Michael Geist

DECEMBER 3, 2024

It has already entered into licensing agreements with several content creators, including other news media organizations.” Instead, they point to how much they have produced or licensed with the assumption that it is all scraped by OpenAI. This comes directly from scientists at ChatGPT, who published on the issue in 2020.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. Image from here Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? Tanishka is an advocate at the High Court of MP.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

copyright law, the Tintin rightsholders’ argument is just plain wrong. copyright protection for Tintin. Copyright Office in 1925, its subject to a 95-year term that expired in 2020regardless of Chaplin’s date of death. The 1925 copyright registration for the dramatic composition on which Gold Rush was based.

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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] Magic Mantra Vision. [ii]

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In 2015, guitarist David Bowery filed a lawsuit against Spotify USA, a Spotify subsidiary, for streaming songs without first obtaining mechanical licenses , which are the standard payment for reproducing or distributing a song. New Copyright Law: A Solution for Spotify. Spotify settled the lawsuit with $43.4

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

In 2020 the District Court agreed with the defendants that the use of the song in the documentary was fair use and hence granted the motion to dismiss. As pointed out by Keith Aoki, James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins in Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain , “documentaries are records of our culture. by Tito Rendas. €

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Barry Sookman

APRIL 19, 2020

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2020-04-11 [link] 2020-04-12 GERMANY TO INTRODUCE CORONAVIRUS 'IMMUNITY CERTIFICATES' FOR RECOVERED PUBLIC [link] 2020-04-12 Evaluating contact tracing privacy questions, [link] 2020-04-12 Reasonable expectation of privacy in securities context Re North America Frac Sand, Inc.,

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IPilogue

JUNE 14, 2022

Swift, in being denied an opportunity to bid for her masters, announced in late 2020 that she would re-record her entire pre-2019 catalogue in order to regain control of her music and limit the profitability of Ithaca’s asset. All music can be subdivided into three categories of copyright: lyrical, compositional, and sound.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

Incorrect or missing metadata can cause missed licensing opportunities, as the relevant rightholders or collecting societies cannot be traced, or works are not detected. In 2020, a contribution to this blog reaffirmed that metadata matter for the future of copyright. are the metadata. Toriqul Islam 135

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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. Copyright Law: Infringement Standards. YouTube’s Licensing Defense.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

Blog sought to study global moves or court cases that have taken place regarding uses of copyright in made-always-with-an-AI creation and provide discussion over possible solutions to the future of intellectual property laws. Copyright Act regulates the works which are created by humans only.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2024

The organization doesn’t license authorized digital copies from publishers; instead, its books are scanned and digitized in-house. They filed a lawsuit in 2020 equating IA’s controlled digital lending operation to copyright infringement.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Last month, the Canadian Federation of Library Associations released a much-needed statement that sought to counter the ongoing misinformation campaign from copyright lobby groups regarding the state of Canadian copyright and the extensive licensing by libraries and educational institutions.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 14, 2021

In countries, for example, that saw academic and educational institutions closed entirely and for long periods of time, the effect on licensing revenues from those sectors has been very serious and damaging. In China , new copyright legislation came into effect in June that supports the introduction of academic and educational licensing.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 3, 2022

A conference jointly organized by the Department of Law of the University of Cyprus and the H2020 project reCreating Europe – Nicosia, 31 October – 1 November 2022. The event will take place on 31 October – 1 November 2022 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cyprus, in Nicosia, and will be offered in a blended format.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The decade-long dispute between Google and Oracle over computer code’s copyrightability finally came to an end on April 5, 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. ” .

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Take-Two licensed Randy Orton’s likeness from WWE. The Defendants also filed a motion for partial summary judgement on the basis of three defences : 1) de minimus, 2) fair use doctrine and 3) implied license. Rejecting the defendant’s arguments, the Court stated that an implied license does not apply to this case.

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IIPRD

MAY 9, 2024

Hence, the concept of cross licensing agreement has originated with the intent to help various organizations in sharing patent licenses along with their rights and liabilities leading to their easier access to masses and reduction of monopolistic market tendencies. Cross-licensing agreements can both restrain and advance competition.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

Acuff-Rose sued members of hip hop group 2 Live Crew, claiming that their track “Pretty Woman” infringed the label’s copyright in the Roy Orbison song, “Oh, Pretty Woman.” New law that came into force in April 2023 allows the free use of copyright works for parody, pastiche, and caricature.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

pic.twitter.com/fhkLfOssfm — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) May 25, 2020. 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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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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the years DISH has filed large numbers of civil lawsuits, some based on copyright law and others the Federal Communications Act. Initially filed in August 2020, the complaint targeted five ‘doe’ defendants, together doing business as Universe IPTV and Universe TV. DISH Identifies Universe IPTV Operators.

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IPilogue

APRIL 5, 2022

With a SOCAN license, businesses comply with copyright laws and may play songs that are part of SOCAN’s repertoire while supporting the creators of that music. After reading the title you might be wondering, what does the cobra pose have to do with copyrights?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

From this constitutional dimension of copyright emerged the notion of ‘user rights’ ( Geiger, 2020 ). Looking forward, it is essential to ensure that legitimate uses expressly foreseen by copyright law are enabled through better access to protected works. licenses for specific uses).

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

The named plaintiffs are two photojournalists whose photographs of the George Floyd protests and the 2016 election were featured on websites of various traditional media outlets without those outlets having obtained any license from the plaintiffs because those media companies used Instagram’s proprietary embedding tools.

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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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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. Through a licensing agreement, they can give consent for other parties to utilize their creations. In contrast to patents, copyright safeguards expressions rather than ideas. A concept is not protected by copyright.

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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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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. New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression? You can see his previous posts for us here.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Most significantly, “the development of blockchain technology” has been accepted as a legal business activity by the Indonesian standard industrial business categorization code, which was published in 2020. 5 of 2020, dated November 16, 2020, regarding ESP in the Private Sector, as amended by MOCI Regulation No.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The theory behind CDL is that by maintaining a consistent “owned-to-loaned” ratio between physical books and digital copies, libraries can meet the digital needs of twenty-first-century patrons without violating existing copyright law. At least, that was the idea.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Unless these rights are contractually assigned or licensed, it is for the authors, and the institutions that employ them, to determine the conditions under which their works are to be published, reproduced, and otherwise used (including by way of OA) – not for the publishers.

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Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Being sued for copyright infringement for posting a photograph of yourself seems somewhat illogical, but copyright rights lie with the individual taking the photograph, rather than the individual featured in the photograph. Photographers Need a Registered Copyright to Sue. The Debate Continues.

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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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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Such works qualify as ‘computer generated works’ under the Indian Copyright Act. For such works, copyright law confers authorship to the “person who causes the work to be created”. There is also no policy guidance from the Indian Copyright Office on whether only humans can be considered authors. Author provided image.

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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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