That's also why Congress must pass H.R. 28503, the Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act, which would make the Register of Copyrights a Presidentially appointed, Senate confirmed position.
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He complained about countries not honoring our copyrights and patents.
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Lego has won two court cases over copyrights in China.
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As a result, the value of the copyrights quickly degraded.
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The case centers on the registered copyrights Varsity Brands Inc.
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"Getting the copyrights back is a big deal," Boden said.
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Copyrights are intangible legal rights; they don't take up space.
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Like patents, and unlike copyrights, federal trademark protection is applied for.
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Instead, she's arguing that the copyrights are wrong to begin with.
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But the monkey is an animal and animals can't own copyrights.
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This will have implications for copyrights, patents, design patents and trademarks.
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Now in control, Chertkov encourages Tolstoy to disown all his copyrights.
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Memphis, Tennessee-based Varsity holds copyrights for various cheerleader uniform designs.
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The award directly correlates with the way song copyrights are created.
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Many museums maintain copyrights over high quality images from its collection.
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It also claims that Peloton is a "willful infringer" of copyrights.
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Elbakyan doesn't own the copyrights to these articles; the publishers do.
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It's just a lot easier for people to infringe on others' copyrights.
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"Copyrights and ownership rights do not change when using Authory," says Hauch.
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Puma points out it holds patents and copyrights for the shoe line.
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The first fund had invested more than $350 million in music copyrights.
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Hopefully the looming battle over reclaimed copyrights yields fairness to both concerns.
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Copyrights will begin to expire on a 70-year timeline in 2073.
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Some researchers on Twitter think it's pretty bold for the publishers to speak out in the name of protecting their copyrights, since those copyrights are handed over for free by the scientists seeking to publish in their journals.
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Gorgoni is seeking a declaration that he holds the copyrights plus unspecified damages.
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We ask that you respect other people's copyrights, trademarks, and other legal rights.
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As a parodist, I always get a little uneasy when copyrights are discussed.
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Through the fund, Railpen buys music copyrights and receives royalties collected by Kobalt.
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At times it has published the census, controlled copyrights and managed the Mint.
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The tech industry has been blighted by legal disputes over patents and copyrights.
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But the removal of the president's "Photograph" clip was about copyrights, not content.
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A full list of expired copyrights from 1924 and earlier is available here.
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It was the first firing of a Register of Copyrights in 119 years.
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"This video contains multiple copyrights, ranging from sound recording to publishing rights," Wojcicki wrote.
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So Charlotte married him at great personal sacrifice (her copyrights, her work, became his).
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You'll even learn how to report and remove other videos that violate your copyrights.
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The California company claims the Changzhou's device, Surfing Electric Scooter, infringed on its copyrights.
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For the music industry, Napster met the effective end of legal exclusivity in copyrights.
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As Bracha points out, early patents and copyrights were not understood to involve ideas.
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It could soft-pedal efforts to combat the piracy of American patents and copyrights.
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We protect them in law with patents, copyrights and other forms of legal protection.
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That's not to say the law gives owners no options to abandon their copyrights.
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You're dealing with budgets, you're negotiating fees, researching copyrights ... it's all one big puzzle.
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After all, each character aesthetic is iconic — and they've got the copyrights to prove it.
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The catalog has more than one million copyrights, including about 250 songs by the Beatles.
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What's most frustrating about all this is that Nintendo's actual enforcement of copyrights seems haphazard.
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Those copyrights determine how a song's contributors get paid, and how much they are paid.
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Now, the old copyrights are searchable and we know when, and if, they were renewed.
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Now, the recurring extension of copyrights over years tends to benefit rights holders more than consumers.
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Managing copyrights — effectively a giant database of creative works — is very much a librarian-centric job.
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To start, every song has two copyrights: one for the composition and one for the recording.
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As always, the DMCA is a protector of companies that hold copyrights and not fair use.
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Each song has at least two copyrights: One for the songwriter, and one for the performer.
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Intellectual-property holders have extended the length of copyrights and patents to extract the maximum value.
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That isn't a "compulsory license" of copyrights; it's a limit on the scope of those rights.
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The Register of Copyrights heads the Copyright Office and is Congress' expert advisor on copyright policy.
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Even in the sometimes confounding world of Hollywood copyrights, this odyssey was "exceptional," Mr. Stark said.
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That's in part because the Smithsonian Institution doesn't necessarily own the copyrights on everything it houses.
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Additionally, we have an internal copyright screening to make sure all material is free of any copyrights.
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The change follows their legal spat with Tinder, claiming the app's original name infringed on Tinder's copyrights.
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There are two general types of copyrights for a song: the publishing rights and the master rights.
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In addition, foreign games developers have to license their software copyrights to Chinese online publishing license-holders.
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In just under a year Songtrust added 50,000 songwriters, 5,000 publishers, and now represents 1 million copyrights.
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Frischer Consulting, which operates under the name Flyover Zone Productions, owns the copyrights for Rome Reborn©.
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This would also have had international implications, as trademark rights and copyrights receive international benefits as well.
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Those rules undoubtedly would help companies that own a lot of copyrights, some of whom are American.
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For my illustration works, which are assignments I'm paid for, I own the copyrights and expect attribution.
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Intellectual assets are long-term assets: patents last 20 years from filing; trademarks and copyrights far longer.
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Many movies are not digitized and ownership of current copyrights can be ambiguous, making digitization efforts difficult.
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Between its patents, copyrights and trademarks, LuMee has developed substantial intellectual property rights surrounding its product line.
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If we're willing to protect copyrights, shouldn't we do as much to protect children sold for sex?
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When Oracle acquired Sun in 2010, it claimed that Google had violated Java-related patents and copyrights.
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The new Register of Copyrights should be dedicated to protecting creative rights and modernizing the Copyright Office.
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It also was applied retroactively to any existing old copyrights that were set to enter the public domain.
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While patents, copyrights and trademarks all fall under this umbrella, the three are vastly different from each other.
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Their actions violate our contracts and copyrights, and we have filed this action to stop Redbox's unauthorized conduct.
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It now owns or administers over 2.8 million copyrights, including music by Taylor Swift, Adele, and Justin Bieber.
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I was working on changing my name, getting copyrights for my songs, and doing a lot of writing.
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However, more royalties for copyrights and patents are a tradeoff for a larger trade deficit in manufactured goods.
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Its collateral includes copyrights for the project and about $1.1 million the studio paid First Republic as security.
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Whether Moontoon is actually infringing on Riot's copyrights will be determined by the Central District of California court.
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Acting without statutory or other legal authority, the DOJ engaged in extraordinary and unprecedented regulation of the copyrights.
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But this isn't about any one Librarian or any one President or even any one Register of Copyrights.
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It is emphatically not about any individual Librarian of Congress, Register of Copyrights, member of Congress, or president.
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Two pension funds that Kobalt wouldn't name invested in another music copyrights fund Kobalt Capital launched in 2011.
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He registered copyrights early, filed patents, and registered the firm in Delaware to make acquiring external investment easier.
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In Sacks' (almost certainly tongue-in-cheek) telling, somehow none of this "technically" violated copyrights on the film.
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All copyrights are public domain, and nowadays physical compilations are for the collector types who are Legacy's specialty.
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PayPal does not permit the use of its service for transactions that infringe copyrights or other proprietary rights.
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Its competitors say that Varsity claims protection for items that are ubiquitous and too generic to merit copyrights.
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Cherry Lane owned or represented nearly 100,000 copyrights when BMG bought the company in 2010 for $85 million.
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But even if you recognize yourself as a copyright owner, the incentives to abandon unwanted copyrights are minimal.
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In Elbakyan's view, it's not just publishers who are impediments to science access — copyrights should be abolished, too.
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The House Judiciary Committee chairman and ranking member recently introduced the Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act, H.R. 1695, which changes the process for selecting the head of the Copyright Office—called the Register of Copyrights—to be appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate.
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Pokora knew there was a whiff of the illegal about his Call of Duty business, which violated numerous copyrights.
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Soon after her approval by the Senate, Hayden surprised many by effectively firing the Register of Copyrights, Maria Pallante.
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The court ruled that the VR headset manufacturer had indeed violated the company's copyrights and a non-disclosure agreement.
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Sony, meanwhile, owns more than 2.3 million copyrights through its wholly owned subsidiaries Sony/ATV and Sony Music Entertainment.
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Patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets have been the cornerstone to the successful adoption of these advancements in society.
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Songs before that date are protected by state copyrights, which vary by state in scope, duration and other factors.
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Created in 1870, the body that registers and renews U.S. copyrights is actually housed within the Library of Congress.
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A U.S. jury in Chicago found that Hytera stole Motorola's trade secrets and infringed its copyrights, the company said.
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It is also expected to put into place previously agreed-to intellectual property protections dealing with copyrights and trademarks.
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The park is being developed by a company called Media Investment Entertainment, which controls the copyrights for von Däniken's work.
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This performance can be seen in her work with images of Barragán's buildings, which Zanco entirely owns the copyrights to.
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Insider trading and copyrights The justices will hear major disputes that are less likely to divide them down familiar lines.
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Patents, copyrights and trademarks all protect intellectual property – an invention, idea or process that derives from a person's creative thoughts.
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After a twenty year hiatus, tomorrow will finally see the 21993 year long copyrights of works released in 18933 expire.
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It's no different from all other contracts which require a certain number of records and require exclusivity and have copyrights.
