TorrentFreak

AUGUST 17, 2021

In 2016, companies including Bell Canada, Videotron, Group TVA and Rogers Communications filed a copyright infringement action at Canada’s Federal Court. The plaintiffs complained that this breached their rights in respect of at least 386 copyrighted works. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Image by European Copyright Society. On 15 December 2020, the European Commission submitted a proposal for a Regulation on a Single Market For Digital Services (Digital Services Act, DSA) and amending Directive 2000/31/EC. 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD). EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This post looks back at the key developments in AI and copyright in 2022, covering generative AI, text and data mining exceptions, the pastiche exception, deep fakes, voice cloning and infringement and enforcement of copyright using AI. Very few jurisdictions expressly provide for copyright in computer-generated works.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

If any person imitates the ideas of any other creator, he would said to be infringing the original artist’s design and the copyright thereof. A copyright protection is the ability of a designer to protect his original designs through the copyright laws. What Is Copyright? Furthermore, protect it from any kind of misuse.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 13, 2022

The recent controversy involving French fashion house Jean Paul Gaultier and TaTa Top, known for their rather distinct bikini prints, has brought the issue of fashion copyright to the forefront again. Fashion Copyright. Till now, this article has focused on the ambit of copyright protection in a relatively generic manner.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2024

However, copyright protection may unexpectedly clash with this sustainable practice, as certain upcycled items could include copyrighted prints, ornaments, or design patterns from the original materials, such as new clothing items made out of old bed sheets, curtains, or tablecloths , or jewellery made from broken porcelain.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is easily the best-known law when it comes to notice and takedown. . The European Union, for example, has a notice-and-takedown system as part of its Electronic Commerce Directive , which was adopted in 2000. However, the law only directly applies to the United States.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

It will also mention one of the key issues with the current Designs Act, 2000 , as it may be a good opportunity to strengthen the legal framework around industrial designs in the country. Indian Design Law and Compliance with the Locarno Classification India’s design law is governed by the Designs Act, 2000.

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The IPKat

APRIL 4, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Desmond Oriakhogba (University of the Western Cape) on one of the important but largely overlooked aspect of South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill: provisions aimed at ensuring fair remuneration for South African creators and performers.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

One of the ways whereby the court aims to curtail misuse of the recordings of court proceedings is by claiming copyright on these recordings. In this post, SpicyIP intern Niyati Prabhu discusses the issues surrounding access to law and the dilemma surrounding copyright. This is also not specified in the Copyright Act.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

The author or creator of any theatrical, literary, creative, or musical work has an exclusive right to copyright. It was recently uncovered that numerous internet platforms are posting infringing content on their websites without the approval of the copyright owners. Image Source: gettyimages]. What are takedown services?

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Here are some of the greatest copyright horror stories, featuring such classics as “Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Halloween,” “Dracula,” “Ghostbusters” and … a creepy McDonalds character? The only thing scarier than a slasher flick is a lawsuit. It’s Halloween time again! Skully Curly.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

(This post has been co-authored with SpicyIP Intern Aditi Agrawal and Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan) Here is our recap of last weeks top IP developments including summary of the posts on taking stock of ANI vs OpenAI copyright litigation (Part I and II), and Machine Unlearning and the ANI vs OpenAI case. Anything we are missing out on?

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2025

After appearing on the USTR’s Priority Watch List in 2000 and 2001, Malaysia quickly showed “significant improvement” and was moved to the less oppressive Watch List a year later. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 27, 2025

This move, reported earlier on January 9 by Aditi Agrawal in Hindustan Times , was made under the powers conferred by the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, and Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

The time is ripe to strike a balance between the copyright owner’s economic interests and the public’s right to have access to information and knowledge for growth and development of society before it turns out as blessings of talent over the curse of poverty. Copyright ensures certain minimum rights and it has never been an absolute right.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 4, 2021

Copyright Registration for Podcasters. In the second , I looked at the group registration procedures recently made available by the US Copyright Office which are specifically useful to bloggers, and to managers of blog sites. under the existing rules for what the Copyright Act calls, in an antique-sounding term, “phonorecords.”

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

No Shortage of Copyright Complaints. ko television networks, AKTV’s responsibilities include defending the rights of its members and ensuring that everyone respects copyrights. and Hellspy.sk. According to Google’s Transparency Report, all three domains are regularly reported for carrying infringing content.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The relevant act, seeking to bring Ireland in line with the Directive, is the Statutory Instrument 567/2021 ‘European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021’ (hereinafter ‘ the Regulations’ ). The Irish legislative transposition finally became law on 19 November 2021. Section 53A).

