Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2022

Just days after Dua Lipa was sued by a Florida reggae band, “Levitating” is the target of a second copyright infringement lawsuit, this time over the songs “Wiggle and Giggle All Night” and “Don Diablo.” ” Any moderately successful songwriter can be sued for copyright infringement.

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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. DISH Files Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against IPTV Provider. Together they were accused of direct and contributory copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 9, 2022

Most copyright infringement lawsuits filed by the recording industry are aimed at sites, services and individuals involved in the unlicensed online distribution of music. Between 2013 and 2020, a man from Finland operated three websites – lyrics.fi, lyricsfi.com and nettiradio.fi.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

For the purpose of this report, however, we’ll home in on the copyright issues faced by Reddit during the last year and how the site responded to them. Copyright Removals. “In 2021, Reddit received 177,450 copyright notices reporting 920,672 pieces of content. This represents an increase of 104% from 2020.

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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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IPilogue

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Tianchu Gao is an IPilogue Writer and a 1L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . . 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. Photo by Intepat ( INTEPAT ).

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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). . Who is Filing with the Copyright Claims Board. Copyright Office.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2024

However, copyright protection may unexpectedly clash with this sustainable practice, as certain upcycled items could include copyrighted prints, ornaments, or design patterns from the original materials, such as new clothing items made out of old bed sheets, curtains, or tablecloths , or jewellery made from broken porcelain.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2022

Whether that is the main motivation behind putting these streams up remains a question but it’s pretty clear that if streamers are looking for negative attention from copyright holders, this is a good way forward. In the case of repeat infringers it needs to terminate them “in appropriate circumstances.”

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Patently-O

AUGUST 30, 2022

Google focuses on an important issue of copyright preemption. Contract not Copyright: Genius does not hold the copyright to the lyrics and so has no copyright infringement claim. Rub, Copyright Survives: Rethinking the Copyright-Contract Conflict , 103 Va. by Dennis Crouch. Genius sued.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

is one of the most interesting cases in history to rely on a fair use defense, arguing that the alleged infringement qualifies as a parody. 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.”

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 11, 2022

The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC), part of the English High Court, has ruled that copyright subsists in the character of Derek ‘Del Boy’ Trotter and that a character can be protected as a literary work under the UK’s closed list of copyright works ([ 2022] EWHC 1379 IPEC ).

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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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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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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Such uses are often methods of social commentary regarding the user’s own life, or more broadly, current events; they also often utilize copyrightable material. [i] ii] Existing copyright law is ineffective in its application to new forms of digital media. i] Memes are also a form of communication that distinguishes generations.

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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. . That says nothing about the myriad of cases over the past few months or years that have been grabbing headlines, both inside and outside copyright circles.

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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. ” 2: ‘Only Fools and Horses’ Heirs Win Copyright Battle Against Knock-Off Dining Show.

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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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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2022

AI generated art is in full swing and the Indian Copyright Office is confused. 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”. This copyright office granted registration in this case.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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Patently-O

MAY 9, 2024

2024) , resolving a circuit split over the availability of back-damages in copyright infringement cases. 507(b)’s requirement that copyright infringement lawsuits be “commenced within three years after the claim accrued,” a discovery rule has long been considered applicable in copyright cases.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

However, good intentions themselves are not immune to copyright complaints, or worse, multi-million dollar lawsuits. 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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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Introduction AI-generated art is booming, and the Indian Copyright Office is baffled. Under the Indian Copyright Act , such works are classified as “computer generated works”. Copyright law grants authorship to the “person who causes the work to be created” for such works. The basis for registration is not specified.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Over the past five years the Australian Government has committed significant resources to several copyright-related initiatives , not least the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Act 2018. Copyright Enforcement Review & Consultation. Overall Piracy Shows No Strong Trend in Either Direction.

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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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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

However, good intentions themselves are not immune to copyright complaints, or worse, multi-million dollar lawsuits. 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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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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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JANUARY 19, 2024

He has accused the defendants of unauthorized use and distribution of his copyrighted work. The complaint explains that the heart of the matter lies in Radic’s creation, a photograph titled “ Plaster falling off the ceiling ,” crafted in 2020 and officially registered under copyright law in 2021.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 7, 2022

However, as the platform becomes more popular, it opens its doors to a multitude of legal challenges with copyright infringement near the top of the list. TikTok’s intellectual property issues arise largely from the music and choreography on the platform, despite their attempts to mitigate copyright infringement.

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Above the Fold

MARCH 29, 2022

The quicker, streamlined, and less expensive method for resolving copyright infringement matters valued at under $30,000 will soon be available to copyright enforcers. Copyright Office FAQ , “The [CBB] will be an alternative to federal court for copyright disputes. According to a U.S. According to the U.S.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

By Dennis Crouch and Timothy Knight* The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on February 21 in an important copyright case – Warner Chappell Music v. ” Copyright’s statute of limitations bars claims not “commenced within three years after the claim accrued.” ” 17 U.S.C. § Scholastic, Inc. ,

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