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You may have read on this blog a few weeks agothat Balenciaga America is being sued in the Southern District of New York for having allegedly copied the designs of a New York souvenir manufacturer. Defendant, Balenciaga USA, had allegedly featured Plaintiff’s designs, a stylized New York City skyline, on ... Read More

In his presentation at the Fordham Centre London on this Monday November 19, From Murder To Museums: Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler and the Hunt For Nazi Looted Art in America, Raymond J. Dowd, Partner - Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP - NYC  recounts how he seized two stolen Schieles after were spotting ... Read More

Wikyfoto [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons The headlines on the internet over the past week have been very clear. “Jeff Koons is Found Guilty of Plagiarism…” and “French Court Finds Jeff Koons Guilty of Plagiarism” just to name two.  The headlines, however, are misleading. Koons has indeed ... Read More

NEW YORK – Major changes are coming to the makeup of the US Congress from the perspective of intellectual property policy, and while it may translate into more patent-friendly officials, the prospect for legislation is uneven, a panel of IP experts told a private sector conference here last week. ... Read More

This post was first published on May 6, 2010. Copyright law protects works of authorship by granting a bundle of rights. The rights of an author with respect to a work extend to the expression of the work in any manner including in digital or electronic form. Though works in digital ... Read More

PARIS -- French President Emmanuel Macron today opened the 13th Internet Governance Forum (November 12-14) in Paris with a firework of requests to the IGF community and some bold ideas. The IGF after a decade should take on much more responsibility in the development of internet regulation, Macron demanded, and ... Read More

A number of countries are voicing concerns about their country name being used by trademark applicants with no relation to the country, riding on the country's reputation or geographical relevance. They are also worried about their country name being used as an internet top-level domain name. Those are among the ... Read More

The World Trade Organization intellectual property committee met last week with lively discussions on the benefit of IP rights protection for new businesses, and on the role of competition law to prevent abuses of those rights and in particular ensure greater access to medicines. Also, considering the recent WTO Dispute ... Read More

Bell’s promotion of a site blocking system in Canada – rejected by the CRTC on jurisdictional grounds – was grounded in the view that it could establish a mandated blocking approach without court orders. That placed the Canadian proposal off-side the vast majority of site blocking systems around the world, ... Read More

From Murder To Museums: Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler and The Hunt For Nazi Looted Art In America November 12, 2018 - 6:30pm to 9:00pmSponsored by the FAME Center, the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights and the Art Law Society In their presentation, From Murder To Museums: Abraham Lincoln, ... Read More

Ana RamalhoThe creation of works by artificial intelligence systems (AIS) challenges our perception of creativity and, with it, of eligibility for copyright protection. Examples abound. AIS can autonomously create paintings, literary works, music, or even artificial photos. Were these works created by a human being, their eligibility for copyright protection ... Read More

Part 1 of 3 part series. “I was brought up and trained in the Internet Age by people who really believed that nation states were on the verge of crumbling…and we could geek around it. We could avoid it [The Nation State]. These people were irrelevant.” -Susan Crawford  Former President ... Read More

by Chris Castle, from Artist Rights Watch It’s hard to believe that after a good ten years of being called out, YouTube still–still–cannot manage to stop neo-Nazi and white supremacist material from getting posted on its network.  We’ve been calling out YouTube on MusicTechPolicy and the Trichordist for these inexcusable ... Read More

I appeared earlier this week before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance as part of its review of Bill C-86, the Budget Implementation Act. The bill features extensive intellectual property provisions arising out of the IP strategy referenced in Budget 2018. My comments were consistent with previous posts ... Read More

When Congress permitted sound recordings to be copyrighted over four decades ago, it didn’t extend that coverage to pre-1972 recordings. This issue, and the piecemeal nature of licensing for digital music on a per-work, per song basis, were part of the impetus for the stakeholders in the music industry to ... Read More

‘Sarkar’ Accused of Copyright Infringement, China Bans More Than 6,000 Karaoke Songs, Rihanna Sends Notice to Trump for Unauthorised Use of Music, Treats for Fans of the Harry Potter Wizarding World, Google Ropes Sephora Into Home Hub Partnership COPYRIGHT QUOTE OF THE WEEK “I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. ... Read More

Bill C-86 has already been given second reading and is at the Finance Committee of the House of Commons. Yesterday, November 7, 2018, in the Finance Committee, there were about 10 minutes in total testimony by Grant Lynds, past President of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada(“IPIC”) and Michael Geist ... Read More

Plagiarism scandals in journalism are, unfortunately, becoming more and more common.  An increasingly brutal work schedule combines with the sheer ease of plagiarism online to create a temptation that becomes increasingly difficult to ignore. But, despite the growth of the problem, a recent story from Ukraine has found a ... Read More

The importance of intangible capital is growing and so is the significance of intellectual property, according to some, and in particular in the new economy. Start-ups see intellectual property as an indispensable tool to attract investors and put their innovations onto the market. Developing countries still mainly stuck in what ... Read More

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. Note: Due to my recent Halloween hiatus, this is more of a “catch up” edition of the 3 Count. Back to regular programming next week! 1: Researchers Can Now Legally Restore “Abandoned” Online Game Servers First off today, ... Read More

As the Industry Committee’s copyright review continues to hear from stakeholders from across the spectrum, a recurring theme has been demands that the government create a new, explicit Internet intermediary injunction that would allow for everything from site blocking to search engine result de-indexing to a ban on payment providers ... Read More

We will not resort to legislative tricks to avoid scrutiny.Stephen Harper has used prorogation to avoid difficult political circumstances. We will not.Stephen Harper has also used omnibus bills to prevent Parliament from properly reviewing and debating his proposals. We will change the House of Commons Standing Orders to bring an ... Read More

A new directive adopted today by European Union member governments updates and strengthens regulations on video-sharing platforms and other newer forms of media, emphasising the public interest, elevating protections for children, and establishing a 30 percent quota of European content in on-demand audiovisual media services. ... Read More

Nathan Kelley has stepped down from his role as solicitor and deputy general counsel at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to join the Perkins Coie law firm in Washington, DC. Kelley also had served as chief administrative patent judge in charge of the Patent Trial and Appeal ... Read More

World Trade Organization intellectual property committee members gather this week for their annual autumn session. On the agenda are now-usual topics looking at intellectual property from two perspectives: IP as an indispensable tool for innovation in particular in the new economy, and IP as a potential threat to access if ... Read More

The UK's Intellectual Property Office has said it has plans to simplify the way websites which contain copyright infringing material are blocked - currently the system is based on injunctive relief that must be obtained from a court - giving orders are often easy to circumvent. In a statement the IPO ... Read More

Tyler Cowen has some hypotheses and, like all his hypotheses, they're worth considering. ... Read More

"Now, They Are Headed to Prison." ... Read More

The Nation:  Can You Copyright a Quilt? ... Read More

The Times reports on a sale of a group of Carleton Watkins photographs by the Hispanic Society in New York to an "unknown donor" who is giving them to the Met.It's presented as a good news story -- and it is ("They stay in New York but also they go ... Read More