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It probably violates if not my own personal copyrights then almost certainly those of a number of multinational entertainment conglomerates.
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Intellectual property takes the form of patents and copyrights, legal instruments derived from the practices of fifteenth-century Italian republics.
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Among other provisions, the USMCA contains a chapter with strong protections for intellectual property such as copyrights, patents, and data.
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This new provision imposes a new tax on certain foreign earnings attributable to intangible property like patents, trademarks and copyrights.
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She will retain the copyrights and intellectual property with her brand and continues to seek trademarks, The Washington Post explained.
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The AI software looks for telltale signs of misconduct, such as posts that include nudity, promote violence or violate copyrights.
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Star Athletica argued that Varsity's copyrights were invalid because copyright law does not protect designs of "useful items" likes clothing.
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She will join the association in January and most recently was the register of copyrights in the U.S. Copyright Office.
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Microsoft sold brands and copyrights — that is, intellectual property — to its Puerto Rican affiliate to avoid paying higher mainland taxes.
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Imposing copyrights on APIs would introduce legal friction and stunt innovation, favoring those with deep pockets over those with creative ideas.
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The court ordered the five firms to stop infringing Huawei's copyrights and ordered the three Samsung units to pay the damage.
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" He continues, "[She may have] copyrights to her songs, perhaps publishing rights to her material, perhaps the material of other artists.
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The scam that Steele confessed to involved buying up the copyrights for pornographic videos in the name of various shell companies.
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" He continued, "[She may have] copyrights to her songs, perhaps publishing rights to her material, perhaps the material of other artists.
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The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society didn't take that kindly and filed a suit claiming Darkspilver's posts infringed Watch Tower's copyrights.
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But the point is that this isn't about monkeys owning copyrights, it's about monkeys being treated as people under the law.
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The expected appeals from whichever side loses would also slow any changes in corporate policies on open source, copyrights and licensing.
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Obsessed fans of "Star Wars" have long enjoyed a tolerant relationship with owners of the pop culture empire's copyrights and trademarks.
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The DMCA's notice and takedown process was intended to result in prompt removal of content from the internet that infringes copyrights.
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The Copyright Office's chief—known as the Register of Copyrights—historically has served at the pleasure of the Librarian of Congress.
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In the saga, artists have even been kicked off the site for supposedly infringing on the copyrights of their own music.
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Louis Zukofsky's copyrights will now be administered by the board of Musical Observations, Paul's executor, Maggie Van Norstrand, said last week.
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Officials have given few details, though people briefed on the negotiations said the measures included stronger protection for copyrights and patents.
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Still, as China comes up with its own innovations, the country's leaders are embracing stricter laws on patents, copyrights and trademarks.
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Unlike the Peloton, Tonal music doesn't synchronize with each move so it's not running into similar issues Peloton is with copyrights.
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So policymakers should consider tools that create incentives, like tax breaks or small cash payments, for authors to abandon unwanted copyrights.
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Nintendo has long been ferociously litigious, going after businesses and fans alike if their products or services seem to overlap with copyrights.
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Before 1978, copyrights needed to be renewed after 28 years and 85 percent of authors didn't opt in for the second 28.
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Prior to 21958, the term of U.S. copyrights was determined by fixed terms of years, subject to publication, registration and notice requirements.
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They also have 18 IPs covering hardware, software, database management and more, including utility patents and models, design patents, trademarks and copyrights.
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He also holds copyrights for 243 songs, most of which he wrote "with my guitar, piano, or behind my congas," he writes.
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A selfie-taking monkey went to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, to fight for his right to own copyrights.
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The copyrights that are crucial to the trial are related to open-source software, which is created and shared for general use.
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According to the Copyright Office, it takes between six and 10 months for applications to be processed and copyrights to be registered.
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Mr. Furie will continue to enforce his copyrights, particularly against anyone trying to profit by associating Pepe with hateful images or ideas.
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Dubbed the Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act, the measure is set to be marked up on Wednesday by Goodlatte's panel.
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Intellectual property rights can take on many forms depending on your industry, including but not limited to copyrights, trademarks, patents, and more.
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There is little argument that the bulk of the value comes from the song copyrights that Mr. Brown retained as the songwriter.
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Soon we had producers contacting us and waving copyrights, allowing us to reproduce videos as we saw fit for a local audience.
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For every song, there are at least two copyrights: The first goes to the songwriter, and the second goes to the performer.
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The lawyers also said that the use had violated the terms and conditions of WinRed, which prohibits posting material that violates copyrights.
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This was done in an attempt to thwart piracy and to respect copyrights (as one should do when transferring personally purchased content).
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The requirement to depict Apple positively is written right into the company's legal guidelines for third parties using Apple trademarks and copyrights.
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But since we are all granted copyrights whether we want them or not, the law needs to provide an opt-out mechanism.
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Unsurprisingly, Disney's lawyers stepped in to complain that this was a violation of the company's terms and conditions as well as its copyrights.
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On Tuesday, China's government issued a pledge that appeared to be aimed at mollifying U.S. complaints about rampant violations of patents and copyrights.
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Over the years, big tech companies have collected stock piles of patents and copyrights, both to protect their assets and sue other companies.
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Ongoing lawsuits and disputes among them over merchandise copyrights did nothing to help the thinking that a reunion simply wasn't in the cards.
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They want to use NAFTA to lengthen Canadian copyrights from their current level (ridiculously long) to the U.S. standard (really, really ridiculously long).
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Wikipedia argued the photo is uncopyrightable because an animal took it, and animals can't own copyrights, according to CNN legal analyst Danny Cevallos.
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So, it's a timely occasion for recognizing the vital role of patents and copyrights in encouraging creativity and innovation in the Digital Age.
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Of the many alternative investments outside stocks and bonds that pension funds can buy, a few are putting retirement money into music copyrights.
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U.S. firms in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, where intellectual copyrights can make vast fortunes, also have leverage that their Chinese counterparts lack.
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Slater and PETA also asked the 9th US Circuit of Appeals to throw out a lower court decision claiming animals can't own copyrights.
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Content ID is a system on YouTube that allows copyright holders to block, monetize, or track a video that infringes on their copyrights.
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His primary lawyer, Darren Heitner, said that Take-Two used the copyrights without permission, and that Mr. Siegler wanted to be fairly compensated.
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Oracle sued Google after it acquired Java owner Sun Microsystems in 2010, alleging that Google had infringed on copyrights and patents for Java.
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MacBride took those copyrights and turned them into the TV series and the endless "Little House" franchise books, which made him a fortune.
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The Gershwin family was part of an effort that also includes Disney and other corporations to lobby lawmakers to extend copyrights, Mic reported.
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Dr. Carla Hayden, the newly installed Librarian of Congress, removed Maria Pallante from the position of Register of Copyrights on Friday, Oct. 21.
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Lost amid this speculation is the fact that Pallante served the nation well for nearly six years as an outstanding Register of Copyrights.
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Sony/ATV currently holds copyrights to the works, which were jointly composed by McCartney and John Lennon between September 1962 and June 1971.
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China has also made concessions to remove foreign ownership limits in the financial services sector and adopt new protections for copyrights and trademarks.
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The Pokémon Company was set up 20 years ago by three Japanese game developers that share copyrights for the Pokémon franchise — Nintendo, Creatures Inc.
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The agreement ends a three-year standoff in which the streaming company faced scrutiny for allegedly infringing upon the copyrights of some artists' work.
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Under the DCMA, these sites need not (and are not expected to) monitor all uploaded content to ensure that no copyrights are being infringed.
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Coogi claims they have copyrights for their most famous designs -- called "Pea Soup" and "Ricotta" -- and they feel the Nets straight swiped their swag.
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Another proposed solution is to require ISPs to monitor uploads and shares with technology that recognizes content that has been reported as violating copyrights.
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The company's fully owned subsidiary Kobalt Capital is unveiling a $1003 million music royalties fund to buy up music copyrights to collect royalties themselves.
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Railpen had also been an investor in Kobalt Capital's previous $350 million fund, raised in tranches to help the company buy into music copyrights.
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Almost exactly 20 years ago, Congress passed the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which extended the term of existing copyrights by 20 years.
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I mean, I think part of it probably the difference is the protection of the IP. And copyrights, IP and so on so forth.
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There is every reason for the Register of Copyrights to be subject to the same nomination and confirmation process as other top government officials.
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Before Apple could sue, Dr. Breiner filed a suit of his own, calling for a judgment that Quorum's products did not violate Apple's copyrights.
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The only way to give legal effect to brand protection is through intellectual property protections, specifically trademarks, trade dress, patents, copyrights, and trade secrets.
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Appealing to the Supreme Court, Allen said states are flagrantly infringing authors' copyrights and invoking sovereign immunity as a way to avoid paying damages.
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The heirs regain these so-called "termination rights" and can strike deals to license the use of the songs or to sell the copyrights.
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Still, the value of the music publishing business, the side of the industry that deals with the copyrights for songwriting and composition, keeps rising.
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Contracts, advances, royalties, revenue splits, copyrights: the approach to intellectual property that he abhorred in record labels had its origins in the publishing industry.
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At issue is a highly technical question: Did Google violate Oracle's copyrights when it mimicked parts of Oracle's Java programming language to build Android?
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The agreement expands other protections for intellectual property rights, for example, extending the 50 years of protection for copyrights in NAFTA to 70 years.
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China is often portrayed as a land of fake gadgets and pirated software, where intellectual property like patents, trademarks and copyrights are routinely ignored.
