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"At EFF, we want our work to be seen and shared widely. That’s why we’ve made our content available under Creative Commons licenses for many years. Today, in that spirit, we are updating the license for most materials on our website, www.eff.org, to Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/open-licensing-promotes-culture-and-learning-thats-why-eff-upgrading-its-creative
#EFF #CC #CreativeCommons #OpenLicensing #Copyright #DigitalRights #IP
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/open-licensing-promotes-culture-and-learning-thats-why-eff-upgrading-its-creative
#EFF #CC #CreativeCommons #OpenLicensing #Copyright #DigitalRights #IP
Open Licensing Promotes Culture and Learning. That's Why EFF Is Upgrading its Creative Commons Licenses.
At EFF, we’re big fans of the Creative Commons project, which makes copyright work in empowering ways for people who want to share their work widely. EFF uses Creative Commons licenses on nearly all of our public communications.Electronic Frontier Foundation
"On January 1, 2025, we celebrate published works from 1929 and published sound recordings from 1924 entering the public domain! The passage of these works into the public domain celebrates our shared cultural heritage. The ability to breathe new life into long forgotten works, remix the most popular and enduring works of the time, and to better circulate the oddities we find in thrift stores, attics, and on random pockets of the internet are now freely available for us all.
While not at the same blockbuster level as 2024 with Steamboat Willie’s passage into the public domain, works from 1929 still inhabit strong cultural significance today. The works of 1929 continue to capture the Lost Generation’s voice, the rise of sound film, and the emerging modern moment of the 1920s."
https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025/
#USA #PD #PublicDomain #Copyright #IP
While not at the same blockbuster level as 2024 with Steamboat Willie’s passage into the public domain, works from 1929 still inhabit strong cultural significance today. The works of 1929 continue to capture the Lost Generation’s voice, the rise of sound film, and the emerging modern moment of the 1920s."
https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025/
#USA #PD #PublicDomain #Copyright #IP
Celebrate Public Domain Day 2025 at the Internet Archive (IN-PERSON)
Please join us at our headquarters in San Francisco for a Celebration of the Public Domain! This year, we’re honoring 1929 — the year of the very first Academy Awards, held […]\nblog.archive.org
"The rights we have in the offline world–to speak freely, create culture, play games, build new things and do business–must be available to us online, as well. This core belief drives EFF’s work to fight the misuse of the patent system.
Despite significant progress we’ve made over the last decade, patents, and in particular vague software patents, remain a serious threat to online rights. The median patent lawsuit isn't filed by what Americans would recognize as an ‘inventor,’ but by an anonymous limited liability company that provides no products or services, and instead uses patents to threaten others over alleged infringement. In other words, a patent troll. In the tech sector, more than 85% of patent lawsuits are filed by these “non-practicing entities.”
That’s why at EFF, we continue to help individuals and organizations fight patent threats related to everyday activities like using CAPTCHAs and picture menus, tracking packages or vehicles, teaching languages, holding online contests, or playing simple games online.
Here’s where the fight stands as we move into 2025."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/fighting-progress-patents-2024-review
#Patents #PatentTrolls #IP #USA
Despite significant progress we’ve made over the last decade, patents, and in particular vague software patents, remain a serious threat to online rights. The median patent lawsuit isn't filed by what Americans would recognize as an ‘inventor,’ but by an anonymous limited liability company that provides no products or services, and instead uses patents to threaten others over alleged infringement. In other words, a patent troll. In the tech sector, more than 85% of patent lawsuits are filed by these “non-practicing entities.”
That’s why at EFF, we continue to help individuals and organizations fight patent threats related to everyday activities like using CAPTCHAs and picture menus, tracking packages or vehicles, teaching languages, holding online contests, or playing simple games online.
Here’s where the fight stands as we move into 2025."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/fighting-progress-patents-2024-review
#Patents #PatentTrolls #IP #USA
It’s critical that copyright be balanced with limitations that support users’ rights, and perhaps no limitation is more important than fair use. Critics, humorists, artists, and activists all must have rights to re-use and re-purpose source material, even when it’s copyrighted.
Yesterday, EFF weighed in on another case that could shape the future of our fair use rights. In Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg, a Los Angeles tattoo artist created a tattoo based on a well-known photograph of Miles Davis taken by photographer Jeffrey Sedlik. A jury found that Von Drachenberg, the tattoo artist, did not infringe the photographer’s copyright because her version was different from the photo; it didn’t meet the legal threshold of “substantially similar.” After the trial, the judge in the case considered other arguments brought by Sedlik after the trial and upheld the jury’s findings.
