human characters in under an hour
- Epic Games’ new MetaHuman Creator will let devs build hi-fi humans
- EA Sports Announces College Football Video Game Revival and Another Collegiate Athlete Persona Rights Piece of Legislation is Proposed in Congress
- “90 bugs left”: Rare devs talk about the nearly completed Goldeneye 007 remake
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