Barry Sookman

JUNE 5, 2022

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-05-28 [link] 2022-05-29. Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-05-28 – Barry Sookman #copyright #internetlaw [link] 2022-05-29. RT @DavidDarling : @bsookman imagine the copyright implications of AI creating drawings! DALL-E 2 [link] 2022-05-30.

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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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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Topics include access and substantial similarity, fair use, performers’ rights, moral rights, expert testimony, the role of lay listeners, sound sampling, as demonstrated in dispositions of litigated and settled infringement disputes. The event will take place on 18 March 2022 from 1:15pm to 7:00pm (CET) and registrations are open here.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

AimJunkies denied the claims and argued that cheating isn’t against the law. In addition, it refuted the copyright infringement allegations; these lacked substance and were ungrounded because some of the referenced copyrights were registered well after the cheats were first made available.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 16, 2024

I added a summary of contributory and vicarious copyright law principles from the Frontier Communications case. Students routinely struggle to understand the interplay between the direct infringer analysis, the principles for secondary infringement, and the DMCA online safe harbor overlay. I posted the 2022 version.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

This article summarizes the top developments reported on our blog and in patents, trademarks, and copyright law in 2021. For a review of Privacy legislation in Canada, check out Emily Prieur’s article published this week. Keep Calm and Fandom On: Copyright in Cosplay, Fanfiction and Fanart by Sabrina Macklai & Emily Chow.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The defendants’ wholesale collection and use of copyrighted material, with no option for copyright owners to opt out, would exceed the legal interpretation of “fair use” (see VHT vs Zillow Group , 918 F.3d Such class actions can be considered part of the evolution of the regulatory landscape dedicated to Generative AI.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

It appears that an 18-month period ending December 31, 2021, returned the best results before seizures completely leveled off in the first half of 2022. In addition, irregular devices can pose a risk to children and adolescents, with access to inappropriate content, and also a danger to the privacy of user data,” Anatel reports.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Delhi High Court recently came up with the ‘ Live Streaming and Recording of Court Proceedings Rules of the High Court of Delhi, 2022 ’. One of the ways whereby the court aims to curtail misuse of the recordings of court proceedings is by claiming copyright on these recordings.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2023

All claim to be the best, but some are more privacy-conscious than others. When it comes to privacy and anonymity, an outsider can’t offer any guarantees. Many of these questions relate to privacy and security, and the various companies answer them here in their own words. That includes copyright infringement.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. The Amended Complaint, filed on March 2, 2022, provides additional background and context for Hermès’ claims.

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Intepat

JUNE 15, 2023

Introduction With the rise of the mobile application industry, India emerges as a highly profitable market, witnessing over twenty-eight billion downloads in 2022, accounting for 5% of the total global downloads. Who owns the copyright?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the district court level, the law of copyright preemption is a morass of ad hoc explanations of whether certain contracts are “equivalent” to the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright law. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. The Amended Complaint, filed on March 2, 2022, provides additional background and context for Hermès’ claims.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 29, 2023

By June 2022, Bungie had a $13.5 million copyright infringement damages award in hand, and suddenly cooperative defendants helping to unveil others involved in the circumvention of Bungie’s technological protection measures. By June 2022, Bungie had a $13.5

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Act I When the Committee charged with conducting Canada’s 2019 Copyright Act Review turned its mind to AI, its primary concern was with “help[ing] Canada’s promising future in artificial intelligence become reality” ( Report 2019 ). More from our authors: International Cybersecurity and Privacy Law in Practice, Second Edition by Charlotte A.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Top 3 Kluwer Copyright Blog posts 1) Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act by João Pedro Quintais “ Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. 3) Artificial intelligence, machine learning and creativity in visual art: what are the protectability requirements?

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Although cloud offerings are often global and multi-jurisdictional, the IP laws governing services generally remain territorial and national. Copyright laws, for instance, vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. What constitutes copyright infringement in one country may not be in another. Thus, in Tiffany(NJ) Inc.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

3d -, 2022 WL 4591905, No. 26, 2022) Late, but just showed up in my Westclip! The court found the claims of direct, contributory, and vicarious copyright infringement time-barred because plaintiffs didn’t submit evidence of continuing infringement by the moving defendants within 3 years of the filing of the complaint.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 20, 2024

The facts of the case are all too familiar by now: in 2004, German band Kraftwerk took hip hop producer Moses Pelham to court for copyright infringement after he sampled two seconds of their song “Metall auf Metall” and looped it in Sabrina Setlur’s track “Nur Mir”.

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Barry Sookman

JANUARY 9, 2022

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-01-01 [link] 2022-01-02. 2021 CanLIIDocs 13247 [link] )) 2022-01-02. Damages for copyright infringement, Ark Innovation Technology Inc. 2021 FC 1336 [link] 2022-01-02. Marjorie Taylor Greene [link] 2022-01-02. Matidor Technologies Inc., Republican Rep.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Whilst much of the press coverage of the case has focused on the privacy aspects of the claim (and whether or not Ms Markle may have misled the court), we consider in this article the very interesting copyright aspects of the case. Ms Markle’s copyright claim. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

The case involves an interesting interplay between copyright law, entertainment contracts and the First Amendment. The New York Lawsuit The first volley in the parties’ legal battle came in May 2022, when Coakley filed a pro se lawsuit in New York state court against the Bergers and Virtuoso.

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