Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But if you really want Kiwi Farms gone, have you considered using copyright law for its censorial power? on Kiwi Farms” in April 2019. This ruling shows how copyright law could be a Kiwi Farms killer–no legal reform required. Yet, we should be careful celebrating copyright’s censorial powers.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

Although Section 81 of the IT Act specifies that the prohibitions of Section 79 do not preclude anyone from exercising any rights allowed under the Copyright Act 1957, intermediaries are exempted from accountability for copyright infringement. As a result, the IT Act’s obligations have precedence over all other laws.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 8, 2022

As we discussed back in 2019 , the case itself didn’t have a significant impact on the legal landscape of copyright. In My Feelings and Nice for What were both released in early-to-mid 2018, Dancing with a Stranger was released in January 2019 and Levitating in March 2020. Though reduced to $5.3

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Finally today, Porter Anderson from Publishing Perspectives reports that the International Publishers Association is joining a chorus of Kenyan-based publishers in decrying proposed changes to the nation’s copyright law.

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The Illusion of More

MAY 9, 2023

Just as it is folly to anthropomorphize computers and robots, it is also unhelpful to discuss the implications of generative AI in copyright law by analogizing machines to authors.[1] 1] In 2019, I explored the idea that “machine learning” could be analogous to human reading if the human happens to have an eidetic memory.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

The lawsuit is the second the group has filed against Charter, with one being filed in 2019 that looked at Charter’s alleged activities between March 24, 2013 and May 17, 2016. 2: World Kung Fu Governing Body Uses Copyright Law to Hunt Down YouTube Critics.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 17, 2022

First off today, Thomas Claburn at The Register reports that the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has won a key victory over Vizio as a judge has ruled that the open source GPL and LGPL licenses are not just copyright licenses, but contain an extra element covered by contract law rather than copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 5, 2022

Winnie-the-Pooh is likely the most culturally relevant character to enter the public domain since 2019, when works started entering the public domain again in the United States due to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. This has raised widespread speculation as to what this means for Disney and the character’s future.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 30, 2022

First of which is a document sighted by Masihzadeh in 2019 that reportedly says Farhadi is the originator of the concept. However, I know very little about Iranian copyright law. and European copyright law. Though much of copyright law is fairly standardized internationally, it may or may not apply to Iran.

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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] 12 [xix] The Copyright Act, 1957, §55, No.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

3: Copyright and the Takings Clause. 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. Though Robert Frost’s poem Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening lapsed in 2019 and F.

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The IPKat

JULY 12, 2024

While the AI Act is not IP-specific legislation, it will have a substantial impact on it, notably copyright and trade secrets. IP-related impact Recitals 104 to 109 and Article 53 have a direct impact on copyright. It also sets out a framework for suppliers and deployers of AI systems, with a series of obligations to respect.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Welcome to the third trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! In this series we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. On the copyright/trade mark front, a case on the registrability of the marks ‘ ANIMAL FARM ’ and ‘ 1984 ’ is still pending before the EUIPO’s Grand Board of Appeal.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 31, 2021

2021 is a momentous year for EU copyright law: it is the 30th anniversary since the adoption of the first ever copyright directive (the Software Directive 1991/250) and the 20th since the passing of the seminal InfoSoc Directive 2001/29. To celebrate the publication of Copyright in the Digital Single Market.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

Photo by TheoRivierenlaan from Pixabay The Austrian Supreme Court (hereinafter: “ASC”) ruled on 19th of December 2023 ( 4 Ob 112/23h ) in a case concerning the 2019 film “Yesterday” The Plaintiff alleged that the film infringed its copyright in a short screenplay idea published in 2011.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 18, 2022

After its defeat in the earlier action, in 2019 Axel Springer filed a new lawsuit on new grounds. ” In other words, AdBlock Plus breaches copyright law. The defendants are not – together with the respective user – accessories to a copyright infringement,” the decision reads.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

Copyright law is in charge of controlling how literary, artistic, and theatrical works, among others, are used. The law of copyright regulates the activities of copying and disseminating the words of someone who has copyright over something online without that person’s consent. 1 (2022). [5]

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

More than five years ago the USTR described Taiwan’s ISD problem as “rampant” but welcomed amendments to copyright law in 2019 that criminalized the provision of piracy apps, helping the public to access pirated content, and the importation or manufacture of piracy devices.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 28, 2022

The case originally started in 2019, when MultiChoice Kenya sent takedown notices to the providers, hoping they would block the sports streaming sites. This is the first blocking order in Kenya, which is based on a 2019 revision of the country’s copyright law.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In early 2019, Ms Y noticed that several of her other photos were still available online and had been altered. On 8 July 2019, Ms Y unsuccessful addressed a cease-and-desist letter to L'Oréal. After ruling out L'Oréal's contractual liability, the court addressed the infringement of the photographer's copyright.

