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IP News October 2019
Welcome to IP News This Month, your monthly round-up of intellectual property developments, culled from news reports around the globe. Please send any comments toJeff—and tell your friends to subscribe here! Top 3 Stories The U.S. is on the cusp of creating a “small claims court” overseen by the Copyright Office with maximum damages of $30,000; critics […] Read more
IP News September 2019
Welcome to IP News This Month, your monthly round-up of intellectual property developments, culled from news reports around the globe. Please send any comments toJeff—and tell your friends to subscribe here! Top 3 Stories French publishers accuse Google of “blackmail” after search giant says it will remove news snippets to avoid new copyright royalties Pot patents going […] Read more
IP News August 2019
Welcome to IP News This Month, your monthly round-up of intellectual property developments, culled from news reports around the globe. Please send any comments to Jeff—and tell your friends to subscribe here! PS Into running? Join the CIPP gang—see them here—every Thursday at 4:30pm. Top 3 Stories A new meaning to “patent war”: the Pentagon announces an “intellectual property […] Read more
IP News July 2019
Top 3 Stories A copyright small claims court for the USA? As CASE Act moves forward, creative guilds cheer but public interest groups warn law is ripe for abuse ECJ rules in Metall auf Metall case that unauthorized use of a music sample—even a two second, unoriginal one—is infringement unless the sample is unrecognizable Disney’s new remake marks 25 years of […] Read more
IP News June 2019
Welcome to IP News This Month, your monthly round-up of intellectual property developments, culled from news reports around the globe. Please send any comments toJeff—and tell your friends to subscribe here! Top 3 Stories Who owns the law? SCOTUS to settle long-simmering fight between legal non-profits and states claiming copyright over codes, safety manuals and other regulations that have […] Read more