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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TorrentFreak

MAY 27, 2024

These will, in large part, determine to what extent AI companies can use external sources to train their models, and when or if compensation is required. Books3 In several cases, the defendants stand accused of using the controversial ‘Books3’ dataset without permission.

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Barry Sookman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

v Zead, 2020 BCSC 2145 “privacy is not a freestanding right specifically mentioned in the Charter. European Commission airs out new IoT device security draft law – interested parties have a week to weigh in [link] 2021-09-03. That is why…s… [link] 2021-09-02.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Recent appellate decisions in the United States have recognized expanded grounds for personal jurisdiction in cases of internet-based copyright infringements; divided on the extent to which the three-year statute of limitations limits damage recoveries; and increased the occasions for motions to dismiss on the ground of fair use.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In the verdict form the jury stated that Defendants had not proven fair use, the Plaintiff (Alexander) should receive $3,750 USD for actual losses from the Defendant’s use of the tattoo designs, and did not answer as to profits can be attributed to the Plaintiff for use of the tattoos. . § was released.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 10, 2022

Goldsmith , the Court aims to more clearly define the scope of what’s known as “fair use” in US copyright law. This marks the Supreme Court’s second foray into copyright fair use in two years after decades of silence on the matter. Understanding the Fair Use Doctrine.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In addition, the origin of the data used to train LaMDA ( here ), the language model behind Google Bard, includes the C4 dataset. The defendants’ wholesale collection and use of copyrighted material, with no option for copyright owners to opt out, would exceed the legal interpretation of “fair use” (see VHT vs Zillow Group , 918 F.3d

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 22, 2021

Back in May, I wrote about an overzealous copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Rachel Dolezal , the woman best known for mispresenting her racial background. The complaint raised concerns that Dolezal was using copyright law to purge the historical record of her controversial past, while seeking substantial monetary damages in the process.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

However, the Internet Archive (IA) sees things differently, believing that the ‘Great 78 Project’ is fair use. copyright law. Specifically, IA argues that many of the works should be removed from the lawsuit, as the labels failed to take timely action following a cease and desist letter the RIAA sent in 2020.

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IIPRD

APRIL 8, 2024

This is a major point of contention in the realm IP laws today whether or not AI can be given the said rights and protections under law. This question even after a broad reading of the Indian Copyright law remains unanswered, demanding an amendment in the present law or more clarity on the same by the way of judicial decisions.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 31, 2021

Its large-scale use of energy and less reliance on renewable sources only garnered 10% of the power supply in 2020 with its planning to switch on to renewable sources by 2048. The use of AGL’s logo cannot be, in any case, termed as fair use as the logo was primarily being used for defaming the reputation and making it ‘toxic.’.

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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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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

However, the Internet Archive (IA) sees things differently, believing that the ‘Great 78 Project’ is fair use. copyright law. Specifically, IA argues that many of the works should be removed from the lawsuit, as the labels failed to take timely action following a cease and desist letter the RIAA sent in 2020.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I’m talking about section 113(c) , which allows photographs of useful articles incorporating copyrighted works to be made and used without violating copyright law. The local news could then take photos of the shirt to use in a story about what a lousy dad I am. You get the idea. Paging Section 113(c).

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

In fact, at the very start of lockdown in March and April 2020, Archive of Our Own (AO3), a very popular fanfiction site, found that their weekly site visits had gone up 60% from the same time the previous year. This is not to say that fanfiction is a new phenomenon, however. Colting , 607 F.3d 3d 68 (2d Cir. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Remembering another frustrating year with a countdown of 2021’s most unsatisfying copyright rulings. I don’t know about you, but my 2021 actually made 2020 look pretty, prettay, prettaay good by comparison. This was the year we actually had to try to pretend everything was back to normal when, frankly, it was anything but.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2023

In 2020, the RIAA infuriated many players in the open source community by targeting YouTube-ripping tool youtube-dl. Uberspace Responds to Court Verdict For starters, Pasche still doesn’t believe that it’s clear that youtube-dl violates copyright law. GitHub initially complied but later changed course.

