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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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

1: YouTuber Hit With Ungodly Number Of Anime Copyright Strikes Gets A Win For Everyone. According to a video he uploaded, his videos will remain available in countries with a broad fair use exemption, like the United States, but not in countries like Toei’s native Japan that have narrow exemptions.

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The IPKat

APRIL 6, 2025

Copyright Law by Angela Chung Do everything by hand, even when using the computer. Many lament the extractive nature of accessible art outputs, where AI companies train first and ask for forgiveness (fair use) later. Here's what Angela writes: Ghiblification and the Moral Wrongs of U.S. Castillo v. G&M Realty L.P.,

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Fair Use or Mass Copyright Infringement? IA’s fair use defense and summary judgment in its favor was denied.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 3, 2022

1: Dua Lipa Sued for Alleged Copyright Infringement Over Hit Single Levitating. First off today, Murray Stassen at Music Business Worldwide reports that musician Dua Lipa has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit that claims her 2020 hit Levitating is an infringement of an earlier song.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 19, 2024

The AI copyright and fair use trial in Thomson Reuters v. On Friday, August 23, jurors are scheduled to hear opening statements in the first trial to test whether using copyrighted data to train an AI program qualifies as fair use. Ross Intelligence may not be glamorous, but it will be groundbreaking.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Larry Philpot is a repeat copyright plaintiff. Philpot sued in 2020 over the 2016 IJR publication, i.e., after the 3 year statute of limitations that no one seems to care about post-Petrella. (In This is what I call a “commercial editorial use”–ad-supported editorial content. This was a concert photo.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Supreme Court Tackles Andy Warhol Copyright Dispute. In 1984, Lynn licensed one of her photographs of the musician Prince to be converted into a painting by Warhol for Vanity Fair magazine. However, after Prince died in 2016, it was revealed that Warhol actually made an additional 14 prints using the photograph.

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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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TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. Mass Copyright Infringement or Fair Use? That would qualify as fair use, they argue, especially since there is no profit motive.

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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. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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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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IP Watchdog

MARCH 5, 2023

The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) has issued its first final decision since it was established by law in December 2020, finding in favor of a photographer who claimed a lawyer infringed his copyright by displaying one of his photographs on his law firm website.

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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. ” . Photo by Intepat ( INTEPAT ).

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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. By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa By a 7-2 vote, the U.S. Goldsmith , No. 569 (1994).

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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. The first factor assesses whether the use is ‘transformative.'”.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 27, 2024

NVIDIA Faces Copyright Infringement Claims Earlier this year, several authors sued NVIDIA over alleged copyright infringement. The class action lawsuit claims that the company’s AI models were trained on copyrighted works taken from the ‘pirate’ site Bibliotik. Copyright Act,” the company writes.

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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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IP Intelligence

JULY 15, 2021

For attorneys frequently engaged in copyright infringement litigation, drilling down into the specifics of the four fair use defense factors set forth in 17 U.S.C. § But the existence of commercialism and website advertisements is not, and should not be, a death knell for a successful fair use defense.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 28, 2025

That many LLMs were trained on datasets containing copyrighted content is now widely known. This has led to numerous complaints and high-profile lawsuits, with companies like OpenAI , Google, Meta , Microsoft, and NVIDIA facing allegations of copyright infringement. This disagreement wasn’t tested in court.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 15, 2021

For attorneys frequently engaged in copyright infringement litigation, drilling down into the specifics of the four fair use defense factors set forth in 17 U.S.C. § ” But the existence of commercialism and website advertisements is not, and should not be, a death knell for a successful fair use defense.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Internet Archive, our fellowship applicant Tanishka Goswami explains the implication of the decision on fair use. She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. The NEL was held to be a derivative work, and the Archive’s lending practices violative of copyright law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

[I published this post initially on the Association of Research Libraries blog in celebration of Fair Use Week 2022. Publishing these materials can create substantial legal risk for research-focused bloggers, including the risk of copyright infringement. Fair use is supposed to protect research bloggers in these circumstances.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2022

The IP arm of the Jehovah’s Witnesses (the “Watch Tower”) claimed that one such video, the “Dubtown Video,” infringed its copyright by incorporating snippets of its videos. The court says the Dubtown video wasn’t copyright infringing because of fair use: Purpose/Character of Use.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Late 2020, Senator Thom Tillis released a discussion draft of the “Digital Copyright Act” (DCA), which aims to be a successor to the current DMCA. This is a sensitive subject that previously generated quite a bit of pushback when the EU drafted its Copyright Directive.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 27, 2021

The reason is that the track has faced not one, but two separate allegations of plagiarism, with many fans and critics alike wondering if the band may have run afoul of copyright law. Specifically, the accusations were that the melody of Butter matched the 2020 Luca song You Got Me Down. My practice is primarily in text-based works.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 15, 2023

Some operators of these stream-ripping tools disagree, pointing at the variety of legal use cases instead. Yout vs. RIAA At the end of 2020, the operator of one of the largest stream-rippers took matters into his own hands. – Does YouTube employ a technological measure that effectively controls access to copyrighted works?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In October 2020, the user posted 6 tweets attacking Brian Sheth , a private equity billionaire, that included photos “depicting a woman or portions of a woman’s body.” Due to the failed fair use defense, the court orders Twitter to comply with the 512(h) subpoena.

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JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

With more content comes the increased possibility that Netflix is engaging in copyright infringement and on the receiving end of copyright infringement claims. [1] 1] This blog will briefly summarize a few of the notable copyright infringement cases Netflix has defended against in the United States. SETTLEMENT CASES.

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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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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The availability of a large variety of information has also increased the risk of Copyright Infringement due to its easy accessibility and dissemination. This has led to varying degrees of copyright infringements in this digital era.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

However, this gives a grand legal question: who has the right to copyright AI-created works? This has to do with the application of copyright to works made through AI. Traditional Copyright Framework and Its Limitations Copyright law is fundamentally based on three principles: Authorship : The creator of a work owns the copyright.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 22, 2021

Recent decisions suggest courts are losing patience with those who bring dubious copyright infringement claims as part of their business models. Back in May, I wrote about an overzealous copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Rachel Dolezal , the woman best known for mispresenting her racial background.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Exploring Section 113(c) of the Copyright Act, an underutilized defense that could have changed the outcome of a recent infringement case. There’s a provision of the Copyright Act that provides a simple and straightforward defense to an entire category of infringement claims. 17 U.S.C. §

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2024

The cases allege that tech companies, including Meta and OpenAI, used the controversial Books3 dataset to train their models. It was created by AI researcher Shawn Presser in 2020, who scraped the library of ‘pirate’ site Bibliotik. For example, the authors alleged that Meta trained its AI on copyrighted works without permission.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

However, good intentions themselves are not immune to copyright complaints, or worse, multi-million dollar lawsuits. However, the Internet Archive (IA) sees things differently, believing that the ‘Great 78 Project’ is fair use. copyright law. Copyright Act has a three-year statute of limitations.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 15, 2023

Copyright Office in 2016, the seven-time Grammy winner accused YouTube of “fermenting a veritable pirate orgy ” among its users while “dismantling copyright from the inside, like a flesh-eating virus.” This method meets the requirements of copyright law but generates no money for rightsholders.

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