TorrentFreak

MAY 26, 2024

Record Breakers Early 2011 after pulling in $274 million at the worldwide box office, the company behind the first movie targeted 6,500 suspected pirates via a complaint filed at a district court in Columbia. In common with every movie in the series, they were being monitored as they did so.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a 2019 federal district court’s ruling that held a French court’s ruling was unenforceable due to a conflict in copyright laws between the countries. The appellate court agreed that Zervos’ photographs were protected by copyright, as it involved sufficient creativity.

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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 Azerbaijani Supreme Court upholds this decision in 2011. The Safarov case In 2009, Safarov authors a book.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 23, 2021

Perhaps one of the most important copyright decisions since the 2012 ‘ pentalogy ’ cases, York University reflects the Supreme Court’s intention to develop Canadian copyright law in a way that maintains a balance between users’ and creators’ rights. In this case, but for the students, there would be no copying.

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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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Michael Geist

AUGUST 3, 2021

.” The decision removes any doubt that the Supreme Court remains strongly supportive of user’s rights in copyright and vindicates years of educational policy in shifting away from Access Copyright toward alternative means of ensuring compliance with copyright law. 42; see also CCH, at para.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 17, 2021

Parody is tricky, both as an art form and as a matter of copyright law. In 2011, when “Saturday Night Live” guest host Jason Segel was promoting the new Muppet movie, he was joined by several Muppets from the film, voiced and performed by their real actors and puppeteers. Jason Segel and the Muppets on SNL (2011).

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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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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Wilmott Storage Services, LLC , decided September 9, 2021, the Ninth Circuit clarified the role that the de minimis concept plays in copyright infringement cases. In essence, the Ninth Circuit explained that de minimis goes to the amount of copying of a copyrighted work as opposed to any de minimis use or display of any such a work.

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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. The papers were taken from copies of the examination papers that students provided, not from publications by the University of London Press Ltd. can have copyright.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 28, 2023

Accordingly, the Court held that the holder of the IP right to a computer program cannot object to the resale of a copy thereof where such a copy is accompanied by a licence for unlimited use, whether material or immaterial. The Court made specific reference to certain European Court of Justice decisions in this respect. (3)

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 12, 2024

Almost half a decade ago, eight Las Vegas men were indicted by a grand jury for conspiring to violate criminal copyright law via two IPTV services, Jetflicks and iStreamitAll. “While the letter is framed as a notice, it is based on a finding that copyright infringement occurred (otherwise, the letter would not have issued).

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 29, 2024

Network Solutions Private Limited and Ors Case (2011) , the Hon’ble Delhi High Court noted that an individual’s online reputation or popularity is a reflection of their real life. In the absence of a separate law safeguarding personality rights, the court granted relief by invoking passing off as governed under the Trade Marks law.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2023

Surprisingly, here the report does not mention any protection (or lack thereof) within the IP laws of the country. It recognizes that generative AI systems are trained by reading, viewing, and listening to copies of human-created works which are subject to copyright protection.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 21, 2023

Understanding Copyright How would you define copyright? The word ‘copyright’ in its simplest sense is an amalgamation of the two words ‘copy’ and ‘right’ which leads to the meaning— ‘right to copy’. So what kind of works, provided they meet the requirement, qualify for copyright protection? Warner Bros.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 13, 2023

DE MINIMIS IN COPYRIGHT LAW. Wilmot Storage Services [2] , the court laid down the scope and extent of de minimis while stating that it can be used in matter of copying of the copyrighted content instead of just a mere display of such work. Chintamani Rao and Ors, 2011 SCC OnLine Del 4712. Chintamani Rao and Ors.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 21, 2023

Understanding Copyright How would you define copyright? The word ‘ copyright ’ in its simplest sense is an amalgamation of the two words ‘copy’ and ‘right’ which leads to the meaning— ‘right to copy’. So what kind of works, provided they meet the requirement, qualify for copyright protection? Warner Bros.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 11, 2023

According to the well-settled laws of copyright, it is a blatant mutilation of the rights of an author over their works and the characters they have developed. 19, 2011, 2009 (A) No. IP ISSUES CREATED BY THE MANGA FAN BASE Due to the growing interest of the world inMangas several rights of a manga-ka are challenged.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Although cloud offerings are often global and multi-jurisdictional, the IP laws governing services generally remain territorial and national. Copyright laws, for instance, vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. What constitutes copyright infringement in one country may not be in another. Thus, in Tiffany(NJ) Inc.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

this Kat was delighted to review Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and Authorship by Dr Luke McDonagh (Assistant Professor of Law at LSE Law School). This is the first academic monograph that solely considers the relationship between UK copyright law and historical and contemporary theatre. And Who Owns It?

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Featured on the 2011 BBC MasterChef competition, she was the head chef at London restaurant Pidgin when it earned a Michelin Star and is the owner of the popular restaurant Mei Mei. As such, new copies of Makan are now unavailable on major retailer websites. copyright law, one typically cannot copyright a recipe itself.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 11, 2022

That copyright was found to have been infringed by the creators of an ‘interactive dining experience’ which used Del Boy and the other main characters from ‘Only Fools and Horses’, one of the most successful British TV comedies of the 1980s and 1990s. The Infringement. The Defences. Passing Off.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As the story goes, they provided him with a copy of a few scenes from “Ghostbusters” in which the theme would appear. You can judge for yourself by downloading a copy of “Jap Herron” here. In 1999, Cinema Secrets licensed the right to sell a Michael Myers Halloween mask from the film’s copyright owner.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

Our hard-working students and community members published more than twice as many articles than in 2020 and the most articles in a calendar year since 2011. This article summarizes the top developments reported on our blog and in patents, trademarks, and copyright law in 2021. Copyright Law.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In fact, that case also found that the pictures of such food, in that case, did not merit copyright protection either. Varsity Brands , 137 S.Ct. 1002 (2017), a case about cheerleading uniforms for most, but an invitation to me to examine the intellectual feast of issues about food porn. J&A Importers, Inc. , 2d 1046, 1053 (C.D.

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The IPKat

APRIL 4, 2025

In the UK, copyright debates came to a head in 2011 with the Hargreaves Report. The presumed assumption was that Googles dominance had benefited from fair use exceptions in US copyright law, which the UK lacked.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Media and entertainment law, which is a part of intellectual property law, plays a vital role in dealing with these issues by defending the rights of artists, producers, and distributors. Phonogram makers also have to deal with the problem of others copying their musical note and vocal sound signs and symbols.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Addressing copyright infringement on OTT platforms is no easy task due to several challenges. The global nature of the internet makes it difficult to enforce copyright laws across jurisdictions with varying levels of regulation. What is illegal in one country may not be in another, creating loopholes for infringers to exploit.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Under the 1976 Copyright Act, copyright subsists automatically in any “original work of authorship” that is “fixed in any tangible medium of expression.” [ 17 U.S.C. 101 ] Issue 1: Are the recorded interviews a copyright-eligible “work of authorship”? Rural Telephone Service Co. ,

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