The battle between open source software developers and the leading AI code generators will rage on. Despite the Court dismissing Plaintiffs’ Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Section 1202(b) claims with prejudice, it...more
We recently posted about the Jobiak case which raises the interesting question of whether scraping an AI-generated database of job listings constitutes copyright infringement (among other claims). Plaintiff has submitted its...more
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”). While...more
3/13/2024
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Copyright ,
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Copyright Ownership ,
DMCA ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
Patent Ownership ,
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Technology Sector ,
Trademark Infringement ,
Trademark Ownership ,
Trademarks ,
USPTO
The U.S. Copyright Office’s new electronic system for copyright-agent registration and maintenance goes into effect on December 1, 2016, and with it comes new rules. Beginning December 1, all online service providers must...more
Linkedin has filed a lawsuit to prevent unauthorized use of “bots” that register fake profiles on the social network and steal data about actual users. According to the suit, these acts constitute a breach of Linkedin’s terms...more
8/13/2016
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Breach of Contract ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Data Theft ,
DMCA ,
Fraud ,
LinkedIn ,
Social Networks ,
Terms of Use ,
Web Scraping ,
Websites