The IPKat

MARCH 24, 2023

Last week, Nigeria’s President signed the Copyright Act 2022 which repeals the Copyright Act of 2004 (the old Act). The Copyright Act 2022 as previously reported here on The IPKat is aimed inter alia at protecting the rights of authors and providing appropriate limitations and exceptions to guarantee access to creative works.

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Copyright Moral Rights Fair Use Related Rights 64

Copyright Lately

MAY 17, 2021

Parody is tricky, both as an art form and as a matter of copyright law. And putting aside its pure entertainment value, the sketch also raises some interesting questions about just how much of an original work may be taken before parodic fair use crosses the line into copyright infringement. Did SNL go too far?

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 8, 2022

All copyrights, except one, expire.*. Preface: I wanted to learn more about the concept (and applications) of “derivative works” and adaptations under copyright law, and I was searching for a useful example that might also be interesting for readers of Velocity of Content to read about. Confused yet? Just wait.].

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Derivative Work Public Domain Copyright Fair Use 105

Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Canadian copyright lobby groups have relentlessly lobbied the government to overturn decades of Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence, seeking unprecedented restrictions on fair dealing that include eliminating it for educational institutions if a licence is available. These claims are grounded in multiple inaccuracies.

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Copyright Licensing Higher Education Fair Use 56

43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2021

Jacob Victor, Copyright’s Law of Dissemination: trying to disaggregate dissemination from use of a work in new creativity/e.g., transformative fair use. Judicial: Google Books/utility expanding fair use; Sony v. Kylie Pappalardo, Copyright licensing and distribution in Australia’s screen industries Pop.

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Copyright Licensing Fair Use Contracts 45

SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2024

Mr. Kadirgamar traces it back to 1970 when WIPO conducted two surveys: one, on the teaching of industrial property law and the second on the teaching of copyright law teaching. Then in 2004, IIT Kharagpur’s Rajiv Gandhi School of IP came into being with generous funding from US billionaire Vinod Gupta.

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Government IP Intellectual Property Reporting 112

LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

1 v OHIM , C‑329/02 P, EU:C:2004:532, paragraph 23). In the US, other sound marks include Law & Order ’s ca-chung chung (as Reg. Here in a nutshell is the query the Court addressed: 16 Under Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation 2017/1001, trade marks which are devoid of any distinctive character shall not be registered.

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Trademark Registration Music Intellectual Property 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

Some of the major changes to the book this year: I added a note on the Copyright Claims Board. Primer on the Copyright Claims Board (CCB). Copyright Basics (Copyright Office Circular 1). Note About Fair Use. Note on the Copyright Claims Board (CCB). It has been a crazy year for Internet Law!

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Editing Law Privacy Contracts 145

BYU Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Harris claims that, in taking these actions, the University has not protected students' copyrights and fair use rights. In 2022, Plaintiff filed a Complaint against the University which alleged, among other claims, copyright infringement.

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Fair Use Copyright Infringement Copyright 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 12, 2022

Primer on the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) (now deleted). Copyright Basics (Copyright Office Circular 1). Note About Fair Use. I posted the 2022 version, so it’s as fresh as it gets. The chapter makes a nice module to add discussion about online contracts to another course. Primer on FOSTA. Hamidi (Cal.

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Editing Law Social Media Privacy 145

43(B)log

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Fair use can rarely be decided on a motion to dismiss, the court said, and this wasn’t one of those cases. Cariou , by contrast, involved fair uses where works were “obscured and altered to the point that [they were] barely recognizable.” 00-cv-6068, 2004 WL 434404 (S.D.N.Y. So too here. Nader 2000 Primary Comm.,

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Fair Use Music Marketing Marketing 83

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

It creates a third asset for creators to sell, in addition to any physical item and the work’s copyright. The extra cash flows from NFTs could spur new creative activity–a win for all of us. The first Supreme Court ruling on fair use in over a quarter-century, and it’s a good one. Emerging Tech.

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Law Social Media Privacy Government 145

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

SMART Copyright Act. A very dumb law that would authorize the Copyright Office to force UGC sites to adopt expensive and overrestrictive technological controls as dictated by copyright owners. EARN IT Act. This bill started as a twofer: ban E2E encryption AND repeal Section 230 for CSAM claims. Still, the news was bad for hiQ.

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Law Social Media Government Privacy 122