IPilogue

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Rosemary Nkechi Ogueri is a litigation lawyer and a legal associate at Ogunwale & Associates Law Firm in Nigeria. Copyright infringement is the violation and piracy of an author’s exclusive right through the unauthorized use of a Copyright-protected work.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 24, 2021

A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law. More from our authors: Exceptions in EU Copyright Law: In Search of a Balance Between Flexibility and Legal Certainty. The Copyright / Trademark Interface: How the Expansion of Trademark Protection Is Stifling Cultural Creativity. Case date: 18 May 2021.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 18, 2023

In common with content created in other fields, photographs generally enjoy protection under copyright law, allowing photographers to determine who can duplicate and/or distribute their work. Photographers Alexis Hunley and Matthew Brauer posted several of their copyrighted works on Instagram.

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In the course of our work here at CCC, in order to keep ourselves and our clients and customers up-to-date and well-informed, we follow many of the most significant (and occasionally amusing) copyright & licensing news and opinions. State Sovereign Immunity Report Released by US Copyright Office. In late October, the U.S.

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IPilogue

MARCH 27, 2023

Every year on January 1, works protected under copyright law enter into the public domain due to their copyright protection expiring. Thus, as a new year approaches, those in the field of copyright look to see which works will expire at the end of the year. As a general rule in the U.S.,

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Following a limited launch in 2007 with just 1,000 titles, Neflix now carries more than 6,600 movies and TV shows for the enjoyment of more than 223 million subscribers. Fraud has been the key charge in several big UK piracy cases over the last few years, despite the key offenses having a direct link to copyright law.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 25, 2024

While the raw data within a database may not be eligible for copyright protection, the originality involved in selecting, organizing, or arranging the data can bring a database under the scope of copyright law. These industries heavily rely on database to store, manage, and analyse vast amounts of information.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 24, 2022

“Instagram misled the public to believe that anyone was free to get on Instagram and embed copyrighted works from any Instagram account, like eating for free at a buffet table of photos, by virtue of simply using the Instagram embedding tool,” they claimed. The Court relied on the Ninth Circuit’s 2007 opinion in Perfect 10, Inc.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Canada’s largest media companies, including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Postmedia, CBC, and Canadian Press, came together last week to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the owners of ChatGPT. Instead, Common Crawl, a non-profit started in 2007, did. How Important Is Canadian News Content for AI Systems?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When TVkaista launched in Finland way back in 2007, storing video in the cloud certainly wasn’t taken for granted as it is now. TVkaista Faces Legal Action In advance of TTVK’s letters being sent out, TVkaista’s CEO, technical director, and legal advisor, faced legal action for criminal copyright infringement and aggravated fraud.

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Likelihood of Confusion

AUGUST 27, 2024

Originally posted 2007-12-28 10:31:49. As a New York Law Journal article (sub. puts it, The Second Circuit’s decision in In re Literary Works substantially limits the use of class actions as a vehicle to settle copyright infringement cases. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThis important (pdf).

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Marco Ricolfi (who, besides, was also this GuestKat's esteemed professor) gave a learned lecture with many references also from the philosophy of law entitled “ IP in the algorithmic society: between metamorphosis and continuity ”. In particular stated that new Art.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Miley Cyrus’s new motion to dismiss the “Flowers” lawsuit highlights the Ninth Circuit’s flawed approach to copyright standing for co-owners. The result is a framework that creates impractical outcomes and undermines copyright enforcement—particularly in the music industry, where fractional ownership is the norm.

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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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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 18, 2024

Yet in 2007, the band Radiohead had ventured quite bravely in the opposite direction, arguing that piracy shouldn’t be punished and file-sharing should be embraced. That article contains no copyrighted material apart from our own, and doesn’t link to any infringing content either.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

It’s been referred to as one of the top copyright cases to watch this year. Instagram, LLC, could mean the end to the server test, a once widely-followed copyright doctrine established by the 9th Circuit in Perfect 10, Inc. The Court relied on the Ninth Circuit’s 2007 opinion in Perfect 10, Inc. Amazon.com Inc. ,

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 3, 2023

It has been referred to as one of the top copyright cases to watch this year. Instagram, LLC , questioned the scope and validity of the Server Test, a copyright doctrine that was established by the 9th Circuit and has since been rejected by a number of courts. This case, Alexis Hunley, et al v. Amazon.com, Inc. ,

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Emily Xiang is a n is an IPilogue Writer , President of the Intellectual Property Society of Osgoode (IPSO), and a 2 L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . Dawn Dorland and Sonya Larson , both authors, first crossed paths sometime between 2005 and 2007 at GrubStreet—a creative writing centre in Boston. Copyright Office.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In the complicated landscape of genAI and copyright law, several different themes have emerged as particularly thorny and triggering the interests of different stakeholders. On 19 November 2024, the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL) at UCL Laws hosted a closed doors roundtable on academic publishing.

