This week in Other Barks and Bites: the Copyright Royalty Board announces audits into Section 112 and Section 114 statutory license royalty payments by iHeartMedia and others; the Ninth Circuit finds that kinetic, moveable sculptures may be sufficiently “fixed” to establish copyright protection; the USPTO publishes findings from economic studies showing that small and micro entity discounts are not doing enough to promote new patent applications; and more.
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