The Death of ‘No Monitoring Obligations’: A Story of Untameable Monsters
In imposing a strict liability regime for alleged copyright infringement occurring on YouTube, Justice Salomão of the Brazilian Superior Tribunal de Justiça sta…
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EFF: Stupid patents are dragging down AI and machine learning
"Just as the US Patent Office problematically gave out patents in the past for computers doing simple things like counting votes or counting calories, the…
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Outraged programmers forced a rare concession from Facebook on its open-source software
"“My my personal view is that a lot of the negative reaction was a little bit overblown,” said Daniel Nazer, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundat…
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JP Morgan Chase just got a patent on basic app communications
"How was such a broad and obvious idea allowed to be patented?" asks EFF patent attorney Daniel Nazer. "As we have explained many times before, t…
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Fair use in the digital house of mirrors . . .
In today's highly digitized world, copyright infringement actions, among others, are often brought against alleged infringers using information culled from…
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If an AI creates a work of art, who owns the rights to it?
"As it stands, AIs in the US cannot be awarded copyright for something they have created. The current policy of the US Copyright Office is to reject claims…
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Court says patent troll didn’t invent podcasting
"“We’re pleased that the Federal Circuit agreed that the podcasting patent is invalid,” said Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney at the EFF and the Mark Cuban C…
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Man ridicules Olive Garden’s demand letter over trademark dispute
""I would think that in this case—a non-commercial site reviewing Olive Garden pasta—the claim of infringement is very, very weak," Daniel Nazer,…
Court Orders Prolific Patent Troll Shipping & Transit LLC To Pay Defendant’s Legal Bill
Shipping & Transit LLC, formerly known as Arrivalstar, is one of the most prolific patent trolls ever. It has filed more than 500 lawsuits alleging patent i…
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51 Times That the Aggregator Distractify Says Its Copyright Was Violated
"Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said facts and story concepts generally can’t be copyrighted. Short phrases like he…
Stupid Patent of the Month: Using A Computer To Count Calories
This month’s stupid patent, like many stupid patents before it, simply claims the idea of using a computer for basic calculations. U.S. Patent No. 6,817,863 (th…
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What Packingham v. North Carolina Should Mean for the DMCA
The US Supreme Court issued opinions in two important First Amendment cases this week, one of which obviously had to do with intellectual property law (Matal v.…