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Alfred v. Walt Disney Company: Decoding the concept of Substantial Similarity with respect to the Pirates of the Caribbean lawsuit

IP and Legal Filings

If any other person makes an unauthorized copy of that work, the owner shall have a right of action against him. While direct copying can easily be proven by showing that the defendant produced an exact copy of the original, indirect copying is a more complex event since it involves a modification of the original work.

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Shutterstock: What License Allows Third – Party Transfer?

IP and Legal Filings

Founded in 2003 by photographer, programmer and entrepreneur Jon Oringer, the American company had been a pioneer in its field which is now a leading platform, headquartered in New York and spanning across 150 countries [1] , that serves as a two-sided content marketplace to bridge the gap between content creators and end-users.

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Not Invincible: A Cautionary Tale for Creators

Copyright Lately

Crabtree claims that Kirkman talked him into giving up co-ownership rights in “Invincible” by asking him to sign a document in 2005 that Kirkman represented would make it easier to market the work to licensees but which wouldn’t affect any of Crabtree’s rights. The Requirements for Copyright Joint Authorship and Co-Ownership.

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Ninth Circuit Refuses to Adopt “Ordinary Observer” Test for Substantial Similarity and Copyright Infringement

The IP Law Blog

Johannsongs-Publishing claimed that You Raise Me Up, which was written by Rolf Lovland and Brendan Graham and released in 2001 by Secret Garden and later by Josh Groban in 2003 infringed on its rights in Soknodur. Rather, the defendants focused their attack by claiming there was no triable issue as to the element of copying.

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Customs Intervention for IP in the Indian Sub-Continent

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Hard copies of the documents uploaded in the online application are sent along with the UTRN to the Customs Office. Documents required to be filed online along with the application are as follows: Proof of ownership of the IPR and copies of the corresponding registration certificate. A copy of the rights holder’s passport.

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Italian Supreme Court says that the quotation exception in copyright law only applies to partial reproductions of works, never to works in their entirety

The IPKat

Comment Read in combination with Article 5(5), Article 5(3)(d) of the InfoSoc Directive, from which Article 70 of the Italian Copyright Act is derived in its current wording, permits quotations for purposes such as (but not limited to) criticism or review insofar as a number of cumulative conditions are satisfied.

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New Tools, Old Rules: Is The Music Industry Ready To Take On AI?

Copyright Lately

The comments from Michael Nash quoted above really only speak to the input phase, during which audio recordings are copied to a dataset that’s then used to train a voice model. It isn’t human-readable and does not contain copies of any audio recordings. No wonder I’m getting flashbacks to 2003.

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