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On the other side: Paramount Pictures Corporation and CBS Studios, which own the copyrights for the six "Star Trek" television series and 13 movies.
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Publishers have long maintained that fact-checking every book would be prohibitively expensive, and that the responsibility falls on authors, who hold the copyrights.
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Competing against giants like Universal, Warner/Chappell and Sony/ATV, which each control millions of song copyrights, Songs has become a powerful niche player.
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We have no idea whether animals or objects wish to own copyrights or open bank accounts to hold their royalties from sales of pictures.
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By following the DCMA takedown flow outlined above, the sites can continue to function while still demonstrating at least a semblance of respect for copyrights.
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In 2014 Canada enacted a law to give customs officers more power to detain shipments and toughened sanctions against people who violate copyrights and trademarks.
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This, of course, is due to the expiration of the terms of their copyrights, some of which have been extended multiple times since the 1960s.
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Oracle originally sued in 2010, arguing that when Google developed Android, it violated copyrights that Oracle held as the owner of the Java programming language.
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BUS alleged that the foundation infringed the copyrights of three of its artists by hosting reproductions of their work online without first securing their permission.
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Muchnick that federal courts have jurisdiction over actions involving unregistered copyrights, but reiterated that copyright owners have to register their works in order to sue.
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Though copyrights can be registered with the Federal Government, the creator of a work has an inherent copyright that can be registered at any time.
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Still, the group had to manage a swath of legal issues, like how to protect copyrights and recording labels all made under the former name.
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Exurbia's other job proved far more difficult: administering Chainsaw trademarks and copyrights, including the film's title, images, and the rights to its iconic villain, Leatherface.
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Owners of copyrights can enforce their rights as tightly or loosely as they see fit, but rights holders must show they're regularly enforcing their trademarks.
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Any small claims process for copyrights must be procedurally fair to both sides of a dispute, ensuring access to meaningful judicial review at a minimum.
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Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act allows content owners to petition intermediaries like YouTube to take down content they believe infringes their copyrights.
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Unlike a traditional music publishing structure, library content companies own all the copyrights to their music, allowing them to license it out without the composer's permission.
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While it might be difficult to demonstrate where the machine-altered images originated, Pornhub does take down user-posted content that infringes on copyrights when asked.
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Tuesday a federal appeals court ruled that Google violated Oracle's copyrights when it built a custom version of the Java platform for its Android operating system.
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The strict proposals regulating copyrights and trademarks would make it virtually impossible for any platform to risk hosting content that falls under parody or fair use.
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Users also note that classes they've favorited have disappeared from the catalog, since they contain songs that were named by the lawsuit as having violated copyrights.
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Paul Aiken, who as executive director of the Authors Guild began parrying digital-era challenges to copyrights and royalties nearly two decades ago, died on Jan.
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The company also automatically scans apps for malware and other content violations, like apps that contain sexual content or those that infringe on other applicants' copyrights.
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In the case of KodakCoin, investors are being given the chance to buy tokens that will be used on a blockchain-based registry for photo copyrights.
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But because they claim to be a completely user-generated content site, they're protected by the provision that they can't monitor copyrights of every video uploaded.
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Star Athletica, a much smaller apparel company, claims Varsity's copyrights are invalid because a uniform is a "useful article" that can't be copyrighted under federal law.
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The ruling opens new opportunities for industries that previously relied on design patents, which are expensive and of shorter duration than copyrights, to protect their works.
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Originally intended to protect the arts industries from online privacy, its Section 1201 included "anti-circumvention" provisions that prohibit breaking any digital safeguards that protected copyrights.
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Appealing to the Supreme Court, Allen said states are flagrantly infringing the copyrights of authors and invoking sovereign immunity as a way to avoid paying damages.
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The proposal would give the U.S. Copyright Office more autonomy and subject the Register of Copyrights to the Congressional confirmation similar to other government agency officials.
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On one side (the side that keeps winning) is Janie Hendrix, Jimi's adopted sister, who controls his estate and all of its associated copyrights and trademarks.
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Both Jackson and Sony had made significant investments in —and profits from — owning the copyrights to songs performed by McCartney and the rest of the Beatles.
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Senate Republicans have also proposed a minimum tax on foreign earnings, at a 12.5 percent rate on income from intangible assets, such as patents and copyrights.
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ZeniMax said it was exploring options for preventing Oculus from its continued use of computer code that infringes on ZeniMax copyrights, including seeking a court order.
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"We will safeguard the copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets and other intellectual property that is so vital to our security and to our prosperity," Trump said.
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It is powered by MCAM-International, a firm that maintains an unprecedented archive of documents related to patents, trademarks, copyrights and other intangible assets from 160 countries.
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Viral stars would hire enforcement services like CollabDRM to register copyrights for distinctive gestures or dances, so they could claim royalties from anyone who copied their moves.
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According to the manifest, valuation is in progress for unreleased albums, videos, art, jewelry, musical instruments, and 15 automobiles — and a host of other goods and copyrights.
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It is powered by MCAM-International, a firm that maintains an unprecedented archive of documents related to patents, trademarks, copyrights and other intangible assets from 230 countries.
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It also shows that protecting ideas via copyrights and patents is a critical incentive, even though protectionism often causes problems in other sectors of the economy. Yay!
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This decision was made despite the evidence we submitted and recommendations to the contrary by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to the Register of Copyrights.
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Patents and copyrights are crucial for securing rights so that firms can invest, they acknowledge, but those rights need to be more limited than they are today.
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These assets are often protected through intellectual property (IP) rights such as patents, trademarks and copyrights, which prevent others from stealing or replicating original ideas without permission.
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U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade also turned down ZeniMax's request for a ban on the sale or promotion of Oculus' products that ZeniMax alleged violated its copyrights.
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The new tax law also applies taxes to intangible assets held overseas, in an effort to encourage U.S. companies to bring things like licenses and copyrights home.
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A year earlier the US Copyright Office had issued updated policies stating only humans can register copyrights, but a PETA lawyer argued that was only an opinion.
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James Bradley and his London company, NMT Vision, once used Clarifai to train and operate algorithms to identify websites that are selling products that infringe on copyrights.
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The Imagem deal is the latest in a frothy market for music publishing, the side of the business that deals in the copyrights for songwriting and composition.
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Following the verdict, the communications device maker is planning to seek a global injunction preventing Hytera from further misappropriating the stolen trade secrets and infringing its copyrights.
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In addition to the money awarded, the court ordered that Girls Do Porn must return all of their images, likenesses, videos, and/or copyrights to the plaintiffs.
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY The deal includes stronger Chinese legal protections for patents, trademarks, copyrights, including improved criminal and civil procedures to combat online infringement, pirated and counterfeit goods.
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Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) formally issued a decision in its multiyear review of the antitrust consent decrees that govern the licensing of music copyrights.
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Other possible reorganizational plans — such as creating an independent "super administration" that brings together key federal intellectual property functions, including copyrights, trademarks and patents — also merit consideration.
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USTR said the deal includes stronger Chinese legal protections for patents, trademarks, copyrights, including improved criminal and civil procedures to combat online infringement, pirated and counterfeit goods.
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For instance, he used his ownership of music publishing rights — the copyrights for songwriting — to block his music from appearing on YouTube, Spotify and other streaming outlets.
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Earlier this month, the Smithsonian Institution released nearly 3 million images with the stated goal of abandoning its copyrights and dedicating those works to the public domain.
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Kobalt acquired Songs through its subsidiary Kobalt Capital, which buys music copyrights on behalf of investors; last month, Kobalt Capital announced that it had raised $600 million.
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Trump can try to confront China on currency management, but he also complains they don't respect copyrights on software and patents on drugs, along with many other sins.
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While the jury decided that Oculus had indeed violated ZeniMax's copyrights and a non-disclosure agreement, it was not convinced that any misappropriation of trade secrets had occurred.
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The Monster Squad, a 1987 film that pays loving homage to the classic Universal Studios monsters, while altering their designs just enough to avoid infringing on any copyrights.
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Traditionally, this means patents, trademarks and copyrights, but it can also mean trade-secret rights or even more hard-to-measure concepts, like water rights or pollution rights.
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Media monitoring service TVEyes Inc on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a decision finding it infringed on Fox News Channel copyrights by redistributing its programming.
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What I took from that phone meeting was that it might be possible, but that the artwork copyrights would need to be owned by Lucas Arts (now, Disney).
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It's raised over $200 million to track to publish artists' work and track down royalties, while subsidiary Kobalt Capitol is a platform for investors to buy music copyrights.
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Copyrights and patents allow an inventor, author or performer to "own," control and benefit from subsequent reproductions and use of his or her original work — almost in perpetuity.
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Many artists do not own or control their recordings or the copyrights associated with them, which does not prevent them from making money through sales or streaming royalties.
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But the episode also highlighted the fraught and little-understood industry politics of master recordings — the original copies of an artist's work — and the copyrights associated with them.
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In 1960 and 1963, the publisher Ludlow Music registered copyrights for it, saying that the song's authors — including Pete Seeger — had made changes to earlier versions of it.
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An offshoot of southern Illinois pop punk band The Copyrights, Luke McNeill steps out from behind the kit in his Springfield group of the same genre, Hospital Job.
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The company intensely monitors its content across the internet — and it's not shy about enforcing DMCA takedowns or taking people to court who it believes infringe on its copyrights.
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Let's take a look at what's at stake with these new forthcoming regulations:Article 28This section of the directive will completely reconfigure websites' responsibilities when it comes to enforcing copyrights.
