TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In 2021, Reddit’s users created nearly 5.8 In common with the vast majority of large companies based in the US, Reddit has to follow the requirements of the DMCA which means that when it receives a valid copyright notice, it must comply by taking the identified content down. under the doctrine of fair use.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2024

A first-of-its-kind copyright infringement trial is scheduled to begin today in Los Angeles. Like the tattoo at issue in the case, the lawsuit is poised to leave a lasting impression, not only on copyright law, but the entire multi-billion-dollar tattoo industry. What Will The Jury Need to Decide?

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

Temporary or incidental storage of work or performance to provide electronic links, access, or integration, where the owner has not expressly prohibited such links, access, or integration, falls under the ambit of fair use of copyright, according to Section 52(1)(c) of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957.

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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. copyright law. The case meandered through constant reversals of judicial judgements.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Summary of argument: The constitutional goal of copyright protection is to “promote the progress of science and useful arts,” Art. 8, and the first copyright law was “an act for the encouragement of learning,” Cambridge University Press v. It is that functionality, and not the copying, to which Apple truly objects.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2024

On a broad reading, there seems to be an obvious conflict of two areas of law, where the RPwD Act mandates fundamental access to all content but the Copyright Act grants the author the right to control how their works are copied.

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The IPKat

APRIL 3, 2023

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host a guest contribution by Desmond Oriakhogba on the new Copyright Act 2022 signed into law by Nigeria's President. The Act introduces a new vista in Nigerian copyright law as it repeals the Copyright Act 2004.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Under the Copyright Act, display. means to show a copy of it, either directly or by means of a film, slide, television image, or any other device or process or, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to show individual images nonsequentially.”. Fair use : The court also grapples with fair use.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. Goldsmith , 11 F.4th

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Photocopying classroom materials in a K-12 public school system may have seemed harmless and benign before the 2012 Supreme Court of Canada case, Alberta v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). The decision reframes traditional teaching pedagogies by considering the artist and owner rights under copyright law.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Tianchu Gao is an IPilogue Writer and a 1L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . . On March 26, 2021, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York found that the famed artist Andy Warhol violated photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s copyright by using her photo of the singer Prince to create his “Prince Series.”

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In doing so, they have relied on a steady diet of misleading claims about the state of the law, the licensing practices of Canadian educational institutions, the importance (or lack thereof) of copying of materials in course packs, and the effects of fair dealing. At the 2021 Supreme Court hearing in the Access Copyright v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In 2021, OpenAI’s Dall·E was able to create images in response to text prompts, including those combining unrelated concepts (such as “a snail made of harp”), but the results were merely competent in artistic terms. Registration was refused in August 2019, in line with previous US case law and guidance.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As per legal requirements, Github complied with the takedown demand but, as TF noted at the time , the team behind the projects had the option of filing a DMCA counter-notice if it was confident that its work is permitted under copyright law.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” ” (S.

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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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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

Produced by Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland and based on the novels by Julia Quinn, Bridgerton was seen by a then-record 82 million households when the first season premiered on Netflix in early 2021. Fast forward to September 2021 when “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” became the top album on iTunes’ U.S.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. emphasis original).

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

Despite the barriers to fanfiction that the derivative work doctrine raises, fanfiction writers may find relief from liability through the fair use doctrine. The book, though it had original text and plot, used the same characters from the existing work and was ultimately not found to be a fair use. 3d 68 (2d Cir.

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Patently-O

APRIL 6, 2023

1183 (2021). 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. A key feature of the SAS product is that folks can write programs using SAS syntax in order to get certain results.

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

Lokesh is a graduate from School of Law, Nirma University and an incoming LLM Candidate and InfoJustice Fellow at American University Washington College of Law, and has previously written posts for us here and here. Degrees) Regulations, 2016 which mandates the submission of an electronic copy of the Ph. Lokesh Vyas.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 11, 2023

There is no question of fair use as although it is not commercially beneficial but it is neither limited to private use. However, the US Court has held Napster [2] , which was a file-sharing platform as well, guilty of infringing copyrighted materials and was denied the defence of fair use.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2023

February and August 2021 : Responsible AI: Approach Document for India (NITI Aayog) Coming back to NITI Aayog, after the 2018 discussion paper, the organization came up with “ Responsible AI: Approach Document for India (Part 1: Principles for Responsible AI).” IP finds mention under Innovation and Commercialisation.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 13, 2023

In this sense, a coherent theory of the use of de minimis will go a long way in efficient disposal of such cases. DE MINIMIS IN COPYRIGHT LAW. The defence only applies to the extent of a plaintiff’s copyrighted work’s usage, not how the defendant uses it. 19-55882 (9 th 2021). ONLINE ARTICLES.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Here is what Desmond says: Nigeria quietly, but surely, embracing balance, openness and flexibility in her copyright regime? by Desmond Oriakhogba Sometime in 2012, Nigeria began the process of reforming her over three-decade old copyright law. The FEC approved bill was eventually sent to the Senate in May 2021.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We, who have been writing and teaching about copyright law and how it has responded to challenges posed by new technologies for decades, were among those who submitted comments, see [link]. In addition, conduct that may be consistent with the copyright laws nevertheless may violate Section 5. That is far too hasty.

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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. Minc Law (Sept. 29, 2013), [link]. [ii]

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 1, 2023

In our brave new world where millions of ordinary people are copyright holders of snaps they publish to social media or videos they upload to YouTube, awareness of copyright law is at an all-time high. ” and “Is it copyright if nobody knows I copied a song and changed it so it sounds nothing like the original?

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

TLDR Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With respect to copyright, the court says: “Plaintiffs do not rely on copyright protection for their websites in pleading their claim…Plaintiffs are not asserting infringement of any right to the reproduction, performance, distribution, or display of their websites. ” Wait, what? That can’t possibly be right.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. In 2012, US NASA’s robotic rover touched down on Mars. It is the first ever report by YouTube on copyright actions. It only covers half the year from January to June 2021, which is the period before Art.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

He explains : “ My use of facts was from a database that originally was partially under my copyright authorship and published online and viewable via the content taken down since 2021, and the database was then used with written permission to populate the one viewable from the content as it was when taken down.”

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

This means that TOs have been tasked with getting enough GameCubes, Wiis, copies of the game, and clunky CRT TVs to play on. ROMs which are possessed or distributed without the copyright holders’ permission likely violate copyright law in various ways. To play in an online tournament, players utilize their own ROMs.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 21, 2021

Now, in 2021, Dolezal may find herself at the center of a new controversy. Earlier this week, she filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement against CBS Interactive over a photograph CBS used in a 2015 Entertainment Tonight Online article about her scandal. Here’s a copy of Dolezal’s complaint.

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