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Metadata Ruling Gives YouTube a Timely Boost in Content ID Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

In a 2017 blog post, Schneider described YouTube as a Wood Chipper on Steroids , complaining that when MP3s are uploaded to YouTube, they are converted into a different format and in the process, all metadata – Copyright Management Information – is lost. One is of particular interest. Photographer’s CMI Erased.

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Conundrum Involving The Ownership Of The Work Created By Ai

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction Any literally or artistic work that is original and creative i.e.; not copied from anywhere by the owner is protected under Copyright Act, 1957. Moral rights have a greater amount of human sentiments appended to the work, and thus, these privileges may not be appropriate for implementation by the AI.

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The Interplay of Personality Rights and Freedom of Expression- the Jackie Shroff’s Case’

IP and Legal Filings

The personality rights in India are generally enforced in the context of Intellectual Property Laws. Using someone else’s identity without their consent violates both their personality rights as well as their right to privacy. Union of India, (2017) 10 SCC 1. [3] Ammini Amma and Ors., 1] Jaikishan Kakubhai Saraf v.

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Does food flavouring constitute a “work”?

LexBlog IP

In 2017, he met the first defendant, a high-ranking executive in an international food-industry company. Copies of emails between the parties provided to the Court proved that opinions had been exchanged before the composition of the products was finalised. Applicable legal provisions The relevant law in this case was Law 2121/1993.

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When is a derivative work original and thus protectable by copyright? Classicist’s critical edition makes its way to Luxembourg in fresh Romanian CJEU referral

The IPKat

In 2017, the Regional Court of Bucharest held that the defendants had infringed the professor’s moral right of attribution. However, as I also discuss here , the CJEU has likely de facto recomprised such right within the broader right of reproduction. The decision was upheld on appeal.

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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Over the course of a decade, Google copied large volumes of books and made them available online, both through excerpts, known as “snippets”, and as entire publications. Rather than focusing on the reproduction and dissemination of existing materials, the goal of AI is to rework them to create something new.

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Growth of Virtual Youtubers and IP Complications

IIPRD

However, the conversation being considered as a contract between them was unclear regarding the IP rights. The creator was vague in terms of rights that they will keep in terms of moral rights or was it an implied license as terms were not clearly stated though there was a transaction. 2d 119 (2d Cir. 2d 945 (9 th Cir.

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