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This specificity also makes it harder for some Peloton users to find songs they enjoy that aren't repeats of the few singles from their favorite artists that cleared copyrights.
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U.S. District Judge Charles Haight Jr, sitting by designation in New Haven, Connecticut, said figurines sold by Best-Lock Construction Toys Inc infringed on U.S. copyrights registered by Lego.
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While property owners have unrestricted rights to dispose of their property—including inheritance—copyrights have become particularly problematic considering that they last for 70 years after an author's death.
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EBITDA was also positively impacted by 34.8 million euros due to the reversal of an accrual for copyrights in Austria and positive restructuring effects after a revaluation of assets.
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It would make the Register of Copyrights a position nominated from a pool of qualified candidates recommended by Congressional leadership, nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
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That case, over patents and copyrights, featured contentious testimony by Lawrence J. Ellison, Oracle's founder and then chief executive, and Larry Page, the founder and chief executive of Google.
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On Thursday, a federal jury in San Francisco found that Google did not violate Oracle-owned copyrights in the creation of Android, its world-dominating mobile phone operating system.
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Trump said the tariffs on Chinese products were aimed at curbing China's infringement of copyrights and intellectual property patents that cost U.S. companies billions in lost revenue each year.
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Never the shrewdest of businessmen, he was forced to file for bankruptcy in 1993 and to sell the copyrights to some of his songs to pay off his debts.
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President Xi Jinping is in the midst of an effort to strengthen laws on patents, copyrights and trademarks, giving fledgling firms in China new sources of revenue and prestige.
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This new USC course offering — "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Intellectual Property" — will provide students with a practical grounding in the basic workings of patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets.
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY USTR said the deal includes stronger Chinese legal protections for patents, trademarks, copyrights, including improved criminal and civil procedures to combat online infringement, pirated and counterfeit goods.
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The "Brooklyn Camo" pattern bears a close resemblance to patterns Coogi has used in its clothing for years, and for which it claims to have over 300 design copyrights.
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These dozen-plus customers have received at least nine warnings that they might be infringing on copyrights before AT&T could cancel their service, as AT&T's new policies state.
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But according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, these lawsuits have less to do with copyrights, and more to do with stomping out any cable-cutting competition to the status quo.
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Basically, every song has two copyrights -- the publishing copyright (the actual composition of the song, like its words and melody) and the actual sound recording (also known as the master).
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Before Spotify launched in the U.S., the company made deals with major record labels to obtain the appropriate rights to the sound recording copyrights in the songs, the lawsuit states.
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The launch of the new service comes on the heels of a significant change to U.S. copyright law, the Music Modernization Act, which impacts music copyrights — and, particularly streaming services.
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A scientific research depository intended to provide open access to scientific data has had its domains blocked in Russia, after a Russian court declared that the website violates publisher copyrights.
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A penny rate would bring some much-needed transparency to streaming royalties for music copyrights, which are absurdly opaque compared to the other compulsory licenses to which songwriters are subject.
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Mariana Toscas, who runs The Pine Torch outside of her full-time job managing a magazine in Chicago, is very familiar with the challenge of enforcing US copyrights on AliExpress.
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If this figure is accurate, then where were all the debates over the steps taken in the last four decades to make patents, copyrights, and related protections longer and stronger?
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History reveals the important role played by prominent authors, ranging from Washington Irving to Mark Twain, in prompting Congress to secure international protection for the copyrights of America's creative artists.
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The Copyright Office, over which the Register of Copyrights presides, has many important functions, including helping to shape copyright policy by statutorily acting as Congress' impartial advisor on copyright law.
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Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) provides a cautionary example of a law intended to protect copyrights that has resulted in the censorship of non-infringing speech.
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As explained in our book, The Constitutional Foundations of Intellectual Property, the founders viewed copyrights as unique property rights that deserve to be protected like land and other physical property.
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Prince maintained tight oversight over this, and in 2014 he managed to regain full control of his publishing, an unusual arrangement since most songwriters assign these songwriting copyrights to publishers.
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Office Depot Inc didn't infringe a school curriculum provider's copyrights by making copies of its materials on behalf of educators, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said on Friday.
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In 2017, Chinese buyers obtained copyrights for over 6,000 American books, accounting for more than one-third of all foreign books claimed, according to data from the National Copyright Administration.
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The woman behind the suit is Catherine Alexander -- a tattoo artist from Illinois -- who says she's been tattooing Orton going back to '03 ... and owns the copyrights to the designs.
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And in an increasing number of lawsuits, people who inspired emotes — like Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star Alfonso Ribeiro and rapper 2 Milly — are claiming that Epic violated their copyrights.
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If you must use a third-party service, make sure you are on the correct website (again, check the site's copyrights at the bottom) and order direct from that business's page.
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Over the past few decades, the Copyright Office has continued to expand its own role, beyond just registering and managing copyrights, to getting deeply involved in various policy debates around copyright.
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A newly filed lawsuit alleges that a character from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City infringes on copyrights protecting Miss Cleo, a TV psychic who was a staple of '90s pop culture.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The British 1980s pop band "Duran Duran" will not be able to reclaim the U.S. copyrights to some of their most famous hits, an English court ruled on Friday.
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This legal course by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) offers easy-to-understand explanations of the complicated topics of patents, trademarks and copyrights, which can be essential to business success.
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Paul McCartney is suing Sony's music publishing arm in federal court, seeking to reclaim copyrights to 267 Beatles songs that pop star Michael Jackson acquired two decades before his death. (Reuters)
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Passed by Congress in 1998, the DMCA gave the owners of copyrights and then-nascent online service providers the ability to resolve disputes without having to file expensive lawsuits every time.
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Many of them were pushed by Washington, including terms that strengthened intellectual property (IP) protection for certain pharmaceutical products, extended the length of copyrights and reduced barriers for express shipments companies.
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"Although the Walt Disney Company rigorously enforces its copyrights, it has developed a culture that not only accepts the unauthorized copying of others' original material, but encourages it," the suit says.
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This lopsided outcome was the product of a committee review process on copyright law that began almost exactly four years earlier with the testimony of then-Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante.
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I've worked in the IP industry before, I understand why Nintendo has to be aggressive in defending its copyrights, I understand why it has to be aggressive in defending its trademarks.
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The Copyright Office currently grants exemptions on Section 22019 of the Digital Millennium Copyrights Act; however, such exemptions must be renewed every three years and must be done industry by industry.
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Elaine Steinbeck, who had a daughter from a previous marriage, died in 2003 and left her estate, including the Steinbeck copyrights, to her daughter as well as two sisters and grandchildren.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Paul McCartney has reached a confidential settlement of his lawsuit against Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC in which he sought to reclaim copyrights to songs by the Beatles.
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With Republican Bob Dole, Bayh also was the force behind a 1980 law called the Bayh-Dole Act that allows colleges and small businesses to gain ownership of federally funded copyrights.
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After 2000, two of the Guerrilla Girls brought a lawsuit against some of the others, eventually walking away with the copyrights to the group's early posters, and the Guerrilla Girls splintered.
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But in 2016, when the copyrights owned by the Bavarian government ran out, it appeared in a critical edition for the first time, and it is now sold freely in bookstores.
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In the EU, sound recording copyrights are protected for 50 years after they're made, but that protection can be extended to 70 years under a "use it or lose it" clause.
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The first step was to convert the Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE), which lists all of the copyrights from that period, from scanned images to XML, making the process much easier.
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"People in private equity look at music copyrights and think, 'It's like real estate,' but it's not," said Matt Pincus, the founder of Songs Music Publishing, which was sold in 7373.
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Companies sponsoring individual athletes or teams had to submit their plans months in advance to the USOC or other national committees to ensure the campaigns do not infringe on Olympics copyrights.
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NBC's complaint paves the way for YouTube's "Content Verification Program," which launches in October 2007 to help content creators easily identify videos that infringe on their copyrights and get them removed.
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"The state of North Carolina routinely and vigorously enforces its own copyrights, yet simultaneously hides behind sovereign immunity when it violates the intellectual property rights of its own citizens," Allen said.
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Virtu said it had notified the authorities of the issue and that it would begin legal actions to defend itself from the attempt to infringe on its copyrights, trademarks and intellectual property.
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The United States has long alleged that its northern neighbour is soft on piracy, allowing vendors to sell goods and cultural products that infringe trademarks and copyrights of American and other firms.
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In the lawsuit, the Times calls itself "the sole owner of the copyrights of the 64 Front Pages" and alleges that the use of them in the book without license is infringement.
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In 2013, Bloomberg reported that as little as 7 percent of large corporations' value is captured in tangible assets with more than 90 percent reflected in patents, brands, copyrights and other intangibles.
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Maintains strong protections for copyrighted content: Copyrights and licensing agreements will remain in place, and copyrighted content will be protected from piracy much as it is protected under the existing CableCARD regime.
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"There are no copyrights or permissions that allow us to exert control over how it is used other than to appeal to civility on the part of the AfD Berlin," he said.
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"He is using and adapting our copyrights and trademarks without our permission, and the infringement will be taken up with our attorneys," the group said in a statement to the rapper's label.
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The privately-owned toymaker has with some success increased its efforts to fight breaches of copyrights in China, but copycats remain a big problem despite an announced government clamp-down, Christiansen said.
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Gotta Have Rock and Roll -- the same guys that had Tupac's confession letter to M -- will auction off a bunch of Madge's earliest known original nude pics with original negatives and copyrights.
