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Controlled Digital Lending: A Copyright Analysis

IP and Legal Filings

The libraries use this concept of CDL justify the mass digitalization of copyright works digital versions of their legally obtained items and lending them to patrons in a controlled manner. This rule covers lending digital copies of copyrighted works, while works in the public domain can be freely digitized.

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Plagiarism Police come for Winston & Strawn

Patently-O

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Winston & Strawn , 23-cv-11193 (S.D.N.Y.

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Amicus in Apple v. Corellium

43(B)log

Summary of argument: The constitutional goal of copyright protection is to “promote the progress of science and useful arts,” Art. It is that functionality, and not the copying, to which Apple truly objects. But fair use protects precisely this kind of analysis. Patton, 769 F.3d 3d 1232, 1256 (11th Cir.

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Chain Reaction: Did the Beastie Boys Sue the Wrong Restaurant?

Copyright Lately

In 2014, the group won a $1.7 million copyright infringement verdict when Monster Beverage used several Beastie Boys songs in a promotional video. Earlier that year, they settled another lawsuit after GoldieBlox used the song “Girls” in a toy ad.

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Prof. Avichal Bhatnagar v. The CEO, Pralek Prakashan Pvt. Ltd : Taking a Look at The Conundrum Surrounding Copyright Protection vis-a-vis Accessibility for PwDs

SpicyIP

Data published by the World Blind Union in 2014 indicated that less than 10% of published material was available in accessible format for persons with visual impairment, and most such material was only available in English, thereby leading to a ‘book famine’.

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Twitter Suspends Copyright Holder as Musk Outlaws ‘Weaponization’ of DMCA

TorrentFreak

Since most tweets relating to the initial dispute have since been deleted or disabled, here we rely on archived and cached copies for evidence. Copies of these communications have not been made public, so their nature remains unknown. “I was hit by DMCA tens of times since 2014 and I was suspended once for 3 weeks.

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What Goldsmith Means to AI Trainers

IP Intelligence

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. The district court agreed, but was reversed by the Second Circuit, which found the degree of new expression insufficient to justify a finding of fair use. Goldsmith , 598 S.

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