IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. The district court agreed, but was reversed by the Second Circuit, which found the degree of new expression insufficient to justify a finding of fair use. Goldsmith , 598 S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 5, 2022

” Second, Bayside said that copyright already accommodates First Amendment considerations via the fair use defense (citing the Reddit case ). Nature of the use. The photos were already published, which weighs in favor of fair use. ” This also weighs in favor of fair use (?). Market effect.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

These include misuse of copyright, fair use, unclean hands, and excessive damages. “Plaintiff does not enforce its alleged copyrights to protect the market for its works or to further the useful arts and sciences,” John Doe writes, referring to the purpose of copyright as defined in the US Constitution.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It could also undercut the commercial market for books and works already created; this is because, on demand, the Products are able not only to summarize books in detail, chapter by chapter, but also to regenerate the text of books (§ I.B.110-111). 2019); Worldwide Church of God vs Phila. 110-111). 4th 1149 (9th Cir.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

3] The suit alleged that Sherlock Holmes’ character traits of warmth and empathy were copied and not yet in the public domain, as these traits only developed in later works that are still protected by copyright. [4] 18] Netflix admitted it had access to and copied the memoir. [19] 5] Netflix and the estate quickly settled. [6].

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“Kiwi Farms users provided a Google Drive link to a full copy of Mr. Greer’s book.” Somebody,” he explained, “created a copy of [his] book and put it in a Google Drive that is accessible on Kiwi Farms.” on Kiwi Farms” in April 2019. Moon appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Greer] money.”

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 10, 2022

The US Supreme Court in March decided it will revisit a dispute over pop artist Andy Warhol’s images of Prince. Goldsmith , the Court aims to more clearly define the scope of what’s known as “fair use” in US copyright law. Understanding the Fair Use Doctrine. Oracle America, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 8, 2023

Adjusted for inflation, imported Japanese N64s changed hands for the equivalent of $1,400 in today’s money; a copy of Super Mario 64? Imported into the gray market in Europe, US cartridges were cheaper than their Japanese counterparts. A snip at $165. An emulator reference, presumably.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based. By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa By a 7-2 vote, the U.S. Goldsmith , No. 569 (1994).

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” The district court agreed, but was reversed by the Second Circuit, which found the degree of new expression insufficient to justify a finding of fair use. ” (S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And many of the sites where the data is collected also have prohibitions on automated data collection and web scraping in their terms of use. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. But fair use isn’t a defense to a breach of contract claim.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

Among the other solutions, the most easy and feasible way to come out of the problem of unavailability and unaffordability was to start copying the books, study materials, and video lectures with the help of different mechanisms. The exceptions in fair dealing have been stated in general terms and the list is not exhaustive.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. This prevented Signal 23 from marketing for ABOUT HIM in addition to seven or eight other shows it had available for purchase on Vimeo.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. The district court agreed, but was reversed by the Second Circuit, which found the degree of new expression insufficient to justify a finding of fair use. emphasis original).

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In Canada, under section 64(2) of the Copyright Act , it is not an infringement of copyright to reproduce the design of a “useful article”, so long as more than 50 copies are made. The Act defines a “useful article” as having a utilitarian function, which encompasses most clothing. There are notable exceptions.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Simpson’s structural connectors are specified on most construction drawings in the US; its market share is over 75%. A contractor may request that a different connector be used, but may not use a different connector or otherwise deviate from the construction documents without the engineer’s approval. California UCL: same.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Christopher Buccafusco (& Rebecca Tushnet), Base Rate Neglect in Copying-in-Fact Comes out of an excellent Buccafusco paper about the failures of copying in fact, which led me to think about base rate neglect in cases where plaintiff’s expert claims that it’s not possible that these similarities arose in the absence of copying.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

There is uncertainty over how much selection and refinement is needed to produce the best work (see examples of selection, refinement and reworking here and here ) and getting the right prompt is challenging enough to have created a market for effective prompts. We were not aware that the image may have been created by AI” 2.

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SpicyIP

MAY 2, 2022

You can see his previous posts for us here. New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression? This agreement was for a period from 1 st July 2019 to 30 th June 2022. In response the Defendant claimed, “ fair use” and “ de minimis” use. Akshat Agrawal. In Wiseau Studio v.

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43(B)log

JUNE 26, 2023

16, 2023) The court refused to dismiss copyright and trademark claims based on copying of a TV show format, including the hosts. Although the court is quite careful, this does seem to be TM/market analysis creeping into copyright.] So they’re in the same online video market. A&E Television Networks, LLC v.

