JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2023

A few years ago copyright holders paid little attention to these discussions. In 2017, the site removed ‘just’ 4,352 pieces of content in response to copyright holders’ complaints. Apparently, the sender was the one being snarked, but since that’s not copyright infringement, Reddit left the post up.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In 2017, Elsevier won a court case against LibGen and Sci-Hub in a New York federal court, which awarded the publisher $15 million in damages. LibGen Hoping for a better outcome, textbook publishers Cengage, Bedford, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill, and Pearson Education filed a similar copyright infringement lawsuit against LibGen last year.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

“Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post. In September, U.S. District Judge Charles R.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

When lighting technician Blake Farmer got a tattoo of Miles Davis from celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D in 2017, he never could have imagined that the image on his right arm would one day become Exhibit A in a copyright infringement lawsuit. Kat Von D’s Instagram post. The court split on the second and third fair use factors.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2024

In 2017, Elsevier won a court case against LibGen and Sci-Hub in a New York federal court, which awarded the publisher $15 million in damages. LibGen Hoping for a better outcome, textbook publishers Cengage, Bedford, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill, and Pearson Education filed a similar copyright infringement lawsuit against LibGen last year.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

In this case, via alleged copyright infringement. million followers on Instagram, was allegedly making “ seven figures ” as of 2017, and has a book on the New York Times bestseller list (Tik Tok commenters would remind you, however, that her listing had a dagger next to it). The account and its 2.6

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 1, 2023

In our brave new world where millions of ordinary people are copyright holders of snaps they publish to social media or videos they upload to YouTube, awareness of copyright law is at an all-time high. Full credits go to the copyright owner. No copyright infringement intended.”

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In other words, one cannot avoid copyright infringement by merely reproducing a copyrighted work on a shirt or other “useful article.” While this may not apply to most costumes, this can prevent retailers from replicating images of Disney princesses and other copyrighted characters onto their clothing.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In the plaintiffs’ reasoning, the development of the AI by Google began in 2017, when it introduced the “Transformer” neural network, a revolutionary framework underpinning the LLM. To create its product, Clearview scraped billions of publicly available photos from websites and social media platforms.

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Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

But something that celebrities may not be used to is facing copyright infringement claims for reposting such photos to their personal Instagram accounts. Copyright Rights Belong to the Photographer. Copyright Rights Belong to the Photographer.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 6, 2022

It’s not, although that hypothetical lawsuit wouldn’t have been as frivolous as the copyright infringement complaint that was actually filed on Friday. In 2017, Billboard ranked the best holiday song from each of the last 50 years. If you write an immensely popular song, expect to be sued for copyright infringement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Another troubling ruling for an Internet access provider trying to shake a contributory copyright claim based on user-caused copyright infringement. 11, 2023): Time and again we have declared that “prevailing defendants in copyright cases are presumptively entitled (and strongly so) to recover attorney fees.”

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 17, 2023

[ix] It is essentially a cheap get out of jail free card for companies like Spotify who use copyright litigation and time as a weapon to cede the music label into bowing down. [x] 297 (2017). 12 [xix] The Copyright Act, 1957, §55, No. 14 , Acts of Parliament, 1957 (India). [vi] INT’l L. vii] Anna S. INT’l L.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 4, 2022

. “Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post. In September, U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

In other words, the gist of the case is whether the photographers surrender their right to exclude others by voluntarily posting their own photos to social media. Jackson , 2017 WL 5629514, *11 (N.D. The vast majority of people who post to social media want their posts to be embedded and made available to others.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This includes thousands of books the complete Wikipedia and nearly a trillion words extracted from blogs social media and various online platforms. 7] One key concern lies in who holds the copyright for AI-generated works. html accessed 17 February 2024 [1] ‘Al-Generated Music and Copyright Law’ (S.S. Rana & Co.)

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LexBlog IP

MAY 3, 2022

The WIN Passage is subject to a separate copyright registration and he offers licenses for its use. In December 2017, Chisholm Trail High School’s softball team and color guar posted the WIN Passage to their Twitter accounts. He offers merchandise, including t-shirts and posters, that display the WIN Passage.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

Perhaps it comes as no surprise that a copyright dispute regarding a fire- breathing – sneezing dragon would get so heated. Nevertheless, shortly before Christmas 2021, Ms Evans commenced proceedings against John Lewis and adam&eve alleging copyright infringement. Did the defendants copy FFD?

