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 reform process is now complete with the recent assent to the Bill, as the Copyright Act 2022, by the Nigerian President.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2022

In a case that began amid a number of prominent leaks, followed by a copyright complaint to YouTube, and then more aggressive legal action using the DMCA, we followed the crumbs to find out. After being uploaded in the preceding days, on April 26 the company filed a complaint at YouTube alleging copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 5, 2022

On January 1, 2022, works that were first published in the year 1926 lapsed into the public domain. copyright law, works of corporate or pseudonymous authorship lapse into the public domain after either 95 years from first publication or 120 years after creation, whichever ends first. What Actually Happened.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

3: ‘Pooh,’ ‘Sun Also Rises’ among literary and film works with copyrights expiring in 2022. Copyright Law, works lapse into the public domain on January First of the year their copyright expires. They are free of copyright. As such, the lawsuit will head there for the next phases.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Registration of a mask work with the Copyright Office provides certain legal benefits, including the ability to bring a lawsuit for infringement of the mask work. source code) under copyright law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

It is a common practice to make copies of deteriorating or far away cultural heritage. As of 2022, it is not even a new idea to use digital methods to copy heritage, considering that the mass digitisation of cultural heritage, especially books, started more than two decades ago. Photo by awsloley via Pixabay.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

Back in January, the crypto group Spice DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) made headlines for spending approximately $3 million to acquire a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune , a bible for a planned Dune move that would have been made in the 1970s. . The payment beyond excessive.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2023

An interesting feature of copyright law is its tendency to lag behind the times while new technology races ahead and exploits its numerous ‘loopholes’ One of the most famous loopholes was ‘exposed’ when streaming overtook BitTorrent to become the delivery method of choice for millions of video-oriented pirates.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The conclusion of that lawsuit declared that an emulator like Yuzu, that circumvents Nintendo’s technical measures, decrypts Switch games using unauthorized copies of Switch cryptographic keys, allowing games to be played on anything other than a Switch, violates copyright law. And it doesn’t stop there.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 30, 2022

Contract not Copyright: Genius does not hold the copyright to the lyrics and so has no copyright infringement claim. But, Genius does require its users to agree to an extensive contractual agreement that includes a promise that the user will not commercially reproduce, copy, or distribute any portion of the Genius service.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 7, 2022

Welcome to the second trimester of the 2022 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. This is perhaps one of the most awaited judgemnts in the history of EU copyright law. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 4, 2022

Pyrotechnics registered a copyright in its protocol and sued FireTek for copyright infringement. ” Pyrotechnics’ copyright registration then starts to fall apart. .” ” Pyrotechnics’ copyright registration then starts to fall apart. XFX Pyrotechnics LLC , 2022 WL 2336477 (3d.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

Apparently the “de minimis” defense to copyright infringement doesn’t exist at all in the 9th Circuit. March 21, 2022). Apple also seeks summary judgment on whether it can be held liable for copyright infringement for “making available”—as opposed to actually selling—the compositions.

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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] Magic Mantra Vision, CS (OS) NO.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

According to the complaint, when Apple learned of the app, it liked the idea—so much so, in fact, that it copied it. These screenshots (from the complaint) show the alleged copying: I trust the differences are immediately apparent. In my prior blog post, I wrote: this lawsuit could be an example of emoji trolling. Apple, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 5, 2022

When standard approaches failed, a business professor recently turned to copyright law, hoping for a solution. ” Despite those instructions, around January 2022, he learned that portions of the two exams had been posted on the Course Hero website, along with requests for help with the questions.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Registration of a mask work with the Copyright Office provides certain legal benefits, including the ability to bring a lawsuit for infringement of the mask work. source code) under copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Taiwan made amendments to copyright law that outlawed piracy-configured devices. With further amendments to copyright law in the pipeline in Taiwan, authorities launced an investigation into the supply of Unblock Tech’s devices in the country. With Hollywood regularly reporting UnblockTech to the U.S. Government.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

It involved the use of copyrighted content to create an alleged ‘parody’ (one that many people would find offensive), the distribution of that content to the public via Twitter, and a defendant claiming immunity under copyright law. When he copied and then rebroadcast the news report, that was copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

On one hand, unauthorized mass copying and distribution of movies, TV shows, and music is widely recognized as copyright infringement. The general consensus is that copyright law favors the publishers, but in a recent motion to dismiss, Elbakyan had other things on her mind too. Elbakyan [defendant no.1],