On appeal, Sedlik has made arguments that, if upheld, could narrow fair use rights for everyone. The appeal brief suggests that only secondary users who make “targeted” use of a copyrighted work have strong fair use defenses, relying on an incorrect reading of the Supreme Court’s decision in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/eff-tells-appeals-court-keep-copyrights-fair-use-rules-broad-and-flexible
#USA #Copyright #FairUse #IP
Yesterday, EFF weighed in on another case that could shape the future of our fair use rights. In Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg, a Los Angeles tattoo artist created a tattoo based on a well-known photograph of Miles Davis taken by photographer Jeffrey Sedlik. A jury found that Von Drachenberg, the tattoo artist, did not infringe the photographer’s copyright because her version was different from the photo; it didn’t meet the legal threshold of “substantially similar.” After the trial, the judge in the case considered other arguments brought by Sedlik after the trial and upheld the jury’s findings.
On appeal, Sedlik has made arguments that, if upheld, could narrow fair use rights for everyone. The appeal brief suggests that only secondary users who make “targeted” use of a copyrighted work have strong fair use defenses, relying on an incorrect reading of the Supreme Court’s decision in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/eff-tells-appeals-court-keep-copyrights-fair-use-rules-broad-and-flexible
#USA #Copyright #FairUse #IP
"So what's entering the public domain this year? Well, for one thing, there's more of the stuff from last year, which makes sense: if Hemingway's first books entered the PD last year, then this year, we'll the books he wrote next (and this will continue every year until we catch up with Hemingway's tragic death).
There are some big hits from our returning champions, like Woolf's To the Lighthouse and A Farewell to Arms from Hemingway. Jenkins and Boyle call particular attention to one book: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, its title taken from a public domain work by Shakespeare."
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/17/dastar-dly-deeds/#roast-in-piss-sonny-bono
#USA #Copyright #IP #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Trademarks
There are some big hits from our returning champions, like Woolf's To the Lighthouse and A Farewell to Arms from Hemingway. Jenkins and Boyle call particular attention to one book: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, its title taken from a public domain work by Shakespeare."
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/17/dastar-dly-deeds/#roast-in-piss-sonny-bono
#USA #Copyright #IP #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Trademarks
"The Writers Guild of America is forcefully calling on Hollywood’s major studios to take a stand on the purported use of their members’ works as AI training data.
Leaders of the WGA West and East demanded that companies take “immediate legal action” against any firms that have used writers’ work to train AI tools in a letter sent to the chief executives of Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Paramount Global, NBCUniversal, Sony, Netflix and Amazon MGM Studios on Wednesday.
“It’s time for the studios to come off the sidelines,” the letter stated. “After this industry has spent decades fighting piracy, it cannot stand idly by while tech companies steal full libraries of content for their own financial gain.”"
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/writers-guild-tells-studios-take-legal-action-ai-1236085492/
#AI #GenerativeAI #WritersGuild #Hollywood #Copyright #IP
Leaders of the WGA West and East demanded that companies take “immediate legal action” against any firms that have used writers’ work to train AI tools in a letter sent to the chief executives of Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Paramount Global, NBCUniversal, Sony, Netflix and Amazon MGM Studios on Wednesday.
“It’s time for the studios to come off the sidelines,” the letter stated. “After this industry has spent decades fighting piracy, it cannot stand idly by while tech companies steal full libraries of content for their own financial gain.”"
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/writers-guild-tells-studios-take-legal-action-ai-1236085492/
#AI #GenerativeAI #WritersGuild #Hollywood #Copyright #IP
Writers Guild Tells Studios to Take Legal Action Against AI Companies
The union is arguing that tech companies "looted the studios’ intellectual property" while Hollywood's major companies stood by.Katie Kilkenny (The Hollywood Reporter)
Pamela Samuelson and the Promotion of Progress https://btlj.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/00_39-3_-Foreword.pdf Special BTLJ issue https://btlj.org/2024/12/volume-39-issue-3/
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/a-national-treasure-colleagues-share-emotional-tributes-to-iconic-professor-pamela-samuelson/
#education #uslaw #uspol #IP #innovation @pamelasamuelson
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/a-national-treasure-colleagues-share-emotional-tributes-to-iconic-professor-pamela-samuelson/
#education #uslaw #uspol #IP #innovation @pamelasamuelson
Volume 39, Issue 3 - Berkeley Technology Law Journal
COMPLETE VOLUME 39, ISSUE 3 Complete Issue FRONT MATTER Front Matter ARTICLES Preface: Pamela Samuelson and the Promotion of Progress by Molly Van Houweling Pam and Inspiring Technologists by Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD Second-Degree Intellectual Proper…BTLJ (Berkeley Technology Law Journal)
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation works to defend your right to own what you buy. Your right of first sale should apply to digital works, and it’s unfair to buy something when the terms say you don’t really own it. We fight in Congress to stop laws that would take your digital rights away, and in court to ensure that copyright holders can’t re-write the law to undermine user rights and the public interest. We've won many protections for physical media, worked to expand your right to make fair uses of physical and digital content, and even protected your ability to make podcasts. Now we need your help to change the law to give you the same rights online that you have offline. It’s happened in other countries, and it can happen here, too."