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

From July 2017 to April 2018, the Art Gallery of Ontario (the “AGO”) staged an exhibition titled “ ReBlink ,” which urged visitors to “[t]ake a second look… with a modern lens:”. The resulting loss in revenue has had dire consequences on museums’ purse strings and ability to maintain quality in their programming.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The judge found trade mark infringement (of both the logo with and without the word “LIDL”), passing-off and copyright infringement. On trade mark infringement, Lidl prevailed on 10(3) infringement – unfair advantage and detriment to distinctive character – having not even dared to argue a likelihood of confusion.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Copyright laws, for instance, vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. What constitutes copyright infringement in one country may not be in another. 1] , t he cloud service provider was not made liable even after abetting the infringement. 13, Acts of Parliament, 2017 (India). [11] Thus, in Tiffany(NJ) Inc.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2025

The mere suggestion that social media operators in the United States could face arrest overseas, for the alleged misconduct of a minority of users among more than a billion, would not be well received. Last September Telegram reportedly removed allegedly-infringing messages from Z-Library’s channel for copyright infringement.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 26, 2025

After a two-week trial, a California jury found that Apple TV+s Servant didnt infringe the copyright in Francesca Gregorinis The Truth About Emanuel because the defendants lacked sufficient access to her film. Its no I see dead people, but as far as copyright infringement jury trials go, its a pretty good twist ending for M.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Social Links is our ongoing series here at Socially Aware that rounds up current developments at the intersection of social media, policy, research, and the law. Embedding social media posts can be considered copyright infringement.but is it? Its purpose was to highlight the effects of global warming.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The precedent work is “a set of replacement stickers for the dashboard climate controls for certain GM vehicles”: The Copyright Office registered this design. All of these facts placed Defendant on actual notice that it was highly likely that, in fact, Plaintiff’s Sticker Sheet was not infringing the Subject Design.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 19, 2022

Clark Asay and his team analyzed fair use opinions between 1991 (the year after Judge Leval first coined the term “transformative use”) and 2017. While all of this theorizing and handicapping is fun for copyright nerds like me, there’s a much larger issue that we shouldn’t lose sight of: Fair use is important.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

But Lewis thought the song was a rip-off of “I Want a New Drug” and asserted a copyright infringement claim against Columbia Pictures. 2017), raised an interesting example of “copyright estoppel” or, as the Ninth Circuit called it in the “Jersey Boys” lawsuit I recently discussed, the “Asserted Truths Doctrine.”

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LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2023

A pair of copyright decisions issued in May, one involving the appropriation artist Richard Prince [1] and the other involving works portraying the musician known as Prince, explore and expand on the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement. Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 16, 2023

While passing the order, the court opined that though JPO does not have a trademark or copyright registration in its favor, it could have never imagined that its logo would be imitated by anyone. POI Social Media Pvt. British MPs urge motion on NFT copyright infringement, crypto fan tokens.

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SpicyIP

MAY 20, 2024

Bentley Systems Inc & Anr vs Pnc Infratech Limited & Ors on 13 May, 2024 (Delhi High Court) The plaintiff instituted the present copyright infringement suit against the defendant for continuing to use the plaintiff’s software after the expiry of its license.

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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., HULM Entertainment v.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Larson also sought a declaration that she owns the copyright to The Kindest and that the letter in the short story does not infringe Dorland’s copyright. Dorland counterclaimed for copyright infringement, claiming that Larson’s use of Dorland’s letter was a violation of intellectual property law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2024

This is another lawsuit against an Internet access provider (IAP) for user-committed copyright infringement via P2P file sharing. Previously, a jury held the IAP, Grande, liable for willful contributory copyright infringement and awarded damages of $47M. NOCIs to Grande between 2011 and 2017.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The latter was enough to cause the claimant to sue for trade mark and copyright infringement. The claimant contended that the changes made were such that what the defendant sold was no longer the original AGA product but a new product which bore the AGA name, in infringement of its rights. More from the IPKat here and here.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, governments can never successfully operate a social media service. Of course, mobs, riots, rebellions, pogroms, lynchings, and other coordinated killings have taken place throughout human history, well before social media existed. social media has played an outsized role in finding and prosecuting the insurrection.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In 1994, allegations of copyright infringement, not obscenity, landed 2 Live Crew at the steps of the U.S. ” The Court held that 2 Live Crew’s version qualified as a non-infringing fair use because it was a parody that sufficiently transformed the Orbison original. “Clean,” “Pretty” and Fair.

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