TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2023

In 2017, the site removed ‘just’ 4,352 pieces of content in response to copyright holders’ complaints. Snarking and Fair Use In addition, there were also thousands of invalid takedown requests for which Reddit took no action. A few years ago copyright holders paid little attention to these discussions.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2024

Plaintiff has been suing various wristwatch companies over the use of the term RED GOLD. Throughout the twentieth century, many newspapers, advertisements, magazines, textbooks, and other reference materials used the term “red gold” to describe the gold-copper combination.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Even where permission not legally required, thought was better results due to advances in technology—social media influencing: the advertiser wants customized content. A: History differs a lot—US foundation for ROP was set much earlier. You can cluster fair use cases. Video games: want motion capture.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 16, 2024

The realm of content protection may yet have an AI savior waiting in the wings, but until a model can accurately determine fair use and conduct complex, error-free investigations, humans retain the upper hand. With piracy close to ubiquitous, work opportunities exist, to put it mildly.

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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. 2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”). Clearview created AI products using facial recognition technology.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2022

Though the text of the Act does not use the terms dilution, tarnishment, blurring or free-riding, the text of section 29(4), along with caselaw makes it abundantly clear that such acts are actionable in Indian courts. The Indian counterpart of fair use in trademark law is embodied in Section 30 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that the parodical and satirical use of Fun World’s copyrighted “Ghost Face” mask was permitted under the fair use doctrine. Outside of masks and jewellery, a 2017 U.S. More recently, on September 27, the U.S.

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43(B)log

JULY 25, 2024

Venkateswaran allegedly worked as an independent contractor for Portkey from 2017 to 2022, during which Venkateswaran performed work in areas like “communications and public relations,” “management of social media platforms,” and “attending and representing in conferences.”

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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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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. The Ninth Circuit ultimately ruled, however, that making and displaying thumbnail images to facilitate an image search engine was a fair use. 3d at 1160.

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43(B)log

MAY 2, 2022

It also, since 2017, stopped publicizing on its website the Chanel serial number of goods it has available for sale. It used Chanel marks and indicia, such as Chanel artwork and images of Chanel runway shows, in advertisements and displays featured in-store and on its webpages, social media, and direct-to-consumer emails.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

On one hand, those who view intellectual property rights as a limited monopoly would suggest that even derivative use of the content in a meme is infringement on the rights holder’s interest. x] This article assumes, for the purposes of the argument, that screen grabs from audiovisual media are protected by copyright. [xi]

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JIPL Online

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

19] After classifying the mod as derivative, the court rejected other protections such as fair use doctrine as defenses to the paid mod. [20] 20, 2017), [link]. [3] 2017), [link]. [23] 2017), [link] (). [25] 2017), [link] (Providing an example of guidelines for crowdfunding to a community). Formgen Inc.,

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The company has brought over 300 cases since 2017, often using copyrighted product images as a technical hook to shut down undesired resellers who advertise its products at below retail prices. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or on your favorite social media platform @copyright lately.

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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. On May 11, the U.S. 2] A week later, the U.S. 3] Graham v.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 19, 2022

Over the past quarter-century, transformative use has become shorthand for fair use itself. When I first heard that the Supreme Court had agreed to take up the fair use fight over Andy Warhol’s “Prince Series,” my first reaction was “Oh wow.”. Fair use is supposed to be about balance and flexibility.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The court also credits the self-serving claim by the successor licensee that it considered fair use by comparing the works and evaluating if the works were being sold commercially or for other purposes. Benjamin. * How Have Section 512(f) Cases Fared Since 2017? Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation, 2021 WL 4482608 (S.D.N.Y.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The judge rejected BMG’s fair use defense, holding that the defendants took more elements from the “Nightmare on Elm” street films than they needed to accomplish any parodic purpose. New Line successfully moved for a preliminary injunction to block the video’s release. “The Conjuring” (2013).

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Asst Controller of Patents and Designs , (passed on May 15) the Court meandered through the legislative history of Section 3(k) of the Patents Act and observed that there is a lack of clarity on the meaning of “technical effect” and “contribution” under the present 2017 CRI guidelines used by the Patent Office. Acko General Insurance.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The copyright claims came down to a fair use analysis, something that has occupied discussions by this poster before. ” With a mixed bag present on the substantial similarity analysis, the District Court moved on to looking at fair use itself. .” Let’s see why.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 12, 2022

” 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. On March 8, 1994, The New York Times reported 2 Live Crew’s Supreme Court fair use victory. Lil’ Joe Makes a Deal.

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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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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2022

As described here in a previous post: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected an artistic intent or purpose test for fair use on March 26, 2021, in The Andy Warhol Foundation v. ” Then, as I noted , the US Supreme Court decided a few days later, “in Google v. at 7-9) were transformative.,”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

On the heels of the mandatory editorial transparency provisions in Florida and Texas’ social media censorship laws, the California legislature thought it could one-up those states by passing a law with at least 161 different disclosure requirements. The opinion upheld every aspect of Texas’ social media censorship law.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The plaintiffs argue that the Trump campaign continued to use the song after the license was revoked, citing multiple instances of public performance documented on social media and video-sharing platforms. I should note that in 2017, Moore performed “America the Beautiful” at a pre-inauguration concert for Trump.)

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