The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ross Intelligence Inc will provide guidance for similar AI training/copyright infringement cases and, as a bonus, it provides a bit of clarity (or muddies the waters… depending on your point of view) in the application of a post-Warhol fair use defense. These are the basic facts underlying this lawsuit.

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The IPKat

JUNE 17, 2023

The one above is the question that a Florida judge (Robert N Scola, Jr) answered just a few days ago (Case 1:21-cv-20039-RNS) after fellow artist Joe Morford had gone – quite literally – bananas and sued Cattelan for copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

“In 2021, Reddit received 177,450 copyright notices reporting 920,672 pieces of content. This represents an increase of 104% from 2020. “In 2021, Reddit permanently suspended 2,813 users and banned 2,625 subreddits for excessive copyright infringement,” the company writes. under the doctrine of fair use.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 3, 2024

Discussing the Mahatma’s take on copyright and the interplay between the 1955 Copyright Bill and the Berne Convention, we are pleased to bring to you this post by Shivam Kaushik. Shivam is a 2020 law graduate from Benaras Hindu University and is a former law researcher at the Delhi High Court.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

District Court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant with regard to a copyright infringement suit. Lang Van is a California corporation that produces and distributes Vietnamese music and entertainment, owning the copyrights to thousands of songs and programs. Wanat , 970 F.3d 3d 1201 (9 th Cir.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2021

1: Manhattan Judge Rejects ‘Server Test’ for Internet Copyright Infringement. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff has issued a controversial ruling denying the “server test” of copyright law and ruling that embedding images can be an infringement of copyright law.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 8, 2022

If you follow copyright news, you likely have been seeing countless stories of popular musicians being sued for alleged copyright infringement in their work. . Back in 2020, Rolling Stone reported that the sharp rise in such cases was causing songwriters to pick up insurance against such lawsuits.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Supreme Court on October 7, 2020. copyright law. It is arguably, as Stanford law professor Mark Lemley coined it, “ the copyright case of the century. ” . It also marks an important accommodation made in copyright law to face the new challenges posed by the booming IT industry. .

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2022

Whatever side of the fence one sits on, be that pro-copyright or copyright-skeptic, this take from an influential streamer is pretty bewildering, especially one that was previously suspended from the platform for streaming the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 30, 2022

Contract not Copyright: Genius does not hold the copyright to the lyrics and so has no copyright infringement claim. Thereafter, no person is entitled to any such right or equivalent right in any such work under the common law or statutes of any State. Genius sued. 17 U.S.C. § Genius Media Group Inc.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

Chapman (‘plaintiffs’) collectively filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Netflix, Amazon, and Apple (‘defendants’), claiming that the defendants had directly and indirectly infringed their copyright over the song “ Fish Sticks n’ Tater Tots ” by using it in their documentary titled ‘Burlesque’ ( Brown v.

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Barry Sookman

APRIL 5, 2020

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2020-03-28 [link] 2020-03-29 The Week in Tweets: The End of the Techlash Edition? Recorded Artists Ac… [link] 2020-04-04

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Barry Sookman

MARCH 29, 2020

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2020-03-21 [link] 2020-03-22 Commissioner issues guidance on privacy and the COVID-19 outbreak [link] 2020-03-23 Canada's cyber spies taking down sites as battle against COVID-19 fraud begins [link] 2020-03-23 Looking to temporarily lay off staff during the coronavirus crisis?

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 21, 2022

First off today, Hillel Italie at the Associated Press reports that a judge in Maryland has shot down a law that would have required publishers to make e-books available on “reasonable terms” to libraries in the state. ” 3: U.S. Finally today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that 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. Dallmann was further convicted of two counts of money laundering by concealment and three counts of misdemeanor criminal copyright infringement.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 11, 2022

That copyright was found to have been infringed by the creators of an ‘interactive dining experience’ which used Del Boy and the other main characters from ‘Only Fools and Horses’, one of the most successful British TV comedies of the 1980s and 1990s.

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IP Spotlight

MARCH 31, 2020

A new Supreme Court decision holds that states are immune from infringement suits under the United States Copyright Act, despite a 1990 law that attempted to remove states’ sovereign immunity in copyright infringement cases. The owner of the copyrights sued the state for copyright infringement.

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Barry Sookman

APRIL 26, 2020

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2020-04-18 [link] 2020-04-19 Racing Head-On Into Artists’ Nightmares: An Examination of danah boyd’s ‘Facing the Great Reckoning… by… [link] 2020-04-19 Announcement: Commissioner publishes framework to assess privacy-impactful initiatives in response to COVID-19 – Of… [link] 2020-04-20 Message from the (..)