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

The appellant sought a copy of a PhD Thesis titled “Studies on some nitrogen fixing genes of Azotobacter vinelandi” from Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university and public authority for the purposes of RTI Act. Background. Assessment. suo moto mandatory disclosures. suo moto mandatory disclosures. What is this ‘intent’ anyway?

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The touchstone is whether ordinary consumers in the relevant market are likely to be confused about the source of the goods. 2013) (“[The accused infringer] has in fact scrupulously avoided such confusion by choosing a starkly different logo that it prominently displays on its [products] and on all its sales and marketing literature.”).

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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. ix] Just a brief glimpse at a meme can demonstrate just how little copyright protected material is used. [x] 29, 2013), [link]. [ii]

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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

The court agreed that the defense of fair use might be available in a given case to an individual user; however, the “activities of Wynk can never be termed as ‘private’ or ‘personal use’ or research,” and that it is selling/commercially renting the sound recordings.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2023

False urgency is a marketing tactic that creates a false sense of scarcity to pressure consumers into making a purchase, often resulting in dark patterns, limited stock, and unexpected delivery. The DoCA had illustrated 10 practices as dark patterns. They are: 1.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Michael Carroll (w/ Peter Jaszi), Fair Use After Google and Warhol Codification is a big deal; clarifies that fair use is a distinct doctrine, whereas well into 20th century courts were using it as noninfringement. Courts weren’t using four factors before that. We don’t even get into the market stuff.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2019, he had a simple website that included a “Where We Work” page. Screengrabs from October 29, 2019 from the Wayback Machine. Prutton admitted to copying and said that his adult daughter had helped him with his website. (A Fair Use: From my perspective, the fair use analysis is what I’ve been waiting for.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive. In the aftermath of cases like Authors Guild v. HathiTrust and Authors Guild v.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Netflix was decided after the Supreme Court managed to make fair use even more complicated in Andy Warhol Foundation v. In addition, the plaintiff hadn’t alleged that the market for her tattoo was in any way affected by Netflix’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it use of her work. Even though Cramer v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

.” So what is the current legal situation regarding the use of publicly available copyrighted works for the purpose of training ML systems? In Europe, the legal framework is much clearer (which probably explains why all of the current lawsuits have been filed outside the EU). New forms of collective action? The future of copyright?

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The IPKat

AUGUST 6, 2023

Regular IPKat readers will be well acquainted with the good professor’s book ‘Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union’ (OUP 2019). originality, what is idea and what is expression, what are the elements of and standards for substantial similarity and in the USA, fair use.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Thus, we learn nothing from the Second Circuit about how the new trademark use test should be applied going forward. As the new threshold test for application of Rogers , courts can’t simply assume trademark use based on the close copying of the plaintiff’s goods. 2294 (2019). at 156 (citation omitted)”). Tam , 582 U.S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

It is interesting to look at this Report against the background of the 2019 EU rules for the liability of platforms like YouTube through the famous Art. 17 DSM Directive 2019/790 (“DSMD”). In 2012, US NASA’s robotic rover touched down on Mars. But first let’s take a look at Mars (the planet).

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2022

University Of Houston System, 624 SW 3d 764, 769 (Texas 2021) (“the University’s single act of copyright infringement was not a taking because it did not take away Olive’s right to use, license, or dispose of the underlying creative work.”), Maclean Hunter Market Reports, Inc., 1073 (2019). See CCC Info.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Claire Germain, a US law professor, wrote a 2019 article comparing French and US intellectual property law on the question of recipe rights. And one should understand that so listening is just a warm-up to the next Supreme Court case that will wrestle with what constitutes fair use and what counts as transformative work.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 18, 2022

The idea has spread across all market sectors, and now luxury fashion retailers have joined the tokenization bandwagon. the restriction against reproducing or copying copyright works) or communication right is infringed. When it comes to younger millennials and Gen Z market segments, sustainable fashion and beauty is a major motivator.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Fantasy Sports [Delhi High Court] In a suit alleging copyright infringement, HULM Entertainment argued that Fantasy Sports’ “MyFab11” sports fantasy app copies the trading and stock features and GUI of its “Exchange 22” app. On March 13, the Delhi High Court granted an ex parte interim injunction in Markets and Markets Research Pvt.

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