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Star appealed to the Supreme Court, which had previously considered copyrights in useful articles in the context of statuettes on lamp bases during the 23s in the case of Mazer v. Stein.
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Since some of those game can't be acquired and played legally, Nintendo essentially puts itself in a position where it has to erase its own history in order to protect its copyrights.
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As World IP Day approaches, American policymakers should keep four basic considerations foremost in mind: First, the obligation to protect Americans' patent rights and copyrights is explicitly secured by the U.S. Constitution.
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For the benefit of his daughters, he meant to publish it in parts, as appendices to his existing books, in order to extend the copyrights beyond their original expiration dates and his.
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The Guangzhou Yuexiu District Court ruled that four companies had "infringed multiple copyrights of the LEGO Group and conducted acts of unfair competition by producing and distributing LEPIN building sets", Lego said.
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"What we're hearing mostly is around what I call the the 20th century IP protections," said Brilliant, indicating that China is only willing to address outdated issues related to copyrights and trademarks.
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If China succeeds, it will gain more sway in Asia, as will a more bare-knuckle economic system in which copyrights, worker rights, product safety and the environment aren't taken very seriously.
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"Does your company also own copyrights to the national flag and national emblem?" remarked the Chinese Communist Youth League on its official Weibo account in a snarky response to VCG's unscrupulous licensing practice.
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"The minute I create something, I have copyrights," Tim Hwang, lawyer and director of Harvard and MIT's Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative, explained to The Verge's Why'd You Push That Button podcast.
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It really wasn't until nearly a decade ago, after a few court cases, that people began to feel comfortable (in the US, at least) that a search engine wasn't directly infringing on copyrights.
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Six Wakes In the not-too-distant future, a pharmaceutical pirate named Jack travels around the world in a submarine, breaking patents and copyrights to bring cheap drugs to the world's impoverished peoples.
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Some designs, such as Pokémon chess sets or mini-Millennium Falcons, are based on intellectual property (IP) that belongs to companies—in this case Nintendo and Disney—known for guarding their copyrights jealously.
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On a practical branding level, the museum's curatorial team helps store buyers make sure colors are correct in reproductions and checks out copyrights, which can sometimes be impossible or overly expensive to secure.
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Increasingly strong intellectual-property protections have not unleashed a torrent of new ideas, but have instead swelled the earnings of top firms, which wield their patents and copyrights menacingly at would-be innovators.
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This means a person or company can send the copyrights holder a notice of intent, go ahead and play the song and start sending royalty checks without negotiating a deal ahead of time.
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The rule bothers groups like the EFF because it limits what people can do with the devices and products they own, even when it has nothing to do with violating the actual copyrights.
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And as Oracle's lawyers did an inventory of the intellectual property of their new purchase, they came to the conclusion that Google had violated Java copyrights in its Android operating system for smartphones.
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As long as Latin America refuses to streamline regulatory processes and protect patents and copyrights it will continue to attract investment for commodity extraction and t-shirt manufacturing rather than knowledge-intensive services.
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One of Galsworthy's greatest acts of service came in 19053, after the publisher Frank Nelson Doubleday invited Conrad to lunch, in London, and proposed purchasing his existing American copyrights and reprinting his books.
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Entry cannot defame or invade publicity rights or privacy of any person, living or deceased, or otherwise infringe upon any person's personal or proprietary rights including but not limited to copyrights or trademarks.
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In fact, Judge Oetken specifically rejected the lawyer's arguments that he may have exercised poor legal judgment, but not bad faith, when he moved to disqualify a defense expert on copyrights and licensing.
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Although Stan was pretty liberal with giving out creative freedom he was more tightfisted when it came to sharing the spotlight, money, copyrights or the sales from the original art of his collaborators.
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The launch could make Instagram Stories more fun to post and watch in a way that copyrights won't allow on Snapchat, while giving the app a way to compete with tween favorite Musical.ly.
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Games have to be approved by the government watchdogs for media publication, cyberspace and intellectual property, as well as the ministries for culture and information technology, who scrutinize things like content and copyrights.
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After Lane's death in 1968, MacBride ignored the terms of Wilder's will and transferred her copyrights to himself — locking in place a tie between the "Little House" books and an immoderate conservative ideology.
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In 2012, in the United States, both Pizza Hut and Home Depot were sued by The Black Keys for using songs in their advertisements that the rock group said infringed on its copyrights.
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Here's the rub: The owners of copyrights and trademarks say that by allowing anyone to upload any design, print-on-demand companies make it too easy to infringe on their intellectual property rights.
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Entry cannot defame or invade publicity rights or privacy of any person, living or deceased, or otherwise infringe upon any person's personal or proprietary rights including but not limited to copyrights or trademarks.
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The United States Trade Representative said the Phase 1 deal includes stronger Chinese legal protections for patents, trademarks, copyrights, including improved criminal and civil procedures to combat online infringement, pirated and counterfeit goods.
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Mr. Brilliant said on Thursday that China's promises on intellectual property still revolved around "20th century" issues, like copyrights for movies and software, rather than "21st century" issues involving the use of data.
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These works would have gone into the public domain in 2000, after the 75-year term was up, but the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act put a 20-year freeze on releasing copyrights.
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The United States Trade Representative said the Phase 1 deal includes stronger Chinese legal protections for patents, trademarks, copyrights, including improved criminal and civil procedures to combat online infringement, pirated and counterfeit goods.
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The measure will cost the government 5 billion reais in loss revenue per year, which the finance ministry said will be compensated by tax increases on inheritance, donations, image copyrights among other levies.
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"We will safeguard the copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets and other intellectual property that is so vital to our security and to our prosperity," Trump said during a ceremony at the White House.
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The Smithsonian joins the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acclaimed photographer Carol Highsmith, and thousands of software developers, artists, musicians, authors, and photographers around the world in the effort to part with unwanted copyrights.
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The case was being closely watched by Hollywood and the recording industry, which are seeking stronger protections for their copyrights, as well as high-tech companies wary of having to police user-generated content.
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Philips said that Swift could legally reclaim ownership of those copyrights — other artists like Journey's Steve Perry have done so that way — but not until 35 years have passed since the song's initial release.
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Maestro Ennio Morricone had the right to reclaim U.S. copyrights on six Italian film scores that were commissioned by an Italian broker in the 1970s and 1980s, a federal appeals court held on Wednesday.
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Additionally, the 24-year-old actress will inherit the rights to her mother's public image and likeness, as well as her intellectual property rights — including ongoing proceeds from Fisher's books, specials, trademarks and copyrights.
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Riot Games filed a lawsuit last week against Moontoon for its games Magic Rush: Heroes, Mobile Legends: 5v5 MOBA, and Mobile Legends: Bang bang, which Riot claims infringe on its League of Legends copyrights.
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I cherish memories of the shareware days of Windows 3.1, when rogue artists and programmers created grungy video games that were short, unpredictable, and occasionally infringed on the copyrights of mega-famous intellectual properties.
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The current structure, which makes the Register of Copyrights a subordinate officer within the Library, prevents the Copyright Office from working in the best interests of the creative industry and the public at large.
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Additionally, the 25-year-old actress will inherit the rights to her mother's public image and likeness, as well as her intellectual property rights — including ongoing proceeds from Fisher's books, specials, trademarks and copyrights.
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But Prince's worth could be much greater now, particularly since two years ago he took control of his valuable publishing catalog — the copyrights for songwriting — and negotiated a favorable new deal with Warner Bros.
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" Linn also said the plaintiffs' state law copyrights were "distinct" from rights inherent in the remasterings, and the CBS counterarguments would leave the plaintiffs "uncompensated and without control of distribution of their creative product.
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India's weak IP environment is also a serious concern for all manufacturers and innovators, as India's policies fail to provide adequate protection of patents, copyrights and trade secrets and threaten manufacturers' ability to compete.
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Stolen Arab Art continues at 1:1 Center for Art and Politics (HaSharon St 4, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel) until September 6 with more planned talks and events on Arab art, piracy, and copyrights.
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The man behind the suit is James Hayden -- a famous Cleveland-based tat artist who's been inking up LeBron for years ... and owns the copyrights on several designs he put on the NBA star.
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At this point we have no idea whether he will side with workers and place the priority on currency values, or whether he will focus on copyrights, patents and other issues important to American corporations.
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However, copyrights are also subject to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which applies to websites that host content uploaded by users, such as designers uploading their designs to sites maintained by 3D printing services.
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It's called the Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act of 270 — the key part is that it makes the Register of Copyright a political position appointed by the President and approved by the Senate.
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"I, Christopher L. Brady, admit that I sent dozens of notices to YouTube falsely claiming that material uploaded by YouTube users infringed my copyrights," he said in an apology, shared by YouTube with The Verge.
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Luckey took the stand today in Dallas to testify in the trial alleging he helped Oculus steal trade secrets and violate copyrights owned by ZeniMax Media, the parent company of video game developer id Software.
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The move to buy up copyrights is a long-tail play around that, tapping into the many licenses that are essentially left on the table because no one else is bothering to collect on usage.
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Songwriters typically register their copyrights with just one of two music collectives — ASCAP or BMI — where everyone who commercially plays music, from radio stations to restaurants and others playing background music, go to get licenses.
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While the FCC considers imposing a new government-designed technical mandate, and a new government-imposed compulsory license that almost certainly threatens copyrights, additional choices for distributing and viewing video programming become available almost weekly.
