TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2025

File-hosting platform 1fichier.com appeared around 2009 and since then has seen no shortage of copyright complaints. The company views that as problematic and a violation of EU law. Most recently, it was highlighted by the U.S. Trade Representative as a notorious piracy market.

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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. La Quadrature’s opposition to the Hadopi anti-piracy program focuses on the law crafted to support it.

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IPilogue

MAY 4, 2022

Serena Nath is a 1L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In Canada and the United States , copyright infringement generally requires two components to be present: 1) copying of work in which copyright subsists, and 2) this copying was a “substantial part” of the original work. Current Issue.

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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. Kuik started his professional career at CIC Video International , shortly after he graduated from law school 42 years ago. The downside was that pirates would create bootleg copies. “When ‘E.T.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2024

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. What could this mean for copyright-relevant upcycling?

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Emily Prieur is an IPilogue Writer and a 3L JD Candidate at Queen’s University Faculty of Law. . In 2009, the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) mass-produced sweaters as part of their official merchandise for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Current State of the Law on Tattoo Designs. Photo By Andrej Lišakov ( Unsplash ).

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In case the deduction is incorrect, perhaps it’s high time that the Courts start to question the usage of this term and reflect on whether the Indian laws permit these claims. a copy of the order with claim amendments has been uploaded to the IP India website and interested readers can look at it here ( pdf ).)

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 13, 2024

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. The Court of Appeal & fixation Following a thorough analysis of the law of copyright in software, the Court found several flaws in Mr Justice Mellor’s reasoning. 3(2) of the Act.

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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] i] (2012) [iv] Christopher Beam, How Strict Are Chinese Copyright Laws?

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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. For now, Luxemburg and Strasburg case law are not in conflict.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Johnson Enterprises bought a copy of the P&P game, sent samples to a Chinese manufacturer, and began selling an almost identical version of P&P’s game that it called “Tailgating Pros White Connect 4” in October 2017. The Ninth Circuit first recognized that “proof of copying strongly supports an inference of secondary meaning.”

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

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. In other legal systems, specific E&L relating to content to which lawful access has been secured have been adopted instead. Broadening the UK E&L?

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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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SpicyIP

JULY 14, 2021

Tahhira has a degree in Global Affairs, and is a final year LLB student at the Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat. Halsbury’s Laws of India on Intellectual Property makes two broad classifications: de jure, and de facto functionality. Attars and Agarbattis: Protecting Traditional Cultural Expression through non-conventional Trademarks.

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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 22, 2021

Parts 1 and 2 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here and here , and part 4 will be published on the blog shortly. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights. Related rights.

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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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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

At trial, Alexander testified in 2009, that she contacted WWE’s legal department to negotiate a license for a possible faux tattoo sleeve product depicting her tattoo works. Alexander testified that she declined the offer and advised WWE that she did not grant it any permission to copy, duplicate, or otherwise reproduce any of her designs.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. In law, the quality of an idea’s expression is given more weight. Because they were created by the authors, the exam questions are unique in the sense of copyright laws.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 2, 2021

The following is a detailed breakdown of Customs intervention laws, regulations, and procedures of various nations of the Indian Sub-Continent: BANGLADESH. Hard copies of the documents uploaded in the online application are sent along with the UTRN to the Customs Office. Custom Recordal Application Procedure. Demand draft of Rs.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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]. In addition, conduct that may be consistent with the copyright laws nevertheless may violate Section 5. That is far too hasty.

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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. Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law, 11, 179-204. ILI Law Review , II (Winter Issue 2019), 32-63.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 5, 2023

The origins of trade mark law can be traced back to the industrial revolution in the 18th century which is when the world experienced an explosion in the use of trade marks with the heightened production of goods and the acceleration of international trade. The article will highlight the same with the case law. INTRODUCTION.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

Just don’t forget about real world copyright law. ? 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. So, if you buy a copy of “Dune,” you can read it.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 18, 2022

Despite France’s three-strikes law, better known as Hadopi, the site managed to gain a spot among the 50 most-visited sites in the country. Alex’s involvement with T411 starts in 2009. ” Rightsholders and law enforcement officials clearly saw things differently, as would soon become apparent to Alex as well.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 1, 2023

It aims to promote and benefit from connections between various forms of intellectual property (IP), relevant laws, and government by combining all IPRs and putting them together in a unified platform while taking into account their interrelation. [ii] In reaction, they invite for a Data Exclusivity law. iv] Sameer Wadekar & Anr.

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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. In the dissenting judgment, it is said “It is anything but fair use.

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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. It may also be helpful to see how other jurisdictions have treated the defense of “reporting current events” in Copyright law. In Ashdown v.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In 2009, the applicant, Mr Rafig Firuz oglu Safarov, published a book with the title “Changes in the ethnic composition of the people of Irevan Governorate in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries”. The decisions rendered by national courts must apply national law correctly and cannot be “arbitrary or otherwise manifestly unreasonable”.

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The IPKat

MAY 18, 2024

Facts Mr T trained as an editor at a film and audiovisual school run by ECAR CAMPUS from 2009 to 2011. Comment There is a great deal of case law on this point, which is complex and remains relevant [ IPKat on copyright assignment here and here ]. But, for once, there was no question of originality.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Discussing the order, Aparajita draws a parallel with the position of AI-generated works and prompts in the Indian Copyright law. Comparing the competing works the court held that the respondent’s work is a direct copy of the petitioner’s work and directed to remove the impugned work from the register. W R Grace v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

Since 2009, these advertisements have been created by leading agency, adam&eve. It said this showed it had not copied the book. She said these were original and that their inclusion in the 2019 Advert could only be explained by the defendants copying a substantial part of her work. Did the defendants copy FFD?

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Three months after its release, Nevermind rose to the top of the Billboard 200 rankings and has sold over 30 million copies. He turned 18 in 2009. Finally, the Ninth Circuit rejected the defendants’ argument “that Congress’s codification of a discovery rule in section 2255(b) displaces any common law discovery principles.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

The 2009 directive on the legal protection of computer programs (the Software Directive ) grants copyright protection to all forms of expression of computer programs. The first is the reproduction right, which covers not only permanent copies but also temporary copies loaded into the volatile memory of a computer.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

The “context shifting” fair use cases then of Vanderhye , Google Books , and Hathi Trust therefore not only remain good law, but the precise perimeters delineating the context-shifting doctrine still appear quite vast. 2009); Authors Guild v. See generally A.V. Vanderhye v. iParadigms, LLC ,562 F.3d 3d 630 (4th Cir. Google, Inc. ,

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 7, 2021

EU legislation has chosen intellectual property law as the main way of protecting computer programs – an essential asset to increase the competitive edge of both European companies and their products worldwide. What the Intellectual Property Law does (and doesn’t) protect. Are they plagiarizing each other?

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