TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Created by software developer Elias Saba and released on the Amazon Appstore in November 2016, ‘Downloader’ offered two things; an empty URL field and a download button. Several Israeli TV companies filed a DMCA complaint at Google Play alleging that Downloader offered copyrighted content.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Copyright Office by year for the last 10 years. Copyright Office while register the software aspect of the designs (e.g., source code) under copyright law. Copyright Office, there is no need to concern about the leakage of the deposits. Here is the number of mask works registered with the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

It involved the use of copyrighted content to create an alleged ‘parody’ (one that many people would find offensive), the distribution of that content to the public via Twitter, and a defendant claiming immunity under copyright law. Not that other routes hadn’t already been tested, however.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

While NFT platforms are not yet specifically regulated, they are subject to the provisions on Electronic System Providers (“ESPs”) contained in several regulations, as follows: • Law No. 11 of 2008, dated April 21, 2008, regarding Electronic Information and Transactions, as amended by Law No 19 of 2016, dated November 25, 2016.•

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The Federal Court of Appeal overturned the decision of the Copyright Board of Canada on the ground that the Canadian Parliament did not intend for such acts to be viewed as two separate transactions. At most, if the DIPP Office Memorandum of 2016 is to be taken as law, communication to public would include internet broadcasting.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Copyright Act provides an exclusive right “to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work” and defines “derivative work” in part as any work “ based upon one or more preexisting works.” This has been a long-standing question in copyright law. Nimmer & David Nimmer, 1 Nimmer on Copyrights §§ 3.01-3.03.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2024

RELEVANT LAWS While the Fair Use of Copyright Doctrine has been codified under Section 52 of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957, Indian courts frequently assess the facts and circumstances of each case by referring to the four doctrinal factors laid under Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 26, 2024

The music app made headlines in 2016 when its founders, who were teenagers at the time, presented their brainchild in an episode of the Canadian edition of Dragons’ Den. “I was advised that when companies such as Musi get to a critical size, they could be sued for past use by the publishers,” Mimran informed the Financial Post in 2016.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

First, an original work can be protected by copyright law only if it meets two requirements: - originality, i.e., objective novelty compared to creative works or segments of previous creation; - creativity. Creativity under Article 1 of Law No. RAI contested all the claims as groundless. Here are the main points of the decision.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 31, 2025

Since its inception in 2016, CIPRA has been executing various activities in furtherance of its goals, which include encouraging research in every area of the subject, promoting and spreading awareness about IPR among students and public at large with various practical approaches. The challenges of protecting literary works in the digital age.

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

Degrees), Regulations, 2016 and the UGC Act, 1956 which have mandatory application on the Universities. Degrees) Regulations, 2016 which mandates the submission of an electronic copy of the Ph. The thesis being a public record raises an important query in copyright law with respect to its control by the author.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Under US copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances.”. Many ISPs have been reluctant to take such drastic measures, which triggered a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits in recent years. Internet provider RCN is among the targeted providers.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2023

For each product range, a copyright assignment agreement was drawn up, including a fixed fee for taking the photographs and a permission to use them for 12 to 18 months. In 2016, L'Oréal changed the packaging for its Kérastase products. The Court found that these photographs had been put online between 2013 and 2016.

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The IPKat

JUNE 16, 2024

He thus sued the Perrotin Galerie and Turenne Editions, which represent Cattelan, and Monnaie de Paris, which exhibited the works between 2016 and 2017, to obtain a judicial declaration of authorship of the sculptures. The Berne Convention does neither define nor describe the requirements needed to qualify one as author.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In December 2016 and after substantial work to amend the law, an Australian court ordered the blocking of several pirate sites headed up by the infamous The Pirate Bay. However, the Judge wasn’t satisfied with the approach.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

Anyone who breaches their legal agreement with a platform is, at a minimum, in breach of relevant contract law. Copyright Law and DRM. This means that the use of software such as StreamFab is effectively outlawed by a legally binding document and also by copyright law.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Perhaps the most infamous of the above scandals was the allegation of copyright infringement by The Great Eros (“TGE”). TGE claimed Bernstein copied their signature pattern of nude female silhouette line drawings, which had been printed on their tissue paper since the store’s inception in 2016.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Copyright Office by year for the last 10 years. Source : www.copyright.gov/history/annual_reports.html Year 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 # of MW 33 0 20 156 27 25 28 84 279 203 Even though the number of registered mask works is not enormous, they are still an important component of chip companies’ IP portfolio.