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And yet despite IP's undisputed economic importance, not a single American college or university offers any undergraduate courses on the basic workings of patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets in U.S. social and economic life.
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Under a territorial system, U.S. companies would likely double down on their current efforts to relocate their intellectual property, such as patents, copyrights and trademarks, to subsidiaries in places with no corporate taxes like Bermuda.
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The case tested the balance between the right of individuals to protect their creations through copyrights and the fact that states typically are shielded under the U.S. Constitution from lawsuits seeking damages through sovereign immunity.
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Judge Cedarbaum ruled in 2002 that Mr. Protas owned the copyright to only one of the dances, that the center owned the copyrights to 45, and that neither party had established ownership of 24 of them.
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Former Beatle Paul McCartney sued Sony's music publishing arm on Wednesday in federal court in New York, seeking to reclaim copyrights to 19713 Beatles songs that pop star Michael Jackson acquired two decades before his death.
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The sound decision Friday by the Court in denying Kesha's motion for an injunction made it clear Kesha's allegations of purported abuse were unconvincing and that she had no basis to void record contracts and copyrights.
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Patti Smith and Iggy Pop and the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Val Kilmer manage to survive their cameos, but Gosling and Fassbender definitely do not survive their cursory dialogue about song copyrights and record deals.
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The video should not contain or reference any music, or any brand names, products or services of any company, or any third-party trademarks, copyrights, logos, trade dress or promotion of any brand, product or service.
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Stephanie Moore is an attorney and previously served as chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, and as senior adviser to the Register of Copyrights, U.S. Copyright Office.
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Things like patents, trademarks, copyrights and other intangibles that U.S. companies had preferred to be taxed at lower rates overseas would be subject to a U.S. tax rate of possibly 8 or 9 percent, Clifton said.
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The deal will give Sony outright control of the world's largest catalog of music publishing assets — the copyrights for the songwriting and composition that underlie any recording — and simplify what has been a complex ownership structure.
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During his time at Google, the company has been involved in several high-profile legal and regulatory battles, including YouTube's fight with Viacom in a landmark copyright case, and a lawsuit from Oracle over software copyrights.
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He waged a legal battle with the small library in Mansfield, Mo., that Laura's will had stipulated would get the copyrights after Rose's death, until the library settled and handed them over to MacBride for $875,000.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals Court for the 9th Circuit largely affirmed a 2015 verdict that found Rimini Street infringed on Oracle's copyrights by making copies of Oracle enterprise software products like PeopleSoft and Oracle Database.
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TorrentFreak reports that the lawsuit for mass infringement of copyrights was filed in a California district court on Friday by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a consortium of media companies that aims to combat piracy.
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"Any system to enable easier enforcement of copyrights runs the risk of creating a chilling effect with respect to speech online," the ACLU wrote in a letter to lawmakers on Monday urging them to oppose the measure.
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In 1997, Mr. Bowie bundled up nearly 300 of his existing recordings and copyrights into a $55 million security that paid the buyer, Prudential Insurance Company of America, an annual rate of 7.9 percent over 10 years.
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All photos are reviewed before posting for technical quality, legal compliance (for example, it doesn't infringe on any copyrights and models have signed releases), and relevance of metadata (meaning it follows the guidelines for titles and keywords).
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"Extending the country of origin principle ... to certain broadcasting activities online doesn't mean to put an end to the territoriality principle of copyrights which ... is essential to the financing of movies and TV series," the person said.
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YouTube, however, says it has paid out more than $3 billion to the music industry to date and points out that it provides a tool, called Content ID, that gives record labels strong control over their copyrights.
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In layman's terms, he's arguing that this is a really dumb lawsuit and his client the broke photographer shouldn't have to pay for a lawyer just because PETA got a bee in its bonnet about monkey copyrights.
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Choi said, "The move itself is to unlock the value of its literature business, which should be positive ... this business is an important asset for Tencent as it contains many valuable copyrights for popular books and IP."
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Last month, in a positive step for creatives, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), along with 220006 co-sponsors, introduced the Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act (H.
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While WWE has, on occasion, allowed wrestlers to negotiate for the rights to their name (CM Punk, for example), WWE prefers to re-brand a wrestler so they can own the copyrights to the names and characters.
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If our companies are losing $85033 billion to stolen intellectual property each year, then the total value of patents and copyrights and related protections in the U.S. must be at least three or four times this amount.
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Fox and other broadcasters had in 2012 sued Dish to force it to withdraw what they viewed as video-on-demand technology that infringed their copyrights and could reduce advertising revenue because of the commercial-skipping feature.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators on Monday cleared Sony Corp's bid to buy out Michael Jackson's stake in its music publishing joint venture, the world's largest with copyrights to the Beatles' songs and songs by Taylor Swift.
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In its lawsuit, Apple is asking for an order blocking the sales of Corellium's Apple product, for the company to notify its customers they are violating Apple copyrights, destruction of any infringing products, and damages, Bloomberg wrote.
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The company Solid Oak Sketches obtained the copyrights for five tattoos on three basketball players — including the portrait and area code on Mr. James — before suing in 23 because they were used in the NBA 2K series.
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U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain granted summary judgment to the videogame maker in a infringement case brought by Solid Oak Sketches, which holds copyrights on the designs for tattoos inked onto basketball players including LeBron James.
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Alden had served as a so-called stalking horse for the sale, meaning its initial bid of $23 million put a floor on offers for the assets, which also include copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secretes and software.
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Hearst's 353,000-head cattle operation at Jack Ranch itself is markedly old West: "There is a code among cowboys that transcends copyrights, technology, and other manifestations of culture that some folks may consider 'modern,'" the website says.
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China and Hong Kong ranked first and second, respectively, as the origin for all annual product seizures by federal investigators since 2009 because the items infringed on U.S. trademarks or copyrights, or were subject to exclusion orders.
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This is a big deal for the U.S. economy because an increasing share of American output is in the form of invention, technological improvements, music, entertainment, software, and biotechnology breakthroughs that are protected through copyrights and patents.
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"Viacom and some of these larger companies have a lot of bandwidth to sue, and have put a lot of energy into protecting their copyrights," says Kate Klonick, a lawyer at Yale who studies private platform content moderation.
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But according to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Christo sold the photos to the Smithsonian in 2007, and he and his wife Jeanne-Claude falsely told the institution that they held the copyrights.
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Producers like this app, the founders said, because they retain 100 percent of the copyrights on their own beats, while hearing how they sound paired with fresh voices and new talents who they may not have met offline.
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"All of this is obviously bad news for Snap," MCAM-International, which maintains an archive of documents related to patents, trademarks, copyrights and other intangible assets from more than 100 countries, told CNBC in a statement on Tuesday.
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He was always a bigger star in Europe than the USA, and due to some amalgam of perfectionism and chronic depression was never fully comfortable on the road, which along with copyrights provided the bulk of his income.
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The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the 44 articles in dispute were not "works made for hire," and that as a result Kauffmann remained their author and his estate retained the copyrights in them.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would not review a decision finding media monitoring service TVEyes violated Fox News Channel copyrights by broadly redistributing its programming to viewers interested in locating clips by topic and date.
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Proponents argue, essentially, that elevating the register of copyrights to a presidential appointment would give the office a seat in international trade negotiations, in addition to giving stakeholders a chance to lobby the Senate during the confirmation process.
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Varsity Brands, No. 15-866, is about whether Varsity Brands, the undisputed giant of the cheerleading apparel and competition industries, should keep its copyrights on certain decorations — chevrons, zigzags and stripes — that appear on some of its outfits.
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To reduce their home tax bill, companies like Google and Pfizer, for instance, often relocate patents and copyrights in tax havens and then sell use of that intellectual property back to their American subsidiaries at eye-popping prices.
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In theater, unlike in film, writers (and their estates, after their deaths until copyrights expire) retain oversight of their works, and no one is questioning that the Albee estate has the right to approve or reject casting decisions.
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Kobalt Music Group is driving the music industry to provide more transparency and faster royalty payments to musicians and challenging the traditional record labels and publishers with its own alternative service offerings that don't take ownership of copyrights.
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The outcome on intellectual property will likely tackle "20th century" issues like protection of copyrights and trademarks rather than 21st century data and cyber issues, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President Myron Brilliant told reporters this week.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge handed challengers to copyrights for the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" a victory on Friday, ruling that the lyrics and melody of the song's first verse do not qualify for copyright protection.
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The Video should not contain or reference any music, or any brand names, products or services of any company, or any third party trademarks, copyrights, logos, trade dress or promotion of any brand, product or service ( "Third Party IP").
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Mikey Erg, has kept himself more than busy since the band's breakup in 2008, filling temporary and permanent slots for any band that has needs his services—The Copyrights, Worriers, The Dopamines, and a near-endless list of others.
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In a filing on Monday with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, a lawyer for Sony/ATV said the publisher has never challenged the validity of McCartney's notices to terminate its copyrights in the songs, starting in October 2018.
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The fact that everybody puts their photograph in a collective archive, that everybody shares copyrights, that they decide together about their mode of operation and each photographer can choose their own assignment—this is what makes them a collective.
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But the terminology didn't come about right away, and a big part of that has a lot to do with the fact that the problem of securing copyrights online was something that engineers and researchers were initially focused on.
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While Take Two has taken out over 400 copyrights, I couldn't find one from them for Ripper or their other full-motion video game, Black Dahlia, though Gibson was able to find a copyright for Ripper's original treatment script.
