SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

CDL mechanisms of digital and shadow libraries are often under scanner for disturbing the balance between public benefit and the rights of copyright holders. Given this, when the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library based in the US changed its digital lending policy in 2020, trouble ensued.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 20, 2024

The facts of the case are all too familiar by now: in 2004, German band Kraftwerk took hip hop producer Moses Pelham to court for copyright infringement after he sampled two seconds of their song “Metall auf Metall” and looped it in Sabrina Setlur’s track “Nur Mir”.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

scene in the past, things seemed to come to a head in November 2020 when Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Tournament Organizers (TOs) of the Big House, an upcoming streamed Melee tournament, and subsequently forced them to cancel the event. It is an open legal question whether this would constitute an infringing derivative work.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Shyam Vithalrao Devkatta (2015), the Supreme Court held that a film title, such as “Desi Boys,” cannot be subject to copyright infringement (paras 8-11). Ameya Vinod Khopkar Entertainment (2020) over “De Dhakka”. This principle was echoed by the Madras HC in Radhakrishnan v. Does the Plaintiff Have a Trademark?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

Top 3 Kluwer Copyright Blog posts 1) Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act by João Pedro Quintais “ Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. ” 3) How to Distinguish Transformative Fair Uses From Infringing Derivative Works? by Pamela Samuelson “In March 2022 the U.S.

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BYU Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Internet Archive's Fair Use Defense Falls Short Fair Use,Literary Works,Infringement Found October 07, 11:03 AM October 07, 11:03 AM On May 15, 2024, we published a post about an important legal dispute between the Internet Archive (IA) and the publisher Hachette, along with other major publishers (the Publishers").

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A PR rep sent an email to Gannett stating, “I would like to submit Microsoft’s 2020 Super Bowl ad, ‘Be The One,’ featuring Katie Sowers to the USA Today Ad Meter.” Campbell sued for copyright infringement, contributory/vicarious copyright infringement, and CMI removal.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In 2020, Southern District of Illinois judge Staci Yandle issued a key ruling when she denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment and granted Alexander’s motion for partial summary judgment. Some of Randy Orton’s tattoos from Catherine Alexander’s copyright applications. What Happened. Skull arm design.

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IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

The ambit of IPR when it comes to recognizing these AI generators and whether they are also capable of copyright infringement by transforming other creators work has been discussed in detail in the article. 6] If these claims will be justified then the penalties will be placed for said infringement. [7] 152 (2020).

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

75, 79 (2020). Aseri (2020) at 80]. ” Aseri (2020) at 70. ’” Dee (2020) at 119-120. To avoid these issues, religious groups can implement copyright law to prevent all impermissible copying and distribution of the religious works and any derivative works, and therefore maintaining their doctrinal purity.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 23, 2023

But the entire Morford analysis revolved around the 11 th Circuit’s “abstraction-filtration-comparison” test, described as “initially developed to review claims of copyright infringement relating to novels and plays but also applied in contexts such as software programming.” ” Id. Newman, 959 F.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

In 2020, BuzzFeed “embedded” one of Hunley’s Instagram posts, featuring one of her photos of a Black Lives Matter protest, in its entirety (again, preserving her username, caption, and hashtags). Legal Background: The Public Display Right Generally speaking, the U.S. 94-1476, at 159-60.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

As usual, readers who are already familiar with the case and/or with copyright law may skip the “Background” sections below (but don’t skip the commentary “The Road Not Taken”). Legal Background: Copyright and Derivative Works Copyright law protects original works of authorship, including “pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works,” 17 U.S.C.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 6, 2023

A 2020 class action lawsuit filed by musician Maria Schneider accused YouTube of mass copyright infringement, failing to suspend ‘repeat infringers, and restricting access to anti-piracy tools, among other allegations.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that NFTs are the result of digital work that is transported in images, videos, photography and other forms of digital media, copyright seems to be the closest IP right to protect both the source code of the digital work, as well as its derivative works. Trademark Ownership and Infringement.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Unfortunately, however, Section 113(c) is like the Generation X of copyright law—it’s remarkably useful, underrated, and largely overlooked—even by copyright lawyers and judges. Vila later filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement against Deadly Doll based on the unauthorized reproduction and distribution of his photo. .

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that NFTs are the result of digital work that is transported in images, videos, photography and other forms of digital media, copyright seems to be the closest IP right to protect both the source code of the digital work, as well as its derivative works. Trademark Ownership and Infringement.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 5, 2025

As discussed by Spadika in this post about another group of comedians, the important point becomes one of the degree of similarity between the original and the derivative work to see if parody falls under fair use. In RG Anand v.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 18, 2024

M/S Sagar Ratna Restaurants Privat e on 24 July, 2024 (Delhi District Court) The plaintiff, providing advertising and branding services under an annual retainership agreement with the defendants, alleged non payment of outstanding dues since January 2020 despite repeated reminders and a legal notice.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Jersey Boys is not only a popular musical; it’s been the gift that keeps on giving for copyright law classes. The Ninth Circuit characterized the operative agreement as a transfer of DeVito’s derivative work right in the memoir to Valli and Gaudio, rejecting the argument that Sybersound barred such an assignment.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

Coakley’s Certificate of Engagement (from court files) Allegations of On-Set Misconduct Emerge Runt premiered at the Mammoth Film Festival in February 2020 , where the film took home the festival’s Audience Award for Best Feature Film. In 2021, Rachel Dolezal filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against CBS Interactive.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Trump’s fair use argument fails as the musician wins a copyright battle over the unlicensed use of “Electric Avenue” in a viral video from the 2020 campaign. The court also found that “the video’s overarching political purpose does not automatically render its use of any non-political work transformative.”

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The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Trump claims that Woodward did not have his permission to release these audiotapes as a separate audiobook, and sued Woodard and his publisher for, among other claims, copyright infringement. Does Trump have a claim, or is his copyright claim “trumped up”? So there’s no stories coming out, okay.

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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). Complaint ¶ 64] In the alternative, Trump pleads that he owns the copyright only in his responses to Woodward’s questions.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Trump claims that Woodward did not have his permission to release these audiotapes as a separate audiobook, and sued Woodard and his publisher for, among other claims, copyright infringement. Does Trump have a claim, or is his copyright claim “trumped up”? So there’s no stories coming out, okay.

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