This is the first Insight in a series addressing how photographers can exploit and protect their rights. Read the second post here, the third post here, the fourth post here, the fifth post here and the sixth post here. The 2021 Google v. Oracle decision was viewed by many as blurring the line between transformative use of a copyrighted […]
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2022 Brings New Requirements Via ID.me for Filing Trademark Applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Fourth Addendum
This post is an update. Read the original post here, the first addendum here, the second addendum here and the third addendum here. Throughout 2022 we have reported on the plans of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) to require filers’ biometric data collected through a private firm, ID.me, and its subsequent postponement of the initial […]
Read moreA Joint Study by the USPTO and the Copyright Office on NFTs and Intellectual Property
At the request of Senators Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., two members of the Senate’s intellectual property subcommittee, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the Copyright Office have announced that they are launching a joint study of NFTs and their impact on intellectual property rights. The Senators’ letter raised several questions […]
Read moreMuseums and Questions of Donor Morality: The Sackler Case
In an earlier Insight, we discussed the issue of renaming by public and private educational institutions in situations where naming honors previously bestowed are now considered inconsistent with the institution’s goals of diversity, inclusion and other questions of morality. We have explored the renaming of public spaces for similar reasons. We have also noted that denaming and […]
Read moreStamping Out Uyghur Culture: The Winter Olympics Shine a Light on Misappropriation of Traditions — Addendum
We have previously written about the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) in the context of the Chinese government’s systematic persecution of this primarily Muslim ethnic minority living in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region (XUAR) region in northwestern China, including its misappropriation of Uyghur cultural heritage. As part of the U.S. effort to combat these […]
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