https://www.digitalrightsbytes.org/topics/wait-i-don-t-own-the-digital-downloads-i-buy
#Copyright #IP #FairUse #DigitalMedia #DRM #Streaming
https://www.digitalrightsbytes.org/topics/wait-i-don-t-own-the-digital-downloads-i-buy
#Copyright #IP #FairUse #DigitalMedia #DRM #Streaming
"Good news: the Senate Judiciary Committee has dropped one of the two terrible patent bills it was considering, the patent-troll-enabling Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA).
Bad news: the committee is still pushing the PREVAIL Act, a bill that would hamstring the U.S.’s most effective system for invalidating bad patents. PREVAIL is a windfall for patent trolls, and Congress should reject it.
One of the most effective tools to fight bad patents in the U.S. is a little-known but important system called inter partes review, or IPR. Created by Congress in 2011, the IPR process addresses a major problem: too many invalid patents slip through the cracks at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. While not an easy or simple process, IPR is far less expensive and time-consuming than the alternative—fighting invalid patents in federal district court."
#USA #Patents #IP #PatentTrolls
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/prevail-act-would-wreck-us-patent-review-system
Bad news: the committee is still pushing the PREVAIL Act, a bill that would hamstring the U.S.’s most effective system for invalidating bad patents. PREVAIL is a windfall for patent trolls, and Congress should reject it.
One of the most effective tools to fight bad patents in the U.S. is a little-known but important system called inter partes review, or IPR. Created by Congress in 2011, the IPR process addresses a major problem: too many invalid patents slip through the cracks at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. While not an easy or simple process, IPR is far less expensive and time-consuming than the alternative—fighting invalid patents in federal district court."
#USA #Patents #IP #PatentTrolls
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/prevail-act-would-wreck-us-patent-review-system
"On January 1, 2025, California’s Assembly Bill 2426 (AB 2426) will go into effect. Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in September 2024, AB 2426 requires digital retailers to be transparent about what consumers are actually purchasing when they pay for movies, music, games, and other digital goods. If you think you own what you pay for in the digital world, you might want to read the fine print. (Or re-read it if you’re that kind of person.) For years, digital storefronts have exploited vague language and fine-print licensing terms to convince consumers they are “buying” digital games or media, when really they are just buying a license to that content – one that often can be revoked at any time.
The new law mandates that sellers in California clearly disclose when a purchase is, in fact, a limited, revocable license. Further, it bans terms like “buy” or “purchase” unless these words are accompanied by disclosures indicating that the purchase might not confer true ownership. In this way, AB 2426 enforces truth in advertising for digital products, ensuring that companies can no longer mislead consumers into thinking they “own” a digital product only to have it disappear from their libraries later."
https://publicknowledge.org/ownership-used-to-mean-something/
#USA #California #DRM #Rentism #Copyright #IP
The new law mandates that sellers in California clearly disclose when a purchase is, in fact, a limited, revocable license. Further, it bans terms like “buy” or “purchase” unless these words are accompanied by disclosures indicating that the purchase might not confer true ownership. In this way, AB 2426 enforces truth in advertising for digital products, ensuring that companies can no longer mislead consumers into thinking they “own” a digital product only to have it disappear from their libraries later."
https://publicknowledge.org/ownership-used-to-mean-something/
#USA #California #DRM #Rentism #Copyright #IP
Ownership Used to Mean Something - Public Knowledge
In the digital era, sometimes the things you buy aren't actually yours to own.John Bergmayer (Public Knowledge)
"PERA would not only revive these dangerous technology patents, but also expand patenting of human genes—a type of patent the Supreme Court essentially blocked in 2013.
