Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The members of the European Copyright Society (ECS ) have recently sent a letter to Mr. Thierry Breton ( Commissioner for Internal Market , European Commission ) outlining their view of what should be the priorities for a f uture agenda in the field of copyright law. 3 Portability Regulation 2017; Art. DSM Directive. [4]

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 10, 2025

copyright laws. Court documents claim the Photograph was registered with the United States Copyright Office (USCO) on January 19, 2017. The Plaintiff alleges that the Defendant used his Photograph without permission, violating U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

1: Top EU Court Rejects Polish Complaint Over Copyright Law. First off today, John Silk at Deutsche Welle reports that the highest court in the European Union, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), has rejected a Polish challenge to the latest EU copyright directive. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

In 2017 the documentary titled “Burlesque: Heart of the Glitter Tribe” was released on Netflix, Amazon, and Apple. More from our authors: Exceptions in EU Copyright Law: In Search of a Balance Between Flexibility and Legal Certainty. The song “Fish Sticks n’ Tater Tots” was composed by the plaintiffs in 2011. Dr. Seuss Enters.,

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2022

2: Artists to Cash in When Work is Resold with Update of Copyright Laws. Next up today, Marie Woolf of the Canadian Press reports that, in Canada, a new law is being drafted by Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne and Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez that would give artists a “resale right” in their paintings.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Historical lookback The amendment to the existing copyright law act of 1957 was carried out owing to the sensitization of issue of copyright management and revenue sharing structure that is fair and reasonable to all owners and writers of filmed and recorded works. [i] 297 (2017). Magic Mantra Vision. [ii] INT’l L.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Section 24 of the Regulations generically refers to the Mediation Act 2017 and the Arbitration Act 2010 as frameworks supporting dispute settlement solutions with no state involvement. This is without doubt a weakness, which leaves both creators and users at the veritable mercy of online platforms.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 6, 2024

News of legal ‘gray areas’ and other perceived loopholes in the law travel fast, but in the case of unlicensed streaming, the idea that no laws were being broken had solid support. Early 2017: Not Illegal. Early 2017: Not Illegal. Like never before, streaming piracy was skyrocketing.

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Nelligan Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Ireland, and Australiaback in 2017 and 2021. Under the copyright laws of many countries with British legal traditionsincluding Canada, the U.K., Australia, and Irelandan authors copyright interest reverts to their estate 25 years after their death. Its copyright law. allegedly kept cashing in anyway.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 30, 2022

Rub, Copyright Survives: Rethinking the Copyright-Contract Conflict , 103 Va. 1141, 1181 (2017). Prior to its decision in this case, the Second Circuit appears to have not stated any clear precedent on the topic: Considering the prominence of the S.D.N.Y. Briefs from Google and LyricFind are due September 8, 2022.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 26, 2025

Yet, despite accusations that Servant stole her story of a delusional mother hiring a young nanny to care for a “reborn baby” doll, the jurys verdict hinged on a more foundationalyet often overlookedprinciple of copyright law: access. But even Jan got a surprise party now and then. The jurys verdict in Gregorini v.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 28, 2025

by Dennis Crouch and Tim Knight The Supreme Court is being asked to decide a case that could have a major impact on copyright law. The case involves photographs taken by Michael Grecco in 2017, but the lawsuit was not filed until 2021.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2023

An interesting feature of copyright law is its tendency to lag behind the times while new technology races ahead and exploits its numerous ‘loopholes’ One of the most famous loopholes was ‘exposed’ when streaming overtook BitTorrent to become the delivery method of choice for millions of video-oriented pirates.

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The IPKat

MARCH 13, 2022

Kat- quotation There is little doubt that one of the most (if not the most) significant exceptions in copyright law is the one relating to quotation, criticism or review. In 2014, the Milan Court of First Instance dismissed the action in its entirety.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

copyright law. Indeed, if we look at KimCartoon’s entry in Google’s Copyright Transparency Report, we can see that the site weathered at least one huge takedown storm last year and came out largely unscathed. Diplomatic Moves, Reincarnation In 2017, Ted Osius, U.S. Rightsholders Take Action in India and U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

One of the more confusing areas of copyright law in the United States is how it impacts states. Under the current law, all copyright matters are federal. However, because of state sovereign immunity, it’s technically not possible to sue a state government or any of their components in a federal court.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The data was cut off in 2017, well within the range of the lawsuit. But this case is no slam dunk as it narrowly scopes the claims, fails to proffer much evidence at this stage, and faces some tough battles in interpreting Canadian copyright law. We also know about the data that went into GPT 2.0,

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 24, 2024

Last year saw the introduction of Law 4996/2022, which brought significant changes to IP legislation in Greece, amending several provisions of the existing Copyright Law 2121/1993 as well as Law 4481/2017 on Collective Management. Law 4996/2022 was implemented into the Greek legislation EU Directive 2019/789.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Digital-effects company Rearden LLC's counsel told a California federal jury during opening arguments Wednesday that Disney owes up to $400 million for allegedly using its copyrighted special-effects software for the 2017 remake of "Beauty and the Beast" while Disney's counsel said it respects copyright law and "did nothing wrong."