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Director Quentin Tarantino wants all contracts for his "Inglorious Basterds" with The Weinstein Co bundled by the bankrupt film studio, saying his copyrights to the movie are at risk if each agreement is left to stand on its own.
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What's more, quite a few of these films—which are in the public domain, their copyrights long expired—are hiding in plain view, for free, on YouTube and other sites (and are easily searchable by their directors and titles).
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There may come a day, a long time from now, after Disney's vampirically extended copyrights have expired and all the accumulated cultural detritus has eroded away, when people will have forgotten "Star Wars," and can finally see it again.
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Though the company — which has a staff of around 35, Kid told Music Business Worldwide — has traditionally maintained all copyrights while leveraging UMG's imprints for global marketing, promotion and distribution, it appears KidInAKorner is taking on a new level of independence.
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While the world marvels at the first black hole image ever taken, a Chinese photo-sharing community is setting off a huge public outcry over its use of the landmark photo and a wider debate over copyrights practices in China.
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A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling in favor of Capitol Records finding that the defunct online music service ReDigi infringed the music company's copyrights with a platform that allowed consumers to buy and sell prepurchased digital music tracks.
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This scarcity – there are only so many thousands of popular musicians and a limited number of legendary artists whose music stays relevant for decades – means copyrights for successful musicians command a premium when they or their publisher decide to sell them.
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That sounds like a joke, given that he's the undisputed virtuoso of the genre, playing or having played in a near-endless list of pop punk bands, from The Copyrights to his legendary (recently reunited) three-piece outfit, The Ergs!.
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The defendants said Satorii lacked power to challenge their copyrights simply because it paid a $45.50 licensing fee to produce "This Land," including one version with a different melody, and said it might owe another fee to make a music video.
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The China Shantou Intermediate People's Court had ruled that "certain Bela products infringed upon the copyrights of the Lego Group and that manufacturing and selling of those products constituted acts of unfair competition", Lego said in a statement on Thursday.
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He also clarified that Spotify is not going to act as a digital record label of sorts, and will not own the copyrights associated with the artists' works, nor will it take a cut of RISE artists' touring and merchandise.
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The deal announced on Wednesday will see Bilibili acquire the copyrights of a large number of popular storylines from NetEase to beef up its content offering for a community of anime, comics and gaming users — or collectively known as ACG fans.
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When China joined the World Trade Organisation nearly 15 years ago, hopes were high that it would crack down on IP violation—especially as its economy developed and more Chinese firms and artists had valuable trademarks, patents and copyrights to protect.
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The justices sought to balance the rights of individuals to protect their creations through copyrights with the fact that states typically are shielded under the U.S. Constitution from lawsuits seeking damages through a form of protection known as sovereign immunity.
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Why it's like that has to do with the fact it historically grew out of an organised crime rip off of black artists who didn't understand the value of their publishing and had their copyrights taken off them for very little.
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Thus, when Paul McCartney announced this year that he would be suing Sony/ATV to "terminate" their copyrights over certain of the Beatles recordings and reclaim ownership of them himself, the news sent a shockwave across the music recording industry.
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The accord disclosed on Thursday in filings with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan ends the 173-year-old McCartney's pre-emptive effort to ensure that the copyrights, once owned by Michael Jackson, would go to him starting in October 2018.
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He faced multiple lawsuits from luxury brands that claimed he had violated their copyrights, and by 1992, after a raid on his shop led by Fendi (and one of its lawyers, Sonia Sotomayor), Mr. Day decided not to reopen his boutique.
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In that case, nine of Mr. Brown's children and grandchildren are suing the estate's administrator and Mr. Brown's widow, Tommie Rae Hynie, asserting that she made "illegal back-room agreements" with the estate involving copyrights for songs Mr. Brown wrote.
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In addition, the portion of any copyrights that were sold to a music publisher revert to the writer, or his or her heirs, either 35 or 56 years after a song is published, depending on when it first came out.
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Why are advocates for major media and entertainment companies pushing Congress to rush through a bill that would make the U.S.'s top copyright official— the Register of Copyrights— a position appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate?
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Kobalt's AWAL and Kobalt Music Publishing divisions provide such services to recording artists and songwriters, respectively, and do so on purely a services basis (getting paid a commission but not taking ownership of copyrights like traditional labels and publishers do).
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The Chinese are touting a clause in their investment law that would crack down on such transfers of technologies and offering up tougher regulations surrounding patents and copyrights, but some administration officials are skeptical that these changes will go far enough.
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The most innovative companies control market rights to original ideas and exclusive intellectual property through vehicles like patents, trademarks and copyrights, but it can also mean trade-secret rights or even more hard-to-measure concepts, like water rights or pollution rights.
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Two weeks ago, thousands of protesters marched across Germany in staunch opposition to the Copyright Directive and its controversial section called Article 13, which makes online platforms like Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter liable for user-generated content that may violate existing copyrights.
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The U.S. Constitution and the Copyright Act do not specify that only humans may be authors who enjoy copyrights to their work, Irell & Manella attorney David Schwarz, who is representing People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, argued in appeal filed Thursday.
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Publishers have also seen some success with similar efforts in Russia, where Russian courts recently sided with UK academic publisher Springer Nature Limited, after the publisher claimed Sci-Hub's sharing of three works focused on heart and brain health infringed its copyrights.
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The Satanic Temple is suing Netflix and Warner Brothers for $150 million, saying the companies infringed on its copyrights, violated its trademark, and caused injury to its business reputation, according to court documents filed on Thursday in a New York district court.
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Putting the Commerce Department in charge would be an end-around approach that effectively leads to deregulation, in part because Commerce would not have incentive to protect copyrights when 85033-D print advocates are instead pushing to make their weapons designs freely available.
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"As with copyrights, there are signs that China's music market is changing, and we expect K-pop agencies to eventually be able to get a share of the concert profits instead of the current fixed sum," said Kyobo Securities analyst Chung Yu-Seok.
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Where a for-profit company would have to pay for copyrights to access these literary resources, organizations like NPR, the Digital Public Library of America and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum donated licenses to CommonLit because the startup is a nonprofit.
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Photo: Amy Harris/Invision (AP)Rapper Eminem's publisher is suing Spotify, claiming that the music streaming giant is infringing on hundreds of his copyrights as well as "challenging the constitutionality of a recently passed music licensing law," the Hollywood Reporter wrote on Wednesday.
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Earlier this year, after he inquired for a second time about their status, Stephen Plotkin, a longtime archivist at the library, reiterated that the document could not be made available, even to researchers, without permission from Caroline Kennedy, who controls her mother's copyrights.
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Here's the deal ... Guns N' Roses claims Rick Dunsford leaked 97 previously unreleased songs over the web after obtaining the recordings from a storage unit auction, and UMG -- which owns the copyrights -- is threatening to sue him for a ton of money.
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Right now, the Copyright Office is a part of the Library of Congress, and the head of the office — known as the Register of Copyrights — is appointed by the Librarian of Congress, who, in turn is appointed by the president, and approved by the Senate.
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The saga of this particular judgment may be close to over, but ZeniMax has emphasized that the company may be interested in seeking an injunction "to restrain Oculus and Facebook from their ongoing use of computer code that the jury found infringed ZeniMax's copyrights."
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"The rise in digital streaming is also expanding songwriter royalty revenues, with Sony capturing value as manager of the copyrights backed by direct deals with the likes of Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, SoundCloud and YouTube," Macquarie analyst Damian Thong said in a report.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Corps Ltd, the music company founded by members of The Beatles, was accused in a lawsuit on Monday of infringing copyrights of a company claiming to own a master recording of the group's famous 1965 concert in New York's Shea Stadium.
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The $33710003 billion B-3371908 term loan and the $33710540 million of B-337107 and B-21750 term loans have a first lien on all present and future IP, trademarks, copyrights, patents, websites and other intangible assets, and a second lien on the ABL collateral.
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Last summer, the work of protecting its copyrights and trademarks—repeatedly searching, verifying, documenting, tracking down unknown companies, consulting lawyers, and submitting notices to website operators—stretched the firm's resources to the point Cassidy brought on three contract workers, upping total staff to eight.
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But as she returned to the rhythms of campus life, with lectures on intellectual property and copyrights and socializing with other students, her mind has often been pulled back home, where her family has stayed and where routines and livelihoods remain unraveled by the storm.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld an order enjoining Zuru Inc from selling action figures that resemble Lego's famed minifigures, saying a judge did not abuse his discretion in ruling Lego would likely prevail on a claim that Zuru infringed copyrights.
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We already know what's going on upstairs, and soon we're up there with Olivia and Malek, bangin' it out in formalwear to classical Indian music, probably something royalty-free and composed specifically for generic use in television or film because Indian copyrights are super weird!
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The uploads could have been the work of a dedicated pirate, but copyright lawyers have another theory: ABKCO Music & Records, which administers the rights to the band's 21966s catalog, uploaded them intentionally as a way to extend their hold on the recordings' copyrights in Europe.
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You may or may not agree with how the act was written, but this is the current state of affairs.) Immediately before that, however, copyrights had to be manually renewed after 28 years and then again after another 28 (for a total of 56 years).
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But the president should insist at the Montreal meetings that improving the protections of patents, copyrights and technology in a NAFTA 2.0 would go a long way to reaching a stable long term trade deal that would help make all of North America great again.
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At least one of these photographs now belongs to Visual China Group, which purchased it from none other than Bill Gates himself, included inside of a massive bundle of copyrights to "historic news, documentary, and artistic images" that includes images of the Tiananmen Square protests.