The Senate Judiciary is also scheduled to vote on the PREVAIL Act (S. 2220) that seeks to severely limit the public’s ability to challenge bad patents at the patent office. These challenges are among the most effective tools for eliminating patents that never should have been granted in the first place.
Passing these bills would sell out the public interest to a narrow group of patent holders. EFF stands together with a broad coalition of patients rights groups, consumer rights organizations, think tanks, startups, and business organizations to oppose these harmful bills.
This week, we need to show Congress that everyday users and creators won’t support laws that foster more patent abuse. Help us send a clear message to your representatives in Congress today."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/tell-congress-stop-these-last-minute-bills-help-patent-trolls
#USA #Patents #IP
The Senate Judiciary is also scheduled to vote on the PREVAIL Act (S. 2220) that seeks to severely limit the public’s ability to challenge bad patents at the patent office. These challenges are among the most effective tools for eliminating patents that never should have been granted in the first place.
Passing these bills would sell out the public interest to a narrow group of patent holders. EFF stands together with a broad coalition of patients rights groups, consumer rights organizations, think tanks, startups, and business organizations to oppose these harmful bills.
This week, we need to show Congress that everyday users and creators won’t support laws that foster more patent abuse. Help us send a clear message to your representatives in Congress today."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/tell-congress-stop-these-last-minute-bills-help-patent-trolls
#USA #Patents #IP
Tell Congress To Stop These Last-Minute Bills That Help Patent Trolls
This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee is set to use its limited time in the lame-duck session to vote on a bill that would make the patent system even worse. The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (S.Electronic Frontier Foundation
A summary of our dialogue on intellectual property, sustainable innovation, and the SDGs at the Victoria University of Wellington with Professors Jessica Lai Susy Frankel and Christian Schott https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/law/centres/nzciel/events/reports/2024/seminar-on-intellectual-property-sustainable-innovation-and-the-sdgs #SDGS #IP #2030Agenda #nzlaw #nzpol Our collection co-edited by Bita Amani and Caroline B Ncube has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781803925233/9781803925233.xml #sustainability
Seminar on Intellectual Property, Sustainable Innovation, and the SDGs | Te Kauhanganui Tātai Ture / Faculty of Law | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Exploring the nexus of intellectual property and sustainable developmentVictoria University of Wellington
I'm very glad to see farmers win the right to repair their tractors. It's a win for consumers against bogus #IP objections from manufacturers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64206913
#RightToRepair, #RightToTinker
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64206913
#RightToRepair, #RightToTinker
US farmers win right to repair John Deere equipment
The grassroots movement has grown among consumers around the world as repair costs soar.By Monica Miller (BBC News)
The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals, edited by Bita Amani Caroline B Ncube and Matthew Rimmer.
Out now https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781803925233/9781803925233.xml
Read the Foreword by Christine Milne AO
the Introduction by Bita Amani Caroline B Ncube and Matthew Rimmer
and Chapter 1 by Julia Janewa Osei-Tutu
https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781803925233/9781803925233.xml Edward Elgar Publishing. #SDGs #sustainability #IP #innovation #copyright #trademark #patent #tradesecrets #designs #IndigenousIP #PBR #accesstogeneticresources
Out now https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781803925233/9781803925233.xml
Read the Foreword by Christine Milne AO
the Introduction by Bita Amani Caroline B Ncube and Matthew Rimmer
and Chapter 1 by Julia Janewa Osei-Tutu
https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781803925233/9781803925233.xml Edward Elgar Publishing. #SDGs #sustainability #IP #innovation #copyright #trademark #patent #tradesecrets #designs #IndigenousIP #PBR #accesstogeneticresources
The Sleepy Copyright Office in the Middle of a High-Stakes Clash Over AI
The attention stems from a first-of-its-kind review of copyright law in the age of artificial intelligence. The #technology — which feeds off creative content — has upended traditional norms around #copyright, which gives owners of books, movies and music the exclusive ability to distribute and copy their works.
#LibraryOfCongress #artificialintelligence #AI #intellectualproperty #IP #legal #tech
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/technology/ai-copyright-office-law.html
The attention stems from a first-of-its-kind review of copyright law in the age of artificial intelligence. The #technology — which feeds off creative content — has upended traditional norms around #copyright, which gives owners of books, movies and music the exclusive ability to distribute and copy their works.
#LibraryOfCongress #artificialintelligence #AI #intellectualproperty #IP #legal #tech
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/technology/ai-copyright-office-law.html
Wake me up when record labels and media companies learn how to build marketing platforms, besides extracting feudal rents from others who do the job they should be doing.