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In 2017, music publishing company Wixen also filed a lawsuit against Spotify USA, seeking $1.6 New Copyright Law: A Solution for Spotify. The relevant US copyright law is section 115 of the Copyright Act , which states that a person or entity seeking to distribute a musical work must first obtain a compulsory license.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 23, 2021

During the 2017 national elections, more than 10% of the public voted for the Pirate Party and there are currently three Czech Pirates in the European Parliament. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. On top of that, the mayor of the country’s capital Prague is also a Pirate.

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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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The IP Law Blog

MAY 25, 2023

In a closely watched copyright case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Andy Warhol’s portraits of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. She asserted that the dissent failed to address the specific use alleged to infringe the copyright.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As such, it was permissible under United States copyright law. Since there was no appreciable harm to the copyright owners, according to the Court – quite the contrary –it was clearly acceptable under the terms of United States copyright law. copyright law. Attribution for artists under s.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

Copyright law crafted decades ago to prevent infringement in an analog world has in many cases held up remarkably well in the digital age. In the United States, the existence of a loophole in copyright law had been an open secret for some time. Between 2017 and July 2021, Valverde sold reseller credits to ‘J.R.D’,

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Copyright law serves as a vital mechanism for protecting the rights of creators over their original works. In India, the Copyright Act of 1957 provides the legal framework that governs these rights. The Indian Copyright Act stipulates that the duration of copyright for pseudonymous works is 60 years from the date of publication.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

Apple also seeks summary judgment on whether it can be held liable for copyright infringement for “making available”—as opposed to actually selling—the compositions. Although courts have divided on this issue, I conclude that the copyright laws support this theory of liability on the facts of this case. Tumblr, Inc.,

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Garrigues Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

The question therefore is: Can board games be protected by copyright? Lets put the cards on the table: from the Copyright Law and case law that interprets it can be inferred, that, generally speaking, the mechanics of a game do not meet the requirements to be protected as an intellectual property work.

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The Illusion of More

AUGUST 20, 2021

Cooper that its own precedents obligated it to affirm that states are immune from federal litigation in claims of copyright infringement. On September 4, 2020, plaintiff Rick Allen filed a motion to reconsider the North Carolina district court’s 2017 dismissal of his takings […]. The post NC Court Grants Motion in Allen v.

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2021

The case started on March 17, 2017, when Motorola Solutions alleged that Hytera Communications, a Chinese radio manufacturer rival, leveraged its exposed trade secrets in creating Hytera’s DMR products. copyright laws by copying their source code, it also complained that Hytera infringed the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 11, 2024

Catching IPTV Pirates In 2017, BREIN booked a prominent victory at the European Court of Justice, which ruled that it’s illegal to sell devices that are pre-configured to access copyright-infringing content. Anti-piracy groups around the world are actively trying to shut down these illicit operations.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

He is also the co-author of two books- “Create, Copy, Disrupt: India’s Intellectual Property Dilemmas” (OUP, 2017) and “The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India” (Simon and Schuster India, 2022). Image from here Book Review: Modern Law of Copyright in Singapore By Prashant Reddy T.

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Olartemoure Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

The legal battle started in 2017 between the estate of Andy Warhol and photographer Lynn Goldsmith , over the use of Goldsmith’s images of the late musician Prince. There was no image copyright credit or compensation to Lynn Goldsmith. The photographer threatened to sue the Foundation alleging copyright infringement.

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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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SpicyIP

MARCH 30, 2025

This breakthrough architecture was introduced in 2017 when a group of scientists working at Google published a paper called Attention is All You Need . What the model does is that it repeatedly predicts the next word, thereby generating a coherent sentence, paragraph or even longer texts.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 17, 2024

The book that is going to change copyright law? After the referrals in Mio [IPKat here and here ] and USM Haller [IPKat here ] , another referral asking about the meaning of originality in EU copyright law has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU): it is the referral from Romania in Institutul G.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

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). Danielle Bernstein is a 28-year-old New York City influencer and founder of the brand We Wore What (“WWW”).

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