IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 13, 2023

Copyright infringement and De Minimis are often replaced to complement each other. However, de minimis is sometimes used as a defence in a copyright lawsuit. More often than not, the lawsuits filed for copyright infringement are cases of de minimis and thereto, get dismissed on the anvil of frivolity.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 29, 2024

Ramkumar Jewellers , wherein it was held that an individual should be able to control the circumstances around the use of their identification. [8] This usually applies in cases of news, parody, commentary, non-commercial use etc. So, various courts have over the time drawn a clear line in this regard. Ammini Amma and Ors.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

In 2012, the FBI arrested Shah for extortion, which sparked news coverage. After he was released from jail, he got copyright registrations for the photos and sued (pro se) the media entities for copyright infringement, 1202 violations, and more. He posted the photos to Facebook and his IMDB page ( this one? ).

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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

In light of Amazon’s decision to disable the ‘Download or Transfer via USB’ feature from their Kindle devices, Arnav Kaman discusses DRMs/TPMs, the rights of the user, what users can do with their ebooks within the fair use doctrine, and the future of ebooks in this guest post.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Furthermore, it is debatable whether the creation of NFTs can be considered “fair use”, since (i) this generates a “new” public and a new “digital” market for artworks that, to date, only existed in the real world and (ii) it deprives de facto copyright holders of a potential source of income.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

45, to bring enforcement actions aimed at activities, including those involving the training and use of AI, that might involve copyright infringement—although we would note that the copyright consequences of AI are, as yet, undefined. On that point, time will tell. Under governing law, that is a judicial function.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

If the music that is streamed is not licensed out, then does it amount to Copyright Infringement ? Although customers may have easy and legal access to music than before, how true is it in India? The same was the focal point of contention between both parties during the succeeding hearings. Conclusion.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Ross Intelligence The recent US District Court opinion in Thomson Reuters (TR) v Ross Intelligence, which allowed TR’s motion of copyright infringement against Ross for its usage of TR’s headnotes, has caught the attention of genAI and copyright enthusiasts around the world. Herbal Bioactives Llp & Ors.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Ross Intelligence The recent US District Court opinion in Thomson Reuters (TR) v Ross Intelligence, which allowed TR’s motion of copyright infringement against Ross for its usage of TR’s headnotes, has caught the attention of genAI and copyright enthusiasts around the world. Herbal Bioactives Llp & Ors.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Simply put, they claim that education once paid copying licence fees to the Access Copyright collective for photocopying on campus and the creation of course packs. The groups claim they have stopped doing so as a result of 2012 copyright reforms that added “education” to the list of fair dealing purposes.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

However, copyright laws were enacted with necessary exceptions and limitations to ensure that a balance is maintained between the interests of the owners and of the community. The most universal limitations to the rights of the owner are the right to copy insubstantial parts and the right of fair dealing or use.

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Copycense

OCTOBER 11, 2012

More than three-quarters of the books that Google scanned as part of the Books project remain subject to copyright protection. In June 2011, Michigan announced it would share with the public "orphan works" -- works to presumed to be subject to copyright protection, but for whom a copyright owner cannot be found.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

The crux of this debate is the argument that if the theft of restricted digital content is for the purpose of knowledge and research, it should be considered as an act done under ‘fair use’ and ‘fair dealing’ of the content. Digital Rights Management & Fair Use If everything is so well designed, then where is the issue?

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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. Yet, it seems to be a fact that hundreds of millions of uploads on YouTube were copyright infringing. 17 DSM Directive 2019/790 (“DSMD”).

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

. • New Verities Of Hybrid IP Infringements aside from conventional infringements of intellectual property , pose a high challenge to the enforcement authorities. Despite technological measures and legal frameworks, combating copyright infringements continues to be a serious challenge in cyberspace.

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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

APRIL 8, 2024

The ambit of IPR when it comes to recognizing these AI generators and whether they are also capable of copyright infringement by transforming other creators work has been discussed in detail in the article. 6] If these claims will be justified then the penalties will be placed for said infringement. [7] Eastern Book Co.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2024

Fair Dealing under Copyright Law The Copyright Act was amended in 2012 to include an exception to the copyright of authors with respect to accessibility through section 52 (1)(zb). However, it’s important to note that technological measures like DRMs can effectively manage distribution.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Delhi High Court] On August 9, the Delhi High Court devised a judicial mechanism to combat novel ways of copyright infringement and issued the first-ever Dynamic+ injunction in favour of Universal City Studios LLC., Universal City Studios LLC and Ors v. DotMovies.Baby and Ors. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Music Broadcast Ltd.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In the AI context, scraping publicly available news articles off the internet may involve temporarily reproducing the items in databases used to train the models. According to Indian law, such reproduction without permission is a copyright infringement.

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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

Fifth, assuming Trump owns a valid copyright, did he grant an implied license to Woodward to publish transcripts of the interviews and/or the record­ings themselves? 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?

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Truth be told, the answer is simple – use of a copyright work requires its rightholder’s permission, unless an exception is applicable. Politicians keep using the “fair use” defence, arguing that the political use of the works serves a noncommercial purpose or falls within the parody exception.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

The first Supreme Court ruling on fair use in over a quarter-century, and it’s a good one. Courts in the Second Circuit keep indicating that various forms of linking may constitute copyright infringement. Yay, we got our first Supreme Court opinion interpreting the CFAA. Mahanoy School District v.

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