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2024

In 2022, a platform called Pirate Library Mirror appeared on the scene, courting controversy right from the start after obtaining a full copy of Z-Library before the site’s legal troubles began. “We deliberately violate the copyright law in most countries. million books and 99.4 million papers for download.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 7, 2023

At least in theory, copyright law in both the United States and Europe should provide adequate protections for intermediaries but if a chink appears in the armor, nothing can stop rightsholders filing a lawsuit. In February 2022, U.S. lawsuit against DataCamp, claiming that it failed to deal with copyright infringing customers.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In December 2022, Cognosphere targeted Ubatcha , one of Genshin Impact’s most prolific and popular leakers. As shown in the image below, the image at the top right is the original tweet from the official @GenshinImpact account ( 1 ), and the two images at the bottom are the alleged copies ( 1 , 2 ) published by @merlin_impact.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The authors accused these services of sharing pirated copies of their book “5000 Integrated Circuits Power Audio Amplifiers” When the authors sent Cloudflare a takedown notice, the company responded that it doesn’t host any content for doku.pub, clarifying that it operates as a ‘pass-though’ CDN provider.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

According to Defendants’ policies, Defendants reserve the right “to remove or block access to, either permanently or temporarily, any files which [Defendants] suspect[ ] or which a third party alleges are associated with a violation of the law[.]”. RCN Telecom Services, LLC , 2022 WL 6750322 (D.N.J. 2022 WL 7560395 (D.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 29, 2024

In layman’s terms, by meddling with the appearance of the publisher’s website in users’ browsers, AdBlock Plus breached Axel Springer’s rights under copyright law. Eyeo dismissed the claim as “almost absurd” and Springer carried on regardless. What Would a Win Look Like?

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Copyrights safeguard the artists’ rights in the inventive and imaginative content that abounds in digital media. In today’s digital world, a lot of data and information have been shared online and are susceptible to corruption and copying. Image Sources : Gettyimages] One of the important issues in online is copyrights.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

Even so, the court’s almost-banal treatment of this super-interesting topic suggests that there may not be much tattoo exceptionalism in copyright law. “Von D presumably did not need to copy the pose from the Portrait in order express a sentiment of melancholy.” May 31, 2022). Background. Amount Used.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

Copyright law is in charge of controlling how literary, artistic, and theatrical works, among others, are used. The law of copyright regulates the activities of copying and disseminating the words of someone who has copyright over something online without that person’s consent. 1 (2022). [5]

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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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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The public display right under copyright law is infringed only when an alleged infringer “displays” a “copy” of the copyrighted work. The key element that the Server Test focuses on is whether the alleged infringer stores a “copy” of the copyrighted work on its server or storage device. Amazon.com, Inc. ,

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IPilogue

AUGUST 26, 2022

If you have ever incorporated music into your Instagram or Facebook videos, you may have committed copyright infringement. On July 20 th , 2022, Meta Platforms Inc. In the past, content creators have had issues incorporating music into their posts due to copyright holder policies. But don’t worry, you won’t need to get a lawyer!

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In a first-of-its-kind ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has revived choreographer Kyle Hanagami’s copyright lawsuit against Fortnite’s Epic Games. Choreography is like the Rodney Dangerfield of copyright law. In the meantime, here’s a copy of the full Ninth Circuit opinion in Haganami v.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 7, 2023

In May 2022, Elon Musk declared overzealous use of the DMCA a “plague on humanity.” ” As CEO of Twitter, Musk understands that his platform has certain obligations if it wishes to maintain protection from liability under copyright law. The two people at the heart of the original dispute are both Twitter users.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. We know, however, that many laws limit free access and use of information goods, most prominently copyright law (and IP law generally). ML Genius v.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 18, 2023

In common with content created in other fields, photographs generally enjoy protection under copyright law, allowing photographers to determine who can duplicate and/or distribute their work. Photographers Alexis Hunley and Matthew Brauer posted several of their copyrighted works on Instagram.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Image Source: Lumen, Over thirty thousand DMCA notices reveal an organized attempt to abuse copyright law. Then, a company called UNFT News copied those articles and published them on their website but post-dated them. Therefore, he temporarily lost his blog by July 15, 2022. DMCA perjury.

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