TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2025

Then seemingly out of nowhere, in 2008/2009 the government began shutting down popular sites including Extremebits, Rapthe , Superfundo and later, LeechersLair. Excellent infrastructure and limited anti-piracy action made Malaysia a popular hosting location back when torrent sites were in their prime.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 5, 2024

Sony Wins Early But Cooler Heads Prevail Software quite rightly receives protection under copyright law but in Datel, Sony wants a ruling that outlaws the modification of variables generated by software that only ever exist in RAM and form no part of the underlying copyrighted source code.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MAY 27, 2022

Posted on August 6, 2009. Traverse Legal: Mary Roach has a great post at CircleID on an area that we have talked about extensively, namely, copyright takedowns under the Digital Millennium Copyright. The post Best of 2009: The DMCA and the search engine appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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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] Magic Mantra Vision. [ii] Magic Mantra Vision, CS (OS) NO.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JUNE 14, 2023

The post Best of 2009: “Infinity Dollars” — IP damages and the jury, Part 1 appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. A lot of people, including judges, lawyers and civilians, don’t seem to really understand what statutory damages are all about. They are not supposed to be a windfall (discussed more.

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Likelihood of Confusion

APRIL 16, 2022

Posted November 24, 2009. Yes, people do have some funny ideas of what kinds of things to protect with copyright, don’t they? The post Best of 2009: They always get their man appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. A few years ago, criminal enterprise Milberg.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 9, 2023

Founded in 2009, the file-sharing and hosting platform grew out to become one of the country’s most-visited websites. This didn’t go unnoticed by copyright holders, including the RIAA, who repeatedly complained about widespread piracy on the platform. Voluntary Filters Hellspy also came to this conclusion.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Following their victory at the local elections, the Swedish Pirate Party secured a seat at the European Parliament in 2009, with another one being added a year later. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. But they were wrong to dismiss this political movement right off the bat.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Introduction The principle of the first sale doctrine is a basic precept of copyright law allowing the lawful possessor of a copyrighted work to resell, lend, or distribute that work without the permission of the copyright holder. Conclusion The digital-first sale doctrine remains an open area of copyright law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

Although the lower courts are still bound by the decisions of the higher courts and their precedents set in light of EU law, they may refer the points of law to certain higher courts under section 6A. REULA’s influence on copyright law Although EU law had a strong influence on the UK copyright law, the two were never properly aligned.

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Likelihood of Confusion

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Originally posted 2009-11-24 17:22:33. Republished by Blog Post PromoterYehuda Berlinger, whose poetic version of the Lanham Act we linked to anon, also did the Copyright Act last summer. Somehow I missed it, but since then I’ve been doing a lot more copyright litigation anyway, so I can use it now.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2022

“Customers are not prosecuted, they do not make copyrighted material available, which is one of the requirements to be a violation of copyright law,” says Brita Wallström who works with the police’s National Operational Department (NOA). Instead, Wallström says that for users, it’s a moral issue.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2024

However, the CJEU is yet to clarify the copyright law-relevant meaning of “pastiche”, pending the current reference in the Pelham II case, which aims to shed light on whether pastiche could serve as a “catch-all” provision for artistic use of copyright-protected works (see e.g. here ). A solution?

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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.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 10, 2021

copyright law, a particularly confusing subject for foreign works published before 1978. copyright law. Drawing on Twin Books , they argued, “a publication of a work in the United States without the statutory notice of copyright fell into the public domain,” as per the U.S. Copyright Act of 1909.

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IPilogue

MAY 18, 2022

By comparison, the US Copyright Office Review Board has decided that obtaining copyright protection requires human authorship , citing that copyright law only protects those works that “are founded in the creative powers of the mind.”. Countless more AI creations may be underway. . The Legal Conundrum.

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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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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Launched around 2009, Hellspy and Hellshare had successfully weathered the Megaupload storm. Not Yet… According to an entry dated October 31, 2022, on the Official Journal of the European Union, the Supreme Court in Prague is currently seeking advice from the EU Court to help determine the outcome of an important copyright case.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

Through the Copyright Amendment Act, 2012, DRM and TPMs received a legal sanction as the newly introduced Section 65A (1) criminalised the act of circumventing the DRM with the intention to infringe on copyright laws. In 2009 , users woke up to find their purchased copy of 1984 had disappeared from their library.

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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 greatest defeat came in a Usenet-related lawsuit, where the court ultimately ruled that the provider was not violating copyright law. And that, in turn. Which is what the customer wants.

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Likelihood of Confusion

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Originally posted 2009-12-22 17:19:47. This Copywrite blog is really good. Republished by Blog Post Promoter The post Copywrite appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As it is discussed at greater length elsewhere ( here ), TDM is an example of an area in which legislative intervention has been broadly justified by reference to the need of freeing up certain copyright-covered spaces to facilitate research and increase innovation and competitiveness.

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Likelihood of Confusion

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Originally posted 2009-08-27 17:38:37. At the time, Flickr claimed it had acted on advice of counsel due to legal issues involving copyright […] The post No joke appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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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.

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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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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. An NGO makes his entire work available for download.

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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. Retrieved February 27, 2023, from [link] [ii] Copyright Act, 1957, S 55. DIGITAL AROUND THE WORLD.

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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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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. In Ashdown v.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 6, 2024

4 of Regulation 207/2009. In December 2022, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted a new copyright law, Law No 2811-IX , introducing a sui generis right for non-original computer-generated subject matter (Art. 33 of the Copyright Law might cause some problems due to several uncertainties and unclear definitions.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Because they were created by the authors, the exam questions are unique in the sense of copyright laws. The court ruled that the plaintiff’s copyright cannot be denied just because other examiners have asked questions akin to hers. can have copyright. It does demand, however, that no part of the work be plagiarised.

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Intepat

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Retroactive and Prospective Assignment Agreement A prospective transfer of intellectual property rights (IPRs) is dependent on the occurrence of future events and is most commonly used in copyright law. Similarly, for Copyright law, the assignment agreement should be in writing and duly executed.

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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. The decisions rendered by national courts must apply national law correctly and cannot be “arbitrary or otherwise manifestly unreasonable”.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the district court level, the law of copyright preemption is a morass of ad hoc explanations of whether certain contracts are “equivalent” to the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright law. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

A very crucial discussion on this front began with Prashant’s post pondering whether TKDL is a ‘confidential database ,’ and compliant with Indian copyright law, which it apparently was not! IP, trade, and Customs: As I trawled through the past posts, a 2009 post caught my attention: ‘twas Prof.

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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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