Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Moreover, as we detail below, the best understanding of the application of fair use principles to AI training would hold that the practice is in most if not all instances a fair use. The FTC has no authority to determine what is and what is not copyright infringement, or what is or is not fair use.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2024

On a broad reading, there seems to be an obvious conflict of two areas of law, where the RPwD Act mandates fundamental access to all content but the Copyright Act grants the author the right to control how their works are copied. It is necessary to note that the original work that is converted into an accessible copy must be acquired legally.

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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Everything was going well until 2012 when University Press, Cambridge University Press (UK), and Taylor & Francis Group (UK), as well as Cambridge University Press India Pvt. On October 17, 2012, the Delhi High Court issued an interim injunction that halted Rameshwari Photocopy Service from producing or selling the crucial course packs.

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Copyright is essentially a right to copy. It’s an intellectual property, if an individual owns the copyright to something, then he’s the only owner of it and also the decider that who can copy it. A standard myth about the Internet is that anything posted online can be copied or downloaded. Image source:Gettyimages].

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Claims that recording amounted to fair use were brushed aside, not least since the service actually recorded everything behind the scenes, contrary to customers’ belief that any recordings played back via the service were unique to them.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

Among the other solutions, the most easy and feasible way to come out of the problem of unavailability and unaffordability was to start copying the books, study materials, and video lectures with the help of different mechanisms. The exceptions in fair dealing have been stated in general terms and the list is not exhaustive.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

The court agreed that the defense of fair use might be available in a given case to an individual user; however, the “activities of Wynk can never be termed as ‘private’ or ‘personal use’ or research,” and that it is selling/commercially renting the sound recordings. Conclusion.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 13, 2023

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. The defence only applies to the extent of a plaintiff’s copyrighted work’s usage, not how the defendant uses it.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2023

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. It also talks about suggestions that such copies are too trivial/de minimis to qualify as infringement.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 18, 2021

by Desmond Oriakhogba Sometime in 2012, Nigeria began the process of reforming her over three-decade old copyright law. Here is what Desmond says: Nigeria quietly, but surely, embracing balance, openness and flexibility in her copyright regime? The extant Copyright Act was enacted in 1988, with some amendments in the early and late 90s.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

In 2012, US NASA’s robotic rover touched down on Mars. It was taken down after one hour, as it was subject to a copyright notice by a news channel relying on the US DMCA. It is interesting to look at this Report against the background of the 2019 EU rules for the liability of platforms like YouTube through the famous Art.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

On one hand, those who view intellectual property rights as a limited monopoly would suggest that even derivative use of the content in a meme is infringement on the rights holder’s interest. 511, 523 (2012). 405 (2019); Terrica Carrington, Grumpy Cat or Copy Cat? viii] See, e.g., Lee J. Int’l Com. 139 (2016).

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43(B)log

AUGUST 12, 2021

MercExchange In 2012, study found eBay ignored/ineffective in © cases; cited in only 11% of cases; applied in a cursory way; continued to grant injunctions at high rates. Why such different results from Liu’s 2012 study? Jennifer Rothman: the disallowed use is most likely to be fair use.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This past Monday, Osgoode’s very own Professor David Vaver delivered the 2021 Brace lecture on “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond” as the series’ very first international speaker from outside the United States. The Court of Appeal unanimously held that the scope and content of the fair dealing defence should include works of criticism.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

While parody isn’t protected in the Constitution, fair use was codified into U.S. In that case, ComicMix LLC was seeking to release a comic book that mashed up themes from the two elements, only to have the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rule against them, saying it was not protected by fair use. Where Who’s Holiday!

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In doing so, they have relied on a steady diet of misleading claims about the state of the law, the licensing practices of Canadian educational institutions, the importance (or lack thereof) of copying of materials in course packs, and the effects of fair dealing. These claims are grounded in multiple inaccuracies.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The Court reasoned that when the Act was amended in 2012 – internet broadcasting was not alien to India and if the Legislature intended Section 31D to apply to internet broadcasting, it would’ve done so by specifically amending the provision. Ltd and Indian Performing Rights Society Ltd. Music Broadcast Ltd. HULM Entertainment v.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Ushered in sea change in terms of how it was used in art cases. For years, those cases had determined fair use by focusing largely on whether the secondary work was transformative: new meaning or message. The question is, under an equitable rule of reason, is the use fair? That’s a normative question ultimately.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Photocopying classroom materials in a K-12 public school system may have seemed harmless and benign before the 2012 Supreme Court of Canada case, Alberta v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). Despite its benefits, copying materials can present consequences for the content’s owners, artists, and publishers.

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The IPKat

JULY 7, 2024

case concerning the creation and dissemination of a meme on social media saw the Court of Appeals clarify that “the fact that everyone else is doing it is not a particularly compelling justification” for the fair use doctrine under 17 U.S.C. § emphasizing that the four statutory fair use factors should not be considered separately.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sixth, assuming Woodward published copyrighted material without Trump’s authorization, was he permitted to do so, either as a fair use, or by the First Amendment? Absent consent, fair use, or a First Amendment defense, publishing the interviews without Trump’s consent is therefore a violation of his copyright.

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