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

In this case, via alleged copyright infringement. Nordstrom removed the pieces at issue, and everything seemed to be fine on the copying front—until 2020 hit. Perhaps the most infamous of the above scandals was the allegation of copyright infringement by The Great Eros (“TGE”). The account and its 2.6

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. LAW AND ECONOMICS. Costs Versus Benefits of Copyright Protection. 277 (2020). [iv] Minc Law (Sept.

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Barry Sookman

MAY 3, 2020

Neutron – Technology & Marketing Law Blog [link] 2020-04-26 Changes Result in the Alberta Electronic Transactions Act Applying to Employment and Other Records [link] 2020-04-26 Redbox’s Terms of Use Fail (OUCH)-Wilson v.

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Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

But something that celebrities may not be used to is facing copyright infringement claims for reposting such photos to their personal Instagram accounts. Copyright Rights Belong to the Photographer. Copyright Rights Belong to the Photographer. Photographers Need a Registered Copyright to Sue. The Debate Continues.

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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 2018 and May 2020, Valverde sold reseller credits to ‘M.D’,

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The IPKat

MARCH 16, 2024

Stamp sued La Foir'fouille and FF Digitale for copyright infringement before the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Lyon. In a ruling dated 20 October 2020 , the court upheld the copyright protection of the "Tam Tam" stool but dismissed the plaintiff's infringement action. Stamp appealed. Referring to article L.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

Free Speech Has Limits A criminal copyright infringement trial that concluded in Finland this week also saw the defendant rely on a fair use-style parody defense. When he copied and then rebroadcast the news report, that was copyright infringement. Not that other routes hadn’t already been tested, however.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2024

Copyright exceptions: Quotation and pastiche Apart from exhaustion, another possible avenue of “legitimizing” upcycling in the face of copyright infringement allegations could lie with copyright exceptions. How to reconcile copyright with the human right to a healthy environment? A solution?

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The Illusion of More

AUGUST 20, 2021

On March 23, 2020, the Supreme Court remorsefully found in Allen v. Cooper that its own precedents obligated it to affirm that states are immune from federal litigation in claims of copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Copyright Claims Board (CCB), better known as the “copyright small claims court”, became a part of U.S. copyright law in December 2020 with the signing of the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act). . Before 2002 7 2002-2020 42 2020/2021 19 2022 15.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2022

Around October 2020 a Twitter user called ‘ MrMoneyBags ‘ began posting critical messages targeting billionaires. Soon after and in mysterious circumstances, copyright law entered the equation. Twitter later fulfilled its obligations under copyright law by removing them but Bayside was only just getting started.

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IPilogue

JULY 14, 2022

Shosh and Yuval claim that Paramount has infringed on the copyright to Ehud’s article which they own as of January 24 th , 2020. Shosh and Yuval filed a statutory notice of termination under the Copyright Act in 2018, reclaiming copyright to the story they are heirs to and which took effect in 2020.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

Our hard-working students and community members published more than twice as many articles than in 2020 and the most articles in a calendar year since 2011. This article summarizes the top developments reported on our blog and in patents, trademarks, and copyright law in 2021. Is GitHub’s New Feature a Copyright Infringer?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2023

As the Internet Archive continues to deal with an adverse ruling in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the world’s largest publishing companies, late Friday some of the world’s largest record labels launched similar legal action in the United States. named as defendants.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

But it won on a different and, in many respects, much broader legal theory: conflict preemption with copyright law. A Brief Recap on Contract Preemption To appreciate the significance of this opinion, let’s revisit the law of copyright preemption. The Copyright Act includes an express preemption clause, 17 U.S.C. §

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Breyer dismissed the case, holding that the media companies are not liable for direct copyright infringement and that Instagram is not liable for secondary copyright infringement. The Court invited the plaintiffs to raise their issue with the Ninth Circuit if they believed the server test violated copyright law.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

When someone violates a creator’s exclusive rights to a piece of work, they are engaging in copyright infringement. Music as well as the movie industry are two common industries that face copyright issues on a day to day basis. In contrast to patents, copyright safeguards expressions rather than ideas. Introduction.

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IPilogue

JULY 22, 2021

On June 8 th , the Federal Court of Australia ruled that AGL Energy, Australia’s largest electricity generator, failed to establish its trademark and copyright infringement claim against Greenpeace , an international environmental activist organization. From 2019 to 2020, AGL produced 42.2

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 12, 2023

By early 2020, the site’s main domain at 8maple.ru late March 2020. late March 2020. The suspects were arrested for copyright infringement offenses with Taiwan’s Telecommunications Investigation Corps estimating that 8maple caused around NT$1 billion (US$33.2m) in damages to the entertainment industries.

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