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Court: iTunes DRM Removal is Irrelevant for Piracy Liability Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

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. This decision was made two years before the timeframe covered in the piracy liability suit.

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Bitcoin’s File Format protectable in copyright: a Wright decision?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The information within each block must be recorded in a specific format and so the Claimants claimed that copyright existed in the format of those digital files, the BFF. The Claimants argued that the BFF had been “fixed” for copyright purposes when the first block in the Bitcoin blockchain was written on 3 January 2009.

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Copyright, Upcycling, and the Human Right to Environmental Protection

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In the EU, Article 4(2) of the InfoSoc Directive specifically addresses exhaustion, stating that the distribution right of the copyright holder is exhausted within the EU after the first sale or other transfer of ownership of a copy of a work with the rightholder’s consent.

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Traditional Tattoos on the Red Carpet: Continuing the Conversation of Collective Ownership

IPilogue

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.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

And that data might be subject to varying levels of copyright protection. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. — One logical starting point to tell the history of copyright preemption of contracts is to begin with ProCD v. Health Grades, Inc.

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What Goldsmith Means to AI Trainers

IP Intelligence

Warhol created these silkscreens from a photograph of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith, who claimed copyright infringement when the Warhol estate licensed Orange Prince to Conde Nast after Prince’s passing in 2016 to illustrate an article about Prince’s life and music. 2009); Authors Guild v. See generally A.V. Vanderhye v.

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What Goldsmith Means to AI Trainers

LexBlog IP

Warhol created these silkscreens from a photograph of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith, who claimed copyright infringement when the Warhol estate licensed Orange Prince to Conde Nast after Prince’s passing in 2016 to illustrate an article about Prince’s life and music. 2009); Authors Guild v. See generally A.V.