IPilogue

MAY 4, 2022

You may remember the big music copyright infringement case of 2012 , where Robin Thicke was sued by Marvin Gaye over claims that Thicke’s hit song “Blurred Lines” infringed on Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up”. However, nowadays, it seems that many major artists are frequently being sued for copyright infringement. Current Issue.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 13, 2024

overturned the High Court decision in which Mr Justice Mellor found that the Bitcoin File Format (the “BFF” ) was not a protectable work in a copyright sense as it did not satisfy the fixation requirement under s.3(2) 3(2) of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (the “ Act ”). The judge disagreed.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Jakub Wyczik (University of Silesia in Katowice) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the application of copyright subsistence criteria. Human author It is well known that copyright protects products of the human mind (see Feist v. 99 (1879) ).

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2025

File-hosting platform 1fichier.com appeared around 2009 and since then has seen no shortage of copyright complaints. 1fichier The French ban followed an alert by Mastercard and complaints from Zee Entertainment, which alleged that hundreds of links to copyrighted works were being shared on the site.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The music industry had initially insisted on strong copy protection to make it harder for music pirates to share these files. The music companies accused the company of failing to take action against subscribers who were accused of repeat copyright infringements. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 12, 2023

Image Sources : Shutterstock] It is a general principle that no copyright lies in ideas, subject-matter, themes, movie plots till the expression of the same are different. If presentation of subject-matter or an idea is similar to the original work, then it amounts to copyright violation. Vipul Amrutlal Shah (2009) and MRF Limited v.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

Similar to owning physical copies of a book they can do whatever they wish with their copies under the fair use doctrine but the relationship of consumers and Kindle is not one of buyer and seller, but licensee and licenser. Thus the higher evidentiary standard of intention to infringe upon copyright must also be proved (p 588).

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 18, 2023

Ever since its launch in 2009, rightsholders have complained that file-hosting platform 1fichier.com fails to take intellectual property rights seriously. The Court found that Dstorage could be held liable for failing to remove illegal copies of Nintendo games hosted on 1fichier, based on notifications sent by rightsholders.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 9, 2022

RCN focuses heavily on the piracy tracking evidence from Rightscorp but has also brought up another topic; the decision by major record labels to remove DRM from the iTunes music store in 2009. — A copy of Magistrate Judge Tonianne J. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Introduction Originality in copyright works is the sine qua non of all the copyright regimes of the world. Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. Yet the Act does not define what “original” clearly means.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. With that, any state or common law claim that is equivalent to copyright must therefore be preempted.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Photo by Udo Pohlmann via Pixabay Over the last decades, European lawyers got used to the – at times remarkable and even forceful – interventions of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in copyright law. The Safarov case In 2009, Safarov authors a book. He sues for copyright infringement and claims damages.

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SpicyIP

MAY 2, 2022

We’re pleased to bring you a guest post from Akshat Agrawal on a recent order that raised questions on the extent / limitations of the exemptions and limitations to Indian copyright law. New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression? You can see his previous posts for us here. Akshat Agrawal. In Ashdown v.

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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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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Take-Two Interactive Software found that the depiction of tattoos on wrestler Randy Orton in a video game published by Take Two Interactive infringed the tattoo artist’s copyright in the tattoos. Take Two argued that its use of the copyrighted tattoos was transformative.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 19, 2023

Protecting Rights Despite its authorization under the new law, the official launch of the Hadopi agency in 2009 met with significant opposition. ” In CJEU Advocate General Szpunar’s non-binding opinion issued last October, friction between privacy rights and the ability to enforce copyrights were on full display.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Historical lookback The amendment to the existing copyright law act of 1957 was carried out owing to the sensitization of issue of copyright management and revenue sharing structure that is fair and reasonable to all owners and writers of filmed and recorded works. [i] from the copyright holder) licencing or compulsory licencing (i.e.,

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TorrentFreak

JULY 21, 2022

Faced with the prospect of copyright strikes, Content ID claims and potential account loss, thousands of YouTubers, TikTok users, and other content creators use music provided by Epidemic Sound. Founded in 2009 and based in Sweden, Epidemic Sound has a library of more than 35,000 music soundtracks and 90,000 sound effects.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 3, 2024