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The surge in music streaming means a surge in income for those who own the copyrights to songs, and the growth of entertainment in emerging markets, growing use in digital videos, and potential use of music in new content formats like VR only expand this further.
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Sony last month signed a deal to acquire the stake that deceased pop star held in Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the world's largest music publisher, which owns copyrights to most of the Beatles' songs and songs by the Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift, Pharrel Williams and Kanye West.
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So far, this process has led to the identification of over 64,000 products on Etsy alone that infringe on artisan copyrights, and communication with Etsy's legal team has led Dillon to believe the company will be cooperative with Ethical Fashion Guatemala's requests for infringing product removal.
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The fear is that platforms will turn to oppressive filters that prevent users from uploading anything that could potentially violate copyrights, or—considering the sorry state of existing content filters—arbitrarily block user-generated content that filters mistakenly is in violation of one copyright or another.
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That is a major difference before that, if you innovate something if you create IP or copyrights, you're well protected in the U.S. But if in China, early days there's no good protection in terms of legal systems enforcement of legal rulings, so on so forth.
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Last year, the directive's sponsor, European Parliament member Axel Voss of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, told WIRED that even if the legislation wasn't perfect, it would make it harder for big tech companies to profit from ads alongside material that infringes on others' copyrights.
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But, but, but: Spotify head of creator services Troy Carter has said that the company has no interest in becoming a full-fledged label and owning copyrights, which some argue undermines its attempt to compare itself to Netflix, which does develop some of its own exclusive content.
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He has represented two photographers who have sued Distractify for infringing on their copyrights: Jeffery Werner filed a suit in May, claiming the website used his photos of the world's tallest dog, while Peter Menzel accused the site of using his photos of what families eat.
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Sony signed a deal in March to acquire the stake that the deceased pop star held in Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the world's largest music publisher, which owns copyrights to most of the Beatles' songs and songs by the Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift, Pharrell Williams and Kanye West.
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Perhaps the best thing about the DCMA is that it allows sites like YouTube, Vimeo and Imgur (and the 3D printing service sites discussed here) to be able to function as file-sharing communities without having to monitor every uploaded file to ensure no copyrights are being infringed.
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"We will consider what further steps we need to take to ensure there will be no ongoing use of our misappropriated technology, including by seeking an injunction to restrain Oculus and Facebook from their ongoing use of computer code that the jury found infringed ZeniMax's copyrights," she said.
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At the time that she shuttered her brand this year in the face of boycotts and retailers declining to carry her products, The Washington Post reported that Ivanka Trump would retain the copyrights and intellectual propery associated with that brand, and that she would continue to seek trademarks.
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The filmmaker, Frederick Allen, has appealed a lower court's ruling that North Carolina could not be sued under federal law for allegedly infringing his copyrights on five videos and a photograph of salvage operation for the ship in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Beaufort, North Carolina.
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While Iran is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), a specialized United Nations agency tasked with promoting the protection of global intellectual property, it has never signed the WIPO copyright treaty, nor any other international copyright agreements that would make infringing copyrights of foreigners unlawful.
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Other nations with territorial systems have tried to prevent companies from wriggling out of paying taxes, while tax experts have suggested proposals ranging from a minimum global tax to tighter rules to prevent companies from relocating their patents and copyrights to tax havens like Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.
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Allen sued in 2015 in federal court, accusing the state of infringing his copyrights on five videos and a photograph of salvage operation for the historically significant ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, which went down in 1718 in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Beaufort, North Carolina.
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People familiar with the negotiations, who declined to be named because the talks were not public, said the Chinese had made offers to strengthen their laws around patents and copyrights, open their markets to foreign financial services firms and carmakers and bolster laws around the coerced transfer of technology.
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By Andrew Chung A federal judge in Chicago improperly found that an intellectual property dispute over high-end modern furniture should have been filed in Canada even though the copyrights and design patents involved were all issued in the United States, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday, reinstating the case.
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The simple version is that the music and movie industries have always had an uneasy relationship with the internet, and they worry that the Library of Congress might appoint a Register of Copyrights who thinks expanding copyright protections might not be the best thing for the public or individual creators.
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Speaking to Mashable, Music Reports Vice President Bill Colitre explained that one of the reasons the system is so complicated is that there are two different copyrights for each song you hear — for the recording (Nat King Cole's "Route 66") and for the song itself ("Route 66," composed by Bobby Troup).
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The justices heard arguments in filmmaker Frederick Allen's appeal of a lower court's ruling that North Carolina could not be sued under federal law for allegedly infringing his copyrights on five videos and a photo of the salvage operation for the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship that went down in 1718.
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The $1.025 billion B-4 term loan benefits from the same credit support as the existing B-2 and B-3 term loans, which includes a first lien on all present and future IP, trademarks, copyrights, patents, websites and other intangible assets and a second lien on the ABL collateral.
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The group tried to balance the interests of both the music industry and the average consumer: "SDMI's work is based on the core principles that copyrights should be respected and that those who wish to do so should be able to use unprotected formats," the group explained in a fact sheet.
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As private blockchains begin to be used daily to track supply chains or copyrights, the other big question is whether they will be economically attractive enough to persuade companies to replace their old database systems — with one person in charge — with the inefficiencies that come with multiple people keeping records.
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In 2014, three graffiti artists — among them Jason Williams, who uses the tagging name Revok — sued the fashion designer Roberto Cavalli, claiming he had infringed on their copyrights by borrowing parts of a mural they had painted in San Francisco's Mission District in a line of clothes, shoes and handbags.
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"In particular, the intellectual properties included but not limited to music copyrights outside and inside the vault that are alleged to be solely owned and controlled by Prince Rogers Nelson at time of death are not solely owned and controlled by Prince Rogers Nelson at his time of death," the declaration states.
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Weedmaps' multimillion-dollar venture has been more than a year in the making, Beals said, adding that nearly half of that time was spent securing copyrights to art, photos and videos, such as Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign from the 1980s and anti-weed film clips from the '40s and '50s.
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And there's the added benefit that bringing on paying customers to a music service could help smooth over bridges between YouTube and the music industry, which is often frustrated by the fact that YouTube hosts millions of videos that violate musical copyrights — videos that make YouTube money but not the artists and labels.
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Just as Swift explained that she'd essentially signed her life away to Big Machine when she was just 15, McCartney – who eventually reached a confidential settlement with Sony/ATV in 2017 in a fight to reclaim the song's copyrights – has told a similar story as to how his songs escaped his grasp.
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Its per capita GDP is 20 percent or more higher than other large rich nations such as France, Germany, Japan, and the UK. American households have a net worth of nearly $90 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve, a total that doesn't even include intangible assets such as patents and copyrights ($15 trillion).
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TAPPER: Well I don't understand, so it's okay for Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump to do business all over the world, it's okay for Ivanka Trump to have copyrights approved all over the world while President Trump is president and while vice president Joe Biden his son shouldn't be able to do business dealings.
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Sony Music, which went through management changes of its own in October, has strengthened its position by focusing on growth areas like streaming and paying the estate of Michael Jackson $750 million for its share of the Sony/ATV Music Publishing catalog, which contains more than one million copyrights, including 250 songs by the Beatles.
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" For its part, a spokesperson for ZeniMax Media said the company was "pleased" with the decision and is furthermore looking "to ensure there will be no ongoing use of our misappropriated technology, including by seeking an injunction to restrain Oculus and Facebook from their ongoing use of computer code that the jury found infringed ZeniMax's copyrights.
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In 1997, Mr. Bowie bundled up nearly 300 of his existing recordings and copyrights into a $55 million security that paid the buyer — Prudential Insurance Company of America — a 7.9 percent annual rate over 10 years, backed by the income from his royalties and record sales, and the licensing of his songs for films or other uses.
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"I believe that President-elect Trump will closely observe GE and other large U.S. defense and infrastructure firms that have done well in overseas markets and incorporate those (lessons) into his trade policies," said David Pratt, managing director at MCAM-International, which maintains an archive of documents related to patents, trademarks, copyrights and other intangible assets from 160 countries.
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"This bill takes the authority to appoint the Register of Copyrights away from the Librarian of Congress and gives it to the President, who chooses from a non-binding list of nominees created by the House, Senate and Librarian of Congress," Lofgren wrote in the letter, which was co-authored by four former CBC chairmen and Rep.
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Klein pioneered several different ways of doing this; most of them involved manipulating the copyrights of music-publishing businesses that—no longer dependent on the sale of sheet music, as had been the case when there was a piano in every parlor—now made their money on royalties from record sales and radio play and covers.
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Girls Do Porn is also prohibited from using, publishing, licensing or distributing the plaintiffs' images, likenesses, videos or copyrights, and must remove their images, likenesses, or videos from all internet sites owned or controlled by Girls Do Porn, as well as take "active steps" to have such images, likenesses and videos removed from circulation and to safeguard Plaintiffs' privacy.
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Her dismissal was lamented by both House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), who stated: We are saddened to learn that Maria Pallante, who served with distinction as only the 12th Register of Copyrights and the Director of the Copyright Office for the last five years, will be leaving the Copyright Office.
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The justices did not comment in denying the petition for certiorari filed by Sedona-based DRK Photo, which claimed that the November ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had misinterpreted the Copyright Act of 1976 and widened a split in the federal appellate courts by holding that DRK could not sue for infringement of copyrights that it did not own.
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