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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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TorrentFreak

JUNE 21, 2024

In 2019, eight men from Las Vegas were named in a grand jury indictment alleging they conspired to violate criminal copyright law through two IPTV services, Jetflicks and iStreamitAll.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In July 2019, YouTuber James St. The company is also routinely accused of having an outsized impact on copyright law , including the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Actt of 1998. This has made Disney something of a copyright villain to many online and off.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In the fall of 2019, Rights Alliance referred their investigation to the State Prosecutor for Serious Economic Crime (SØIK), providing evidence of the woman’s “systematic offering and sale” of pirated digital books. State Prosecutor for Serious Economic Crime. A relationship that may matter to her for many years to come.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

To get around the tangle of copyright law. There are two types of copyright registrations available for music: composition rights, which can cover lyrics and sheet music, and sound recording rights, which cover the actual recording of the song.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 5, 2022

In recent years we have seen several lawsuits against ISPs including Charter, Cox, RCN, and Bright House, which are accused of failing to terminate repeat copyright infringers. Under US copyright law, Internet providers must act against persistent pirates “in appropriate circumstances.” Music Industry vs. Bright House.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The conflict of laws has often resulted in interesting dilemmas for courts where precedent cannot be readily applied, necessitating a case-by-case approach. In 2011, to enforce the decision in the States, De Fontbrune brought the case to California who ruled in Wofsy’s favour in 2019.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

In his copyright application, Mr. Thaler stated that he was the owner of the Creativity Machine and that the machine had autonomously created the work of art using an algorithm. In 2019, the Copyright Office refused the application on the grounds that it lacked “human authorship.” Copyright Office Practices , §602.4(c)

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2022

“Customers are not prosecuted, they do not make copyrighted material available, which is one of the requirements to be a violation of copyright law,” says Brita Wallström who works with the police’s National Operational Department (NOA). Instead, Wallström says that for users, it’s a moral issue.

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IPilogue

JUNE 14, 2022

In 2019 , Ithaca Holdings acquired Big Machine Records for an estimated $300 million, including the master recordings for one of the most popular and successful musicians in the world: Taylor Swift. At the heart of Taylor’s decision was an often overlooked but significant legal distinction in the copyright law governing the music industry.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

First, the court held that the damages X incurred (primarily the loss of advertisers after CCDH published negative reports using scraped data) were unforeseeable when the ToS were agreed upon in 2019. But it won on a different and, in many respects, much broader legal theory: conflict preemption with copyright law.

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Barry Sookman

APRIL 7, 2024

… The post Understanding the AIA Copyright Provisions in the EU Artificial Intelligence Act appeared first on Barry Sookman.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2025

The next wave of success and the subsequent and inevitable rise of other unblocked sites kept Malaysian authorities busy; in 2019 (438 sites), 2020 (644), and in 2021 (347). Whether some or all of these ‘sites’ were clones, mirrors, or proxies, or potentially just new domains, wasn’t revealed.

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

The RTI application was filed in 2019 in response to which the CPIO made the assertion that the scholar has a patent in the USA, on the invention discussed in his thesis. But did he actually have a patent granted in 2019 (as stated by the CPIO) for an invention disclosed in a thesis that was published the same year?

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The growth of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and generative AI is moving copyright law into unprecedented territory. While US copyright law continues to develop around AI, one boundary has been set: the bedrock requirement of copyright is human authorship. Perlmutter, et.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 28, 2024

“Freemon has a long history of brazen disregard for copyright laws, and his early foray into internet piracy is the first link in the chain leading to his current web of illegal services,” they write. “Beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2019, Freemon sold illegally modified Fire TV Stick devices.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The site was a true passion project but in 2006 it suffered a setback when law enforcement authorities seized the site’s server. The site eventually returned only to get hacked three years later, but Luigi refused to give up and later applied political pressure to limit the strength of copyright law.

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