Discussing the Mahatma’s take on copyright and the interplay between the 1955 Copyright Bill and the Berne Convention, we are pleased to bring to you this post by Shivam Kaushik. However, Article 372 of the newly enacted Constitution allowed for the continuation of the British made laws including Copyright Act of 1914.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It is thus clear that TDM does matter - but what should its relationship with copyright and related rights be? It should be noted at the outset that, on the one hand, some commentators hold the view that TDM would not even be covered by copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2024

In the summer of 2009, hackers from all over the world gathered at an outdoor conference near Vierhouten in the Netherlands. The downside was that pirates would create bootleg copies. “So, I was tasked to collect evidence against video rental shops that carried illegal copies of it. “When ‘E.T.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

At the time, similar services were also being offered by several of Finland’s internet service providers but for the members of the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Center (CIAPC, also known as TTVK), this was a serious breach of copyright law.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws. Of note, in DRG Inc.

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Copyright Lately

JULY 12, 2021

The actor, who claims he’s never used cannabis in his life, objects to Solar Therapeutics’ unpermitted use of both the copyrighted Borat character and his own likeness. But the case settled in 2009 on the eve of trial for a cool $5 million – one of the few publicly reported settlements in cases like these.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

Perhaps it comes as no surprise that a copyright dispute regarding a fire- breathing – sneezing dragon would get so heated. Since 2009, these advertisements have been created by leading agency, adam&eve. It said this showed it had not copied the book. Was Ms Evans’ work protected by copyright?

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Greenspoon Marder LLP

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

The Pirate Bay (TPB), a file-sharing site based in Sweden known for its piracy of movies, video games and music, is threatening to sue an antipiracy site for copyright infringement. We feel that we must make a statement and therefore we will sue them for copyright infringement” if the site is not taken down. million in U.S.

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Intepat

APRIL 23, 2021

Java owned by Sun Microsystems was later acquired by Oracle in 2009. Android even though they developed their own run time environment independent of Java, used 37 API calls that are similar to Java API and literally copied 11,500 lines of code deemed central to Java. But this case establishes that API instructions are copyrightable.

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Greenspoon Marder LLP

OCTOBER 28, 2012

A student from Thailand whose search for inexpensive college textbooks has now led to a legal battle involving federal copyright law that could determine the legal rights of Americans to sell thousands of used products on eBay, Craigslist and at garage sales and flea markets, as well. By: Sharon Urias, Esq.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights. This personal intellectual creation is lacking if the photographs in question are “mere reproductions of other photographs” in which an original has been merely reproduced (copied) as closely as possible. 3, second sentence UrhG.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In its judgment of 1 September 2022, the Court determines that Azerbaijan failed to enforce copyright in respect of the unlawful digital reproduction and communication of a published book. Although the IPU did not pursue an economic interest when making his book available online, the applicant argued that his copyright was infringed.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Copyright Law Why are we so sure facts are excluded from the statute when the statute doesn’t use that word and uses a lot of other words. Harper & Row is cited by Feist to reiterate that selection coordination and arrangements of facts can be copyrightable. President Ford couldn’t prevent others from copying bare historical facts.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 12, 2024

To protect the right of creators, Copyright law was introduced, fostering creative innovation. Copyright Law and Insufficient Injunctions The British Statute of Anne, 1710, was the first copyright statute. In India, the Copyright Act of 1957 grants certain rights to creators.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 20, 2023

As IPKat readers are surely aware, his fame extends well beyond the art world, given that Koons has contributed as litigant to some of the most interesting copyright case law around the world [see, eg, IPKat coverage here ]. There, it was presented as an original Koons artwork of which three copies exist.

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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. A Unique Temporary Registration Number (UTRN) is generated on filing the online application.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

Just don’t forget about real world copyright law. ? Buying Copyrights. The first thing that’s important to understand is that buying a copy of a creative work, even if it happens to the only copy in existence, doesn’t give you any copyright interest in the work. Buying Objects ?

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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.

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