The IPKat

JULY 22, 2021

Katfriend Dr Sabine Jacques , Associate Professor in IP, IT & Media law at the University of East Anglia and author of The Parody Exception in Copyright Law (OUP 2019), provides the follow review of The Copyright/Trademark Interface: How the Expansion of Trademark Protection is Stifling Cultural Creativity – by Martin Senftleben.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

Last Monday, the Copyright Office issued a fresh ruling rejecting a request to copyright an AI-generated artwork. “Visions of a Dying Brain” created by AI. ” An Exchange of Letters with the Copyright Office. ” In the United States, only human creators have copyright. .”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Indeed, human creators seek compensation for the novel use of their intellectual efforts while AI firms aim to maximize the free harvesting of data (including copyright-protected materials) for training their algorithms. Lately, IP offices and the judiciary have started to decide on the copyrightability of AI-generated outputs.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

. — For the claims related to illegal selling of scraped data, the court dismissed those because they were preempted by copyright. I did a deep dive on this topic in December , but the general gist of it is that copyright law preempts state law claims if the state-law claims come within the general scope of copyright.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

Last Monday, the Copyright Office issued a fresh ruling rejecting a request to copyright an AI-generated artwork. “Visions of a Dying Brain” created by AI. ” An Exchange of Letters with the Copyright Office. ” In the United States, only human creators have copyright. .”

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 20, 2023

AI can explore data or information that is accessible in public domain or copyright of other person and can investigate or work upon that information but only to that extent which the software program permits. [3] Therefore, AI may not equipped for generating an original work. Hence, ownership is not granted to the AI.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. We know, however, that many laws limit free access and use of information goods, most prominently copyright law (and IP law generally). ML Genius v.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

New Copyrighted Works Enter the Public Domain: In 1998, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act added 20 years to the term of copyright protection for pre-1976 works, and paused the annual expiration of copyright on older works for 20 years. Look for it soon at your favorite independent bookstore!

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 13, 2024

However, adopting a more systematic program of creating or adapting curriculum materials for an entire district or school highlights some important questions about schools’ and school districts’ rights and obligations under copyright law. Exceptions include materials in the public domain such as documents and materials the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the district court level, the law of copyright preemption is a morass of ad hoc explanations of whether certain contracts are “equivalent” to the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright law. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 8, 2021

In March, 2019, the US Supreme Court released its decision in Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. Public Domain work. Part I: Bloggers and the DMCA. Image Attribution: John Tenniel (1865). Imagine yourself just sitting down to building your own little media empire. That might be enough to stop you in your tracks.

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IIPRD

JULY 4, 2021

However, the word emoji itself is not subject to protection awarded to intellectual property in general, but unlike the Indian Law, the US Law awards protection to emoji in certain cases. This may be explained by taking into consideration copyright, trademark as well as other intellectual property regimes. Copyright Law.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

6] The Supreme Court’s ruling on that petition—and a possible eventual decision on the merits—could have enormous implications for the art world and other industries impacted by copyright law. 3] You Really Got Me: Second Circuit Rules in Favor of Met Museum in Fair Use Case Involving Photograph of Van Halen | HHR Art Law. [4]

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Development of Copyright Law Protection of Intellectual property rights has always been in existence among various sections of the society. India first witnessed its own Copyright Act in the year 1847, which was drafted under the British Rule. Even after suing these facilitators, the infringers still escape the liability.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 20, 2022

Accordingly, the proposed right is intended to incorporate the entire catalogue of copyright exceptions, the Swedish freie Benutzung provision in section 4, uses of unprotected content (for example which are in the public domain) and licensed uses (Ds 2021:30, pp. 79, the BBS case ).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 1, 2022

National copyright law and practice that does not ensure the existence of these double safeguards – ex ante flagging as well as ex post complaint systems – fails to meet the requirements following from the ruling in Poland/Parliament and Council. The decision has already been discussed by a number of commentators.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Court noted that redacting one’s name from a judgment acquitting them is counterproductive when there are other tarnishing publications in the public domain and that access to court judgments are integral to “open justice”, subject only to some exceptions. Top 10 Judgments/Orders [Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity].

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 16, 2024

It seems that one of the intended purposes of the obligation to disclose training data is to enable better enforcement, through an ex-post tool, of the above-mentioned opt-out mechanism under Article 4 of the Copyright Directive. 4 provides exceptions or limitations for the purposes of text and data mining for other purposes.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

By now, Article 15 of Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSM Directive) needs no wordy introductions. Put briefly, the provision requires Member States to introduce a related (or neighbouring) right for press publishers, applicable to online uses of their publications.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

Introductory remarks The Greek legislator transposed Directive (EU) 2019/790 (CDSMD) with considerable delay, enacting L. 4996/2022 in November 2022 ( ΦΕΚ Α´ 2022/24.11.2022 ), which amended the basic Greek Copyright Law ( L. 2121/1993 on “Copyright, Related Rights and Cultural Matters” ), as well as L.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

To fully understand these conflicting views of the majority opinion, it is necessary to understand both the specific facts of the case and the history of the Supreme Court’s case law concerning the fair-use doctrine. 2019) (citations omitted). Feist Publications, Inc. 3d 319, 324 (S.D.N.Y. Rural Telephone Service Co. ,

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 4, 2024

public domain officially welcomes the comic debuts of Popeye and Buck Rogers, alongside classic works by Faulkner, Hemingway, and landmark sound films from the year talkies took over. copyright law does not, in fact, require adaptations of newly freed works to transform cherished childhood memories into homicidal maniacs.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2023

Next up today, Mia Robson at The Canadian Press reports that, in Canada, a new copyright law has taken effect that will extend the copyright on works in Canada another 20 years, bring the country up to the same term used by the United States. Under the new terms, no new works will enter the public domain in Canada for 20 years.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

The EU took the Intellectual Property route by introducing a related right under its copy right law. Standalone the press publisher’s rights under the EU copyright law cannot achieve its objective and has tendencies to backfire.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Act I When the Committee charged with conducting Canada’s 2019 Copyright Act Review turned its mind to AI, its primary concern was with “help[ing] Canada’s promising future in artificial intelligence become reality” ( Report 2019 ). The training process can involve reproductions of the training data…. .… data —reside).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Niklas Jansson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons On 30 December 2022, the Italian Supreme Court ( Corte di Cassazione ) issued an order that intervened again on the interpretation of the quotation exception under Article 70 of the Italian Copyright Act ( l. Today, Italian law, following the implementation of Art.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Brunetti (2019) and strike down this trademark registration law as an unconstitutional regulation of speech protected by the First Amendment. This type of expression should remain in the public domain available for everyone to use on expressive merchandise to convey ideas, information, and other messages. 150 and 449 n.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The lawsuit involves sound recordings of 19 interviews that then-President Trump voluntarily gave to Woodward between December 2019 and August 2020, plus one interview from 2016 (when Trump was still a candidate). If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

Government by its officers and employees should not be subject to copyright” and fall “in the public domain.” 54 (2019), also concurring opinion, para. ” Thus, there are some copyright arguments or policies in play beyond those most immediately considered in the motion papers. ” H.R.

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