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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. This has important implications for the doctrine of fair use.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

On 5 February 2020, the U.S. Copyright Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) held a symposium that looked at the relationship between copyright and AI. Copyright Office and the U.S. Copyright Office launched a study to examine the copyright law and policy issues raised by generative AI.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2022

Over the years we’ve published thousands of articles on copyright law, from how it works in theory to its application in full-blown lawsuits. But other copyright disputes, where infringement isn’t so obvious, can trigger new complexity and polarized legal opinions. But would that be illegal under US copyright law?

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SpicyIP

MAY 2, 2022

We’re pleased to bring you a guest post from Akshat Agrawal on a recent order that raised questions on the extent / limitations of the exemptions and limitations to Indian copyright law. You can see his previous posts for us here. New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

March, 13, 2023): on February 4, 2020, Bar-Z submitted a DMCA notification to Google Play and Apple that App Star’s applications needed to be taken down. Heldman * Another 512(f) Claim Fails–Ningbo Mizhihe v Doe * Video Excerpts Qualify as Fair Use (and Another 512(f) Claim Fails)–Hughes v. BONUS 2: Barz Adventures Inc.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 26, 2023

. ” The proposals stated that violations would be punishable by a prison term of up to three years, a fine, or both The bill was the subject of a Standing Committee Report published in March 2020. ” Image credit: Pixabay / igorovsyannykov From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 19, 2021

On November 11, 2020, the Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch quietly published a post titled “Music-Related Copyright Claims and Twitch” to the site’s official blog. [i] million in 2020 from more than 55,000 subscribers. [x] Background.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2023

Music as well as the movie industry are two common industries that face copyright issues on a day to day basis. The Copyright Act of 1957, protects indegenious artistic, musical, literary and dramatic works as well as original sounds recording and cinematograph films from unauthorised use. Image Sources : Shutterstock].

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Topics include access and substantial similarity, fair use, performers’ rights, moral rights, expert testimony, the role of lay listeners, sound sampling, as demonstrated in dispositions of litigated and settled infringement disputes. pre-publication event: EULAs: Friends or Foes?,

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

More recently in 2020, Sankalp Jain discussed the copyright challenges in “Dreams,” a video game enabling user-generated content, arguing for the Indian copyright law’s limitations in addressing the the issues around the fan-made creations within the game. Relevant here are Arun C.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 15, 2023

.” Official content creator uploads aside, regular users of YouTube upload content they’re supposed to own, and from there, YouTube monetizes it within the boundaries of licensing agreements and broader law. When copyright holders report uploaded content as infringing, YouTube follows the DMCA and takes the content down.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

This is the second installment of a reflection on the topic of content moderation and bias mitigation measures in copyright law. The first part of this post briefly discussed the concept of bias and examined the role of property rights in data and factual information, with a focus on copyright.

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Patently-O

APRIL 6, 2023

In that case, the Court found that Google’s use of Java API naming conventions in its Android operating system was fair use under copyright law. Because its fair use decision decided the case, the court did not rule separately on whether the API was even copyrightable in the first place.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. 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. 277 (2020). [iv] Minc Law (Sept.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Spadika Jayaraj discussed a case where the Delhi High Court dismissed a suit by a media house accusing copyright infringement on its database of users. The issue has often arisen in the context of protecting confidential information through copyright law. E.g., see Prateek Surisetti’s post here and Niyati Prabhu’s post here.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This review of Exceptions in EU Copyright Law: In Search of a Balance Between Flexibility and Legal Certainty by Tito Rendas, is brought to you by the Rt Hon Sir Richard Arnold, Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. In April 2020 and February 2021 two substantial new contributions to this debate were published.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

The future of “controlled digital lending” is in doubt after a court rules that the Internet Archive’s online library is not protected by fair use. In March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic closed libraries nationwide and, by IA’s estimate, took 650 million print books out of circulation.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

Lawsuit and Appeal Internet Archive believes that its approach falls under fair use but publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley, and Penguin Random House disagree. They filed a lawsuit in 2020 equating IA’s controlled digital lending operation to copyright infringement.

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JIPL Online

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Mods are beneficial for the video game industry, [3] but mods can threaten a company’s copyright exclusivity because of their status as derivative works. [4] 4] Mods that collect revenue by paywalls are likely to scare copyright holders into litigation. [5] 811 (2020). [33] 20, 2017), [link]. [3] 24, 2018), [link]. [4]

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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). The Ninth Circuit ultimately ruled, however, that making and displaying thumbnail images to facilitate an image search engine was a fair use.

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