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Nintendo’s Aggressive Intellectual Property Strategy: A Case Study in Patent Enforcement

Brett Trout

Recently, the companys aggressive enforcement of its intellectual property (IP) has taken center stage, with high-profile lawsuits targeting game modders, emulator developers, and companies like Pocketpair, the creators of Palworld. The lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction against the games continued distribution?

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Opt-Out Approaches to AI Training: A False Compromise

Berkley Technology Law Journal

Candidate, 2027 The recent boom in generative AI technology has been hampered by accusations that AI training sets violate intellectual property laws. Yet the EU already codified an opt-out approach to AI training in 2024, as part of their AI Act , via the extension of an opt-out provision originally intended for text-and-datamining.

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Lessons Learned from 2024 and the Year Ahead in AI Litigation

Debevoise Data Blog

But this new era of AI has not come without controversy, as authors and rights holders have launched waves of litigation against the companies that trained and released generative AI models, as well as their investors and affiliates, alleging violations of intellectual property rights. 1] Proving Defendants Use of Training Data Inputs.

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AI Discovery Battles Heat Up as AI Developer Ordered to Produce Training Data

Debevoise Data Blog

After many rounds of motions to dismiss, intellectual property cases against AI developers are moving into the discovery phase. Defendants denied the allegations and stated that to the extent any copying of copyrighted works occurred, that copying constituted fair use. [2] OpenAI, Inc. cases since last February). [1] 2/16/24).

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Voting Is Open! Pick the 15 Finalists to Compete At Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024 in February

Above the Law - Technology

Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the eighth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024. 14-17, 2024, in Chicago. This release is scheduled for January 2024. Our goal is to serve 2-4 cases per month by the end of 2024, with the projected revenue of $2-4M/year. What problem do you solve?

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Journalists’ Lack of Harm Fatal to DMCA Claims Against AI Developer

Debevoise Data Blog

24 CV 01514-CM, 2024 WL 4711729 (S.D.N.Y. Generally, the DMCA provided additional digital rights management (“DRM”) and copyright protections to aid rights holders in protecting their intellectual property assets by prohibiting the production and distribution of technology that attempts to circumvent DRM and the act of such circumvention.

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Tattoo Artist Wins Copyright Claim, But Gets Zero Damages–Alexander v. Take Two

Eric Goldman

The defendants sought to overturn the jury verdict. Fair Use Nature of Use “Defendants’ use of the tattoos was clearly commercial.” This was evident with Defendants’ “Create-A-Superstar” feature which enabled a user to take the tattoos and apply them to their own custom wrestler avatar. ” Really?

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