#Music #UMG #SocialMedia #TikTok #Copyright #IP: "Universal Music is set to pull its millions of songs from TikTok after a breakdown in talks over payments.
The move would mean the social media platform would no longer have access to songs by artists including Taylor Swift, The Weeknd and Drake.
Universal accused TikTok of "bullying" and said it wanted to pay a "fraction" of the rate other social media sites do for access to its vast catalogue.
TikTok said Universal was presenting a "false narrative and rhetoric".
Music companies earn royalty payments when their songs are played on streaming and social media platforms.
Although TikTok - which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance - has more than one billion users, it accounts for just 1% of Universal's total revenue, the label said."
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68150311
#Music #UMG #SocialMedia #TikTok #Copyright #IP: "Universal Music is set to pull its millions of songs from TikTok after a breakdown in talks over payments.
The move would mean the social media platform would no longer have access to songs by artists including Taylor Swift, The Weeknd and Drake.
Universal accused TikTok of "bullying" and said it wanted to pay a "fraction" of the rate other social media sites do for access to its vast catalogue.
TikTok said Universal was presenting a "false narrative and rhetoric".
Music companies earn royalty payments when their songs are played on streaming and social media platforms.
Although TikTok - which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance - has more than one billion users, it accounts for just 1% of Universal's total revenue, the label said."
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68150311
Universal Music to pull songs from TikTok
It would mean the social media platform would no longer have access to songs by Taylor Swift, The Weeknd and Drake.By Peter Hoskins (BBC News)
#Introduction #Introductions
Dr Matthew Rimmer is a Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation Law at the Faculty of Business and Law, at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He has published widely on copyright law and information technology, patent law and biotechnology, access to medicines, plain packaging of tobacco products, intellectual property and climate change, Indigenous Intellectual Property, and intellectual property and trade. He is undertaking research on intellectual property and 3D printing; the regulation of robotics and artificial intelligence; and intellectual property and public health (particularly looking at the coronavirus COVID-19). His work is archived at QUT ePrints, SSRN Abstracts, Bepress Selected Works, and Open Science Framework.
https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/matthew.rimmer
https://works.bepress.com/matthew_rimmer/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmatthewrimmer/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=358042
https://works.bepress.com/matthew_rimmer/
#auslaw #auspol #IP #copyright #trademark #plainpacks #patent #PBR #access2meds #tradesecrets #SDGs #climate #IndigenousIP #trade #TPP #3dprinting #robotics #innovation
Posts will also feature #books #music #film #TV #photography - some sport #AFL #football #socceroos #LFC #YNWA #basketball. There will also be the odd post about #dogs #labradors and #swimming
Dr Matthew Rimmer is a Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation Law at the Faculty of Business and Law, at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He has published widely on copyright law and information technology, patent law and biotechnology, access to medicines, plain packaging of tobacco products, intellectual property and climate change, Indigenous Intellectual Property, and intellectual property and trade. He is undertaking research on intellectual property and 3D printing; the regulation of robotics and artificial intelligence; and intellectual property and public health (particularly looking at the coronavirus COVID-19). His work is archived at QUT ePrints, SSRN Abstracts, Bepress Selected Works, and Open Science Framework.
https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/matthew.rimmer
https://works.bepress.com/matthew_rimmer/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmatthewrimmer/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=358042
https://works.bepress.com/matthew_rimmer/
#auslaw #auspol #IP #copyright #trademark #plainpacks #patent #PBR #access2meds #tradesecrets #SDGs #climate #IndigenousIP #trade #TPP #3dprinting #robotics #innovation
Posts will also feature #books #music #film #TV #photography - some sport #AFL #football #socceroos #LFC #YNWA #basketball. There will also be the odd post about #dogs #labradors and #swimming
After 20 yrs, #BillWillingham releases #Fables into the #PublicDomain. *HE* is still under contract with #DCComics for future work / #royalties / project approval, but the public is not, not bound by #trademarks or #copyright, & free to do as they like with it in #FanFic & other forms of #art.
He's had disputes with DC Comics forever w/o much relief & this is one of his ways to fight back.
https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the
#trademark #PressRelease #IP #IntellectualProperty #TellTaleGame #CopyrightLaw
He's had disputes with DC Comics forever w/o much relief & this is one of his ways to fight back.
https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the
#trademark #PressRelease #IP #IntellectualProperty #TellTaleGame #CopyrightLaw
Willingham Sends Fables Into the Public Domain
Here, below, is the press release I sent out today to explain what I did and why.Bill Willingham (These Foolish Games)