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 3, 2022

However, according to Haake, he immediately recognized the first lines from the letter being from one that he published in Physics World in the year 2000. The retraction was of a letter written by Paul McCrory and published by the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) in 2005.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We are pleased to bring to you this book review of David Llewelyn, Gladys Tan, Estelle Moh Huixuan and Ng Hui Ming’s ‘Modern Law of Copyright in Singapore’, (SAL Academy Publishing, 2023) by Prashant Reddy T. Image from here Book Review: Modern Law of Copyright in Singapore By Prashant Reddy T. Cornish, D. Llewelyn and T.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

There’s not much doubt that plagiarism and copyright infringement detection has improved by leaps and bounds over the past 20 years or so. Turnitin launched in 2000, Audible Magic began providing a similar service for audio files in 2002 and YouTube’s Content ID System debuted in 2007. The Challenge of Cross-Media Plagiarism Detection.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2022

Chapter 1, More Than Fifty Times , dives into substantive designs law and some prominent sites of its overlap with copyright law. The centrepiece of this overlap is Section 15(2) of the Copyright Act, 1957, a unique provision which saves copyright in a design up until fifty iterations of that design.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In 2000, Hirst was sued by a toy manufacturer over a sculpture he made that resembled a toy that they sold. As long as an artist like Hirst doesn’t copy so significantly as to run afoul of copyright law (while targeting someone with the resources to fight back), they’re usually given a pass.

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SpicyIP

JULY 7, 2023

In the story of Indian copyright law, the city of Stockholm has a prominent place. We copyright buffs (yes, unfortunately, we exist); we just love Stockholm. Stockholm is the place where India stood up in defiance against the Western juggernaut of the ever-expanding big bang of copyright. Makes sense, right? Strange, isn’t it?

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Copyrights safeguard the artists’ rights in the inventive and imaginative content that abounds in digital media. Image Sources : Gettyimages] One of the important issues in online is copyrights. One such area where copyright violations are common is the internet. These advantages can be made profitable for the owner.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 9, 2022

Initially released in May 2000, Limewire was a peer-to-peer file sharing service that found a great deal of success and infamy following the closure of Napster in July 2001. The move marks just the latest shift in the NFT space that should give creators and copyright holders pause for concern. A Tainted History.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Remembering another lousy year with a countdown of the most ill-considered, unsatisfying and wrongly-decided copyright rulings of 2022. So what better way to commemorate 2022 than with a look at the worst copyright decisions from coast to coast? Remember: the smaller the numbers, the bigger the misses. Randy Orton / WWE 2K.

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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Wilmott Storage Services, LLC , decided September 9, 2021, the Ninth Circuit clarified the role that the de minimis concept plays in copyright infringement cases. In essence, the Ninth Circuit explained that de minimis goes to the amount of copying of a copyrighted work as opposed to any de minimis use or display of any such a work.

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IP Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2023

Although the Copyright Office’s official guidance on whether you can be the author of AI output is a solid “maybe? Consistent with the Copyright Office’s guidance in the Compendium, Third Edition, there is often “creative input or intervention from a human author” at multiple steps in the process. This creates a major problem.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Copyright Office published a Notice of inquiry (“NOI”) and request for comments, Artificial Intelligence and Copyright, Docket No. We, who have been writing and teaching about copyright law and how it has responded to challenges posed by new technologies for decades, were among those who submitted comments, see [link].

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

district court granted summary judgment for the Copyright Office in Thaler v. 18, 2023), affirming the Copyright Office’s position that “a work generated entirely by an artificial system absent human involvement [is not] eligible for copyright.” The Copyright Act neither defines “authorship” nor “works of authorship.”

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 24, 2023

Interestingly, another Microsoft-owned company has been at the center of several copyright disputes recently. According to Mojang, these are all copyright infringing, even though they may not all use copyrighted content directly. These generate between $1000 and $2000 per month and cover server costs and other expenses.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Over the same period, however, the government’s messaging around Canada’s AI- copyright policy has been anything but consistent. It is unclear whether the use of copyrighted works for training an AI system is considered copyright infringement if the…owner’s permission is not obtained.…

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Intepat

MARCH 13, 2025

In India, the protection of architectural designs falls under three main categories of the Indian IP regime, namely copyrights, designs and trademarks. However, the bar to secure copyright protection over an architectural design is very high. However, unlike copyright which recognizes even building plans, layout drawings, etc.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

In so holding, however, the Court declined to resolve the logically antecedent question of whether the discovery rule applies to the three-year copyright statute of limitations, finding “that issue is not properly presented here, because Warner Chappell never challenged the Eleventh Circuit’s use of the discovery rule below.” Nealy , No.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 24, 2025

While actions against infringement of copyright or trademark are welcome, the same should not be at the cost of choking a free market or the rights of small businessmen and entrepreneurs to carry on with their business ( Vasundhara Majithia ). Intermediary liability is already addressed under Section 79 of the IT Act, 2000.

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