International comparison of approaches to online copyright enforcement. Village de la Justice - 1er media des professions du droit. Our year in review. As Authors Alliance HQ wraps up a very busy inaugural year, it seems like a good time to reflect on what we’ve done so far and look ahead to how we plan to keep the pace in 2015.
This is our 2014 year in review! Authors Alliance launched in May with a kickoff event at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. At the launch, we released a set of principles and proposals to guide copyright reform efforts in order to better support public-minded authors and creators. In July, we filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Authors Guild vs. Google case in support of Google’s fair use defense. And this fall, we initiated a petition to the Library of Congress to allow authors to bypass technical protection measures in order to make fair uses of video content in multimedia e-books. In keeping with our mission, we joined with allies throughout the year to stand up for our principles on questions of public policy. Events and gatherings have been an important part of our year. IP and Tech Law Alert: 2014 IP Year In Review - Phelps Dunbar LLP.
Below is a summary of the most important and interesting intellectual property cases decided in 2014, along with a brief outlook for major decisions expected in 2015: Patents The pendulum has continued to swing away from holders of patents covering business methods or other computer-implemented inventions.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, 134 S.Ct. 2347 (2014), which invalidated several financial services patents covering the mitigation of settlement risk. In its first major decision post-Alice, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit invalidated a patent covering a method of distributing online media to consumers. 18th Annual Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review. Date Thursday, January 16, 2014 Alternate date: Monday, May 5, 2014 [click to view options] CPD Hours Register Now Description Developments in intellectual property law happen regularly.
View Program Agenda (PDF) 2014 Year in Review – Copyright in the Courts, Legislation on the Horizon. Copyright and Trademark Law Year in Review 2014. Year in Review - English Law in 2014. 2014: the year in review for Canadian copyright law. Legislation “Notice and Notice”
2014: The year in review for Canadian copyright law. “Notice and Notice” The “notice and notice” provisions of the Copyright Modernization Act have now come into force.
These provisions allow copyright owners to provide Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with a notice of alleged copyright infringement and require the ISP to forward it to the ISP’s subscriber. They also require the ISP to maintain its records relating to the subscriber for a period of time so that the rights holder may seek to obtain the information for the purpose of litigation.1 Disclosure of ISP Subscriber Identities In Voltage Pictures LLC v. Threshold of Originality for Protection Copyright does not protect ideas or concepts. For example, in Denturist Group of Ontario v Denturist Assn of Canada,3 the parties disagreed as to whether copyright subsists in five-digit numerical procedure codes used to identify denturist services to insurance companies.
Similarly, in J(I) v J (MA) the British Columbia Supreme Court denied copyright protection to a business solution or system.4. Copyright law 2014: the year in review. As the creative industries continued to grow economically in importance in 2014, so have the stakes in copyright litigation.
Increasingly, the courts have been challenged to resolve complex disputes arising from new uses of works and other subject matter brought about by innovations in technology. While content is often a core and indispensable element of new and innovative services, products or offerings, frequently parties dispute whether the use requires permission and payment to rights holders or can be engaged in without permission or payment. This post reviews some of the highlights of the court battles of 2014 in Canada and other Commonwealth countries, the United States and the European Union. Subsistence of copyright It is trite law that copyright only subsists in original materials that are works or other subject matter under copyright laws. 2014 saw its share of disputes dealing with subsistence.
Judge Posner also rendered a decision in Klinger v. Jurisdiction. International Copyright Law: 2014 in Review. Copyright law remains just as broken in 2014 as it was in 2013, but some countries have been tinkering around the edges of copyright this year in an attempt to address its flaws.
The United Kingdom stands out as a country where the need for copyright reform has been comprehensively studied over the past decade, and where a number of key recommendations of the most recent study—for once—were not shelved, but actually found their way into the law books. These included provisions facilitating the use of copyright works by students, researchers, teachers, libraries and the disabled. The rest of Europe is at an earlier stage of its current copyright review, though a leaked whitepaper hints that the proposals that come out of it will be unambitious, placing undue emphasis on strengthening copyright enforcement through intermediaries, and by facilitating user-generated content through licensing rather than by introducing a fit-for-purpose copyright limitation such as fair use. IP Osgoode » IP Year in Review 2014 – The Perpetual Motion of IP Law.
Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, the IP Intensive Program, and the IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic, the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the IPilogue, the Deputy Editor of the Intellectual Property Journal, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. 2014 was another exciting year in intellectual property (IP) law.
The dominant theme was one of reaction, where legislators and courts were either responding to new industry challenges posed by technology or updating existing laws to reflect already established practices. Canada in particular saw exciting developments across all three major areas of IP, with a significant legislative update to the Trademarks Act, attempts at judicial balancing of copyright interests between users and creators, and high profile patent litigation over pharmaceuticals. Trademarks Trademark law saw various legislative changes and newsworthy headlines shaking up an area of IP that is typically known for its stability. Copyright law 2013: the year in review.