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The IPKat

JUNE 29, 2023

The proverb came to my mind in the light of the recent copyright reforms in Nigeria (2023), South Africa (ongoing) and Kenya (2019 and 2022) and the hope and expectations regarding the far-reaching changes that the legislative reforms would occasion. Copyright Commission, a specific minister/cabinet member, etc.) Cats in collaboration.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Typically, artists protect their artwork using only copyright law. However, artists are required to reveal their identity when claiming copyright infringement. Trademark law allows Banksy to remain anonymous and maintain his mysterious artistic persona.

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Likelihood of Confusion

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Cory Doctorow writes about how abuse of the copyright laws — using them as a method of privatized censorship — does creators of protected works no favors. Originally posted 2007-10-02. The post Censorious fools appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

Copyright: WIPO. After a failed attempt to create a negotiating draft on these terms, the 2007 GA authorized progress to a Diplomatic Conference on the treaty “only after agreement on objectives, specific scope and object of protection has been achieved.” Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. International License.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 28, 2023

She trademarked the term in February 2007, and since then, it has become her “signature catchphrase.” Catchphrases in Copyright and Trademark Law Copyright law guarantees artists the protection of their creative work while allowing others to expand upon it through its legislations. In Reebok India v.

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SpicyIP

MAY 30, 2024

All these made me wonder: Whither Global South’s IP, especially Copyright scholars and their scholarship? For copyright law (or perhaps, IP in general), utilitarianism is the dominant episteme, and “Balance” is the dominant discourse that serves and shapes the episteme. E.g., see here , here , here. And what’s the cost of that?

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 31, 2023

Is Rick Astley’s right of publicity claim against Yung Gravy for vocal impersonation on a collision course with the federal Copyright Act? British singer Rick Astley is best known for “ Never Gonna Give You Up ,” a song people voluntarily listened to in 1987 and were tricked into listening to in 2007. This is because, under U.S.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2024

On 1st January every year we celebrate the array of works entering the public domain, as their copyright term expires. This year, entering the public domain [generally speaking] are copyright protected works created by people who died in 1953, for countries with a copyright term of life plus 70 years (e.g.,

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 7, 2022

copyright law does not protect “elements of expression that nature displays for all observers,” [8] which, according to Cattelan, excludes the main components of Morford’s artwork. Morford’s work is only protected by a “thin” copyright, and there is no substantial similarity between the two works.

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The TTABlog

MARCH 2, 2022

Barrie's Peter Pan , first staged in 1904, and so the parties were in agreement that under copyright law, both the name and the character are in the public domain. It has used TINKER BELL as a trademark for dolls since 2007 and registered the mark in 2009 without a Section 2(f) acquired distinctiveness claim. Welch 2022.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Copyright is a more complicated problem. Per Article 5(2) of the Berne Convention [9] , copyright is established without the need for any further procedures. Since copyright is “universal”, some argue that the lex originis should be utilised to determine who owns works that have been plagiarised.

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Likelihood of Confusion

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The Google Copyright Blog rips into that bad deep-linking decision in Texas. Originally posted 2007-01-04 18:02:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter. The post Heavy lifting appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 28, 2024

1] The Copyright Act protects certain types of works, which are included in Section 13. 13 (1) states that original literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works as well as cinematograph films and sound recordings are protected by copyright. regarding the copyright for the film “De Dhakka.”

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

AI and Copyright: More Developments – Human Prompts are Not ‘Direct Instructions’ After the Thaler case, the US Copyright Office passed another interesting order on AI-generated works, this time refusing the registration due to the work’s failure to meet the de-minimis threshold. Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 7, 2025

COPYRIGHTS AI programs can create creative and literary works on their own. This ability of AI has raised a lot of concerns pertinent to copyrights, as copyright is linked to the creativity of humanity and aims to protect, promote, and ultimately acknowledge such creativity. 14] What responsibilities have arisen?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Article 17 Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (“DSM Directive”) is currently being implemented into national law in the EU Member States. 3 Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonization of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (“InfoSoc Directive”).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

One is tempted to characterize these plaintiffs as copyright “trolls.” The legal question is whether third parties (such as Time and BuzzFeed) “display a copy of the copyrighted work publicly” [17 U.S.C. 106(5)] by deliberately “embedding” such HTML code in their own posts. This case concerns only the public display right. “To

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 2, 2021

Goods or items produced outside Bangladesh involving infringement of the Copyright Act, 2000 or infringement of layout design of integrated circuits that are intended for sale or use for commercial purposes within the territory of Bangladesh. Before destruction, samples of goods may be provided to the rights holder or the importer on request.

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