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The IPKat

JULY 12, 2024

While the AI Act is not IP-specific legislation, it will have a substantial impact on it, notably copyright and trade secrets.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Between February 2013 and December 2016, Cox received $208 million in revenue from subscribers who received three or more piracy notices. There is no such form of liability—not in copyright law or anywhere else.” To state the argument is to refute it.

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Copyright Infringement Music Copyright Copyright Law 113

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 5, 2022

now abrogated by the implementation of the CDSM Directive [2] ) of the Spanish Copyright Act (SCA) between 6 December 2016 and 31 October 2020. This case concerns a dispute between the collecting management organisation CEDRO [1] and GOOGLE DISCOVER for non-payment of fair compensation for the limitation established in article 32.2 (now

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JIPL Online

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Furthermore, even if you can assert a right of publicity claim under your contract, there is still the hurdle of not having your state right-of-publicity claim preempted by federal copyright law. [14]. ANALYSIS AND UPSHOT. Recent Case – In Re Jackson. Recently, the U.S. 16] The song on Rick Ross’s mixtape was titled “In Da Club (ft.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 26, 2021

Before mid-2022, the Copyright Office will deploy a new adjudicatory function called the Copyright Claims Board (CCB). The CCB will be dominated by claims over alleged online infringement, so it’s a major development for online copyright law. Overview of the CCB. 505; Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

We soon realized that information about the changes to copyright law over time – which would be especially useful for empirical studies – was lacking. There have been many studies describing differences in copyright exceptions between countries, such as those by Seng , Crews , Hilty & Nérisson , and the WIPO Secretariat.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2024

copyright law, Internet providers must terminate the accounts of repeat copyright infringers “in appropriate circumstances.” The law doesn’t specify what these circumstances are but in recent years federal courts have provided more context.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

For a work to be copyrightable, it must be “original ” and fixed in “ tangible form”, such as a sound “recording recorded on a CD” or a “literary work printed on paper ”. [2] It receives the full set of rights under copyright law, just like literary, dramatic, or artistic work”.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Laws aiming to remedy these issues have thus been adopted in Spain in 2011 and 2022 , Italy and Germany in 2013, Austria in 2015, France in 2016, the Netherlands and Belgium in 2018. Pre-existing Bulgarian provision The SPR is not an entirely novel concept to Bulgarian copyright law. On the other hand, art.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Claims under copyright law. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 18, 2023

In common with content created in other fields, photographs generally enjoy protection under copyright law, allowing photographers to determine who can duplicate and/or distribute their work. Photographers Alexis Hunley and Matthew Brauer posted several of their copyrighted works on Instagram.

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Olartemoure Blog

MAY 26, 2023

As a result, the unauthorized reproduction of such works not only results in material damage due to the non-payment of copyright fees but also inflicts intangible harm through the symbolic devaluation of the artistic creation. The dispute revolved around a work of art created by Warhol, which incorporated a photograph of the musician Prince.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 15, 2023

” That wasn’t what Maria Schneider had in mind, according to her 2016 Music Tech Policy piece, which begins with a surprise apology. When copyright holders report uploaded content as infringing, YouTube follows the DMCA and takes the content down. “OK, I know: that title really hits below the belt. I apologize.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Back in the spring, we reported on the long-running efforts to reform copyright law in Singapore. Work that started back in 2016 with a public consultation exercise appears to have reached its close with the news that the Parliament approved amendments on September 13 th that are expected to be enacted into law this November.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

2016) it stated that the burden is on the Defendant to prove the copying was authorised. Since Alexander had proven her copyright in the tattoo designs and that it had been copied, she met her onus and now the Defendants needed to prove authorisation for their reproduction. Citing Muhammad-Ali v. Final Call, Inc.,

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 28, 2024

“Freemon has a long history of brazen disregard for copyright laws, and his early foray into internet piracy is the first link in the chain leading to his current web of illegal services,” they write. “Beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2019, Freemon sold illegally modified Fire TV Stick devices.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

From this constitutional dimension of copyright emerged the notion of ‘user rights’ ( Geiger, 2020 ). Looking forward, it is essential to ensure that legitimate uses expressly foreseen by copyright law are enabled through better access to protected works. However, it is only a first step towards making user’s rights a reality.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 24, 2022

The plaintiffs, in that case, are two photojournalists who captured images of the George Floyd protests and the 2016 election and posted them to Instagram. We previously wrote about a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California against Instagram regarding the use of Instagram’s embedding tools.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

The named plaintiffs are two photojournalists whose photographs of the George Floyd protests and the 2016 election were featured on websites of various traditional media outlets without those outlets having obtained any license from the plaintiffs because those media companies used Instagram’s proprietary embedding tools.

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